At INDEX EDANA launched a report titled Vision 2002. Using megatrends as the baseline during the next 10 year, Pierre Wiertz, general manager EDANA said the industry can expect a boom in agricultural and construction nonwovens as well as further growth of low-impact consumer and hygiene products; nonwovens contribute to making the world more sustainable—they help improve and protect not only people’s lives, but also the environment; Ubiquitous access to information means more (but not always better informed consumers, together with questioning about the composition of whatever the buy.”