Fitesa announces new line.Brazilian nonwovens producer Fitesa will invest in a new spunmelt line with capacity of 15,000 tons per year. The line will be installed in the company's site in Gravatai, Brazil and is expected to start up in the second half of 2006. The line will be designed to manufacture hygienic hy·gien·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to hygiene. 2. Tending to promote or preserve health. 3. Sanitary. disposable items such as topsheets and leg cuffs for disposable diapers, medical fabrics and other specialty applications. It will be a multiple beam state-of-the-art Reicofil 4 with microdenier features that will allow the line to be upgraded at a later stage according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. new market requirements. The capacity of the new Reicofil line is targeted to serve local as well as Mercosur markets but will also meet growing demands of the Americas for advanced hygienic disposable fabrics, according to company executives. Fitesa is a leading company in polypropylene polypropylene (pŏl'ēprō`pəlēn), plastic noted for its light weight, being less dense than water; it is a polymer of propylene. It resists moisture, oils, and solvents. nonwovens and staple fibers Noun 1. staple fiber - a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn; "staple fibers vary widely in length" staple fibre, staple natural fiber, natural fibre - fiber derived from plants or animals in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. with a nonwovens capacity of 22,000 tons per year in its two manufacturing plants in Brazil. Approximately 22% of its sales come from exports. |
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