Hygiene adhesives play in developing new products that meet the “comfort and health” requirements demanded by customers.
Key Players in this Highly Competitive Market
Hygiene product manufacturers: Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, Unicharm, and SCA.
Major adhesive suppliers: Bostik, H.B. Fuller, Henkel, Dow, and 3M.
Hygiene Applications
Hot melt adhesives play a strong enabling role in the construction of disposable hygienic products such as baby diapers (nappies), feminine care products, and adult incontinence articles. However, there are also a number of other hygienic applications for adhesives including medical dressings, hospital bed pads, and surgical drapes.
Thinner, softer and leak-free diapers for babies are the market trend as customer demands. Diaper manufacturers are making investments in innovation to the better use of elastics and using new core technology to allowed for better liquid distribution.
Hygiene adhesive is a kind of SIS/SBS based HMA, can be used in absorbent sanitary baby diapers. The types are identified as backsheet adhesives, construction adhesives, leg and cuff elastic adhesives, wetness indicator adhesives, core adhesives, landing tape and stretch ear adhesives. Adhesives provide adhesion and elastic ability to each component of diaper. How to choose a right adhesion solution, it will effect on strength, lightweight, elastic and cost for the baby care products.
SBC based polymers adhesive, includes Styrene butadiene styrene (SBS), Styrene isoprene styrene (SIS), Styrene ethylene/butylene styrene (SEBS) and Styrene ethylene/propylene styrene (SEPS). SEBS is the hydrogenated form of SBS, SEPS is the hydrogenated form of SIS.
The disposable hygiene products use SIS/SBS based HMAs for the abilities to retain flexibility and elasticity at low temperature. They have well value in cost, and with benefits of high initial tack strength.
Our SIS block copolymer 1209 is specially used for disposable hygiene adhesives .