China's non-woven fabric manufacturing industry is developing rapidly, and the variety structure needs to be adjusted in the future

On April 7, 2017, the 12th World Nonwovens Industry Conference INDEX, held at the PALEXPO International Exhibition Center in Geneva, Switzerland, was successfully held. As one of the three largest professional nonwovens exhibitions in the world, INDEX attracted many non-woven fabric-related businesses and organizations from all over the world to participate in the exhibition, including 101 Chinese exhibitors, which reflects the current development of the non-woven fabric manufacturing industry in my country. Non-woven fabric manufacturing refers to the non-woven fabric formed by directly using polymer chips, short fibers or filaments to form fibers through airflow or mechanical netting, and then through hydroentanglement, needle punching, or hot rolling reinforcement, and finally after finishing. . The non-woven fabric industry has the characteristics of short process flow, high output, low cost, rapid variety change, and extensive sources of raw materials. According to its technological process, non-woven fabrics can be divided into: spunlace non-woven fabrics, heat-bonded non-woven fabrics, pulp air-laid non-woven fabrics, wet-laid non-woven fabrics, spunbonded non-woven fabrics, meltblown non-woven fabrics, Needle punched non-woven fabrics, stitched non-woven fabrics, etc. Non-woven fabrics have many functional excellent properties and are extremely versatile. According to their uses, non-woven fabrics can be divided into: non-woven fabrics for clothing, non-woven fabrics for leather and shoes, home decoration and home non-woven fabrics, medical and health Non-woven fabrics, non-woven fabrics for filter materials, non-woven fabrics for industrial use, non-woven fabrics for automobile industry, non-woven fabrics for packaging, non-woven fabrics for agriculture and gardening, non-woven fabrics for military and defense industries. In recent years, the growth rate of world demand for non-woven fabrics has always been higher than that of the global economy. The global non-woven fabric production is mainly concentrated in the United States, accounting for 41% of the world's total, Western Europe accounting for 30%, Japan accounting for 8%, China 3.5%, and other regions 17.5%. Among the terminal applications of non-woven fabrics, hygienic absorbents (especially diapers) have the fastest growth, and the medical textiles, automotive textiles, footwear and artificial leather markets are also showing new rapid development. Compared with Europe and the United States, China's non-woven fabric industry started late, but developed very rapidly. In the early 1980s, the output was less than 10,000 tons. In the mid to late 1990s, China set off a climax in the development of non-woven products. In addition to domestic production lines, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan and other provinces have also introduced production lines from abroad. The development speed of China's non-woven products greatly exceeds the average development speed of the textile industry, with a high growth rate of 8-10% every year, making it the fastest growing industry in the textile industry. Because China's non-woven fabric industry has moved toward high-end, many companies and products have strong international competitiveness. And through years of exploration and development, China's non-woven fabric enterprises have come out with their own characteristics. According to the data from the 'China Non-woven Fabric Manufacturing Industry Production and Sales Demand and Investment Forecast Analysis Report' of the Prospective Industry Research Institute, China's non-woven fabric industry has achieved product sales revenue of over 100 billion yuan, reaching 101.342 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 49.61%; total profit 6.280 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 58.16%; the average number of employees is 1.3556 million. In the future, if China's non-woven fabric manufacturing industry wants to develop better, it should focus on adjusting the variety structure, improving the grade, and transforming to diversification, serialization, specialization and high performance. It is expected that in the next ten years, the demand for non-woven fabrics in various application industries will continue to increase, and segmentation, functionalization and industrialization will become the direction of technical research and development of non-woven fabrics. As one of the fastest growing industries in the textile industry, non-woven fabrics have been widely used in various industries. China's non-woven fabric industry has also moved towards high-end, and many companies and products have strong international competitiveness. And through years of exploration and development, China's non-woven fabric enterprises have come out with their own characteristics. It is expected that non-woven fabrics will become the leading products for a variety of industrial, daily, and medical use in the future, with a broad market prospect.