SUBSTRATES
S&S Specialty Systems can help you select the best substrate for your converting project. We know substrates. From aesthetics to runnability, we can advise and source the ideal substrate.
Paper and tissue for napkins, drapes, drop cloths and many other converted products have a range of substrate characteristics. These including varying basis weights, strength, softness and other properties.
Film, foil and laminates are also converted on our equipment.
Nonwovens substrates are neither papers nor wovens (wovens are textiles such as cotton fabrics). Nonwovens are used for wet and dry wipes and many other disposable products. Their strength, softness, and numerous other properties make them desirable choices.
According to ISO terminology, a nonwoven is:
A manufactured sheet, web or batt of directionally or randomly orientated fibres, bonded by friction, and/or cohesion and/or adhesion, excluding paper and products which are woven, knitted, tufted, stitch-bonded incorporating binding yarns or filaments, or felted by wet-milling, whether or not additionally needled. The fibres may be of natural or man-made origin.
Nonwovens have a special ability to be designed” whereas other textiles and papers are more limited. Papers generally are manufactured using one stream of pulp in the process. In contrast, nonwovens can include three or more streams of fibers, plus additives/formulas/fragrances in the manufacturing process.
We can source the best nonwovens for your product type including: Airlaid, Carded, Hydroentangled-Spunlaced, Spunbonded, Needlepunched and more.