Far Eastern New Century Corporation (FENC) has developed a new microfiber for medical masks which addresses a shortage in meltblown non-wovens.
According to the Taiwanese group, the fiber can surpass the daily demand of 13 million facemasks by making up to 20 million per day.
It can be used as the filtration layer of masks to replace meltblown nonwoven. The nonwoven made by this kind of material has a multilayer structure based on close to nanoscale fibers. This structure gives the nonwoven the ability to capture every small particle and allows these facemasks to be washed in water and reused.
