What Is The Future Trend Of The US Industrial Textiles Industry?

According to the world clothing shoes and hats net, the United States is the largest in the world.

The market accounts for about 19% of its annual imports.

20% of total imports.

Compared with the huge number of imports, its export volume is much smaller.

In fact, the industrial textiles industry in the United States is an important area that has developed along with the first industrial revolution.

However, the financial crisis at the end of twentieth Century and the long and weak economic situation since twenty-first Century have slowed down the growth of the special textile market in the United States.

Nevertheless, the overall performance of the US industry is still remarkable.

Today, the production and supply of textile materials in the United States are strong, and its annual output of cotton is over 2000 million, ranking the first in the world.

The output of American carbon fiber and cotton fiber ranks first in the world, of which only the annual output of carbon fiber is over 10 thousand tons, and its output accounts for 33.2% of the total carbon fiber production worldwide.

According to the world clothing shoes and hats net, 2016 - 2020, the amount of fiber consumption of industrial textiles in the United States (including vehicle, marine, building, residential and medical and sports) will exceed that of clothing textiles.

It is estimated that the total fiber consumption in the United States will exceed 3 million tons in 2020.

In terms of end use, there are obviously rising trends in terms of green building, environmental protection and sports.

Driven by many revitalization policies, the US industrial textiles industry has now become a competitive industry in the world, armed with high-tech and intellectual property rights and inventions.

Many of its related fields have evolved or derived into another new industry, or infiltrating and integrating into other industries.

On the whole, the development of industrial textiles in the United States mainly presents the following trend.

Trend 1: global leader in innovative technology and new fibers

The innovation and innovation achievements of the United States in the textile industry are far stronger than those of other countries in the world, including many of our known chemical fiber products, such as nylon, polyester and optical fiber, as well as Kevlar fibers used for making bulletproof clothing and special fibers worn by astronauts.

Trend two: highly modern equipment

According to the world clothing and shoe net, most of the textile industry in the United States is equipped with some highly modern equipment, some of which are specialized in the production of innovative fibers. Besides the United States, they are still hard to find in other countries.

The US industrial textiles industry has invested at least $2 billion a year to continue to introduce new equipment and technology.

In the past, the new investment of relevant manufacturers in the United States was mainly aimed at reducing costs and increasing production capacity. Now, more investment is relatively low and targeted.

Suppliers and manufacturers, on the one hand, reduce costs and expand business on the other hand, replacing old equipment with new equipment to help increase production capacity, new products and reduce energy consumption, and the ultimate goal is to improve the quality of products.

Trend three: production is highly integrated with other industries.

The production level and technology content of industrial textiles in the United States are higher than those in other countries, and the added value of products is much higher than that of ordinary textiles.

For example, chemical fiber products with intellectual property and various characteristics are mostly used in important industrial fields such as aviation, aerospace and communications.

Trend four: accelerating the pformation of industrial structure

In recent years, the United States chemical fiber enterprises are facing the pressure of low price and price competition in developing countries. They have abandoned the production of general value-added chemical fiber products and accelerated the development and production of high value-added industrial fiber products.

For example, the PFI and Invista companies in the United States were also general chemical fiber products manufacturers in twentieth Century. After the structural adjustment and conversion, their annual production of polyethylene fiber for the cord fabric was 94 thousand tons and 53 thousand tons respectively, accounting for 23% and 13% of the international market share respectively.

Trend five: Merger and acquisition reorganization

American Chemical fiber enterprises are relatively scattered. In the late twentieth Century, there were 9343 enterprises operating industrial textiles.

Since 2000, the US chemical fiber enterprises have eliminated more than 5000 small and medium-sized enterprises through mergers and acquisitions, and their market concentration has been improved and their competitiveness increased.

Over the past decade, companies with good performance have grown stronger and produced many large and diversified industrial textile groups, such as Burlington Industries, Stevens, Pepperell, Springs Industries, Guilford Mills, Levi Strauss, Polo, Levi, Springs, and so on.

Many textile and garment enterprises also use license agreements to improve market share, expand their brand mix, and eliminate existing and potential competitors.

Trend six: Industrial Specialization

In the face of fierce competition, the reaction of the US textile and garment enterprises is from the traditional commodities and the public.

(basic textiles, such as knitwear and knitwear) withdrew and managed to exit from high quality fibers, concentrating on more specialized segments of the industry, focusing on diversification and flexibility.

In textiles, the United States focuses on developing carpets, non-woven fabrics and high technology textiles and upgrading them in terms of technology, systems and human resources.

According to the world clothing and shoe net, for example, Nike has developed nano technology fiber, which is a very suitable material for outdoor sports products.

