New Fiber New World -- Textile Material Innovation Forum held 3 theme forums during the Yarn Expo - Autumn Edition 2021, including the China fiber fashion trend, green and sustainable fiber and domestic Lyocell fiber.

 

Wang Huaping, professor of Donghua University, gave an in-depth interpretation of 2021-22 China fiber fashion trend. Wang Huaping said that in the past 10 years, the China fiber fashion trend has continued to show the technical strength of Chinese fiber to the world and shape the Chinese fiber brand. The high-quality development of chemical fiber industry points out the direction for the whole textile industry to promote “supply-side structural reform”, implement “increase variety, improve quality, create brand” strategy and drive transformation and upgrading by soft power. It is committed to opening up the textile industry chain, promoting the deep integration of the whole fiber industry chain, and accelerating the formation of a new development pattern of chemical fiber industry with national economical circle strategy as the main body and domestic and international dual circulation promoting each other.

 

In the past 10 years, China fiber fashion trend has released more than 200 fiber products and more than 400 participating companies. 90 percent of companies believe that the release of China’s fiber fashion trends played a positive role in the downstream promotion of selected companies, according to reports.

 

In the past 10 years, fiber technology and fashion supplement each other, and the theme of successive China fiber fashion trends not only accords with the actual market, but also leads the fashion direction. Take the 2013/2014 “Ecological environmental protection, green and low-carbon” as an example, this theme has become a fashion hotspot. In the past 10 years, the competitiveness of a number of chemical fiber enterprises has been continuously improved, innovation ability has been significantly enhanced, and profit margin has been significantly improved. For example, popular fibers released in 2020/2022 have an average profit margin of 14.2 percent, 3.46 times the industry average.

 

Wang Huaping introduced that in the past 10 years, China’s fiber products have gradually been upgraded to the middle and high-end, and some products have reached the international leading level, such as melt direct spinning fine denier fiber. Over the past 10 years, we have continuously demonstrated to the world the strength of Chinese fiber brands, including green manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, clean production standards, and physical and chemical properties, appearance indicators, social responsibility, quality and safety certification of products. Chinese fibers have now become the global leader and represent the highest level in the world in a number of fields, such as functional fibers, recycled fibers and bio-based fibers.

 

When it comes to the future development trend of fiber, Wang Huaping said that includes the whole process of high quality multi-functional fiber efficient flexible specialization of preparation and application, high-end industrialization of high performance fiber scale preparation technology and low cost, biological chemical fiber size and technological equipment level and product development, intelligent manufacture of key technology and intelligent cutting-edge product development technology, the sustainable development level of green low carbon fiber is improved, and the construction of brand, talent, standards and certification system.