Nylon Fashion to Be Colorful

Mar 19, 2012  |  by

The thematic exhibition named “colorful life, fashionable nylon” will strike a pose on the stage of China International Trade Fair for Fibers and Yarns from March 29th to March 31st this year, delivering the fashion pulse of Chinese nylon development. Since 2007, the productivity and output of nylon textile yarn in China has maintained first in the world. However, compared to its position of large nylon producer, it is an urgent to improve product application development, brand development and cultural construction in nylon industry field. What kind of innovation impact will be brought to nylon industry? How would the industry be affected?



According to Deng Jun, Secretary-General of Nylon Committee of China Chemical Fiber Association, nylon has a broad range of applications, and within the industry, nylon commonly refers to textile fibers, industrial fibers, as well as engineering plastics and film, while textile industry is mainly related to the textile fibers. In the recent ten years, China’s nylon industry has maintained steady and rapid growth. The nations and regions where traditional nylon production has focused on such as
Europe, Japan, Korea and China Taiwan, have seen decreased output year by year. In 2011, China's nylon fiber accounts for about 45 percent of the world's total output.


In addition to the obvious expansion of the scale, the continuous expansion of nylon fiber applications is also one of the significant changes in the industry. At first, nylon textile fiber was mainly used in the stockings, i.e. the public-known “nylon socks”, and swimwear manufacturing. However, in recent years, its applications have rapidly expanded to
lace lingerie, corset wedding dress, underwear, sportswear, casual wear, fast drying, jacket, down jacket, outdoor tents, mountaineering bags, etc.


There is a common characteristic in the expansion of these applications: fashion, leisure, sports, and outdoor. For example, the application of nylon in down jacket greatly enhanced the grade and fashion thanks to its characteristics of soft light, abrasion-proof and pressing standing, low temperature resistance, and bright colors. The rise of seamless underwear is only about ten years, but China has become the world’s largest production base of seamless underwear, and 80% of them are exported to Europe and America. Its domestic market has also started to promote with great potential.


Currently, nylon has been closely related to such fashion elements as popular, leisure, and sport, therefore, we think the nylon fiber is a kind of fashion fiber.


At present, nylon industry in China is also facing some problems.


Mr. Deng introduced that over the years, the development of nylon industry has been subject to the supply of the main raw material caprolactam, and its degree of import dependence has been above 60%.
Nylon fiber production has basically completed the industrial transfer process from developed countries to developing ones, especially China, and the transfer of nylon chip production is becoming increasingly clear. At present, the developed countries are in control of the advanced technology of producing caprolactam and other raw materials, but this problem will be eased gradually in the next few years, for the reason that the production line built by Sinopec and DSM is to increase the supply of 400,000 tons, while private capital is stepping up into the caprolactam industry. It is expected that the supply bottlenecks will be solved during the 12th Five-Year Program period.


The
second problem is that the industry suffered intensive trade remedy measures which have led to high prices as well as large fluctuations, severely weakening the nylon enterprises’ competitiveness in international markets. China anti-dumping measures against caprolactam, nylon 6 chip, and nylon 66 slices are still running. The import tariff of caprolactam is 9% while that of other chemical raw materials is mostly 5% - 6%. These factors have directly led to price differences of 15,000 yuan per ton between nylon and polyester fibers, greatly increasing the cost of the whole industry chain and severely weakening the nylon market competitiveness.


The third problem is that
the domestic polyamide fiber production enterprises’ investment in product development, brand promotion, cultural construction, and industrial chain integration is not enough, and there is still a certain gap compared with international advanced enterprises. But with the development of the industry and continuous expansion of the application areas, it is the top priority of the enterprises to enhance the awareness of nylon fiber, expand the influence of polyamide brand, and tap cultural connotation of nylon fashion, for improving their business philosophy. At present, brand awareness of enterprises is changing, and the importance of brand promotion is paid attention to. Nylon Committee is expecting to promote the development of nylon industrial chain for industrial transformation and upgrading through “resource discoveries, resource reallocation, and integrated innovations”.


Deng said that the main purpose of carrying out the activity “colorful life, fashionable nylon” is to improve the awareness and influence of nylon fiber. This is also the first step for the industry to practice the strategy of
“resource discoveries, resource reallocation, and integrated innovations”.


This event is to adopt a form of unified style and concentrated showcase, which will help visitors understand fully at one glance. The exhibitors are mainly the Association member companies, the industry leader both in the differentiation and the R & D of functional fibers.


Nylon enterprises participated in
China International Trade Fair for Fibers and Yarns before, but they were individual with relatively isolated standard booth and most exhibitions were a variety of fibers. The form is too simple and the overall effect is not ideal for the biggest gain in the exhibition is a bunch of business cards exchanged. Polyamide fiber is the raw material for clothing, and the show of yarns is relatively abstract, which is unable to grasp the attention of designers and buyers who have no time to understand the nylon fiber performance.


An o
pen technique exchange region will be set up in the exhibition hall, China Chemical Fiber Association and enterprises at the exhibition will exchange and interact with the visitors.


Deng emphasized that
the most important task of Nylon Committee in 2012 is to promote the “resource discoveries, resource reallocation, and integrated innovations” and integrate industrial chain resources to carry out the integrated innovation around Nylon Fashion Union and Polyamide Technical Innovation Alliance. The Committee not only strengthens the interaction with the downstream industry associations such as knitting industry and hometextile industry, but also considers cooperation with the downstream characteristic industrial clusters of nylon, such as Xingcheng swimsuit. Nylon industry can joint with it to hold swimsuit design, modern fancywork, culture week, and other activities for promotion of nylon.

 

 

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