spunbond

English

Noun

spunbond (countable and uncountable, plural spunbonds)

1. Spunbonded fabric; a type of nonwoven fabric made by extruding continuous filaments directly from thermoplastic polymer chips, forming those filaments into a web, and then causing them to bond by the application of heat or (more rarely) a catalyst.

   Hypernyms: nonwoven, spunmelt

   Coordinate term: meltblown

   • 1975, Modern Plastics Encyclopedia, page 159:

     The high strength of spunbonds is a dominant factor in such market applications as mailing envelopes, tags, and reinforcing media for lamination to weaker paper products.

   • 2022, A. Slavgorodski, “Collecting and Drying Herbarium Samples Between Spunbond Sheets”, in Science and Practice, page 77:

     On the whole the density of spunbond varies from 15 till 600 grams per square meter.

   • 2022, S. J. Russell, Handbook of Nonwovens, page 246:

     Civil engineering remains a large market segment for spunbonds accounting for over 25% of the total sales.