Abstract: Provided is a composite nonwoven fabric including: a silk region that contains crimped silk fibers as a main component; and a synthetic fiber nonwoven fabric region that contains polyolefin resin-containing synthetic fibers as a main component.

Abstract: A laminate sheet includes a water-vapor permeable polyurethane film having a hard segment phase and a first spunbond nonwoven fabric disposed at one side in a thickness direction of the water-vapor permeable polyurethane film. The first spunbond nonwoven fabric contains stretchable fibers containing a thermoplastic polyurethane and non-stretchable fibers containing a polyolefin. The melting point of the hard segment phase is 65? or more and 140? or less.

Abstract: Multilayer nonwoven fabrics for foam molding that have excellent resistance to the separation of layers, have reinforcing effects and urethane leakage prevention performance, and are producible without the occurrence of fiber dust on the surface. In the multilayer nonwoven fabric for foam molding, a reinforcing layer is stacked on at least one side of a dense layer, the dense layer includes a meltblown nonwoven fabric layer (A) and spunbonded nonwoven fabric layers (B) that are stacked on both sides of the layer (A), and the meltblown nonwoven fabric layer (A) and the spunbonded nonwoven fabric layers (B) are partially thermocompression bonded with each other.

Abstract: There is provided a nonwoven fabric excellent in the balance among fuzz resistance, softness and tensile strength. The nonwoven fabric comprises an embossed portion and a non-embossed portion; the embossed portion comprising an emboss pattern that comprises unit patterns each delimited by emboss lines; the emboss lines each comprising a plurality of emboss element parts that are continuously arranged with a predetermined interval; wherein in the direction in which the distance from any arbitrarily-defined point in the non-embossed portion within the unit pattern toward the outside of the emboss lines that delimit the non-embossed portion is shortest, at least one of the plurality of emboss element parts is disposed so as to block the direction in which the distance from the arbitrarily-defined point toward the outside of the emboss lines that delimit the non-embossed portion is shortest.

Abstract: A spunbond nonwoven fabric, comprising fibers of a propylene-based polymer composition containing 100 parts by mass of a propylene-based polymer (A) and 1 part by mass to 10 parts by mass of an ethylene-based polymer (B) having a density of from 0.93 g/cm3 to 0.98 g/cm3, wherein air permeability measured in accordance with JIS L 1096 (2010) by a Frazier type air permeability tester at a flow rate corresponding to a pressure differential of 125 Pa is 500 cm3/cm2/s or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer nonwoven fabric for foam molding containing a dense layer and a reinforcing layer provided on at least one side of the dense layer, the reinforcing layer is a staple fiber nonwoven fabric containing thermoplastic resin staple fibers (A) having a fiber diameter of more than 20 ?m, in an amount of 5% by mass to 50% by mass, and hermoplastic resin staple fibers (B) having a fiber diameter of 20 ?m or less, in an amount of 95% by mass to 50% by mass, and conjugate polyester-based staple fibers (C) are contained in an amount of 10% by mass to 40% by mass, the dense layer is a nonwoven fabric having bulk density in a range of from 0.05 g/cm3 to 0.3 g/cm3, and the dense layer and the reinforcing layer are entangled with each other by needle punching.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer nonwoven fabric for foam molding containing a dense layer and a reinforcing layer provided on at least one side of the dense layer, the reinforcing layer is a staple fiber nonwoven fabric containing thermoplastic resin staple fibers (A) having a fiber diameter of more than 20 ?m, in an amount of 5% by mass to 50% by mass, and hermoplastic resin staple fibers (B) having a fiber diameter of 20 ?m or less, in an amount of 95% by mass to 50% by mass, and conjugate polyester-based staple fibers (C) are contained in an amount of 10% by mass to 40% by mass, the dense layer is a nonwoven fabric having bulk density in a range of from 0.05 g/cm3 to 0.3 g/cm3, and the dense layer and the reinforcing layer are entangled with each other by needle punching.

Abstract: Multilayer nonwoven fabrics for foam molding that have excellent resistance to the separation of layers, have reinforcing effects and urethane leakage prevention performance, and are producible without the occurrence of fiber dust on the surface. In the multilayer nonwoven fabric for foam molding, a reinforcing layer is stacked on at least one side of a dense layer, the dense layer includes a meltblown nonwoven fabric layer (A) and spunbonded nonwoven fabric layers (B) that are stacked on both sides of the layer (A), and the meltblown nonwoven fabric layer (A) and the spunbonded nonwoven fabric layers (B) are partially thermocompression bonded with each other.

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric laminate for foam molding includes a reinforcing layer on at least one side of a dense layer. The dense layer is a nonwoven fabric including polyester continuous fibers with a fiber diameter of 10 to 30 ?m and having a bulk density of not less than 0.1 g/cm3, the fibers being fusion bonded together by a hot air treatment. The reinforcing layer is a nonwoven fabric including polyester staple fibers with a fiber diameter of 10 to 30 ?m. The dense layer and the reinforcing layer are stacked and interlocked with each other by needle punching. The nonwoven fabric laminates for foam molding can maintain denseness in the sheets even after being heated, spread and compressed. The nonwoven fabrics display excellent conformability to the shape of a mold during a shaping process involving heating, spreading and compressing and thus can be formed into complicated shapes.

