Great power of nonwoven with wide development prospects
Nov 12, 2015 ｜ by
Great power of nonwoven with wide development prospects
－ Interview with Zheng Junlin, Vice President of China Nonwovens & Industrial Textiles Association
Original by Liang Ruili, Translated by Y.C.
After having been rapidly developing for more than ten years, China nonwoven fabric industry established a integrated industry chain, which covered specialized fibers, equipment, coiled materials, post finishing adjuvant, products in addition to engineering services, and become the world's largest nonwoven producer. Currently, the industry has entered a out-pouring period of superfine fiber, composite application technology and high-tech equipment. At the same time, the industry is facing the transform of developing pattern and accelerating power. Driven by relying on comprehensive innovation instead of mainly on investment, driven by advanced technology to achieve the improvement of quality and efficiency instead of the scale of expansion, towards of economic growth, environmental friendly, staff career progression and fair competition to the way of the sustainable development instead of pursuit of growth rate.
Regarding of technological innovation, the domestic nonwovens enterprises had many breakthroughs. For examples: wet process nonwoven fabric in terms of production speed, applicability of raw materials and product applications have more progression. By this technology produced aramid fiber, glass fiber fabric promoted the development of structure reinforcement and geotechnical construction textiles; With independent intellectual property rights of polyester filament spun-bonded felt base cloth, with its performance advantage to substitute the traditional staple products, it has increased capacity around more than 20 tons in the past two years., effectively promoting the technological progress in the field of building waterproof; High temperature filter material processing technology has achieved the combination of spun bond, needle punching, spun laced, film mulching and post finishing and other processes online, Focused on "superfine fiber", "density gradient", "fine filtration" and other technical direction has developed many new filtering material; On combination of three production methods of wet-laid paper making, fiber carding, and spun laced entanglement dispersable nonwoven fabric, with dispersed, biodegradable characteristics, its remnant can be used as soil improvement additive, This product which is competitive in cost advantage is used in a vast range of wet towel wipes, baby diaper, women's health supplies, disposable medical protective supplies, food packaging and other regarding production.
In sorts of intelligence, domestic enterprises introduced the world's most advanced Reifenhouser fourth-generation SSMMMS line, Truetzschler dry and wet spun laced equipment, DILO needle punching equipment and other products used in the medical and construction field to improve production efficiency and operational stability and product quality. Domestic enterprises through the digestion and absorption of imported equipment, combined with the theoretical research, mathematical modeling and repeated practice and innovation, realize the improvement of domestic equipment in terms of stability, efficiency and energy consumption, as well as product quality and performance, part of the equipments and products has reached the international advanced level. Such as based on PM2.5 air purification high-efficiency and low-resistance, high temperature filtration materials equipment and, industrial textile key technology, orange-type bicomponent spun laced microfiber leather, with technology used in garment leather production and process technology of PE filament felt base and so on.
Compared with foreign enterprises, our nonwoven materials have the following competitive advantages: one is the personalized solutions to face the challenge of various demands, nonwoven products can provide a variety of solutions in such aspects as performance, cost, sustainability etc., significantly better than traditional textile material. Secondly, the performance of multi-composite technical advantages, using mixture of sorts of fiber raw materials with composite technology in netting, solidifying, finishing process to make products have special composite performance. The third is the perfect match of efficiency and lightweight to represent substitution effect of efficient production, lightweight materials and benefit advantage, Four, it is price-performance and substitutability. The huge domestic market with product technical characteristics, cost advantage, efficiency and maturing new materials promote the application of nonwovens in more fields.
Industrial advantage do exist, but there are also challenges, it reflects in these aspects: lack of complete supply chain from professional materials, special equipment and engineering services, coil enterprises is still at the low-end global value chain, weak ability of market control ability and industrial supporting; The Industrial concentration is low, high operational risk in low capacity agglomeration, lost international competitiveness of high-end products; Technology innovation "dilemma" problem is outstanding, most companies still pursue scale expansion enhance competitiveness; The independent brand, fine management, professional talent team different extent, such as missing; Circular economy and sustainable development still faces challenges for a long time.
The applying promotion of Chinese nonwoven materials is not only closely related with own performance and cost of the product, but also with the social economic development level, the public spending habits, national infrastructure construction , environmental protection policy and some relevant mandatory standards. During the "13th Five Years Plan” period, under the new normal economy, Chinese nonwovens industry is facing new development opportunities, with wide development prospects. Economic and social development, population scale, and accelerated ageing will promote the development of medical and health with nonwoven products; The strengthening of atmospheric pollution and environmental control will promote the development of filtration separation with nonwoven products; "One Belt And One Road" and other major strategic implementation will promote the development of geotechnical construction nonwoven products.
