spunbonding

spunbonding

English

Noun

spunbonding (uncountable)

1. The process of making spunbond.
   • 1993, Nonwovens Markets and Fiber Structures Report, page 8-9:

     Poly-Bond also focused on new spunbonding trials with polyethylene (PE), in the hopes of commercializing a soft PE nonwoven that holds up well under gamma ray sterilization.

   • 2010, R Chapman, Applications of Nonwovens in Technical Textiles, page 8:

     In a basic spunbonding system, sheets of synthetic filaments are extruded from polymer onto a conveyor as a randomly oriented web in the closest approximation to a continuous polymer-to-fabric operation.

   • 2022, S. J. Russell, Handbook of Nonwovens, page 218:

     There were comparatively few major developments in the spunbonding process from 1971 to the early 1980s, until in 1984, Reifenhauser GmbH, Germany, introduced the Reicofil spunbond system.