The industrial production of nonwovens has been around for nearly a hundred years. The industrial production of non-woven fabrics in the modern sense began to appear in 1878, when the British company William Bywater successfully developed a needle punching machine in the world.
The real modern production of the nonwovens industry only started after the Second World War. With the end of the war, the world is in ruins, and the demand for various textiles is increasing.
Under this circumstance, nonwovens have developed rapidly and have gone through four stages so far:
1. The budding period is from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s. Most of the textile enterprises used ready-made prevention equipment to make appropriate transformations and use natural fibers to manufacture non-woven materials.
During this period, only a few countries such as the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom were researching and producing non-woven fabrics, and their products were mainly thick and thick batt-like non-woven fabrics.
Second, the commercial production period is from the end of the 1950s to the end of the 1960s. At this time, dry technology and wet technology are mainly used, and a large number of chemical fibers are used to manufacture non-woven materials.
3. An important period of development, from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, at this time, a complete set of production lines for polymerization and extrusion methods were born.
The rapid development of various special nonwoven special fibers, such as low melting point fibers, thermal bonding fibers, bicomponent fibers, ultrafine fibers, etc., has rapidly promoted the progress of the nonwoven material industry.
During this period, the global nonwoven production reached 20,000 tons and the output value exceeded 200 million US dollars.
This is an emerging industry based on the cooperation of petrochemical, plastic chemical, fine chemical, paper industry and textile industry. It is known as the sunrise industry in the textile industry.” application.
4.On the basis of the continuous high-speed growth of non-woven fabric production, non-woven fabric technology has made many substantial progress at the same time, which has attracted worldwide attention, and the production area of non-woven fabric has also expanded rapidly.
Fourth, the global development period, from the early 1990s to the present, non-woven enterprises have developed by leaps and bounds.
Through technological innovation of equipment, optimization of product structure, intelligent equipment, and market branding, etc., the non-woven technology has become more advanced and mature, the equipment has become more sophisticated, the performance of non-woven materials and products has been significantly improved, and the production capacity and product series have been continuously expanded. New products, new technologies, and new applications emerge one after another.
During this period, the technology of spin-forming and melt-blown nonwovens has been rapidly promoted and applied in production, and machinery manufacturers have also launched complete sets of spin-forming and melt-blown nonwoven production lines to the market.
The drylaid nonwovens technology also made important progress during this period.
——Written By Amber
Post time: Mar-25-2022
