Feminine hygiene products need innovation

The global volume of feminine hygiene products (including sanitary napkins, nursing pads, and wet wipes) increased from $24.2 billion in 2010 to $26.5 billion in 2011. Among them, there was no significant fluctuation in North America, and Western Europe increased from $4.7 billion to $5 billion, with a slight increase. Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America saw significant growth, with manufacturers continuing to invest in these high-growth regions. In the developed markets, innovation has become a necessary means to compete for the market.

The silk protein coating plays a health function

Many companies are trying to use SMS materials and combined with the development of functional fibers as the top sheet of high-end products, such as absorbent cotton, silk, polylactic acid fiber (corn fiber) and other functional spunlaced nonwovens are the preferred surface material for the most high-end incontinence products.

Now there are scientific research projects to create a material that can be used in female hygiene products, that is, to attach a layer of silk protein to the surface of polyester, so that polyester fabric has many functions of silk protein. In contrast, the traditional female hygiene products on the market are made of ordinary non-woven fabrics as the mesh surface, which may cause skin sensitivity and other problems, and this new non-woven fabrics can give full play to the unique health care function of sericin protein on the human body.

In addition, the core performance of female hygiene products is very important, in the entire product has the greatest impact on the cost, the core is composed of fluff pulp and Super Absorbent Polymer mixed, fluff pulp provides liquid diffusion, soft comfort and water retention function, its length, thickness determines the core density, and the core density has an important impact on the above performance, "fiber aggregate" is the basic attribute of non-woven fabrics. Therefore, the development of non-woven technology for the core of nursing products is bound to bring epoch-making technological innovation in the industry.