IMPERFECTIONS OF COMMON NONWOVEN'S THERMAL RESISTANCE TEST METHODS
Lubos Hes - Technical University of Liberec

MODEL DEVELOPMENT FOR COST AND EFFICIENCY COMPARISON OF NONWOVEN, THERMAL INSULATION MATERIALS
Paul Brady - American Nonwovens

ROLL PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS COST OF QUALITY
Paul Frost - PJ Associates

TWO-PARAMETER CHARACTERIZATION OF GLASS VEILS AND WIRES BY AIR PERMEABILITY TESTS
C. Heil - Owens Corning Veil Netherlands BV

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT FOR PHYSICAL PROPERTY IMPROVEMENTS OF FIBERGLASS MAT
Toni Aldridge - Franklin International

ENGINEERED COMPOSITE PRODUCTS USED IN ADVANCED FILTRATION
Frank Cousant - Ahlstrom Technical Specialties, LLC

PAPER AND MELTBLOWN COMPOSITES - A REVIEW
Rowland Griffin - Monadock Nonwovens

NEW FILTRATION MATERIALS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Ed Homonoff - Edward C. Homonoff & Associates)

FILTRATION PROCESS IN ELECTROSTATICALLY CHARGED FILTER MEDIA
T. J. Ptak - Purolator Products, Inc.

DESIGN OF COMPOSITE FILTRATION MEDIA USING FLOW POROMETRY .
Krishna Gupta - PMI, Inc

902 GLASS: A BIOSOLUBLE FIBER GLASS FOR AIR FILTRATION MEDIA
Foster Harding, Ph. D. - Johns Manville

REVIEW OF ASHRAE TEST RESULTS VERSUS REAL LIFE PERFORMANCE 12.0
Charles Kern - Johns Manville

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES) APPROACH FOR SOLVING FLUID DYNAMICAL PROBLEMS IN THE NONWOVEN FABRIC INDUSTRY
Ravi O.S. Prasad, Ph.D. - Fluent, Inc.

USE OF GOWNS AND DRAPES IN HEALTHCARE
William A. Rutala, Ph.D., M.P.H. - University of North Carolina

APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS OF BREATHABLE MATERIALS
Tom Ryle - Clopay Plastic Products Co.

NONWOVEN FABRIC OCCLUDED TO SKIN: EFFECT ON SKIN BARRIER FUNCTION
Howard Maibach, M.D. - University of California Medical Center

EFFECT OF CAPILLARY CONDENSATION ON BREAKTHROUGH PRESSURE OF NONWOVEN BARRIER FABRICS
Y. K. Kamath - TRI/Princeton

BREATHABLE COMPOSITES FOR SURGICAL FABRICS
Joseph Palomo - Allegiance Healthcare

STRENGTH LOSS IN THERMALLY BONDED POLYPROPYLENE FIBERS
Hawthorne Davis - North Carolina State University

SPINNING OF SUBMICRON STRUCTURE FIBERS
John Hagewood, Ph.D. - Hills, Inc.

PRODUCTION OPTIMAZATION & CHARACTERIZATION OF SM & SMS NONWOVEN COMPOSITE CONTAINING BI-COMPONENT PP/PE MICRO-FIBER MELT BLOWN WEBS
Larry Wadsworth, Ph.D. - The University of Tennessee

PTIMIZATION OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS FOR A PP HOMOPOLYMER IN A REICOFIL SPUNBONDING PROCESS
Rammohan Nanjundappa - Colbond Nonwovens

SPUNBONDING & SPUNLACING: TWO LEADING TECHNOLOGIES COMING TOGETHER
Alfred Watzl - Fleissner GmbH & Co.

DEVELOPMENT OF FINISHES FOR COTTON-SURFACED NONWOVENS FOR USE AS HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM APPAREL
Christine Sun, Ph.D. - The University of Tennessee

ROLE OF FIBER FINISH IN THE CONVERSION OF FIBER TO NONWOVENS: FINISH PERFORMANCE AS A MECHANICAL PROCESSING AID IN CARDING
Abdelfattah Seyam, Ph.D. - North Carolina State University

THE STABILITY OF LIQUID FILMS ON HIGHLY CURVED SURFACES
Thomas Theyson, Ph.D. - Goulston Tech., Inc.

