Phillip Mango

President, Phillip Mango Consulting, LLC

Phillip Mango has spent over thirty years in non wovens, starting in 1981 with Air Products and Chemicals, where he was the Manager of th e Nonwovens Group. Air Products was the major supplier of latex binders to ma jor nonwovens used in wipes, notably airlaid and DRC (double recrepe). In 1991, he left Air Products to jo in Walkisoft USA as Director of Technology. Walkisoft was the largest global pr oducer of airlaid at that time . Sensing a need for a more innovative, specialty oriented airlaid producer, Mr. Mango starte d his own airlaid business and designed and built a specialty airlaid line in 1997 . This company, Airformed Composites, was one of the early developers of commercial mu ltibonded airlaid for baby wipes, as well as other unique products and process advances. In 2000, Concert Industries acquired Airformed Composites and Mr. Mango. With Concert, Mr. Mango was the Director of Product Development. In 2002, Mr. Mango left Concert to start his own consulting business, Phillip Mango Consulting. Over the last 12 years, Mr . Mango has consulted extensively in the wipes market, technology, nonwovens and raw materials. He has authored numerous studies on flushable wipes, the global wipes market a nd technology, and other nonwov ens related subjects.

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