This process was artificially recreated first by the US Navy in the 1950s in order to procure fine filtration materials for radiation measurements. This was capitalised upon by the Exxon Corporation in the 1950s, who created the first melt-blown industrial process. In this process, wind blows a thermoplastic resin from an extruder die tip onto a conveyor to form a fibrous, self-bonding web. These form non-woven webs, which are then used for multiple purposes.

The various processes for which melt-blown fabrics are used are:

1. The most important, and these days, primary, use for non-woven melt-blown fabric is face mask. The value of these masks has transmutated from the specific (i.e. medical) to the general during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the WHO making their use compulsory.

2. Another important use of melt-blown fabrics, specifically regarding the pandemic is the manufacture of PPE kits, whose value, like the mask, has transmutated from the specific to the general, with PPE kits being sold in the open market for public use by various professionals and the general population.

3. Melt-blown fabrics are also an essential component of female sanitary products such as pads due to their absorbent quality, for which they are also used in adult absorbent products such as adult diapers et cetera.

4. Melt-blown fabrics are the be-all, end-all solution for oil spills in the ocean. Such fabrics are designed to pick up oily materials from different surfaces, such as water, and thus, whenever an oil spill happens, they are used to minimise the damage.
5. When it comes to apparel, companies are taking advantage of the inherent structure of melt-blown fabrics, specifically of the microvoids in their structure, filled with quiescent air, which results in excellent thermal insulation, and are looking for ways to incorporate this technology into everyday fashion. Otherwise, they are also employed in disposable industrial apparel and as a synthetic substrate for leather.

The melt-blown technique is one of the fastest rising in popularity when it comes to the fabric market, and is on its way to become one of the major non-woven techniques being employed, and with the current expansion of scope on the horizon with the use of specialty polymer structures, there is no doubt that the future is bright for melt-blown fabrics.

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