Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a heat-fusible composite fiber that reduces the consumption of fossil resources and imparts both bulkiness and flexibility to non-woven fabrics, and a non-woven fabric using the heat-fusible composite fiber. Provided is a heat-fusible composite fiber in which a first component is configured from a polyester resin and a second component is configured from a polyethylene resin having a lower melting point than the first component, the mixing ratio (weight ratio) of a biomass-derived polyethylene resin and a fossil-resource-derived polyethylene resin in the polyethylene resin being 20:80 to 90:10.

Abstract: A heat-bondable composite fiber includes a first component that contains a polyester-based resin and a second component that contains a polyolefin-based resin having a melting point that is lower than a melting point of the polyester-based resin by 15° C. or more, and which has an eccentric sheath-core structure wherein, in a cross-section of a fiber orthogonal to a lengthwise direction, the second component occupies an outer periphery of the fiber. This heat-bondable composite fiber has an elongation at break of 200% or more, a three-dimensional apparent crimp, and a crimp elastic modulus of 85% to 100%.

Abstract: Provided is a heat-bondable composite fiber which comprises a first component that contains a polyester-based resin and a second component that contains a polyolefin-based resin having a melting point lower than that of the polyester-based resin by 15° C. or more and which has a concentric sheath-core structure in which, in a cross section of a fiber orthogonal to the lengthwise direction of the fiber, the second component occupies the outer periphery of the fiber, wherein elongation at break is 350% or more, and the ratio of elongation at break to fineness is 80%/dtex or more.

Abstract: Shown are thermo-fusible conjugate fibers having a high degree of crystallinity, while a degree of orientation is suppressed, and a bulky and soft nonwoven fabric using the same. The thermo-fusible conjugate fibers have, as a first component, a polyester-based resin, and as a second component, an olefin-based resin having a melting point lower than a melting point of the first component, in which the degree of orientation in the polyester-based resin is 6.0 or less, and the degree of crystallinity therein is 20% or more. The conjugate fibers are preferably sheath-core conjugate fibers in which the first component is a core component and the second component is a sheath component.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide thermo-fusible conjugated fibers capable of suppressing damage to the fibers upon processing the fibers into a nonwoven fabric web. The thermo-fusible conjugated fibers of the invention contain a first component containing a polyester-based resin and a second component containing a polyolefin-based resin, in which a melting point of the second component is 10° C. or more lower than a melting point of the first component, and a work load at break obtained by a tensile test is 1.6 cN·cm/dtex or more. The damage to the fibers is suppressed by the thermo-fusible conjugated fibers of the invention, and therefore the nonwoven fabric with higher quality can be obtained with higher productivity than ever before.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide thermo-fusible conjugated fibers capable of suppressing damage to the fibers upon processing the fibers into a nonwoven fabric web. The thermo-fusible conjugated fibers of the invention contain a first component containing a polyester-based resin and a second component containing a polyolefin-based resin, in which a melting point of the second component is 10° C. or more lower than a melting point of the first component, and a work load at break obtained by a tensile test is 1.6 cN·cm/dtex or more. The damage to the fibers is suppressed by the thermo-fusible conjugated fibers of the invention, and therefore the nonwoven fabric with higher quality can be obtained with higher productivity than ever before.

Abstract: Shown are thermo-fusible conjugate fibers having a high degree of crystallinity, while a degree of orientation is suppressed, and a bulky and soft nonwoven fabric using the same. The thermo-fusible conjugate fibers have, as a first component, a polyester-based resin, and as a second component, an olefin-based resin having a melting point lower than a melting point of the first component, in which the degree of orientation in the polyester-based resin is 6.0 or less, and the degree of crystallinity therein is 20% or more. The conjugate fibers are preferably sheath-core conjugate fibers in which the first component is a core component and the second component is a sheath component.

