High-performance fiber development will enter the golden period

Recently, Duan Xiaoping, president of the China Chemical Fiber Association at the 19th China International Chemical Fiber Conference, stated: “The output of global fiber has grown at an average annual rate of 3% for the last ten years, while high-performance fibers have become global It is rapidly growing at a rate of nearly 30%, and it is expected that the next five to ten years will be the golden period for high-performance fiber development."

Science and technology play a key role "chemical fiber industry is the starting point of the textile industry chain, China's textile fiber processing volume is 73% of chemical fiber, chemical fiber in China's textile industry system occupies an important position." Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation Gao Yong pointed out.

As an important basic raw material, chemical fiber involves various industries such as aerospace, defense industry, automobile industry, and medical and health. The industrial chain of the chemical fiber industry continues to expand under the development trend of the new economy (310358, ** bar), and the national economic situation changes. The impact on related industries will be transmitted to the chemical fiber industry through the industrial chain of the textile industry, and technological advances in the chemical fiber industry will also affect many areas through end products. In the golden decade of rapid economic growth in China, China's chemical fiber industry has also achieved rapid development. As of the end of 2012, China's chemical fiber production reached 37.92 million tons, accounting for 69% of the world's total output, accounting for 73% of China's total textile fiber processing.

"China's chemical fiber industry has made considerable progress in relying on scientific and technological advancement. It will depend on scientific and technological progress to complete the transformation and upgrading of the industry in the next ten years," Duan Xiaoping said. He further analyzed that, first of all, the transformation of China's economy cannot sustainably support the expansion of simple scale; while the technical progress in the aspect of cost control and scale has been gradually reduced. In addition, the traditional shrinking progress of the chemical fiber industry in developed countries has driven the decline in the momentum and capability of technological advancement in the chemical fiber industry. China's chemical fiber industry is bound to gradually assume the responsibility of scientific and technological progress in the national chemical fiber industry.

High-performance fiber advantages Obviously insiders pointed out that the development of high-performance chemical fiber is a manifestation of a country’s overall national strength, and it is also a key indicator. High-performance fiber is an important basic raw material and engineering material for the defense industry, aerospace, energy construction, medical and health, sports and leisure.

It is understood that developed countries have made plans for the development of high-performance chemical fibers in order to support the development of high-tech fiber materials. Duan Xiaoping introduced that China has also listed high-performance chemical fiber as the focus of development in the "12th Five-Year Plan" development plan for chemical fiber.

“The recent decade of global fiber production has basically grown at an average annual rate of 3%,” Duan Xiaoping pointed out, while high-performance fiber has grown at a rate of nearly 30% on a global scale. The next five years will reach ten. Year is the golden period for the development of high performance fibers. The reason is: the field of industrial applications is constantly expanding; technological advances give us the advantages of high-performance fiber production, including low-cost production to expand downstream applications; China's economic transformation and upgrading, including the transformation and upgrading of our chemical fiber industry One needs and other factors.

Although China's planned growth rate for high-performance fiber is relatively large, there are still several risks in its industrial development: The technological progress in this area can be referred to as an opportunity and does not rule out the risk. Just as the original polyesters were eliminated in the market competition, some companies are now facing tens of thousands of tons of carbon fiber reserves. This method is not desirable. Therefore, Duan Xiaoping suggested that high-performance fiber should absorb the experience of conventional chemical fiber development, and develop more advantages from the downstream to the upstream; pay attention to the research and development of recycling technology; at the same time, it should also keep an eye on the development direction of international chemical fiber and achieve the goal of low-cost production. .