The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) is a unique association representing the entire spectrum of the textile industry. From fibers to finished products, machinery manufacturers to power suppliers, NCTO is the voice of the U.S. textile industry. There are four separate councils that comprise the NCTO leadership structure, and each council represents a segment of the textile industry and elects its own officers who make up NCTOs Board of Directors.
NatureWorks LLC is a joint venture between Cargill and Teijin Limited of Japan. Dedicated to meeting the world™s needs today without compromising the earth™s ability to meet the needs of tomorrow, NatureWorks LLC is the first company to offer a family of commercially available low carbon footprint polymers derived from 100-percent annually renewable resources with cost and performance that compete with petroleum-based packaging materials and fibers. This biopolymer currently uses 65% less fossil fuel resources to produce, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 80-90% compared to traditional petroleum-based polymers. The company applies its unique technology to the processing of natural plant sugars to create a proprietary polylactide biopolymer, NatureWorks® which is then marketed globally as Ingeo™.
Toddler wipes and Cleansing wipes.
Nice-Pak/PDI is a multi-national private label manufacturer of wet wipes for baby and healthcare applications from textile fabrics and spunlace nonwovens.
Nitto Advanced Film Gronau is a leading international supplier of a wide variety of films and film-based products. The product range includes high-quality printed packaging solutions and films, technical films, hygiene components, laminating films and label films as well as decorative and flooring films. Since December 2020, high quality face masks and melt-blown nonwovens complete our portfolio.
NIRI specializes in helping companies improve their nonwoven products. Using our extensive pilot facilities and state-of-the-art analytical laboratory, we have successfully completed >400 projects for >200 clients. NIRI confidentially develops new products and IP, reducing cost and environmental impact, resolving quality issues and finding new markets, and increasing the profitability of our clients.
The Nonwovens Institute is the worlds first accredited academic program for the interdisciplinary study of engineered fabrics through an innovative partnership of industry, government, and academe. The institute was established in February 2007 to develop, educate, and train the next generation of industry professionals. The research arm of the institute is the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center (NCRC). The Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center (NCRC) was founded in 1991 as a State-Industry University Cooperative Research Center from matching grants from the National Science Foundation, the State of North Carolina, and the Industry. |The Nonwovens Institute serves the nonwovens and affiliated industries through research, training, product development, and test-bed facilities. The state-of-the-art facilities include laboratories dedicated to fiber, fabric, and polymer characterization, spunbond and melt blown pilot lines with bicomponent fiber capability, carding, cross-lapping, needle punching, hydroentangling, thermal bonding, and spun bond/melt blown/carded web composite capability. Analytical facilities offer the ability to analyze and evaluate materials performance according to many industry specific standard test methods.
Producer of spunlaced and needlepunched nonwovens. Primarily active in the following market segments: protective apparel, filtration, industrial applications, composites. Type of fibers processed: high-performance man-made fibers as well as natural fibers.