Eco-friendly and high-performance diaper elastics
Leading the next diaper innovation: Pioneering comfort, sustainability and performance
As consumer needs and preferences evolve, diaper manufacturers are embracing key trends to enhance product performance, sustainability, and manufacturing efficiency. Let’s explore some of the major trends driving the diaper industry.
Naturality
Reduction of chemical odor
Ever noticed a chemical odor from new baby diapers? That might be caused by conventional unhydrogenated polymers.
Kuraray Elastomers invented a newly designed, odorous free elastic solution under its brand SEPTON™ F-series.
As a result, by replacing conventional, unhydrogenated polymers, diaper manufacturers can drastically reduce chemical odor and let parents and babies feel more natural.
Plant-based alternatives
For parents, making a sustainable choice is becoming more and more important when selecting the right baby diaper.
Kuraray Elastomer’s newly invented elastic film is also available with plant-based feedstock.
Additionally, efforts are being made to optimize waste management, improve recycling processes, and reduce carbon emissions throughout the diaper’s lifecycle.
The elastic film contains bio-based segments derived from sugarcane and is a more sustainable choice for future generations. To add here, the sugarcane is not taken from the food source—meaning it is both friendly for the nature and us people.
Convenience
Making diapers easy to wear
For babies, everything in this world is new. So, there is no wonder babies want to explore around. An easy-to-stretch diaper elastic of Kuraray is here to help. Our film can be stretched double in length, but with 41% less power. When a diaper is easy to pull on, it can save time, enabling babies to play more, and parents to hustle less.
Comfort
Diapers soft feeling and the right fit elasticity is the key indicator to wearing comfort.
Tight and constricting diapers prevent babies from playing and sleeping peacefully.
Babies don’t like stiff diapers, which could cause skin irritations and red marks.
When a diaper elastic softly fits around their waist and legs, it provides everything babies need—right fit and soft feeling, all to help them play freely in daytime, sleep tightly at night.
¹ Conventional formulation includes SBS, test method by odor detection.
² Conventional formulation includes POE, tensile stress at 100% elongation, tested by Kuraray in-house method.
³ Conventional formulation includes POE, tensile stress at 100% strain (loading) and 50% strain (unloading) during the 2nd cycle of tensile hysteresis test, tested by Kuraray in-house method.
Features & Benefits
- Customized solutions: Tailoring performance, sustainability and economy to customer needs
- Strong holding force without leaving red marks
- Odor reduction by Kuraray’s unique SEPTON™ solutions
- Efficient manufacturing & environmentally-friendly solutions: Embracing economics and bio-based alternatives
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