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Bally Ribbon Mills Highlights Broad Product Line of Medical Textiles and Fabrics

Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM), an industry leader in the design, development, and manufacture of highly specialized engineered woven fabrics, is highlighting its broad product line of medical textiles and fabrics ideal for use in cardiovascular, orthopedic, and dental prosthetic applications.

Tubular prosthesis of medical textiles can become one with the repaired vessel over time and can provide less invasive options than operations like open heart surgery. BRM’s woven seamless tubular materials for stent and knitted grafts offer solutions for aortic repair and endoluminal devices. Other BRM cardiovascular textiles facilitate Trans Aortic Valve Replacement and Aseptal Defect repair.

BRM’s medical textiles also include woven tapes and webbing in flat fabrics, or straight or bifurcated tubular structures. Monofilament materials used in blood filtration, aspirating devices, and bone marrow transplants are also available. For materials used in the manufacture of dental prosthetic devices, BRM offers braided composite substrates.

BRM works closely with major manufacturers to help support medical device development due to its capability to go from prototype into full-scale production. BRM manufactures medical textiles in a certified clean room to ensure cleanliness and quality and maintains the rigorous ISO 13485:2016 certification for the design and manufacture of medical devices. Additionally, medical textiles engineers, prototype weavers, and braiders at BRM work on a confidential basis to protect the intellectual property of customers. www.ballyribbon.com

Monadnock Nonwovens Enhances Meltblown Material

Monadnock Non-Wovens LLC, a manufacturer of meltblown synthetic media for the automotive, respirator, surgical face mask, and air and liquid filtration markets, has invested in technology to deliver higher efficiency meltblown media for air filtration. The new enhanced filter media, Monadnock HPAQ 3F, is engineered specifically for respirators, HVAC and air purification filters. HPAQ 3F will meet all international filtration standards: ASHRAE 52-2, ASTM 2100, EN-149, HEPA, MERV 10-16, and NIOSH.

Filters made with Monadnock HPAQ 3F will capture more dust, pollen, allergens, viruses, and smoke with lower pressure drop than traditional polypropylene and other synthetic meltblown media.

“Bringing this new capability to our manufacturing facility enables us to produce materials that help meet global air filtration standards,” said Jim Cree, MNW president. “In a time with forest fires and airborne diseases, we are offering the filtration market a healthier solution that is made right here in the United States.”

HPAQ 3F is available in rolls up to 95”/2.4 m wide. This virgin polypropylene (PP) product is recyclable, and trim waste can be repurposed in sorbent applications. As with all MNW products, it is made with 100 percent renewable windpowered electricity (Green-e certified RECs). www.mnwovens.com

Teijin Frontier Develops Next-Generation Comfort Material for Active and Functional Apparel

Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., announced that it has developed a nextgeneration comfort material that uniquely combines contact cooling functionality with sweat stickiness prevention. The new material features a dual-layer, knit structure where the inner layer alternates Teijin Frontier’s newly developed hydrophobic WAVERON™ yarn and conventional hydrophilic WAVERON™ yarn. The hydrophilic yarn absorbs perspiration, while the hydrophobic yarn prevents it from adhering to the skin to keep the skin dry. The outer layer disperses absorbed perspiration to the outside.

Teijin Frontier plans to promote and sell this next-generation comfort material as a desirable fabric for the 2026 spring/summer sports and outdoor apparel season, in both domestic and international markets. In advance of that season, the company aims to sell 100,000 meters of the material. Subsequently, it will expand into functional apparel such as fashion clothing. By fiscal 2028, Teijin Frontier expects to sell one million meters of this next-generation comfort material per year. www2.teijin-frontier.com

Teijin Frontier’s new comfort material.