INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, has opened online nominations for the prestigious Hygienix Innovation Award. The award recognises a new product or technology innovation in the absorbent hygiene and personal care sector that uses nonwoven fabrics in novel, technically sophisticated, uniquely creative, and expansive ways.

The award will be presented at Hygienix 2018, which will be held from November 5 to 8, 2018, in Orlando, Florida. Nominations will be accepted online through July 16, 2018, at www.inda.org/awards/hygienix-innovation-award.html.

Nominees will be selected from a broad range of new products or technologies that have been commercially available at most two years prior to Hygienix 2018. Nominees can include end product components, fabrication techniques, or products that use a nonwoven technology in manufacturing.

Award categories include feminine care products, diapers, incontinence products, raw materials, equipment technology, reusable products or technologies, and composites or laminates that use nonwovens.

Three finalists will present their innovations to over 500 participants at Hygienix, the premiere event for the absorbent hygiene and personal care markets. The winner will be announced on November 8, 2018.

The Hygienix 2018 conference will explore exclusive content in dynamic areas like femcare opportunities, absorbent hygiene product advancements, end-of-life challenges for disposable products, haptics – softness, fit, and odour control, urinary and fecal incontinence consumer needs, absorbent hygiene test methods and standards, market and economic trends, and megatrends and innovation. (GK)