The Worry Of Spandex Industry

In the past two years, under the attraction of active operation situation and good benefits, China

By the end of 2009, spandex's total capacity reached 625 thousand and 800 tons / year, while China's spandex production capacity reached 355 thousand tons / year, accounting for 57% of the world's total.

China has become the largest producer and consumer of spandex in the world.

This year, spandex expansion boom is still continuing.

Many people expressed concern about this.

Such concerns are particularly focused on whether the supply of raw materials is adequate and stable, and whether downstream demand can digest fast-growing spandex productivity.

Raw materials affect market stability

At present, there are two kinds of spandex production technology in China: dry spinning and melt spinning.

Melt spinning spandex technology is the development of spandex production in recent years.

Compared with melt spinning process, dry spinning process has longer application time and wider application in China.

By the end of 2009, the number of dry spinning spandex plants in China has risen to 30, with a total production capacity of 330 thousand tons / year.

Zhejiang Huafeng, Xiao Xing spandex, Ying Wei Da spandex, Yantai spandex and other well-known enterprises all adopt dry spinning technology.

The main raw materials of dry spinning spandex are PTMEG and MDI. The fluctuation of their price will directly affect the stability of our spandex industry in the future market.

In contrast, the situation of PTMEG is hardly optimistic.

PTMEG accounts for 70% to 80% of the raw material of spandex, and 90% of the domestic PTMEG output is used for spandex.

In recent years, due to the rapid growth of spandex productivity in China, PTMEG prices have risen all the way.

The spanning capacity of spandex reached 350 thousand tons in 2010, which required about 260 thousand tons of PTMEG and a large gap.

Domestic spandex uses many PTMEG from the United States, Japan and Taiwan, so there is a great possibility that prices will continue to climb in the future. PTMEG raw materials may be an important factor affecting the future market stability of China's spandex industry.

Overcapacity is emerging.

According to the trend of garment demand in the international market and the overall operation of domestic production enterprises, the actual demand for spandex in 2009 is about 195 thousand tons.

Judging from the actual market situation, although the consumption of traditional markets in spandex in 2009 is not as good as in previous years, due to the large downward price of spandex prices, its application cost has dropped significantly, spandex has become more and more popular, and its application in some low-end textiles in China has been more and more extensive.

Some regional markets and countries that mainly produce and consume medium and low grade products have increased the total purchasing amount of spandex. The upward trend of domestic market demand is particularly obvious, which has played an obvious supporting role in the steady development of China's Spandex demand.

Spandex industry has a very close relationship with textile industry (including knitting, weaving, chemical fiber, garment industry, etc.).

China is a large textile country and a large exporter of textiles.

70% of the fabrics exported from chemical fiber and textiles contain spandex ingredients (3%~18%).

The rapid development of China's textile industry is undoubtedly the most effective guarantee for the sustainable development of the spandex industry.

In 2010, the overall trend of China's spandex industry showed a trend of slow growth along with the gradual recovery of the international economy.

The demand for spandex is expected to increase further.