Abstract: Provided is a conjugate fiber for air-laid nonwoven fabric manufacture having a planar zig-zag crimp shape before a thermal treatment, such that a uniform web is obtained by air laying with high processability and productivity, and the conjugate fiber develops a spiral crimp when the web is subjected to a thermal treatment to thereby enable the web to shrink significantly, as a result of which a nonwoven fabric can be obtained in which fibers are amassed to a high density. The conjugate fiber for air-laid nonwoven fabric manufacture is a heat-fusible conjugate fiber in which a first component comprising an olefinic thermoplastic resin is conjugated with a second component comprising an olefinic thermoplastic resin having a melting point higher than that of the first component.

Abstract: A fiber that can exhibit both excellent antistatic properties and high water repellency, and a high bulk nonwoven fabric with a good texture that exhibits high water repellency. More specifically, a highly water repellent fiber that is a conjugate fiber having a plurality of thermoplastic resins as the primary component thereof and having a fiber treatment agent comprising at least Component (A) and Component (B) below deposited thereon at 0.1 to 1.0 wt % in relation to the weight of the fiber, with Component (A) accounting for 75 to 97 wt % and Component (B) accounting for 25 to 3 wt % of the fiber treatment agent: Component (A): polysiloxane Component (B): alkane sulfonate metal salt.

Abstract: The invention is contemplated for providing polyethylene-based fibers in which elution of metal from polyethylene is suppressed as much as possible. The invention relates to polyethylene-based fibers, composed of at least one kind of polyethylene resin, in which a total of content of metal elements such as Na, K, Ca, Fe, Cu, Mg, Mn, Li, Al, Cr, Ni and Zn contained inside the fibers is 40 ppm or less. Moreover, the invention relates to a nonwoven fabric using the polyethylene-based fibers.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an antiviral fiber assembly in which an antiviral agent is retained with chemical stability over a long period of time, and which is gentle to the human body. A further object of the present invention is to provide a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate that can exhibit sufficient antiviral activity over a long period of time. Further, another object of the present invention is to provide a textile product obtained using such a fiber assembly. The present invention provides a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate, wherein the hyaluronidase inhibitory activity is 50% or higher; and a process for producing a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate, including treating a fiber assembly with an aqueous cellulose sulfate solution and drying, then treating the same with a pH buffer solution and drying.

Abstract: There is provided a fiber for a wetlaid non-woven fabric, said fiber can be the basis ingredient of a paper that maintains uniform mass per unit area and fiber dispersion and has unprecedented bulkiness. The fiber for a wetlaid non-woven fabric has 30 to 100 wt % of apparently crimping fibers with a fiber diameter of from 3 to 40 ?m and 0 to 70 wt % of latently crimping fibers with a fiber diameter of from 3 to 40 ?m.

Abstract: This invention provides a thermal bonding conjugate fiber having excellent compression resistance and nonwoven fabric using the same. Particularly, the nonwoven fabric retains bulkiness obtained under a light load even under a heavy load and reduces a decrease in bulkiness from under a light load to under a heavy load. The thermal bonding conjugate fiber has an eccentric core-sheath structure in which a first component including a polyester resin constitutes a core and a second component including a polyolefin resin having a melting point at least 15° C. lower than that of the polyester resin constitutes a sheath, and a shrinkage ratio of the conjugate fiber after a heat treatment of 120° C. is at least 20%. The nonwoven fabric is obtained by blending the thermal bonding conjugate fiber at a blend ratio of 10 to 60 wt % with one or more types of different thermal bonding fibers.

Abstract: To provide an add-in material to be added to a porous molded body base, the add-in material being capable of developing a pore of appropriate size efficiently without degrading the formability and productivity of a porous molded body, particularly a porous fired body when producing the porous molded body. A shrinkable fiber composed of a thermoplastic resin and to be dispersed in a base of a porous molded body, particularly a porous fired body, wherein the shrinkable fiber has a fiber diameter of 10 to 40 ?m, a fiber length of 1 to 20 mm, and a dry-heat shrinkage percentage of at least 8% when subjected to heat treatment at 80° C. for 5 minutes.

