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Medical nonwovens  

Improve barrier performance, fit and comfort in medical nonwovens with a wide range of products from ExxonMobil Chemical. These include Achieve™ Advanced PP, ExxonMobil™  PP, Vistamaxx™ performance polymers and polyethylene products, including Exceed™ performance PE polymers. Applications include surgical drapes and gowns, medical protective gowns, face masks, shoe covers, disposable bedding and hospital apparel, sponges, pads, wraps, and filtration media.

Key benefits

  • Outstanding barrier performance and peroxide-free

  • New possibilities for incorporating softness and elasticity or extensibility for improved fit and comfort

  • Excellent spinning with uniformity and consistency

  • Breathable and soft-touch

  • Uniform production of fabrics with higher strength and finer fibers

Improve barrier performance, fit and comfort in medical nonwovens with a wide range of products from ExxonMobil Chemical.

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Product solutions

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    ExxonMobil™ PP

    Benefit from excellent performance and value with our engineered homopolymers, impact copolymers and random copolymers.

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    Vistamaxx™ performance polymers

    Imagine the possibilities for production innovation.

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  • Rethink what's possible using Achieve advanced PP

    Achieve™ Advanced PP

    Challenge reality and rethink what’s possible in automotive performance, packaging design, hygiene comfort and appliance appeal.

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    Polyethylene products

    Helping to deliver tomorrow’s performance today for a range of healthcare and medical, packaging, agricultural, building and construction, and industrial applications.

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Featured resources

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  • ExxonMobil Chemical Library icon

    Gradeslate: Polymers and resins for hygiene applications

    ExxonMobil offers an impressive range of polymers to help customers meet their hygiene product innovation needs. These include ExxonMobil™ PP, Vistamaxx™ performance polymers, Achieve™ Advanced PP, Exceed™ and Enable™ performance PE polymers and Escorez™ tackifiers.

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    Case study: Creating a new differentiated ultra-soft nonwoven fabric

    Increasing the dosage of Vistamaxx™ performance polymers in a formulation with ExxonMobil™ polypropylene (PP) resins offers an ultra-soft-touch feel, low fluff, consistent quality and stable high-speed processability.

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  • ExxonMobil Chemical Library icon

    Create new softness for nonwovens

    Vistamaxx™ performance polymers are providing manufacturers of nonwoven fabrics with possibilities to develop new kinds of soft nonwovens.

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