Monadnock Non-Wovens website highlights latest meltblown media

Monadnock Non-Wovens LLC (MNW, Mt. Pocono, Pa., U.S.) recently celebrated 25 years of manufacturing meltblown media for a wide range of markets and applications. The company has updated its website to highlight its broad capabilities and the markets it serves. Specialty fabrics and lofted nonwovens for sound attenuation, biotechnology, filtration, and other industrial and personal care applications are key products that can be viewed.

MNW began its journey producing nonwoven filtration media for vacuum bags. Since then, it has evolved to design new and more high-performance technical products, particularly in automotive and filtration media. For example, since the development of HPAM in 2018, MNW has become an established, reputable and specified media supplier to the global automotive industry with its HPAM high-performance acoustic media offerings.

Early in 2023, MNW also introduced HTAC, a high-temperature, anti-corrosive composite media. It is made with meltblown ethylene chlorotrifluoroethylene (ECTFE) resin to meet the market need for high-performance filtration and protective media for semiconductor production, paper and pulp manufacturing, chemical storage/transport and biotechnology.

The most recent product development is a super-hydrophilic meltblown material. As a wicking layer, it maintains a desirable, viscous liquid transport properties for use in applications where a dry surface is a necessity. Launch plans include a nursing pad distribution layer and potentially washable absorbent mats and cores used in personal care and pet products. “We have already commercialized the product in hygiene absorbent core applications,” MNW President Jim Cree says.

MNW points to its ability to reinvent itself, a crucial characteristic the enabled the company to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and recommendations from the CDC in late 2019. MNW began taking contracts to produce meltblown for surgical facemasks to help stem the spread of the virus. And in response to the support for more renewable resource development, MNW also began manufacturing its products with 100% renewable electricity starting 5 years ago.

“It is an interesting time to be in the industrial nonwovens industry,” Cree adds. “More and more customers are shifting their innovation sourcing from Asia to North America. With over 25 years of experience, we are well positioned to enter new markets for innovative high-performance composite media.”