Advanced Textiles Sector Needs to Engage with the End-User Community
(Lubbock, USA, April 12, 2023)—Advanced textiles sector such as hygiene and medical nonwovens needs to effectively outreach and engage with the end-user community.
Technical textiles use
different fibers such as those that have functionality and those that are
sustainable such as cellulose based. This technical information needs to be
provided to practitioners like doctors, nurses, and laboratory personnel. In
addition, disposal aspects, safe practices and sustainability efforts by the
PPE industry must be relayed to those who use them daily. The end-user
community is broad and hence the industrial and trade associations in the field
can help the sector with engagement and outreach. The outreach efforts will
help with greater buy-ins for the nonwovens and advanced textile products.
Nonwovens and industrial
textiles industry develops many products which are life savers, contribute to
environmental protection and provide jobs. The usefulness and details of the
products need to be shared with the end-user community such as medical
practitioners, nurses, hospital staff, emergency personnel, to name a few.
“PPEs are life savers,”
stated Bianca Rendon who uses different types of nonwoven-based PPEs daily when
testing select and non-select biological agents.
Products such as PPEs with
cotton cuffs, laminated and absorbent wipes, protective shrouds and helmets are
a myriad of advanced textile products that are needed in medical and biological
safety laboratories. “Practitioners like me will benefit if the industry
provides us with information on the structure, finish applied on the products
we touch and use on a daily basis,” added Bianca Rendon.
Technical textiles that are
used in PPEs use different structures such as woven, nonwovens and laminates.
Common fibers used are polypropylene in the case of nonwovens, medical drapes
and coats use blends such as cotton, polyester, rayon, etc.
“I understood the different structures and functionalities of fibers after attending the Fiber Forensics class, and hence it will be useful if the industry reaches out to actual users of the products,” emphasized Bianca Rendon.
It was evident from the discussion that the user-community is interested in using safe methods, cost effective single use products and explore sustainable ways and products towards use and disposal.
The technical textiles sector has a lot of opportunities to penetrate different market segments by effective outreach and engagement with the daily user-community.
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