Perforated top sheets are essential components in modern hygiene products like diapers and sanitary napkins, providing comfort, dryness and fluid control. Nikhar Hygiene uses the latest materials such as polyethylene (PE) perforated filmsalso known as “dry nets,” along with perforated non-woven fabrics to ensure best product performance.  

What Are Perforated Top Sheets? 

Perforated top sheets are technologically advanced sheets in hygienic products used to enable rapid fluid transfer while maintaining a dry and comfortable feel Material choice and perforation technology are key drivers of product performance, i.e., its dryness, breathability, and general hygiene. 

Types of Perforated Top Sheets 

There are two popular varieties of perforated top sheets employed in the hygiene industry, both with different characteristics: 

PE Perforated Films (Dry Nets) 

PE perforated films are plastic sheets with specially designed micro-perforations. The sheets are highly effective in allowing fluids to penetrate quickly without wetting the surface, and they are therefore a standard choice for many types of hygiene products. PE perforated films in female hygiene are often utilized as the top sheet and come directly into contact with the skin. In diapers, they are utilized as the Acquisition Distribution Layer (ADL) under a top sheet that is non-woven to facilitate fluid distribution to the absorbent core. 

Perforated non-woven fabrics are textile-like breathable goods consisting of bonded fibres with perforations for liquid transfer. They are softer to the touch than PE films, with a cloth-like feel that enhances user comfort. Some sanitary napkins use perforated non-wovens as top sheets as part of their effort to provide a softer more natural feel. They are rarely used in Indian diapers due to their functionality and affordability. They do not constitute part of the product line of Nikhar Hygiene’s diapers. Their use in sanitary napkins is beneficial to users requiring softness along with absorbency. 

Applications in Hygiene Products 

Sanitary Napkins 

The upper sheet of sanitary napkins is the one that comes into contact directly with the skin and therefore its structure and composition are critical to user comfort. PE punched hole films or dry nets are most widely used as top sheets in sanitary napkins by Nikhar Hygiene because they are able to absorb the menstrual fluid rapidly with a dry surface. The dry feel technology reduces discomfort from heavy flow, surface wetness, and odour. And overall hygiene enhancement. Perforated non-woven top sheets, alternatively used on some sanitary napkins, offer a softer, fabric-like feel preferred by some consumers. Both alternatives are satisfactory in regards to fluid transfer and dryness, but the choice is based on market demand and consumer choice. 

Adult and Baby Diapers 

The uppermost layer of diapers typically contains a gentle non-woven material that is not abrasive to skin, and the PE perforated film is the ADL when placed directly beneath the top layer. The ADL spreads the urine quickly throughout the absorbent core to enable uniform absorption and avoid saturation at places. This faster dispensation reduces leakage and rewetting risk, especially important in adult diaper extended wear or night-time use in infant diapers. By improving dryness and skin health, the ADL enhances both comfort and confidence. Perforated non-wovens are generally avoided in Indian diapers due to added costs and the effectiveness of PE films in this application. 

Advantages of Perforated Top Sheets 

PE Perforated Films (Dry Nets) 

• Rapid Fluid Transfer: Allows for quick fluid transfer to the core, leaving a dry surface.
• Dry Surface Sensation: Minimizes wetness of the skin, ensuring comfort and hygiene.
• Breathability: Allows air passage, discouraging possible irritation of the skin.
• Leak Prevention: Effective fluid distribution in ADL prevents leaks, which is crucial in diapers.
• Customizable: Can be engineered for specific flow rates and product specifications.
• Light Weight Design: Allows minimal bulk, ease of use, and comfort.
• Cost-Effective: Offers high performance at a lower cost than non-woven materials.

Perforated Non-Woven Fabrics 

• Increased Softness: Offers cloth-like softness, adding comfort to sensitive skin.
• Comfort with Breathability: Offers increased air flow, reducing heat retention and irritation.
• Aesthetic Appeal: Offers high quality, textile-like feel, desired by consumers seeking a softer experience.
• Effective Fluid Management: Perforations offer quick fluid transfer, facilitating dryness.

Conclusion 

PE films work best for fast fluid transfer and economy, which is best suited in the case of dry nets in sanitary napkins and ADLs in diapers. Perforated non-wovens, while less trendy in nappies, offer a more luxurious and softer feel for sanitary napkins, which suits users with different tastes. With the support of advanced perforation technology and material sourcing, Nikhar Hygiene not only gets its products to perform better, be more hygienic, and instil confidence but also ensures transparency in material choices for healthcare professionals, distributors, and end-users to allow them to make wiser personal care decisions for improved comfort and reliability with every use. 

