The Annual Meeting of the Hydroentangled Nonwovens Branch of CCPA and the 28th National Exchange Meeting on Hydroentangled Nonwovens Production Technology and Application were held in Nantong

China's spunlace nonwovens industry in the nearly 30 years of wind and rain, experienced a number of development cycles, industrial scale and innovation capacity continues to grow, not only has a complete industrial system, but also fostered a high-quality talent team, in the ups and downs and metamorphosis of the world's largest producer of spunlace nonwovens, China became the world's largest producer of spunlace nonwovens.

October 29, China Technical Textiles Industry Association spunlace nonwovens branch of the annual meeting and the country's twenty-eighth spunlace production technology and application of exchange will be held in Nantong. Li Lingshen, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation, Li Guimei, president of China Technical Textiles Industry Association, Ji Jianbing, vice president of CITA, Zhang Yun, vice president of CITA and president of spunlace nonwovens branch, and other leaders and guests attended the meeting. This meeting was strongly supported by Golden Wheel Needle Fabrics (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. and Gao Yu, chairman of Golden Wheel Needle Fabrics (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. and Huang Hongbing, general manager of Golden Wheel attended the meeting.

Sun Beibei, Deputy Secretary General of CCPA and Secretary General of Hydroentangled Nonwovens Branch, presided over the meeting.

Gao Yu, Chairman of Golden Wheel Needle Fabrics (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. said in his speech that over the past 37 years, Golden Wheel Needle Fabrics has realized breakthroughs from small to large, and from single product to diversified products, one breakthrough after another. In terms of forward-looking technology, Golden Wheel Needle Cloth always adheres to the principle of openness and cooperation, strengthens exchanges and cooperation with partners and colleges and universities, and devotes itself to the cutting-edge exploration of new carding technology to promote the technological innovation of the industry. At present, the diamond series of needle cloth supporting applied in hydroentanglement; the design and promotion of powerful needle cloth; and the launch of composite-coated Tarek products on hydroentanglement nonwoven carding machines all have strong advantages. Gao Yu said, as an important member enterprise of the high-end manufacturing segment of the world's top 500 Materia Mediterranea Group, Golden Wheel Needle Cloth will always adhere to the customer-oriented, and strive to become a modern new state-owned enterprise that can represent the development of new quality productivity.

Li Lingshen, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation, said in his speech that along with consumption upgrading and product iteration, the spunlace nonwovens industry should not only focus on the high-end, green and differentiated products, but also take the consumer application and safety as the guide, and continue to practice the concept of green and innovative development in the links of production, management, quality control, sales and so on. Li Lingshen pointed out that the industry should optimize the innovative allocation of production factors, achieve revolutionary breakthroughs in key common technologies, strengthen the support of scientific and technological accumulation of the industrial economy, and continue to improve the industry from “point innovation” to “chain innovation” to transform the construction of the innovation system; Promote the deep transformation and upgrading of the industry, realize high-quality supply-side structural reform, and continuously meet the new opportunities of healthy, green and spiritual consumption; strengthen the construction of public service platforms in the clubs, and pragmatically promote the healthy development of the industry and its forward-looking layout.

Work Report

Zhang Yun, vice president of CIECA and president of Spunlace Branch, made a report on the work of CIECA Spunlace Branch in 2023-2024, introducing the current development situation of spunlace nonwovens industry from the aspects of production and operation, export trade and application market, and reporting the main work of Spunlace Branch in 2023 and the focus of the work in the future. 2023, the Branch mainly focuses on the implementation of the “Twentieth National Congress”. In 2023, the branch will mainly focus on practicing the spirit of “twenty”, leading the development of the industry; constructing solid support, helping the development of enterprises; setting up a standard working group, doing a good job in standardization; convening the annual meeting of the industry, carrying out seminars and exchanges; deepening the industry research, mapping the current situation of the industry; strengthening the industry exchanges and promoting the exchange of information and other aspects of the work carried out in a series of ways. 2024, the branch will Integrate data resources, realize data interoperability and sharing; advocate green development, promote the construction of standard system; focus on talent training, build a platform for industry-university-research-use exchanges; actively absorb members, play the role of a bridge; focus on scientific and technological innovation, carry out industry chain docking exchanges. Zhang Yun said that the future of spunlace industry needs to be driven by science and technology, broaden the application of the new blue ocean; green transformation, build new ecological advantages; industry self-regulation, build a new market order; global layout, deepen the internationalization strategy; embracing the future, to grasp the new trend of development.

Industry Outlook

Mr. Li Guimei, President of CCPA, made a report on the theme of “Cultivating New Productivity and Promoting High Quality Development of Nonwovens Industry”. Introduced the current operation of the nonwovens industry, industry situation, key tasks, and put forward development proposals. Li Guimei said, nonwovens new quality productivity key tasks mainly include scientific and technological innovation to build a firm industrial foundation; green development to brighten the industry's responsibility; application innovation to broaden the industry's new breadth. For future development, Li Guimei suggested that the industry should be firm confidence in development, adhere to long-termism; change the scale and cost of relying on the development model, strengthen scientific and technological innovation, product development and personnel training, cultivate the core competitiveness of enterprises; win-win cooperation to build a sustainable industrial ecosystem, to prevent “involutional” vicious competition, and work together to establish a healthy and responsible image of the industry; adhere to the green development of non-woven fabrics new quality productivity key tasks mainly include scientific and technological innovation to build a firm industrial foundation; green development to brighten the industry's responsibility; application innovation to broaden the new breadth of industry, Responsible industry image; adhere to the concept of green development, the implementation of green development actions; look at the world, rational layout of production capacity, reduce operating costs and risks.

