The 2018 Asian International Nonwovens Exhibition (ANEX 2018) was held in Tokyo, Japan. The China Industrial Textiles Industry Association organized a visit group and visited Teijin, Asahi Kasei Group and the University of Tokyo.
The 2018 Asia International Nonwovens Exhibition (ANEX2018) is hosted by the Asian Nonwovens Association (ANFA) and is held every 3 years. The exhibits cover the entire industry chain of non-woven fabric raw materials, coils, end products, equipment and accessories. The exhibition attracted about 700 exhibitors from nearly 30 countries and regions, of which 36% were Chinese and 40% were Japanese. The exhibition area was nearly 30,000 square meters and the audience was about 30,000. The ANEX exhibition integrates product display with technology and market exchanges. There are exchange activities such as the Global Nonwoven Industry Summit and Nanofiber Technology Seminar, so that exhibitors can understand the latest developments in the global nonwovens market and technology while displaying the entity.
Overview of Exhibition Products and Equipment Innovation
During the exhibition, the research team visited Zhejiang Jinsanfa, Robust Medical, Nanhai Bidefu, Dalian Ruiguang, Hangzhou Nuobang, Meiya Nonwoven, Anhui Jinchun, Shandong Yongxin, Hengtian Jiahua, Jiangsu Yingyang, Wenzhou Changlong, Zhongfang Technology, Tiren, Asahi Huacheng, Dongli, BERRY, Reifenh Reicofil, Andritz, Trü tzschler, ExxonMobil, Dow and other domestic and foreign enterprises. From the exhibition, it is reflected that non-woven products are still developing in the direction of personalization, functionalization, high cost performance and safety and environmental protection; the development trend of non-woven equipment is still large-scale, high-yield and high-speed, single-line output is constantly improving, and gradually moving towards intelligence, equipment enterprises and users gradually pay attention to energy conservation and recycling of resources.
From the perspective of raw materials, the high-grade polypropylene developed in ExxonMobil can be used to manufacture soft and tough non-woven fabrics, high-performance polyethylene polymers are used to produce thinner base films, and Vistamex polymers can be used for sanitary products. The non-woven fabrics made of Dow chemical fiber grade and meltblown grade polyethylene resin have super soft touch, and the functional polymers developed can increase the binding force of low melting point fibers and wood pulp fibers, improve the tensile strength of dust-free paper.
From the perspective of non-woven materials, Dongli has introduced AXTAR non-woven fabrics made of pure polyester filaments, which have the characteristics of high strength and high density and can be used in many fields such as industrial filtration, civil engineering and agriculture. Asahi Kasheng shows its unique patented product "Binba" non-woven fabric, which is a natural, comfortable and environmentally friendly non-woven material made of cotton seed wool and can be used in beauty, medical, industrial, household products and household products; teijin has developed a bag filter with excellent dust and powder collection efficiency, energy saving and long service life, which controls dust emission below 10 mg/m. Berry shared the latest progress of investing in Asia's first most advanced Leffen 5 nonwoven equipment and unveiled a new sample.
In addition, domestic exhibitors Jin Sanfa diversified maternal and infant products, four terminal application products of stable cotton spunlace, Beef elastic spunbond nonwoven fabric, Dalian Ruinguang SP wet composite nonwoven fabric, Hangzhou Nuobang wood core and bamboo original nonwoven fabric, Meiya nonwoven polylactic acid nonwoven fabric, Anhui Jinchun microfiber nonwoven fabric, Shandong Yongxin high cleaning disinfection sheet spunlace substrate, Hengtian Jiahua three resistance, hydrophilic functional nonwoven fabric and other innovative products have attracted a large number of potential customers.
