sap 30 0 g m 2 fibers bottom 65 0 g m 2 mixture of wood pulp and thermobinding fibers binder bottom surface 2 5 g m 2 wegiht 145 0 g m 2 tensile strength md 2000 0 g 50 mm absorption saline 0 9 16 0 g g linting 0 5 mg in principle the binder foam may be applied to the web before the web is thermally fixed in this case it may be sufficient to utilize a single heating zone for actuating both the binding fibers and the binding agent the following examples are provided to more clearly demonstrate the possible embodiments of the present invention these examples however are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention in any way an air laid product 60 g m 2 consisting of about 85 wooden cellulose fibers with the largest possible content of long fibers and 15 thermobonding fibers was foam coated in a foulard the roller gap of which was adjusted to 0 6mm the prefoamed binding agent was produced in the following manner the binding agent was foamed to a density of 20 g l if the foam level in the foulard is maintained at about 4 cm then approximately 1 5 g binder 100 drystuff is added to each side for each m 2 of product after foam coating the product was dried according to conventional methods at a temperature of approximately 140 degrees celsius this product was manufactured in the same manner as example 1 above but utilized a different binder mix it has been discovered that linting in webs formed with thermobonding fibers can be substantially eliminated by placing on the surface of the product a very thin homogeneous layer of binder when a binder dispersion is.