Process for making disposable absorbent garments to reduce absorbent bunching

A process for manufacturing disposable absorbent garments, the process comprising:

• providing first and second elastomeric body panel webs both in a stretched state, wherein each body panel web comprises an elastomeric film laminate in which an elastomeric film layer is sandwiched between opposing nonwoven layers;
• allowing each body panel web to at least partially contract from the stretched state to a contracted state, thereby defining a contracted portion in each body panel web;
• and
• attaching an absorbent assembly to the contracted portion of each body panel web.

A process for manufacturing disposable absorbent garments, the process comprising the steps of:

• providing an elastomeric film laminate body panel web traveling at a first production speed;
• slowing the travel of the body panel web to an application speed;
• providing an absorbent assembly traveling at the application speed;
• attaching the absorbent assembly to the body panel web at the application speed;
• and
• accelerating the travel of the body panel web to a second production speed after the absorbent assembly has been attached to the body panel web.