USE OF A POLYETHENE MATERIAL PRODUCED FROM RENEWABLE RAW MATERIAL AS COMPONENT OF AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE, AND THE ABSORBENT ARTICLE

• Main Authors: JOENBRINK ANNA KARIN, NURMI HANNELE, SILFVERSTRAND ANDERS, LAKSO ELISABETH, SIMMONS EVA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Polish
• Published: 30.06.2010
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; WORKING-UP

The use of material that contains polyethene produced from renewable raw material as a component of an absorbent article, and the absorbent article. A method of producing an absorbent article, comprising producing ethene from renewable raw material, preferably ethanol, polymerising the ethene to polyethene, producing film that contains said polyethene, forming at least one article component from said film, feeding the component into a machine together with an absorbent body and possible other sheets and joining said component to the absorbent article. A component of an absorbent article made of a material that includes polyethene, said polyethene having been produced from renewable raw material. Package including film material which contains polyethene produced form renewable raw material.