MOCKSVILLE, NC, August 31, 2021-

Avgol, an Indorama Ventures Limited company, is a global leader in the manufacture of high-performance nonwoven fabric solutions, with the most comprehensive range of ultra-lightweight spun-melt nonwoven fabrics in the Hygiene market. Here, Dr. DeeAnn Nelson, R&D and Innovation Manager with Avgol in North America, and Nick Carter, Vice President of Marketing, examine how the industry responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

In February 2020, the scale of the global pandemic was only just becoming apparent. Avgol’s own facility in Hubei province, the very epicenter of the COVID-19 virus, was being impacted by a strange new illness. Demand for personal protection equipment (PPE) started to skyrocket and it soon became apparent that the global supply of PPE was woefully insufficient to meet growing demand. Manufacturing of PPE – either in terms of components or as finished goods – was simply not positioned to keep pace with domestic requirements.

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