The Prospect Of Nonwovens Equipment There Is Dangerous Without Upgrading.

In 2015, many industries suffered a lot, but there were also relatively good developments. The manufacturers of spun bonded and melt fabrics in the nonwoven industry made full use of the market value of the technology and made great progress.

For example, Scalter, a nonwovens company in Argentina, has announced an annual purchase from a Chinese company.

Production of 8000 tons of polypropylene spunbond production line.

It is reported that the production line consists of two spunbonded production lines, two chemical bonding lines, a hot bonding line, a printing machine and knitting machine. It is installed in a factory in Buenos Aires, which improves the existing operational efficiency of Scalter.

Investing in the most popular equipment at the moment will enable Scalter to be able to compete with any nonwoven manufacturer in the world in the future.

Meanwhile, the fourth spunbond production of Toray sAdvancedMaterials (Toray) in Nantong, China, was completed at the end of June 2015.

The TPN subsidiary in Nantong has become the largest nonwovens factory, producing 77000 tons of non-woven fabrics every year.

The company also set up non-woven production plants in South Korea and Indonesia respectively, and the Indonesia plant has already built second production lines.

Learned from Toray, these factories are built to meet the growing market demand of disposable baby diapers.

It is predicted that the demand for this product is expected to reach 38 billion per year in 2020, due to the improvement of China's income level and lifestyle.

Toray plans to invest in the Chinese market to meet the market's demand for high-performance materials for disposable diapers, and to enhance the cost competitiveness of operations.

The driving force of the development of non-woven fabrics

DividPrice, partner of PriceHannaConsultants, believes that the main driving force of global spun bond and melt spinning capacity is increasing market demand and modern technology.

"Polypropylene spunbonded and melt spinning technology is the world's leading non-woven production technology," DividPrice said. "This technology is mainly used in the health products market, such as baby and adult diapers, women's hygiene products. These products are the main application areas of non-woven fabrics."

In addition, non-woven fabrics can also be used in the medical market (surgical clothing, sterilizing sheets, sterilizing bags), building markets (doors / windows, Geotextiles), industrial or industrial special markets, and filtration and home decoration fields.

"Overall, the demand for non-woven fabrics worldwide is expected to grow by about 6% annually from 2014 to 2019.

Moreover, the unit weight of non-woven fabrics will continue to decrease in the future.

DividPrice said.

The lightweight of non-woven fabrics is mainly due to technological progress.

"Technological progress is an important reason for the growth of spunbonded and melt spinning polypropylene non-woven fabrics."

DividPrice pointed out that "the technology in this field has been steadily and steadily promoting the upgrading of equipment, enabling more lightweight non-woven fabrics to be produced more quickly."

Once the performance of the machine is fully promoted by technology, it can produce more materials at lower cost. "

In the latest report of the company's spunbonded and melt spinning non-woven polypropylene global capacity, supply and demand and manufacturing economy 20092014-2019, DividPrice discussed more details about the main reasons affecting global producers' profits.

These reasons include the fluctuation of raw material cost, the imbalance between supply and demand, and the application of low cost technology.

The growth in demand in this field has led to an increase in the number of equipment used, especially in the best producers in Asia and other parts of the world.

Before 2018, a large increase in demand in Asia and South America will lead to large-scale installation of equipment.

DividPrice emphasizes that the introduction of new technology has made the lightweight melt spinning nonwovens of market demand achieve the best cost effectiveness.

However, many manufacturers take into account the cost of introducing melt spinning technology and constantly measure the input output ratio.

This problem makes manufacturers have to find partners to reduce financial burden.

"Producers who are still using the old technology must update the technology to achieve the capacity matching and matching cost competitiveness.

This driving force is very strong. In order not to drop people, many manufacturers have embarked on technological upgrading.

DividPrice said.

The market prospects of the Asia Pacific region are broad. According to a group of analysts from the international consultancy GrandViewResearch, the quality of polypropylene non-woven fabrics is more prominent when applied to sanitary products.

From 2015 to 2022, the Asia Pacific region is expected to achieve the highest growth in the production of polypropylene non-woven fabrics (5.8%).

In March 2015, SCA, a Swedish health care product manufacturer, opened the first personal care and tissue production plant in Maharashtra, India.

The company said, "the population of India is huge, but the popularity of hygiene products is low, so the market in this field will be very promising in the future."

DividPrice also supported this view when discussing the global market prospects.

"Market demand in all regions is growing, especially in countries with low penetration rate of disposable nonwovens, such as China, Africa, South Asia and the Asia Pacific region."

He explained, "we estimate that in 2014 ~2015, the demand for these regions will grow at an annual rate of 7%~11%.

Therefore, the demand growth rate in these regions is expected to exceed those in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, where the population growth is small but the penetration rate of non-woven products is high.

although

Broad, but also facing some challenges.

At the end of 2014, the American nonwovens Association (INDA) held a basic training course for non-woven fabrics in Mumbai. Industry experts pointed out that the current application of India spunbond technology was focused on packaging materials and developed backward.

Fierce competition and more capacity from Chinese manufacturers have led to the closure of some spunbonded factories in India.

Participants in the training course think that India is in urgent need of updating product technology and support for the market in this field.

They also believe that the India government should pay attention to Customs Tariffs and support the manufacture of value-added products in China.

DividPrice said that although China has a higher market share in the field, it has also seen a slight decline recently.

"Because of the high degree of market saturation in China's cities, the demand for spunbonded and melt spinning polypropylene non-woven fabrics for the production of sanitary products has slowed down.

But in the rural areas with low penetration rate of non-woven products, demand is still expected to grow, and the layout of products will be wider. "

DividPrice said.

He added that, like mature markets such as Europe, there is still a market for disposable and durable nonwoven products.

Although demand growth rate is not high, the annual growth of 4% still provides market space.

The Greek company Thrace group captured this market demand and bought a line of Far's company to expand its capacity.

It is reported that the production line has incorporated some innovative technologies that can save energy and reduce raw material consumption, so that Thrace group and its customers can produce "unique products that meet future market needs".

Similarly, Russia's natural gas processing and Petrochemical Industries Co Sibur have added more advanced polypropylene products, which are specially designed for the production of non-woven geotextiles and personal hygiene products, with better texture and softness.

In DividPrice's view, with the development of polypropylene spunbonded and melt spinning technology, the next challenge is to obtain better surface feel and softness.

In addition, with the active participation of equipment manufacturers, more progress will be made in spinning, raw materials and other processes.

"Generally speaking, until 2019,

And melt spinning nonwovens still have great demand and room for growth.

DividPrice said, "based on the production line expansion project that has been completed and planned, there will be a production line of 3.35 billion tons by 2019, and the global capacity will increase to 36 billion tons."

It is dangerous to increase the production of nonwoven fabrics without upgrading equipment.