Abstract: In particular, an object is to show a modified cross-section fiber that is split and used and thus can efficiently produce a fine conjugate fiber. The present disclosure relates to a modified cross-section fiber comprising: (1) a plurality of pieces of conjugate fiber structures comprising a first thermoplastic resin and a second thermoplastic resin having a lower melting or softening point than the first thermoplastic resin and (2) a connected body comprising a third thermoplastic resin having a higher melting or softening point than the second thermoplastic resin, wherein, in an arbitrary fiber cross-section, at least two pieces of the conjugated fiber structure are connected by the connected body.

Abstract: There is provided a fiber bundle that strikes an excellent balance between the properties and performance of the resulting web and the finished products obtained from this web, and cost, ease of work, and productivity. There is also provided a method for manufacturing a web using this fiber bundle. There is also provided a web that is uniform and has excellent soft touch and bulkiness. This is achieved by a fiber bundle with a total denier of 10,000 to 500,000 dtex, obtained by bundling thermoplastic, conjugate, continuous fibers that have a single filament denier of 0.5 to 100 dtex/f and in which the center of gravity of conjugate components varies among the conjugate components in a fiber cross section, wherein the thermoplastic, conjugate, continuous fibers that make up the fiber bundle have a spontaneous crimp of 8 to 30 crimps per 2.

Abstract: A fiber bundle is provided that strikes an excellent balance among the properties and performance of the web and articles manufactured using this web, the productivity, processability, and cost. The fiber bundle comprising continuous fibers aligned in one direction is characterized in that the continuous fibers have crimps that form peaks and valleys in the width direction of the fiber bundle, and these crimps have a characteristic value A, defined as the absolute value of a slope with respect to the length direction of the fiber bundle of a straight line that connects the vertex of the peak with the vertex of the valley of adjacent crimps present in a single continuous fiber, of at least 0.3.

Abstract: The present invention are a heat-bondable conjugate fiber ensuring that the crimp configuration stability can be maintained even in the state of leaving elongation of the fiber and bulkiness and softness are imparted to the nonwoven fabric, and a nonwoven fabric using the same. A heat-bondable conjugate fiber comprises a first component containing a polyester-based resin and a second component containing a polyolefin-based resin having a melting point lower than the melting point of said polyester-based resin, wherein said second component is a heat-bondable conjugate fiber accounting for a specific range of the outer fiber circumference and having a side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core structure and the fiber has a specific elongation, a specific range of a three-dimensional actualized crimp and a specific range of a crimp modulus.

Abstract: A subject of the invention is to provide a fiber and a fibrous formed body, particularly, a nonwoven fabric all having an exceptional color fastness and high liquid absorption properties and high durable hydrophilic properties. This is attained by a fiber essentially based on at least one kind of thermoplastic resin, wherein a fiber treating agent containing component (A) to (D) described below is attached to the fiber, with specific ratio of each of component (A) to (D), wherein (A) is an alkyl phosphate metal salt in which the number of carbons of an alkyl group is less than 10; (B) is a trialkylglycine derivative; (C) is a hydroxycarboxylic acid; and (D) is an alkyl phosphate metal salt in which the number of carbons of alkyl group is in the range of 10 to 14.

Abstract: A splittable conjugate fiber comprising a polyester segment and a polyolefin segment, wherein the splittable conjugate fiber comprises two or more parts of the polyester segment extending from a center of the fiber toward an outer edge of the fiber in a cross-sectional configuration perpendicular to its longitudinal direction, in which at least one of the two or more parts of the polyester segment extending from the center of the fiber toward the outer edge of the fiber is exposed at the outer edge of the fiber and at least one of the two or more parts of the polyester segment extending from the center of the fiber toward the outer edge of the fiber is unexposed at the outer edge of the fiber.