Overall Industry Performance
From January to April 2024, the technical textiles industry maintained a positive development trend. The growth rate of industrial added value continued to expand, with key economic indicators and major sub-sectors showing improvement. Export trade also sustained steady growth.
Product-Specific Performance
• Industrial Coated Fabrics: Achieved the highest export value at $1.64 billion, marking an 8.1% year-on-year increase.
• Felts/Tents: Followed with $1.55 billion in exports, although this represented a 3% year-on-year decrease.
• Nonwovens (Spunbond, Meltblown, etc.): Performed well with exports totaling 468,000 tons valued at $1.31 billion, up by 17.8% and 6.2% year-on-year, respectively.
• Disposable Sanitary Products: Experienced a slight decline in export value at $1.1 billion, down 0.6% year-on-year. Notably, female sanitary products saw a significant decrease of 26.2%.
• Industrial Fiberglass Products: Export value increased by 3.4% year-on-year.
• Sailcloth and Leather-Based Fabrics: Export growth narrowed to 2.3%.
• Wire Rope (Cable) and Packaging Textiles: Decline in export value deepened.
• Wiping Products: Strong overseas demand with wiping cloths (excluding wet wipes) exporting 530million,up19530million,up19300 million, up 38% year-on-year.
Sub-Field Analysis
• Nonwovens Industry: Operating revenue and total profit for enterprises above designated size increased by 3% and 0.9% year-on-year, respectively, with an operating profit margin of 2.1%, unchanged from the same period in 2023.
• Ropes, Cords, and Cables Industry: Operating revenue increased by 26% year-on-year, ranking first in the industry, with total profit up by 14.9%. The operating profit margin was 2.9%, down by 0.3 percentage points year-on-year.
• Textile Belt, Cordura Industry: Enterprises above designated size saw operating income and total profit increase by 6.5% and 32.3%, respectively, with an operating profit margin of 2.3%, up by 0.5 percentage points.
• Tents, Canvas Industry: Operating income decreased by 0.9% year-on-year, but total profit increased by 13%. The operating profit margin was 5.6%, up by 0.7 percentage points.
• Filtration, Geotextiles and Other Industrial Textiles: Enterprises above scale reported operating income and total profit increases of 14.4% and 63.9%, respectively, with the highest operating profit margin of 6.8%, up by 2.1 percentage points year-on-year.
Nonwoven Applications
Nonwovens are extensively used in various sectors including medical industry protection, air and liquid filtration and purification, household bedding, agricultural construction, oil absorption, and specialized market solutions.