Mitsui Chemicals has increased production facilities for meltblown nonwovens at its wholly owned subsidiary Sunrex Industry. The operations at the new facilities began in January. The expansion comes in response to growing demand for industrial-use meltblown nonwovens, and will increase the group’s production capacity for these materials by 50 per cent.

Through this facility expansion, Mitsui Chemicals plans to further bolster and grow its business for nonwovens.

Mitsui Chemicals is positioning its nonwovens business as a growth sector, making efforts to supply high-quality nonwovens as industrial materials for a variety of applications. This includes use in car seats (Tafnel), and masks and agricultural sheets (Syntex).

With respect to Syntex MB nano, the group is making efforts for its use in filters and other such applications that will take advantage of the meltblown nonwovens line’s superfine fibres, which are no more than several hundred nanometres in diameter.