Abstract: A meltblown nonwoven fabric is provided having thermoplastic resin fibers having an average fiber diameter of 0.1 to 10 ?m, a bulk density of not more than 36 kg/m3 and an air permeability, as measured by a Frazier type method at basis weight of 200 g/m2, of 3 to 100 cc/cm2/sec. The meltblown nonwoven fabric has a low bulk density and is excellent in sound absorption performance, oil adsorption performance, heat insulation performance, dust collection performance and filtration performance. Since the meltblown nonwoven fabric can be formed from one kind of a resin composition, it can be simply and easily produced as compared with the case of using mixed fibers or conjugated fibers formed from many kinds of resins, and the resulting meltblown nonwoven fabric can have uniformity and no variability of properties.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to obtain nonwoven fabric laminates which may be hot embossed to maintain high wear resistance (fuzz resistance) without any decrease in waterproofness (barrier properties) and which have excellent tensile strength and flexibility. The invention provides a nonwoven fabric laminate including a meltblown nonwoven fabric (A) and a spunbond nonwoven fabric stacked on at least one surface of the meltblown nonwoven fabric, the meltblown nonwoven fabric including a fiber of an ethylene polymer resin composition containing an ethylene polymer (a) and an ethylene polymer wax (b) having a weight average molecular weight of less than 6,000 and a softening point exceeding 110° C., the spunbond nonwoven fabric including a fiber formed form an ethylene polymer (y), or from an ethylene polymer (y) and a polyester polymer (x).

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an agricultural covering material which has a high light transmittance so that it accelerates the growth of crops and has visual confirmation properties to the inside thereof for cultivators, which has a good growth acceleration effect due to heat retention of soil temperature, can suppress ingress of excess amounts of rainwater, has excellent evenness such as a low unevenness in strength and effective prevention of harmful insects which will fly and gather, and which has proper air-permeability. The agricultural covering material of the present invention includes a nonwoven fabric laminate having (i) a light transmittance of 80% or more, (ii) an air-permeability of 50 to 400 cm3/cm2/sec and (iii) a basis weight of 10 to 30 g/cm2.

Abstract: There is provided a nonwoven fabric laminate that is capable of being disinfection-treated with e.g., electron beam and is excellent in tensile strength, barrier properties, low-temperature sealability, and softness. The present invention provides a nonwoven fabric laminate obtained by laminating a spunbonded nonwoven fabric on at least one surface of a melt-blown nonwoven fabric (A), the melt-blown nonwoven fabric (A) including fibers of an ethylene-based polymer resin composition of an ethylene-based polymer (a) and an ethylene-based polymer wax (b), the spunbonded nonwoven fabric including a conjugate fiber formed from a polyester (x) and an ethylene-based polymer (y) such that at least part of the fiber surface is the ethylene-based polymer (y).

Abstract: A fiber comprising an olefin polymer composition including, based on 100 parts by weight of an olefin polymer, 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of a di-fatty acid ester of a poly(oxyalkylene)diol represented by formula (1) described below and 0.01 to 2.5 parts by weight of a poly(oxyalkylene)sorbitan tri-fatty acid ester (the alkylene group being ethylene, propylene or butylene group, the number of added moles being 10 to 40, and the fatty acid being an alkyl or alkylene fatty acid having a carbon number of 12 to 18). R1—COO—(CnH2nO)a—C6H12—O(CnH2nO)b—CO—R2 . . . (Formula 1) [wherein R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group having a carbon number of 11 to 17 and may be the same or different, n in (CnH2nO)a and (CnH2nO)b is an integer of 2 to 4, and a+b is 5 to 23]. The fiber can provide reduced smoke emission during production of a nonwoven fabric.

Abstract: There is provided a nonwoven fabric excellent in the balance among fuzz resistance, softness and tensile strength. The nonwoven fabric comprises an embossed portion and a non-embossed portion; the embossed portion comprising an emboss pattern that comprises unit patterns each delimited by emboss lines; the emboss lines each comprising a plurality of emboss element parts that are continuously arranged with a predetermined interval; wherein in the direction in which the distance from an arbitrarily-defined point in the non-embossed portion within the unit pattern toward the outside of the emboss lines that delimit the non-embossed portion is shortest, at least one of the plurality of emboss element parts is disposed so as to block the direction in which the distance from the arbitrarily-defined point toward the outside of the emboss lines that delimit the non-embossed portion is shortest.

Abstract: Multilayer nonwoven fabrics for foam molding that have excellent resistance to the separation of layers, have reinforcing effects and urethane leakage prevention performance, and are producible without the occurrence of fiber dust on the surface. In the multilayer nonwoven fabric for foam molding, a reinforcing layer is stacked on at least one side of a dense layer, the dense layer includes a meltblown nonwoven fabric layer (A) and spunbonded nonwoven fabric layers (B) that are stacked on both sides of the layer (A), and the meltblown nonwoven fabric layer (A) and the spunbonded nonwoven fabric layers (B) are partially thermocompression bonded with each other.

Abstract: A film-like material of the present invention comprises a multi-layered film comprising a hydrophilic porous film containing a thermoplastic resin as a main component and having a colored part on one face thereof and, provided on the other face thereof, a layer for preventing permeation of water. Furthermore, the hydrophilic porous film is obtained by forming a thermoplastic resin composition into a film, and then stretching the film in at least a uniaxial direction, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition comprises 25 to 80 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin and 75 to 20 parts by mass of a filler and further a hydrophilicity imparting agent in an amount of 0.1 to 10 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass, where the total amount of the thermoplastic resin and the filler is 100 parts by mass.