Provided is a printing base material that can be printed by a laser printer, that has good (distinct) typability and printability, that remains durable (weather resistant) outdoors for three to six months or more, that has high productivity, that is low-cost, and that is configured from a polyester nonwoven fabric. In this printing base material, a binder layer serving as a printing surface is placed uniformly in the amount of 1.4 g/m.sup.2 to 18 g/m.sup.2 over the entire surface on one side of a polyester nonwoven fabric having a surface roughness (SMD) of 0.5 μm to 2 μm, a thickness of 40 μm to 300 μm, and a basis weight of 30 g/m.sup.2 to 200 g/m.sup.2, release paper may be placed using an adhesive layer on the surface on the side opposite from the binder layer, and the total thickness that can be printed by the laser printer is 90 μm to about 300 μm.

Provided is a printing base material that can be printed by a laser printer, that has good (distinct) typability and printability, that remains durable (weather resistant) outdoors for three to six months or more, that has high productivity, that is low-cost, and that is configured from a polyester nonwoven fabric. In this printing base material, a binder layer serving as a printing surface is placed uniformly in the amount of 1.4 g/m.sup.2 to 18 g/m.sup.2 over the entire surface on one side of a polyester nonwoven fabric having a surface roughness (SMD) of 0.5 μm to 2 μm, a thickness of 40 μm to 300 μm, and a basis weight of 30 g/m.sup.2 to 200 g/m.sup.2, release paper may be placed using an adhesive layer on the surface on the side opposite from the binder layer, and the total thickness that can be printed by the laser printer is 90 μm to about 300 μm.

[Problem] To provide a process for producing a needle-punched nonwoven fabric with which, when finished by embossing, it is possible to obtain a hardly fluffing and distinct rugged pattern. [Solution] Sheath-core composite fibers are accumulated and a fibrous web is formed. The core component of the sheath-core composite fiber is formed from a copolymer of ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid. The sheath component is formed from a copolymer of ethylene glycol, adipic acid, terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid and diethylene glycol. The sheath-core composite fibers are three dimensionally interlaced with each other by needle-punching the web, to obtain the needle-punched nonwoven fabric. The needle-punched nonwoven fabric is passed through heated embossed roll to provide a rugged pattern on a surface. During the process, the sheath component are softening melted and melt bonded between the sheath-core composite fibers to obtain an embossed nonwoven fabric having a distinct rugged pattern.

A nonwoven web having an advantageous bond pattern impressed by a bonding pattern on a roller is disclosed. The bonding pattern is selected to have a bonding area percentage from 6 to 14 percent, which provides a desirable level of bonding of filaments and/or fibers for mechanical strength, while retaining desirable pliability and/or liquid handling characteristics. The bonding area is also relatively highly dispersed, which provides for a relatively greater number of bonded areas for the selected bonding area percentage. The greater number of bonded areas is believed to provide improved structural integrity while still retaining pliability and/or liquid handling characteristics, and also provide for enhanced visual detail and complexity. The relatively highly dispersed bonding area is believed to be particularly effective for nonwoven web materials having three or more layers, with outer layers of polymeric filaments, and even more particularly, one or two outer layers of fine filaments.

A nonwoven web having an advantageous bond pattern impressed by a bonding pattern on a roller is disclosed. The bonding pattern is selected to have a bonding area percentage from 6 to 14 percent, which provides a desirable level of bonding of filaments and/or fibers for mechanical strength, while retaining desirable pliability and/or liquid handling characteristics. The bonding area is also relatively highly dispersed, which provides for a relatively greater number of bonded areas for the selected bonding area percentage. The greater number of bonded areas is believed to provide improved structural integrity while still retaining pliability and/or liquid handling characteristics, and also provide for enhanced visual detail and complexity. The relatively highly dispersed bonding area is believed to be particularly effective for nonwoven web materials having three or more layers, with outer layers of polymeric filaments, and even more particularly, one or two outer layers of fine filaments.

This application provides a Cu-containing non-woven fabric with antibacterial and antiviral properties and application thereof. The preparation method includes the following steps: web-forming, pre-wetting, and spunlace bonding a fiber in sequence to obtain the spunlace non-woven base fabric; padding and sizing the spunlace non-woven base fabric in an organic copper complex solution to obtain a Cu-containing spunlace non-woven fabric, wherein the Cu-containing spunlace non-woven fabric contains copper of ≥500 ppm; and drying and winding the Cu-containing spunlace non-woven fabric after being padded and sized. The method is simple and easy to achieve industrialization. This application also provides a Cu-containing non-woven fabric with antibacterial and antiviral properties having excellent antibacterial and antivirus properties. This application also provides an application of the Cu-containing non-woven fabric with antibacterial and antiviral properties which has an advantage of being widely used.

A thermally bonded filtration media that can be used in high temperature conditions in the absence of any loss of fiber through thermal effects or mechanical impact on the fiber components is disclosed. The filter media can be manufactured and used in a filter unit or structure, can be placed in a stream of removable fluid, and can remove a particulate load from the mobile stream at an increased temperature range. The combination of bi-component fiber, other filter media fiber, and other filtration additives provides an improved filtration media having unique properties in high temperature, high performance applications.

A thermally bonded filtration media that can be used in high temperature conditions in the absence of any loss of fiber through thermal effects or mechanical impact on the fiber components is disclosed. The filter media can be manufactured and used in a filter unit or structure, can be placed in a stream of removable fluid, and can remove a particulate load from the mobile stream at an increased temperature range. The combination of bi-component fiber, other filter media fiber, and other filtration additives provides an improved filtration media having unique properties in high temperature, high performance applications.

A hollow fiber that extending along at least a portion of the fiber along a longitudinal axis thereof and is defined by an interior wall is provided. Through selective control over the manner in which it is formed, the present inventors have discovered that the hollow fiber can exhibit a unique combination of a high void fraction and small fiber size that makes it particularly suitable for use in certain applications, such as in nonwoven webs for absorbent articles.

A hollow fiber that extending along at least a portion of the fiber along a longitudinal axis thereof and is defined by an interior wall is provided. Through selective control over the manner in which it is formed, the present inventors have discovered that the hollow fiber can exhibit a unique combination of a high void fraction and small fiber size that makes it particularly suitable for use in certain applications, such as in nonwoven webs for absorbent articles.