The thickness and flocculation of wet toilet paper products have become the focus of consumers' attention, and how to make the products thicker and with less flocculation has become a long-term challenge. Prof. Jin Xiangyu from Donghua University made a presentation on “Thickness control and flocculating factors of wood pulp-based spunlace wet toilet paper”. He introduced the development status of wet toilet paper industry, the process of non-woven wet toilet paper, and the influence of viscose fiber, Lyocell and wood pulp on the production of wet toilet paper by wet web spunlace method. In terms of thickness control of non-woven wet toilet paper in wet state, Jin introduced the influence of fiber ratio and netting speed, fiber entanglement coefficient (BI), liquid dispensing, and the number of stacked plies on the thickness of wet toilet paper in wet state; in terms of flocculating of wet toilet paper in wet state, Jin introduced the influence of hydroentanglement process and coefficient of friction of fibers on the flocculating of wet toilet paper in wet state.

The outward investment and cooperation of the whole industry chain of China's textile industry is developing steadily. Cui Xiaoling, Trade Policy Commissioner of International Trade Office of China Textile Industry Federation, made a report on the theme of “Trends and Prospects of Outward Investment in Textile Industry”. Introduced China's textile industry outward investment development overview, the current textile industry outward investment focus, outward investment facing the situation and driving factors, China's textile enterprises outward investment focus on the region and advantages. The report points out that the opportunities for outward investment and cooperation faced by textile enterprises include building a “Belt and Road” to create a good policy environment for the international development of the textile industry; grasping the opportunities brought about by the restructuring of the global industrial chain to promote the optimal allocation of resources and industrial upgrading; and making full use of the rules of FTAs to carry out mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation. Trade and investment cooperation.

Technical Exchanges

Gao Qinchao, Deputy General Manager of R&D Center of Golden Wheel Needle Fabrics (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd, made a report on the topic of “Innovation and Application of Hydroentangled Non-Woven Carding Machine Needle Cloth”, which centered on the common problems of hydroentangled non-woven carding, innovative design of hydroentangled non-woven needle cloth, and innovative hydroentangled nonwovens needle cloth practice. Specifically introduced the ultrafine denier mask, outdoor products, sanitary material products, spunlace base cloth needle cloth supporting the implementation of cases.

Zhang Ruquan, professor of textile school of Wuhan Textile University, made a report on the theme of “low-energy cotton spunlace de-bleaching process research”. Detailed introduction of alkaline-oxygen cold stack, active cold stack, cold stack process formula comparison, ultrasonic pretreatment, plasma pretreatment, pretreatment process comparison, formula optimization, photocatalytic treatment, photocatalytic/ultrasonic assisted, supercritical CO2 treatment, supercritical CO2 enzyme + cold stack, and other research content, and reached the corresponding conclusions.

Mr. Kang Guitian, General Manager of Nonwovens Division of Hangtian Heavy Industry Co., Ltd, made a presentation on the topic of “Exploration of Equipment and Process Innovation of Hydroentanglement Production Line”. He introduced the history and current situation of spunlace technology development, technical innovation of spunlace production line equipment, and technical innovation of traditional spunlace process.

Mr. Yu Hanjiang, Deputy General Manager of General Technology High-tech Materials Group and Chairman of China Textile Academy Green Fiber Corporation, made a presentation on “Development and Application Trends of Lycell Fiber Industry”. He introduced the characteristics of Lycell fiber, production process, Lycell and viscose fiber production process comparison, Lycell fiber environmental attributes, Lycell fiber industry policy, regenerative cellulose fiber industry pattern, and introduced China's Lycell industry production capacity as well as the functionalization of the Lycell fiber research and development.

Zhu Feichao, Associate Professor/Deputy Director of Discipline Construction Department of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, gave a presentation on “Polyvinyl Alcohol Spunlace Composites for Nuclear Dust Protection and its Harmless Treatment Technology”. He introduced the general idea of preparing PVA spunlace nonwoven materials and PVA films, and carrying out the research on harmless treatment of nuclear protection waste, as well as its main research technology content, application and promotion, and economic and social benefits.

Jia Yanfei, Sales Representative of Groz-Beckert (Yantai) Trading Co., Ltd. made a presentation on the topic of “Hydroentanglement of nonwovens with hydroentanglement technology and application”. According to the introduction, Groz-Beckert's business area covers precision tools for the textile industry, industrial cutting tools for various industries, technical textiles for the construction and composites industries, and its nonwovens business includes needling, hydroentanglement, needle cloth, etc. The company is also engaged in the development and production of a wide range of products and services for the textile industry.

Mr. Zhang Xiaofei, Deputy General Manager of Nonwovens and Textile Sales of ANDRITZ (China) Co., Ltd. made a presentation on the topic of “ANDRITZ Innovative Technologies Empowering Customers to Enhance Product Competitiveness”. He introduced his green and sustainable solutions through the hydroentanglement process technology, and introduced the advantages and features of high-speed carding machines and high-speed cross-laying machines.

Mr. Wang Jinwei, Deputy General Manager of Industrial Textiles Business Department of Transfar Zilian Co., Ltd. made a presentation on the topic of “Market Status and Application Trends of Color-absorbent Nonwoven Fabrics”. He introduced the overview and performance characteristics of color-absorbing nonwovens, product requirements and production control points, market demand and status quo, value return and development trend.

During the same period, a seminar on the industry standard of Hygienic Hydroentanglement Nonwovens was held, as well as a working meeting for the vice president of the Hydroentanglement Branch of CIIC.

With the gradual warming of the global economy, as well as a series of national policies and measures to promote economic and social development of the in-depth implementation, we have reason to believe that, with China's huge domestic demand market, a unique advantage, enterprises will be effective in dealing with the current challenges, to seize the opportunity for development, and together to promote the industry's sustained, healthy, high-quality development.