In terms of nonwovens equipment, Reicofil launched a new production line RF Smart for low-capacity markets based on the new generation of RF5 products. The maximum width of this device is 3.2 meters, the designed annual output is as high as 10,000 tons, and the maximum speed is 400 or 600 meters/minute, which enables customers to respond to market conditions quickly and flexibly, enabling them to produce smaller batches of products economically and efficiently. Trü tzschler focuses on its high-yield spunlace line scheme. The new NCT carding machine is the core equipment of spunlace line, generally, the spunlace production line is equipped with one or two online high-speed carding machines, and the production speed can reach more than 300 m/min. The Andritz shows the hot air penetration bonding production line that can obtain the best softness of the diversion layer and the surface layer. The production line adopts a self-made flat drying room, and customers can benefit from high-yield and high-performance fabrics produced by bicomponent fibers, with a fabric weight of 16 to 80g/m2. The high-strength and high-efficiency needle-punched nonwoven geotextile production line launched by Yingyang, Jiangsu Province, is equipped with a new type of opening and carding mechanism, which can meet the special requirements of 38~150mm length fiber geotextile processing; wenzhou Changlong showed the exclusive design of the double-layer mesh multi-die spun-fused nonwoven production line solution and the finished nonwoven, and the successfully developed new filter material was also unveiled for the first time. The Type IV 3.2 m wide SSMMMS production line developed by China Textile Technology has a maximum production speed of 600 m/min and an annual production capacity of over 10000 tons.
Exhibitors, visiting enterprises feel
At the exhibition, the research team had in-depth interaction and exchanges with exhibitors to understand the cutting-edge technology of the industry and explore the space for mutually beneficial cooperation. Yan Huarong, chairman of the exhibitor Jinsanfa Group, mentioned in a discussion with the research team that as a leader in nonwoven materials and maternal and child products, the company attaches great importance to the optimal allocation of transnational resources. At present, the market has expanded to Europe, America, Africa, Asia and other places. In the future, the company will further consolidate the Japanese market, so as to further radiate Southeast Asian countries.
As the helm of Happy Home Textiles, Chairman Liu Yuexing attaches great importance to the cross-border integration of technologies in different industries to achieve digestion, absorption and re-innovation, so as to achieve the integration of technology, taste and function. After visiting the exhibition, he mentioned that the new functional nonwoven materials presented in this exhibition have been expanded and applied in the home textile industry, providing new ideas for the future development of enterprises.
Shandong Luther, a national manufacturing champion demonstration enterprise, has been integrating new products, new models or new technologies into the new development strategies of intelligent manufacturing engineering, green engineering and strong foundation engineering advocated by the state. Chairman Liang Xunmei said when visiting the organizer's future exhibition area: Based on the huge potential of the future development of geotechnical materials, the organizer will regard geotechnical materials as the key direction of the future cultivation of the exhibition. This is a very wise strategy and looks forward to the next exhibition. There will be greater breakthroughs in the field of geotechnical.
As the earliest research and development of non-woven needle cloth special manufacturing enterprises, after years of exploration and accumulation, white shark needle cloth can not only meet the spunlace, needle, hot air, hot rolling and other non-woven processing methods, but also fully support the domestic and foreign high school low-end carding models. Zhang Yonggang, chairman of the company, took advantage of the exhibition to gain an in-depth understanding of the needs of its end users, in order to expect that the white shark needle cloth can help the product upgrade and structural adjustment of the nonwovens industry in the key link of fiber combing with its mature technology and product quality that surpasses international peers.
As an integrated processing and production enterprise of non-woven materials and equipment, Changyuan Hutai has always adhered to the road of scientific and technological innovation and development. Relying on its strong R & D capabilities, it has independently developed a variety of cost-effective non-woven complete sets to meet domestic individuality And diversified needs. Wang Youhu, chairman of the company, said in the exhibition that non-woven equipment manufacturers should pay close attention to the different characteristics of various products, meet the delicate requirements of customers for products, and be equipped with equipment with reasonable cost performance. to meet the opportunities and challenges of domestic and foreign markets with a full range of services.
As a representative of universities participating in the exhibition, Professor Fang Kuanjun of Qingdao University has always attached great importance to the joint development of the industry-university-research-application system. When visiting the exhibition, he paid close attention to the "new trends, new materials, and new applications" presented by the exhibition. Understand the latest trends of new materials and new processes, relying on its strong innovation team, and transform them into realistic productivity that promotes the development of domestic related enterprises.
