Why Does The Direct Spinning Polyester Staple Price Rise? What Is The Turning Point?

Recently, the specifications and prices of direct spinning polyester staple fibers are rising, and the price of conventional cotton specifications is still high. So the conventional spinning enterprises are very passive. Then, why is the specification of polyester non-woven so popular? Late market durations are very troubling to the industry. In my opinion, cotton staple still occupies the primary position of polyester staple fiber. The other phenomenon is only a short-term behavior, and the market will eventually return to the basic market.

First look at the fuse of this market: early April, that is, before and after the Ching Ming holiday, ES fiber takes the lead. ES fiber, as a two component fiber, is a very ideal thermal viscose fiber. It is generally divided into three forms. According to its different composition, the EP fiber (PE/ core PP), ET fiber (PE/ core PET) and TT fiber (the PET/ core with low melting point is the ordinary PET) is the raw material of hot-air non-woven fabric. The hot-air technology is a non-woven fabric made of hot air penetration net on drying equipment to make some of the fibers heated and bonded. The products are widely used in diapers, sanitary napkins and other sanitary materials products, and overlap with downstream users of spunlaced nonwovens. Export demand for foreign N95/KN95 and protective clothing has surged due to the outbreak of overseas epidemic, while hot air non-woven fabrics can partly replace high price melt blown and spunbonded nonwovens. So before and after the Qingming holidays, the price of ES fiber has soared, resulting in the price of hot-air non-woven fabrics rapidly rising to nearly 200 thousand yuan / ton, and the price of ES fiber has also climbed to the current level of 80 thousand yuan / ton. The price also attracted some low melting point staple fibers (4080) similar to ES fibers to start producing ES fibers.

Look at low melting point (4080) staple fiber, low melting point staple fiber is also a short core fiber composite structure, but unlike ES fiber, low melting point staple fiber is PET with skin and core. These staple fibers are mainly 4D and 2D. The rise of ES fiber has led to a substantial increase in production costs of some traditional diapers and other sanitary material enterprises. In order to reduce costs, the performance of low melting point staple fibers is similar to that of ES fibers, and the price is much lower than that of ES fibers. Therefore, some of the low melting point staple fibers begin to replace ES fiber or ES fiber together to produce hot-air non-woven fabrics, which also leads to a sharp rise in the price of low melting point staple fibers. Especially the 2D specifications, the market has risen to 16000-18000 yuan / ton, and the high price even approximated 20 thousand yuan / ton.

However, the rise in the price of low melting point staple fiber has also led to the production of another kind of substitute, that is, medium staple fibers such as polyester staple fiber 1.56, 2.22, 2.78*51mm and so on. This fiber is used to produce coarse yarn or needle punched nonwovens, but now this part of fiber can be mixed with low melting point fiber and ES fiber to produce hot-air non-woven fabrics, and the price has also gone through a large scale. Up to now, the market price has risen to 8500-10000 yuan / ton.

There are spunlaced nonwoven fabrics with hot-air non-woven fabrics. The main raw materials of spunlaced nonwovens are polyester staple fiber, viscose staple fiber, cotton and biomass fiber. Polyester staple fiber and viscose staple fiber account for a relatively large proportion, because the downstream is mainly used for disposable disposable products. After the Spring Festival, the field of disinfecting wipes has been relatively popular, but the time for real fire is clear and bright. 。 The price of hot-air nonwovens is lower than that of spunlaced nonwovens. However, after the rapid rise of hot air non-woven prices, the price of the hot-air non-woven fabric is seriously upside down with spunlaced nonwovens, causing the reverse substitution function of the Spunlaced cloth to hot air cloth. However, because viscose staple fiber can not be applied to protective clothing and other products, the recent viscose price increase is far less than that of spunlaced polyester staple fiber. At present, the price of 1.56*38mm Spunlaced polyester staple fiber has risen to 9500 yuan / ton -10000 yuan / ton, even if the spunlaced fiber that has just been transferred from cotton type fiber to the price should also be near 8000 yuan / ton.

The above is basically the reason why the specifications of polyester staple fabrics are rising in recent years. Later, can this phenomenon continue?

It is said that the price of polyester staple fiber will not drop if the foreign epidemic situation is not alleviated and the melt blown cloth will not be lowered. But this is not true. Because the production threshold of polypropylene melt blown special material is very high, and from the polyester staple fiber, the conversion of these specifications is not very difficult. At present, many low melting point staple fiber enterprises in China have switched to E/T ES fibers. The hollow staple production line is also in the production of low melting point staple fiber production line, and the ordinary cotton polyester staple fiber is also in the production of medium long polyester staple fiber and Spunlaced polyester staple fiber, especially some sliced spinning enterprises or regenerated spinning enterprises.

As shown above, after the conversion of the enterprises, the staple fibers of all non-woven fabrics account for nearly 30% of the production capacity of polyester staple fiber, while some of the actual low melting staple fibers are still used in home textile filling industry. Therefore, the proportion of non-woven fiber occupying polyester staple fiber is small. Although the output of traditional cotton short staple and hollow staple fiber has been reduced in the short term, the price is relatively strong. However, due to the low threshold of industry transfer, it can replace the impact of short supply of products such as recycled flake spinning enterprises and sliced spinning enterprises. The price of staple fiber is already at the top of the non-woven fabric, and the market price will gradually return after the continuous increase of supply.

For mainstream products, conventional semi gloss white cotton products and sewing thread products constitute the main products of PET staple fiber, and other coloured, cationic, full dull and most differentiated products belong to textile products. At present, the spinning mill has already been unable to bear the burden of cost. Due to the slow recovery of domestic trade orders and the shrinking of foreign trade orders, the mill itself has a large stock and the price is difficult to rise. It is difficult to accept the raw materials of 1000 yuan. Some enterprises have holiday plans before and after the May 1 holiday, and the demand for polyester staple fibers is actually reduced.

Therefore, I believe that the market trend of any product will not continue under the background of breaking away from the fundamentals. At present, the market price of PET staple has been showing the trend of the top shock. In the later stage, cotton staple fiber will be started to be shipped as a result of the decline in the demand of the spinning mill or the gradual increase in the supply of the nonwoven staple fiber from the current level of supply and the estimated level of the factory's current shortage. It is expected that such fibers will gradually return at the end of April.