Polymer Group, Inc.

Avintiv Specialty Materials Inc.

Paul Michael Harmon

Russell Glenn Tindall

Mark Lee Landreth

Wayne Thomas Rhodes, Iii

Jerome Kenneth Reeves

Dianne B Ellis

Steven Brian Burgess

Jerry Snider

Ralph A Moody, Iii

Sven Krister Erlandsson

Robert Garcia Pano

Gerard Baltzinger

Philippe Guipouy

Didier Hunsinger

Hydroentangled composites having a wide variety of uses (e.g., personal hygiene articles, facers for fenestration absorbent patches on surgical drapes, facers on absorbent surgical drapes, etc.) are provided. The hydroentangled composite includes at least two nonwoven webs hydroentangled together. The hydroentangled composite may have a three-dimensional structure. Additionally, the at least two nonwoven webs may have different bonding levels and/or lint levels.

Low linting imaged hydroentangled nonwoven composite

Elastic nonwoven composites suitable for a wide variety of uses are provided. The composite includes at least one extensible nonwoven layer, including a first extensible nonwoven layer, and at least one elastic nonwoven layer, in which the nonwoven layer comprises elastic continuous filaments. The composite may be bonded and activated by, at least in part, a stretching operation. The elastic continuous filaments may comprise an additive, such as a slip additive.

Composite elastic nonwoven fabric

Nonwoven fabric

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Troutman, NC, United States of America

Paul Michael Harmon