How much does non-woven fabric production account for in the industry?

The non-woven fabric industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. It is rapidly developing a mature and diverse market. According to exhibitors, the average growth rate of about 10% in the past two decades should continue this growth rate in the next ten years. Technology in the nonwovens industry has been significantly improved in almost all major manufacturing processes available, including spunbond, meltblown, needle punch, spunlace, wet and dry manufacturing. The most important point in the rapid development and commercial acceptance of non-woven fabrics is the ability to produce materials with special properties in a shorter time and at a reasonable price. The relative production speeds of various textile technologies are compared. For different textile technologies, the relative productivity of the technology in Table 2 The relative productivity of the technology is woven fabric 1-6 knitted 3-16 non-woven fabric-web formation:-Carding-Spunbond-wet spread 120-400200 -20002300Nonwovens-Combined-Stitchbonding-Needling-Calendaring-Hot-air welding 4030-50020005000 A large number of fast-acting nitrogen fibers in the market, but the nonwovens market is mainly affected by three types of fibers, namely polyolefin, polyester and viscose. These three types of fibers constitute an important part of the overall nonwoven market for fibers [5]. The North American nonwovens industry is the world's largest, accounting for nearly one-third of global sales volume of merchandise-approximately $2.8 billion-in 1997, according to estimates from the Nonwovens Industry Association (INDA). A major portion of the US market for polyolefin and polyester fibers is consumed by the nonwoven industry. Last year (1998), 57% of the share of polyolefins was consumed in the nonwovens industry, and only 43% was consumed by all other industries, despite the fact that polyolefins were the main raw material product packaging industry. Even in the case of polyester, the share increased to 14%. The main share of polyester fiber reaches the high loft industry. Table 3 U.S. Olefin Staple Fiber Shipments: Nonwovens and Other Markets 1989-1998 Total U.S. Shipments to Nonwovens All Others 19893631951681990388233155199143827216619924412591821993466276190199448928020919954582671911996 %6.4%4.9% Figure 1 U.S. Nonwovens and Other Markets 1989-1998: Olefin Fiber Shipments Table 4: Relative Production of Differentnet Textile Technology Year Total U.S. Shipment to Nonwovens All Other 198922612721989199020152401775199121282371891199221912441947199321582631895 1994 22212801941 1995 21002801820 1996 20162851731199722502851965 199821052921813 compound growth rate, from 1989 to 1998 -0.7% 0.8% -1.0% Source: Fiber Economic Bureau and Trade estimates that the output of non-woven fabrics reached the total output of textiles about 20 %, this proportion is increasing year by year. The non-woven fabrics produced in the world are shown in Table 5 [6]. When compared with the traditional textile industry, the growth rate of nonwovens production is very high. table 5. World production of non-woven fabrics [6] 2001 (tons) 2002 (tons) Western Europe 11157001203100 United States 1,024,0001074000 Japan 298000296000 China 417000477000 Other AFMA members 238700244700 Other 560,000620000 total 36534003915500 figure. 2 The world's production of non-woven fabrics [6] uses non-woven fabrics to smoothly move to more technical end uses, and the requirements of the fiber have become more important relative to the performance of the fiber. The cooperation between fiber suppliers and fabric manufacturers has been regarded as an important criterion, and more progress is related to the field of nonwovens.