Seeing the potential and interest generated in medical and hygiene disposable products such as Baby and Adult Diapers, Sanitary Napkins, etc, Business Coordination House (BCH) together with a consortium of International Companies organised a one day symposium on "Medical and Hygiene Disposable textile Products on March 8, 2006 in New Delhi.
Renowned world leaders in this field such as BBA Fiber web Group, 3M, GDM, Henkel, Fulflex, Huhtamaki and some others came together to help create a bridge between investors or companies already active in this field of Disposable Hygiene. Through this symposium information regarding raw material, technology and basic elements needed to establish the know-how for positive feeling for new investment in this field was provided.
The participants were the serious stakeholders of the industry comprising of current manufacturers and importers in the area of medical nonwovens, speciality process chemicals, and adhesives for industrial applications and machinery for nonwovens products. Besides new entrepreneurs, R&D institutes, representatives from the government and the press were also present. High value added technical textile products were also omnipresent during the symposium.
Mr Samir Gupta, Managing Director, BCH said, " Because of the increasing awareness for health and hygiene among the expanding middle class and significant proportion of females and babies to the total population, its right time for Indian players to invest in this segment as this industry has only 1% market penetration as against 98% in developed countries. Due to competitive labour cost and latent domestic demand, the multinational companies can look up to India as an outsourcing base and can even relocate their production bases." He informed that the Indian technical textile market is likely to touch US $8 billion by 2007-08 from present level of US $ 4 billion with the global turnover of the technical textile industry estimated at US $ 107 billion.
MR Samir S Chitins, technical manager, BBA Fiber web Group, one of the worlds largest international group in the nonwovens business, enlightened the participants about the basic steps involved in the formation of a nonwovens fabric, which primarily consists of the laying of fibre, web formation and finally the web bonding. In line, Mr Christer Jugard, marketing and sales manager, BBA Fibreweb Group emphasised upon the trends of nonwovens for hygiene products with main focus on baby diapers, adult incontinence products and feminine hygiene products
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| Posted : 4/18/2006 |
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