Sara Lee abandoned the textile manufacturing business, focusing on the core competencies of enterprises such as design, supply chain management and marketing.

Pepperell attaches great importance to the core competitiveness of industrial textiles, such as design and marketing.

Liz Claiborne focuses on the service and market segments of the demand for special industrial textiles.

Manufacturers of market segments have been created to gain a better position in the competition of industrial textiles market, and their products will also get higher profits.

In some cases, vertical integration is still preserved in the manufacture of industrial textiles because of the stability and relative homogeneity of demand.

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Trend seven: new technology and new product innovation

In the textile and apparel industry of the United States, innovation has always played an important role in improving operational efficiency, improving planning and supply chain integration.

The product innovation of the industry has been very active, especially the massive investment in information technology and management information system, and the development of new fiber and new technology.

Collins, Aikman of Tory and Michigan have introduced an environmentally friendly carpet recycling system, which can be completely recycled and recycled.

According to the world clothing and shoe net, the United States is the largest producer of non-woven fabrics (toilet paper, hemostatic cotton balls, thermal insulation and protective coverings). It has produced a huge trade surplus over the past decade.

The dominance of the United States in this field owes much to its high capital investment in innovation.

A series of smart textiles are being developed in the United States, which can be used in the acquisition and pmission of information, as well as in health care and energy storage.

Trend eight: Mass Customization

Mass customization refers to the use of information technology and flexible management structure to meet the needs of special industrial textiles.

For manufacturers and retailers, mass customization reduces inventory and distribution costs.

Recent studies on mass customization in the industrial textiles industry show that customers prefer mass customization products (such as green building cord fabrics, marine foundation geotextiles, etc.) compared with other services.

Many industrial textile enterprises in the United States use mass customization to provide more differentiated products.

With the development of electronic technology, mass customization has been applied to the variety performance, sample making, shaping and production technology of industrial textiles.

In the American textile industry, mass customization design includes the use of 3D scanning and design of customization technology, computer aided design and other production technologies.

For example, Nike provides customized services for outdoor sporting goods customers in terms of size, style, structure, workmanship and color. Target also provides similar services for customers of medical and vehicle fabrics.

Trend nine: offshore pfer value chain activities

In order to reduce production costs and gain market advantages all over the world, American manufacturers of industrial textiles pfer large quantities of production equipment and technology to low cost regions abroad, and use value differences and market characteristics of different regions to locate value chain activities in countries and regions with comparative advantages.

The increase in trade agreements between the United States and other countries has had a great impact on the global outsourcing strategy of the industrial textiles industry in the United States.

Its manufacturing enterprises have become part of a regional and global production network, including subcontracting arrangements in different countries and regions.

So many American textile enterprises set up manufacturing plants in Mexico, began offshore pfer manufacturing, and focused on product development, marketing and distribution.

In India, industrial textile enterprises in the United States have established more and more manufacturing projects and market service outlets.

At present, the annual growth rate of India's non-woven and industrial textile industry has increased by about 13%.

Trend ten: global cooperative supply chain networking

The global cooperation supply chain network includes enhancing the flexibility of production organization through the upstream and downstream links in the production of products and services.

This approach enables us industrial textile enterprises to share risks with suppliers and select foreign companies with the best product lines and services.

The global outsourcing and collaborative supply chain network has greatly improved the manufacturer's response to customer needs.

A large number of industrial textile enterprises in the United States have established complex outsourcing and marketing networks.

This improves the mechanism of information acquisition and sharing, and reduces uncertainty by reducing the delay of information pmission between nodes of different suppliers.

For example, in the automotive fabric supply chain, efficient information flow among different suppliers around the world is considered to be a key factor to break through organizational barriers, reduce the decision-making cycle and reduce the threat of new entrants.

Industrial textiles in the United States are widely used, with many varieties, strong functions, and wide range of knowledge.

At the same time, the production of industrial textile products and the size of suppliers are also large, and the supply of products is concentrated.

For example, Guilford Mills, North Carolina, most of the company's business is related to the car roof; FabIndustries in New York pays attention to sporting goods and body clothing; Supertex Inc, North Carolina, sells sporting goods and tents.

The proportion of industrial textiles used in industrial products in the United States depends on the application. Taking automobile textile as an example, such textiles account for 90% of the US automobile canopy market.

It is marked from needle punched carpet, side and car panels, seat belt to the gasket and hood of the hood of the engine silencer and the rear of the open car. There is no need for textiles.

Over the past 20 years, industrial textiles have been recognized as indispensable parts for interior decoration of automobiles.

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