Advancing Sustainability in Personal Care: W+D by BW Converting Sets New Standards
Sustainability is more than a trend: it is a guiding principle for innovation in hygiene production. At W+D by BW Converting, we combine technological excellence with responsibility for resources and the environment. Our solutions enable manufacturers to design products that are efficient, resource-saving, and future-proof.
Technological Innovations for Reduced Material Use
Our high-speed flexo printers operate exclusively with water-based, solvent-free inks. At the same time, our machine technologies continuously minimize raw material consumption in the final product:
Narrow chassis with add-on ears: reducing topsheet and backsheet consumption by more than 25% in adult diapers
Zero-waste ear process: achieving 0% waste in ear material for baby diapers
Perfect core formation: eliminating overdosing of SAP and fluff
Efficient underpad production: drastically lowering core grammage with airlaid-like quality, produced inline
Energy savings: the latest drumformer generation consumes significantly less energy and sets a new market benchmark
Very low nonwoven grammages at full speed: e.g. 8 gsm for core wrap or 12 gsm for a 900 mm wide underpad backsheet
Partnerships for a Bio-Based, Circular Economy
Innovation thrives through collaboration. Together with leading raw material suppliers, we are opening new paths towards a biodegradable and circular personal care universe:
Pulp manufacturers: testing grades with faster-growing tree types, totally chlorine-free, unbleached, and more
Adhesive suppliers: bio-based ingredients, optimized application processes, and reduced grammage and temperatures
Elastic thread, film, and nonwoven partners: advancing bio-based elastic threads, topsheets, backsheets, and paper-based single wraps
Sustainability Without Compromise
Our customers benefit from reduced resource use while maintaining – and often even enhancing – product quality. With deep expertise across the entire personal care portfolio, from the smallest pantyliner to the largest underpad, and combined with strong innovation power and a true partnership approach, W+D by BW Converting is a dynamic driver of progress in the market.
Conclusion & Outlook
Every step we take brings the industry closer to a sustainable, bio-based, and circular future.
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Under the banner of our industry-leading Winkler+Dünnebier (W+D) brand, BW Converting engineers and manufacturers machinery for the envelope and direct mail converting, printing and inserting, as well as e-commerce mailing bag markets. We also manufacture machinery for converting and precise processing of thin and inhomogeneous materials at high production speeds, such as folded tissue handkerchiefs, facial tissues, baby diapers and pants, feminine hygiene, light incontinence products, adult diapers and pants and underpads.
Auszubildende (Germany only)
BW Converting designs and manufactures precision machinery for Tissue, Hygiene, Print, Packaging, Mailing, Textiles and other high-performance Industrial applications. We unify our product brands Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), Winkler+Dünnebier (W+D), Baldwin Technology Co., Hudson-Sharp, STAX Technologies, and Northern Engraving and Machine under one global organization.