China May Become The Largest Nonwovens Manufacturer

Since Henan became the sixth largest nonwovens production area after Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, Fujian and Guangdong this year, the total output of nonwoven fabric has reached 441 thousand tons in 1-7 months, an increase of 31.28% over the same period last year, ranking the second largest in the world after the United States.

After 50 years of development, China has become a major producer of nonwoven materials in the world.

The growth of the consumption of nonwovens and the increase of equipment purchases supporting the development of industries, according to the statistics of China Textile machinery and equipment industry association, as of June, the import volume of China's textile machinery imports, including non-woven machinery, amounted to US $54846063, and the import value increased by 149.89% over the same period last year, accounting for 2.29% of the total imports of textile machinery.

In the current situation is generally not optimistic environment, the growth of non-woven equipment seems to bring a new hope for many textile enterprises.

The challenge is that although China's nonwovens and industrial textiles are showing a general trend of development, they are also affected by factors such as raw material prices, labor prices, exchange rate changes and plastic restriction.

Taking polypropylene as an example, in the 5~6 month, polypropylene prices rose by an average of 3000 yuan per ton, making the many spunbonded nonwoven enterprises as raw materials unable to cope with such a large increase in a short period of time. They can only keep up with the downstream users in price adjustment, resulting in non-standard market competition.

Innovation has great potential in the market, but it is still not enough for the enterprise, and the product variety is still single.

Nonwoven fabric is a capital and technology intensive industry. We need great improvement and pformation and upgrading in many aspects such as raw materials, equipment and technology. Especially with the adjustment of international textile machinery manufacturing, many famous international textile machinery enterprises have invested and built factories in China. The NSC company of France set up a company in Wuxi, Jiangsu, and Erko-truetzschler company also set up a sole proprietorship company in Shanghai Qingpu. The entry of foreign enterprises has brought us opportunities for learning as well as a great challenge.

"We are not technically breakthroughs. As the pioneer of slit spunbond production technology in China, the 3.2 meter SMS composite nonwovens production line, which was undertaken by the Hongkong Research Institute, was successfully developed, filling the gap in the domestic market and breaking the situation of imported SMS leading domestic equipment market," the responsible person said.

In the future, "the price of raw materials will make profit space smaller, but it is not a decisive impact on the industry." industry insiders say that we still have a very large market potential. At present, the consumption of nonwoven products in China is about 1 kilograms per person per year, and the annual growth rate of the industry is basically maintained at around 7.5%. Especially at the beginning of the year, the circular issued by the general office of the State Council on limiting production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags also brings new dawn to the spunbonded nonwovens industry from the policy level.

China's economic growth rate is very significant. With the increase of domestic personal purchasing power, the consumption of nonwovens industry is bound to grow. The growth rate of China's nonwovens is likely to exceed that of the European Union. China is likely to become the world's largest nonwovens producer.