Where did the non-woven fabric go?

On January 30, the Economic Daily urgently called on qualified textile enterprises to immediately switch production and expand production of civilian protective masks. Some entrepreneurs with a sensitive sense of market and strong motivation quickly responded to the call, including a large number of printing and packaging companies have switched to producing masks.

Nearly 80 days have passed since that call, and the country's daily production capacity of face masks has risen rapidly from 20 million to 200 million. As the main raw material of masks is non-woven fabric, the huge output of non-woven fabric and even the source particles form a huge "devour", directly squeezing the living space of other non-woven products.

According to Longgang non-woven bag Association estimated at the end of 2019, Wenzhou area has 250 non-woven production lines, non-woven packaging output accounts for about 50% of the country. The huge demand of non-woven fabric for face masks causes packaging enterprises to have no cloth available. "Before the packaging of non-woven fabric more than ten thousand a ton, now sold to thirty thousand. I lost money on all the orders I received. Non-woven packaging is really going to be killed by masks!" In the face of "flour is more expensive than bread" crazy situation, a non-woven packaging business owners a little indignant way. In addition to the price rise of non-woven packaging materials, the price of the source particles has also jumped, such as PP, PE, BOPP up by 50%. This will be gravure printing flexible packaging industry will also cause great pressure. Another non-woven bag business owner said that today saw particle raw materials have increased from the original 7,000 yuan/ton to 16,000 yuan/ton, fully more than double, even if there are non-woven bag enterprises willing to make non-woven bags, the price of finished products can not be accepted by any seller.

And for the enterprises that switch to the production of masks, it is also suffering, melt-blown cloth, mask non-woven fabric, hot air cotton have risen to the "sky-high price", is still out of stock.

April 12, Longgang non-woven fabric leading enterprise - Huahao non-woven fabric Co., Ltd. issued a statement, "Raw material reserves can not cover all orders" "The company is still nearly 50% of the capacity for the production of packaging non-woven fabric, and at an extremely low price for local non-woven bag production enterprises. At the same time, it also called on "the government and the industry to pay attention to the survival plight of the non-woven fabric industry besides masks, appropriately retain the capacity of traditional products, and jointly maintain the sustainable development of the industrial chain".

Today, there are still non-woven packaging enterprises in Longgang that have to turn to the production of masks in order to find a way out. Even though the prices of mask machines and raw materials have risen to a certain extent, coupled with the layout of production areas, it costs nearly 2 million yuan to invest in a production line. A non-woven fabric practitioner in Longgang said frankly that the price rise of non-woven raw materials cannot be the reason for the price rise of non-woven products. Now they choose to enter the mask market and push off the orders of non-woven fabrics. They hope that the raw material market can stabilize until July and August, and they can return to the main business to continue serving customers, or find raw material substitutes. Give customers better product experience. A printing and processing company in Longgang says it has seen a slump in business this year and doesn't seem interested in switching to masks. Today's market is not rational, many people do not understand technology, do not understand the market, do not understand the policy, is completely in the risk, it is better to do their own work, reduce costs, conserve energy.

The outbreak of the epidemic for the printing and packaging industry may be a crisis, or may be an opportunity, "change", "strain", "initiative to change", coupled with the "world martial arts only fast not broken" move, as well as adhere to the original intention of the industry, may let the majority of enterprises have a foothold in the competitive market, and the industry order needs every professional maintenance; Industry prosperity and development, more need every practitioner integrity management.