Medical nonwovens
Key benefits
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Outstanding barrier performance and peroxide-free
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New possibilities for incorporating softness and elasticity or extensibility for improved fit and comfort
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Excellent spinning with uniformity and consistency
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Breathable and soft-touch
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Uniform production of fabrics with higher strength and finer fibers
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While the world went into lockdown - together, we rolled up our sleeves and went to work, providing needed raw materials to keep the economy moving and to develop personal protection equipment to help stop the spread of COVID19.
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For the last 60 years, ExxonMobil has been helping to push boundaries and rethinking what's possible when it comes to polypropylene (PP).
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Vistamaxx™ performance polymers enable companies to develop innovative solutions that can improve product performance and manufacturing efficiency. It can contribute to potential sustainability benefits by downgauging packaging films, reducing material use, reducing wall thickness in rigid packaging, and strengthening products to avoid breakage or waste. It can also reduce energy use through lower temperature processing.
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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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.
Featured resources
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Tremendously comfortable nonwovens
Delivering outstanding barrier properties and high fabric strength, Achieve™ Advanced polypropylene (PP) enables the consistent manufacture of tremendously comfortable and leak-proof nonwovens. -
Meltblown nonwoven fabrics innovation
Vistamaxx™ performance polymers in combination with Achieve™ Advanced PP create new possibilities for meltblown nonwoven fabrics.
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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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Create new softness for nonwovens
Vistamaxx™ performance polymers are providing manufacturers of nonwoven fabrics with possibilities to develop new kinds of soft nonwovens.