INFLUENCE OF SELECTED PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE SOFTNESS OF LIGHTWEIGHT NONWOVEN FABRICS
Krishna Parachuru, Ph.D. - Georgia Institute of Technology

INCREASING THE SURFACE ENERGY & STERILIZATION OF NONWOVEN FABRICS BY EXPOSURE TO A ONE ATMOSPHERE UNIFORM GLOW DISCHARGE PLASMA (OAUGDP)
J. Reece Roth - The University of Tennessee

ENHANCING THE SPREADING PERFORMANCE OF FINISHES
Mark Nehra - Uniquema

LOW-BORON FIBERGLASS FORMULA FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY MICROGLASS FILTER MEDIA
Jack Xu - Johns Manville

USE OF INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY TO IMPROVE THE MELT SPINNING AND PROCESSING OF POLYESTER FIBERS
Glenn Gibson - Eastman Chemical Co.

NONWOVENS FROM POLY (TRIMETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) STAPLES
Don Shiffler - North Carolina State University

MELTBLOWN FABRICS OUT OF BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS
Dieter H. Mueller, Ph.D. - BIK/University of Bremen

IMPLICATIONS OF FIBER MORPHOLOGY ON THE STRUCTURE & PROPERTIES OF THERMALLY BONDED POLYPROPYLENE NONWOVENS
Gajanan Bhat - The University of Tennessee

CHARACTERIZATION OF COTTON/CELLULOSE ACETATE NONWOVENS OF UNTREATED & AQUEOUS PRETREATED WEBS PRIOR TO THERMAL BONDING
K. E. Duckett - The University of Tennessee

EFFECT OF BIAS ANGLE ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF STITCH-BONDED FABRIC
Vladimir Lasic - University of Zagreb

THEORETICAL DESIGN OF NONWOVEN FABRICS
Peter P. Tsai, Ph.D. - TANDEC

CHARACTERIZATION OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN NONWOVEN FABRICS DURING LOAD-DEFORMATION EXPERIMENTS
Behnam Pourdeyhimi,. Ph.D. - North Carolina State University

NONWOVENS IN BATTERY SEPARATORS
John G. McCulloch, Ph.D. - Nonwoven/MB Ind.

POLYLACTIDE POLYMERS: TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS
James Lunt, Ph.D. - Cargill Dow LLC

NOVEL PROPERTIES OF PLA FIBERS
Jeff Dugan - Fiber Innovation Tech., Inc.

MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF FIBER SEGMENTS IN NONWOVEN FABRICS USING SEM & IMAGE PROCESSING
HK Versteeg - Loughborough University

DETERMINING FIBER ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS IN NONWOVENS WITH HOUGH TRANSFORM TECHNIQUES
Bugao Xu - University of Texas @ Austin

DEVELOPMENTS IN ABSORBENT PRODUCTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE NONWOVENS INDUSTRY
Colin White - MCW Technologies

FOOD SERVICE WIPES
William Vogel - Atlantic Mills, Inc.

SPREADING & COALESCENCE OF LIQUID DROPLETS ON NONWOVENS
Xuemin Chen - TRI/Princeton

UNIFORMITY & ANISOTROPY IN NONWOVEN FIBROUS MATERIALS
Andrew Kallmes - MK Systems

FLAME RETARDANT CHEMICAL TREATMENTS FOR NONWOVENS
James R. Johnson, Ph.D. - Olympic Laboratories, Inc.

CHEMICAL APPLICATION BY FOAM: ONE PRACTICAL AVENUE TO NEW PRODUCTS
Christoph Aurich - Gaston Systems, Inc.

HOLLOW SPHERE PIGMENTS: DO THEY HAVE A PLACE IN THE NONWOVEN INDUSTRY?
Michèle Mlynar - Rohm & Haas Co.

CROSS-FLOW DRYING & CURING OF WET-LAID GLASS FIBER VEILS
C. Heil, Ph.D. - Owens Corning Veil Netherlands BV

DEVELOPMENTS IN CARDING
William Oxenham - North Carolina State University

OPTIMISATION [sic] OF ENERGY TRANSFER IN HYDROENTANGLEMENT PROCESS
M. Acar - Loughborough University

PRODUCTION OF SUB-MICRON MELTBLOWN FIBERS FOR FILTRATION PRODUCTS
Gregory F. Ward - Nonwoven Technologies, Inc.

DEVELOPMENT & MODELING OF MONO- & BI-COMPONENT FIBER MELTBLOWN NONWOVEN PROCESS
Dong Zhang, Ph.D. - The University of Tennessee

METHODS OF MANUFACTURING TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF NONWOVEN ROLL GOODS
Michael Maguire - National Wire Fabric

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