This year’s report of the world’s top 10 non woven fabric manufacturers company includes 10 nonwovens producers worldwide. Many of the leading companies are located in mature markets such as the United States and Western Europe, and companies from developing regions are also playing an increasingly important role. Many companies from developing countries such as Brazil, Turkey, China and the Czech Republic have emerged in this year’s top 10. As these emerging market companies continue to grow, we are bound to see their rankings rise in the next few years.
World Nonwovens & Industrial Textiles Association conducts a preliminary review of enterprise application materials, scores quantitative index models and invited industry experts to score.
1.Berry Global
(1)Products: plastic packaging products, including nonwovens
(2)Headquarters: Evansville, Indiana, United States
(3)Website: www.berryglobal.com
Berry Global, Inc is a Fortune 500 global manufacturer and marketer of plastic packaging products. Headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, it has over 265+ facilities across the globe and more than 46,000+ employees, including supporting manufacturing in Russia with an injection molding site in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2.DUPONT
(1)Products: plastic packaging products, including nonwovens
(2)Headquarters: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
(3)Website: www.dupont.com
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in the development of Delaware and first arose as a major supplier of gunpowder.
3.NW Fabric
(1)Products: nonwovens, wipes, face mask
(2)Headquarters: Hong Kong, China
(3)Website: www.nwfabric.com
NW Fabric is one of the Largest Non woven companies, directly supplying the global industry with innovative solutions for the hygiene, healthcare and industrial markets.The Company manufactures a range of non-woven fabrics including meltblown, spunbond, airlaid, and specialty fabrics/products.
NW Fabric makes 321,000 tons of nonwovens in Asia. The largest percentage of output is currently made in China where the company has two sites in Jiangxi and Foshan, which together make 93,000 tons of nonwovens per year. The company’s most recent Chinese investment, in Jiangxi, has been completed, adding 20,000 tons of capacity.
4.Freudenberg Group
(1)Products: Household and other products, including nonwovens
(2)Headquarters: Weinheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
(3)Website: www.freudenberg.com
The Freudenberg Group is a German family-owned diversified group of companies whose products include housewares and cleaning products, automobile parts, textiles, building materials, and telecommunications.
5.Glatfelter
(1)Products: engineered materials, including nonwovens
(2)Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
(3)Website: www.glatfelter.com
Glatfelter is a leading global supplier of engineered materials with a strong focus on innovation and sustainability. The company’s high quality, technology-driven, innovative and customizable nonwovens solutions can be found in products that are Enhancing Everyday Life.
6.Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj
(1)Products: Fiber-based materials, including nonwovens
(2)Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland
(3)Website: www.ahlstrom.com
Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj is a manufacturer of fiber-based products. Renewable fibers represent about 95% of Ahlstrom’s total fiber use. Ahlstrom operates in Europe, North and South America as well as in Asia. Most production sites are located in Europe. The head office is located in Helsinki, Finland.
7.Fitesa
(1)Products: Medical supply, including nonwovens
(2)Headquarters: Centro Historico, Brazil
(3)Website: www.fitesa.com
Fitesa is one of the leading companies in the nonwoven fabric industry that supplies spun bound,melt blown, carded, and Airlaid nonwovens to the hygiene, medical and industrial markets.Fitesa was first established in 1966 in Brazil, and the 2016 ranking is 6th with sales of 708 million USD. The entire employees of this company are around 2000 people.
8.Suominen Corporation
(1)Products: nonwovens
(2)Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland
(3)Website: www.suominen.fi
Suominen Corporation is a Finnish company that makes nonwovens for wiping and hygiene products, and for healthcare applications. Suominen is the global market leader in nonwovens for wipes, and one of the world’s biggest nonwovens manufacturers.
9.Kimberly-Clark
(1)Products: sanitary paper products and surgical & medical instruments.
(2)Headquarters: Irving, Texas, United States
(3)Website: kimberly-clark.com
Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American multinational personal care corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. The company manufactures sanitary paper products and surgical & medical instruments.
10.Toray Industries
(1)Products: nonwovens
(2)Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo
(3)Website: toray.co.jp
Toray Industries, Inc. is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial products centered on technologies in organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biochemistry. Its founding business areas were fibers and textiles, as well as plastics and chemicals.