Bonding Natural Substrates

Natural Substrate Challenges in the Baby Diaper and Feminine Care Markets

Eco-consciousness is rising around the world, and it's driving sweeping changes in the hygiene industry. Regulatory pressures, the circular economy, mobile apps that allow consumers to check ingredients – all are challenging hygiene producers to offer more natural, transparent, and sustainable products. In response, cotton and other natural fibers are playing an increasing role in efforts to offer more sustainable hygiene products and is a focus of innovation by key industry leaders, particularly in baby diapers and feminine care.

The challenge for many non woven hygiene producers is that natural materials, like cotton and viscose, can be more polar and swell during insult, putting more stress on the bond and leading to lower bonding performance, particularly in wet in-use conditions. Even with excessive coat weights, wet peel strength, and bonding performance can still be a challenge.

Innovation to Meet the Challenge of Natural Substrates

Full-Care® 5885* ECO PASSPORT and Asthma-Allergy Blue Label certified innovative bonding adhesive offers:

• High wet strength exceeding industry standard peels on 100% cotton for final product integrity
• Can run at coat weights as low as 5-7gsm for typical 100% cotton top-sheet to PE film back-sheet construction bonding
• Wide operating window for ease of use
• Also suitable for other natural top-sheets like PLA, viscose and for use with bio-based back-sheets

As a leading global provider of hygiene adhesives, we're always looking to proactively meet our customer’s needs and offer market-leading innovations. Contact us to learn more about how we can help solve your hygiene bonding challenges.

*Products that use Full-Care® 5885 must go through an application process if the manufacturers wants to market their products with The Blue Label or Asthma Allergy Nordic.