The invention relates to an absorbent incontinence article (9) having a main part (20), made up of a front region (22), of a rear region (24) and of a crotch region (26) which is located therebetween, as seen in the longitudinal direction (48), and ends up between a user's legs, wherein the main part (20) comprises an absorbent body (28), and having rear material portions (34a, 34b), which are attached to the rear region (24), and having front material portions (35a, 35b), which are attached to the front region (22), wherein the rear and front material portions (34a, 34b, 35a, 35b) extend in the transverse direction (38) beyond lateral longitudinal peripheries (40a, 40b) of the main part (20), wherein rear and front material portions (34a, 34b, 35a, 35b) connect the front region (22) and the rear region (24) to one another in the use state of the article (9), wherein the rear and front material portions (34a, 34b, 35a, 35b) have an inside (33), which in the use state faces the body, and an outside (31), which in the use state faces away from the body, and wherein rear material portions (34a, 34b) have closure elements (42) on an outer peripheral region (37) of the material portions (34a, 34b), wherein the closure elements (42) comprise a closure-element tab (44) which has a free finger lift (45) and, prior to use, is folded back onto the inside of the material portion, wherein these material portions (34a, 34b), prior to initial use of the article (9), are folded onto themselves and in the inward direction, onto that side of the rear region of the main part (20) which faces the body, to give a folded arrangement, wherein, in the folded arrangement, an uppermost folded sub-portion (60c) of the material portions comprises the peripheral region (37) and the inside of the peripheral region is oriented in the direction of the inside (33) of the rear region (24) of the main part (20). The invention also relates to a method of producing this absorbent incontinence article.