In the run-up to the World Environment Day celebration on June 5, 2025, it gives us pride at Nikhar Hygiene Industries to renew its commitment towards a healthy, greener, and sustainable world. Being envisioned by the United Nations way back in 1972, World Environment Day is a global forum to sensitize and stir action for better life for everybody. The theme colours for the year, to be determined, shall undoubtedly be such that support the immediate causes of global warming, pollution, and loss of bio-diversity.

We at Nikhar Hygiene realize we must fall in line with the world’s efforts, but we know our non-biodegradable, non-reusable product line creates unprecedented issues. With green efforts sprinkled with a dash of innovation, strategic alliances, and a think-outside-the-box approach, we’re pulling out all stops in minimizing our carbon footprint and actualizing the ethos of World Environment Day 2025.
Understanding the Significance of World Environment Day

World Environment Day is not a date; it’s a call to people, organizations, and governments to adopt environmental challenges. The day every year is focused on a particular theme, e.g., green energy, plastics pollution, or reviving the ecosystem, to provide stakeholders with an opportunity to monitor sustainable activity.

Though our products like hygiene disposables are disposable convenience and protection, we are greatly sensitive to the environmental issue inherent in non-returnable and non-degradable objects. Rather than being daunted by them, Nikhar Hygiene is embracing them by placing bets on steps reducing our impressions on the planet without compromising the quality and reliability with which customers are accustomed.

Nikhar Hygiene’s Green Initiatives
Sustainability for Nikhar Hygiene is not a destination but a journey. Green steps by us lead to minimizing the environmental impact of our processes step by step, from how we manufacture to how we dispose. Some of our most important strategies in greening our world on World Environment Day 2025 are:

1. Improving Manufacture Processes
One of our biggest concerns is reduction of the environmental impact which is being generated by our manufacturing process. We have replaced our old machinery and equipment with energy-efficient machinery and equipment in a bid to restrict the use of energy in our factories. Following the replacement of our old equipment with new equipment, we have managed to significantly reduce our carbon dioxide emissions over the past few years.

2. Waste Reduction and Recycling Measures
Although our goods are not biodegradable and do not require recycling, we attempt each measure possible to limit wastage in every stage of our supply chain. We also have rigorous waste management protocols within our factories, where surplus material during manufacturing and remaining raw material are eliminated environmentally.

3. Sustainable Packaging Solutions
Packaging is one of the most important areas where we are working towards sustainability. Even though our product itself is non-recyclable, we are shifting towards pack material that is recyclable or recycled content. Plastic pack and light-weight material reduction, light-weight sustainable alternative, we will minimize the life cycle footprint of our products. We would want to make sure that each pack that we deliver from our factories becomes part of a circular economy, although the product itself is one time use.

4. Joint Work with Industry Partners
Sustainability is not personal and we at Nikhar Hygiene are blessed to have industry partners with whom we share a common vision. We work directly with suppliers who share a vision of sustainable production and ethical sourcing, therefore the raw material is produced without harming nature too much. We also engage in industry forums and sustainability conferences to keep ourselves abreast of today’s trends towards environmentally sustainable production and waste reduction.

Overcoming Non-Biodegradable Products Challenges
Non-biodegradability and non-reusability of our products are challenges to the environment. But take our word for it or not, we also trust in honesty and being cautious. Instead of choosing the green washing route, we make tangible and quantifiable steps to reduce our footprint. For example, we’re investing in research and development to find alternate materials which might potentially replace our existing product composition without compromising on performance and safety.

Looking Ahead: Our Vision for a Sustainable Future
As we prepare to celebrate World Environment Day 2025, Nikhar Hygiene continues to balance business growth with care for nature. Our contribution to the environment is just the beginning of sustainable vision towards creating a better world for future generations.
Visionary yet pragmatically motivated, we will establish a paradigm for hygiene business leadership as such and inspire other business houses to go sustainable as the aim. Join Us Celebrating World Environment Day 2025

World Environment Day 2025 is also a time to remember that it’s all the little steps combined that count. As Nikhar Hygiene, we invite anyone who is our partner, customer, or employee to join us and assist in making a difference. It may be giving back by helping join our tree-planting program, discovering from our learning sessions, or simply adopting greener practice in your own home, but your action can make a wave of doing even more good.