Spunlace non-woven fabric is a kind of flexible fabric obtained by spraying high-pressure fine water onto one or more layers of fiber webs to entangle each other, which has a certain strength and can lock moisture.
According to statistics, as of 2019, there are more than 300 spunlace production lines in operation in China. There are 180 spunlace nonwovens companies nationwide, and more than 80% of the production lines are concentrated in the eastern coastal areas.
According to market understanding, sanitary and care products are the largest downstream application field of spunlace nonwovens, with consumption accounting for nearly 90%. In recent years, the demand for facial masks, wet wipes, and diapers has increased, coupled with the national policy dividend, spunlace nonwovens The cloth production line has a strong expansion momentum from 2015 to 2016. As its production capacity increases and its profitability weakens, it affects the actual start-up load rate of the industry in the later period. However, the overall industry scale is still growing. From 2015 to 2019, my country has no spunlace The average growth rate of textile production reached 13.59%.
Taking the“facial mask”, a popular product in the personal care field in recent years, as an example, a single cosmetic skincare product has been unable to meet the diversified development of the market, fast-paced life, and one-time consumption upgrades. Some institutions predict that my country’s facial mask consumption will reach 6 billion in 2020 From 2015 to 2018, it was in a period of rapid development, and its average annual consumption growth rate was above 20%. From 2019 to 2020, it is expected to be about 15%, and it is optimistic that it will continue to maintain steady growth momentum in the next five years. .
Viscose fiber belongs to regenerated cellulose fiber. Compared with natural fiber, it has good consistency in length and linear density. It can be controlled according to the requirements of the production process. It contains almost no impurities. It can simplify the preparation process of non-woven fiber. Spunlace non-woven fabrics have low strength, weak dimensional stability, and abrasion resistance. Therefore, in the raw materials of spunlace non-woven fabrics, the properties of spunlace polyester staple fiber and high white viscose staple fiber are complementary.
The current domestic production capacity of high white viscose staple fiber is about 485,000 tons, and basically, only three companies maintain a stable and normal production state. In 2019, the domestic production of viscose staple fiber is around 4 million tons, and the output of high white fiber accounts for less than 10%.
Viscose high-white fiber is one of the raw materials of spunlace non-woven fabrics. Supported by the rapid development of the spunlace non-woven fabric industry in recent years, its output is also increasing year by year. According to market understanding, my country's viscose high-white fiber in 2019 The output is about 350,000 tons, and the average annual growth rate of output in the past three years is about 37.5%.
As far as the overall demand for viscose staple fiber products are concerned, in terms of general fiber products, due to the slow resumption of downstream industries after the Spring Festival, export and domestic orders have declined after the resumption of production. The yarn market has fallen in price and the market outlook is panic. Product demand is shrinking, and high white fiber products, as one of the raw materials of spunlace non-woven fabrics, will increase the market’s demand for cleaning products. However, there are short-lived companies that have a tight supply of this variety of fibers. After the Spring Festival, the guidance price has been adjusted cumulatively. Up by about 600 yuan/ton, and there may be improvements in the short-term to raise expectations.
From the perspective of the actual profit of short-lived companies, the general fiber industry has entered a state of loss in 2019. In 2020, affected by emergencies, market demand and price progress will weaken, while the price of high-white fiber products will rise during the same period, which can boost it. Production and marketing and profitability of production enterprises, and existing enterprises plan to increase the output of differentiated fibers such as high white.
