A method for producing sanitary articles (10) wearable as pants, provided with at least one pair of side panels (16) designed to connect the end parts of the article around the waist of the user envisages providing a web of laminar material (31) for the aforesaid side panels (16) and subjecting said web of laminar material (31) to segmentation (90) by cutting the web with cuts (91, 91′) so as to obtain a chain of said side panels (16). Two webs of laminar material are provided for the lateral containment sheets (22) of the topsheet (13), and each side panel (16) is connected (110) by welding (45) to the corresponding lateral containment sheet (22) at its own proximal edge (160).Once the two lateral containment sheets (22), with each of the containment sheets (22) provided with the respective side panels (16), have been reversed and spaced apart (140), and once the two lateral containment sheets (22) have been aligned (150) by aligning pairs of side panels (16) transversely with respect to one another, a web of hydrophilic laminar material (21) is provided, and said web (21), with the two containment sheets (22), is joined to each of the containment sheets (22) provided with the corresponding side panels (16) aligned transversely with respect to one another.