Overview of Domestic Nonwovens Enterprises Going Global
At present, the comparative advantage and competitive efficiency of the entire industry chain of nonwovens have been greatly challenged. The industry must carry out efficient transnational resource allocation with a global perspective, consolidate its manufacturing advantages and market share in the global supply chain, and strive to improve Value chain status. The domestic nonwovens industry has changed from the initial simple product output to the current stage of industrial output, reflecting the change in the concept of nonwovens entrepreneurs and the enhancement of the international competitiveness of enterprises. At the same time, the various problems faced by non-woven enterprises going out also make enterprises feel more pressure. For this reason, the China Industrial Textiles Industry Association has been committed to promoting strategic cooperation with global nonwovens-related institutions, and through field visits and negotiations to better help companies go global.
1. Teijin Group
Teijin Group was established on June 17, 1918, and Nantong Teijin was established in 1994. At present, the group has two headquarters in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. This year, the group will usher in its 100 anniversary. Teijin has the key technologies to create high-performance materials and medical care, as well as the basic technologies such as polymer chemistry, nano and synthesis that support this technology. So far, with these technologies as the core, Teijin has continuously introduced new products such as high-performance fibers, resins, films, pharmaceuticals and home medical devices, and strives to meet the needs of society and customers. In the future, Teijin will also provide new value solutions for customers and the market through further technological innovation and technology integration.
At the exchange forum with the research group, Mr. Horinouchi, the second director of Teijin Group's functional materials department, and Mr. Uchida, the director of the production, capital and business planning department, respectively introduced Teijin Group's functional fiber and nonwoven business to the research group, including the special-shaped cross-section fiber that can be used to make wiping cloth, the newly developed world's thinnest nano fiber with a diameter of 200nm, the nano filter bag displayed at ANEX exhibition and the environmental protection snow melting system, etc, it left a deep impression on the representatives of domestic enterprises. After the exchange, the research team visited the emperor's future exhibition hall under the leadership of curator cypress wood. curator cypress wood introduced to the delegates new research and development products such as carbon fiber cars twice as heavy as ordinary cars, carbon fiber cloth that can sense pressure, transparent resin fire extinguishers made of aramid materials, polyester film energizing chips that can withstand high temperatures, etc.
As a successful representative of the second generation of entrepreneurship, Zheng Haigang, general manager of Weifang Camel King, said after visiting Teijin Group that today, when the degree of globalization has been quite far-reaching, the industrial processing field will be transferred to other countries at any time due to the rise of labor costs and policy changes, but the upstream high-end materials and high-end components of the industrial chain will not easily migrate. Teijin Group relies on its 100-year processing and producing high-year experience in high-year, maintaining a sustained competitive advantage, Chinese companies need more time to accumulate to achieve the manufacturing industry to take off again.
2. Asahi Huacheng
Asahi Kasei Group is a comprehensive chemical manufacturer founded in 1922. In more than 90 years of development history, Asahi Kasei has complied with the development of Japan's economy and social and environmental changes, actively promoted business diversification, adjusted business institutions in a timely manner, and has grown to this day. Asahi Kasei took the opportunity of synthesizing ammonia through hydropower for the first time in Japan, starting from synthetic chemistry and chemical fiber business, and now it has expanded to three fields: the "material" field composed of textile, chemical and electronic materials business, the "residential" field composed of residential and building materials business, and the "health" field composed of medicine, medical treatment and first aid business, It is committed to contributing to the "life" and "life" of the global public.
Asahi Hakita, a researcher at Asahi Hakata Fiber Business Department, introduced Asahi Hakata's proud combination of the comfort of natural fibers and the functionality of chemical fibers into one "Bingba" copper ammonia fiber, spandex fiber with soft flexibility and resilience based on polymer technology, environmentally friendly superfine fiber suede artificial leather, and Prich silk with both spunbonded nonwoven and superfine fiber characteristics. In the future, Asahi Kasei's nonwovens business will continue to provide competitive nonwovens products to the world with products made by the company's original method.
