To provide a production process for a nonwoven fabric that is made of a polyvinyl alcohol (hereinafter abbreviated to PVA) and is useful for medical purposes such as operating gowns because it is disposable with no occurrence of environmental troubles due to a reason that it can be dissolved in hot water and can be sterilized after being applied.
An oxyalkylene group-containing PVA resin that has an average polymerization degree of 150-5,000 and an average saponification degree of 85-100 mol.%, soluble in hot water heated above 50°C, preferably above 70°C, is melt-extruded through nozzle orifices arranged in plural rows, the extruded polymer is made into fibers by jetting gas from nozzles that are set near the polymer nozzle orifices and the fibers are collected.
HASEGAWA KENJI
SUZUKI KEITA
HIRAI YOSHIAKI
