Mogul starts up two Andritz lines, including spunjet machine making Madaline product
CLOVERDALE, CA, March 2, 2017-
Mogul Tekstil started up two new Andritz nonwovens lines recently, and last month it began promoting hydroentangled spunbond products made on one of them under the Madaline brand name. The other machine, a neXline spunlace line, features a crosslapped configuration and, according to Andritz, is designed “to cater to a great variety of end uses, e.g. in the automotive sector, for artificial leather, dry wipes or roofing substrates.”Both units were installed at Mogul’s new plant in Luleburgaz, in European Turkey. The spunlace line going into Luleburgaz is 3.2 meters wide while the company’s original spunjet announcement said the unit would be in the range of 3.0 to 3.2 meters.
China Technical Textile and Nonwoven Market Performance 2017
Medical and Hygienic Textiles
The medical and hygienic textile is a field with large and robust market demand as it is closely related to life and health. The market potential is continuing to be released with the improvement of the income level and change of consumption ideas.Regarding the medical dressing, operation cloth and disposable hygienic products, China has a very big production capacity and is also the world’s leading producer and exporter. The export medical and hygienic textiles was 3.19 billion dollars in 1-11, 2015, registering 1.35% in year-on-year growth. To be more exact, the export of sanitary pads and baby diaper was 1.43 billion dollars with an increase of 3.89%. The export of medical protective clothing made of nonwovens is 0.99 billion dollars with an increase of 4.27%. However, the export of gauze, bandage and other medical dressings is 0.77 billion dollars and decreased by 6.28%.The enterprises which produce the medical dressings and medical exposure suits have to turn to the overseas market as they have difficulty with hospital procurement system in China. Pengyang town (located in Xiantao city, Hubei province) is an important medical textile product cluster. In 2015, the main business income was 13.1 billion yuan and the export delivery value was 9.26 billion yuan with an increase of 9.14%, which accounted for 70.6% of the annual income.
Geotextiles
Geotextiles are mainly used in all kinds of infrastructure engineering and environmental protection projects. In the first half year of 2015, large numbers of projects are at the stage of planning and designing with few projects that came into operation, therefore, the geo-textile industry is faced with some challenges. In the second half year of 2015, the orders increased dramatically and the operation system got its breath again with some growth thanks to constructing large numbers of railways and water conservancy projects. Lingcheng district (located in Dezhou city, Shandong province) is the main production base of geo-textiles with over 10 billion yuan of main business income in 2015 and 0.82 million tons of geo-materials.
Filtration and Separation
The whole society paid close attention to the quality of atmospheric environment and the country continued to increase atmospheric environmental regulation, which has provided good opportunity for air filtration industry, for many cities were blanketed by unremitting haze or smog on and off in the whole year of 2015. The filtrating effect of bag-type dust collecting technology has reached near zero emission with four years of average service life thanks to the development of high performance fiber and improvement of bag-type dust manufacturing technology. Moreover, the comprehensive recycling of used bags has achieved breakthroughs with more significant advantages of the bag-type dust collecting technology.
In July 2015, Emission Standard of Air Pollutants for Cement Industry was put into effect. Massive funds were poured into the cement industry to transform the environmental protection equipment, the market in metallurgy and electric power industry increased constantly, which has driven the rapid development of industry. Fucheng street (located in Funing county, Jiangsu province) is a high temperature filter material industry base, producing 0.2 billion square meters of filter materials in 2015 with 13.64% main business income at growth rate. According to the statistics of the member enterprises in filtration field, the main business income and total profit was up 15.67% and 32.33% respectively, and the average profit margin was 7.4%.
Textiles Used for Vehicles
The year of 2015 witnessed 24,503,300 cars produced and 24,597,600 cars sold, hitting a new record high with an increase by 3.3% and 4.7% respectively, comparing the data in previous year; therefore,, the economic situation in general runs steadily at a growth speed. Meanwhile, the sales and production of cars were 4 and 2.2 percentage points lower than that of last year. The slowdown in car market has brought some pressure for vehicle textiles.In the long run, the traditional car industry will increase at a medium-low speed, and lightweight and new energy are two important trends for future automobile industry. The textile composite materials were widely applied in automobiles with the quality of light weight, great strength and low cost. In the future, the textiles used for vehicles will have a larger growth space with the growing consumption of textile materials for per car.