Professor Qian Xiaoming of Tianjin University of Technology said in an exchange and discussion with Asahi Huacheng that Asahi Huacheng is based on chemistry and material science, providing innovative solutions for different fields and broad markets, including fibers, chemicals, household products, housing, construction, electronics and medical care. The group has joined hands with domestic and foreign enterprises, universities and public research institutes to carry out joint research and technology outsourcing, actively committed to the development of industry-university-research system, and looks forward to in-depth cooperation with Tianjin University of Technology in the future to jointly promote the development of related industries.
Since then, the research team also visited the high-end technology center and laboratory of Asahi Chemical Fiber in three groups, and had a further intuitive understanding of Asahi Chemical Fiber, Spandex Fiber and Nonwovens and Products. Asahi Huacheng, as a multinational innovative enterprise, has been focusing on the innovation of products and services, which coincides with the spirit of daring to open up, low-key pragmatism and focusing on quality advocated by Shandong Taipeng in the research group. Fan Ming, the general manager of the company, has been adhering to the craftsman spirit of being down-to-earth and sinking down to make products, refining and strengthening the field, which may be the secret of the success of the two enterprises.
3. University of Tokyo
As the highest academic palace in Japan, the University of Tokyo enjoys a high reputation in the world. As a distinguished professor of the policy concept research center of the University of Tokyo, Professor Gu Yue Wenzhi has been engaged in the research of advanced materials such as carbon nanotubes for more than 30 years. His laboratory has in-depth research and unique insights on the characteristics, preparation and application of advanced fiber materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Professor Gu Yue's research team, Dr. Wang Yanqing, Wang Zhipeng and Gong Wei respectively introduced the latest research results in the field of carbon nanotubes to the research group. Among them, the research group was deeply impressed by the fibrous flexible supercapacitor made by researcher Gong Wei using new nanofibers. Fiber-like flexible supercapacitor is a new one-dimensional energy storage device, because of its light weight, small size and good flexibility and stretchability, fiber-like flexible supercapacitor is very suitable for driving portable micro-motor equipment and wearable electronic systems. Gong Wei used electrochemical deposition to grow nanostructured manganese dioxide into the interconnected carbon nanotube network, and prepared a high-performance porous fibrous coaxial electrode with metal nickel fiber as the current collector, which can achieve rapid charge and discharge The electron transfer in the process, and its performance is not limited by the thickness of the coating. These excellent performances indicate that this new type of composite fiber supercapacitor has great application potential as a wearable energy storage device, and opens a new door for new wearable energy storage devices.
As the owner of the world's first graphene in-situ polymerization nylon industrial production technology, General Manager Jiang Yan of Changzhou Henglibao is very interested in the latest research results of carbon nanotubes in the Gu Yue Laboratory of the University of Tokyo, and inquired in detail about the research and development, production and application status of carbon nanotubes functionalized polymers. At the same time, he expects to develop and innovate a large number of new fabrics and end products around this new material in the future, driving the comprehensive technological innovation and upgrading of related industry chain.
The five-day trip allowed the research group to experience the advanced R & D and operation mode of the Japanese nonwovens industry in the most intuitive way. The face-to-face discussion with senior experts from Japanese textile universities made the research group have a better understanding and judgment of the development trend of advanced nonwoven materials in the future. Zhang Chuanxiong, Secretary General of China Industrial Textile Industry Association, stressed in the survey summary that the craftsman spirit of continuous technological innovation and excellence is the core driving force for the sustainable and healthy development of Japanese non-woven enterprises. The forward-looking exploration, scientific research spirit and efficient industry-university-research linkage system of Japanese universities have injected new vitality and vitality into the Japanese nonwovens industry. Japanese companies such as Toray, Teijin, and Asahi Kasei are worth learning from Chinese companies in terms of new product development and application expansion, refined management of companies, and transnational resource allocation. It is expected that China and Japan will uphold the concept of win-win cooperation and continue to work closely together. Work together to create a better future for the nonwovens industry.
Tianjin University of Technology, Qingdao University, Pleasure Home Textile, Shandong Luther, Shandong Taipeng, Guangshan White Shark, Changzhou Henglibao, Weifang Camel King, Changyuan Hutai, Shandong Xinyue, Shaoxing Yishen, Dongguan Hongyu, China Knitting Industry Association and other 27 people participated in the survey.
