Stitchbonding
Stitchbond Nonwoven Technology
The Ingenious Hybrid: What Is It?
Every product we make is a custom hybrid, made possible by our exclusive redesign of the original stitchbond concept. This is proprietary technology used to create a wide variety of fabrics for many industrial and consumer markets.
The Stitchbond Process
Stitchbond technology is a method of fabric formation that uses needles to pierce through nonwoven substrates — films, papers or foams, etc. Positioned adjacent to each other, the needles stitch either a simple or complex network of yarns into the substrate(s) to form nonwoven hybrids. The stitching strengthens and reinforces substrates and brings an extensive number of alternative properties to the resulting composites.
The Stitchbond Origin
East German Textile Engineer Dr. Heinrich Mauersberger invented the original stitchbond process in 1949, and produced the first “Maliwatt” stitchbond nonwoven machine in 1957.
Mauersberger’s Successor
In 1968, Arno Wildeman brought stitchbonding first to the United Kingdom and then to the U.S. The first manufacturer to commercialize its use in the West, he conceived a dramatic redesign of the original concept. His technological platform was the foundation of proprietary capabilities that evolve to this very day.
