The Shanghai International Fabrics & Accessories Exhibition (SIFA), held on August 27-29, has just come to an end. As the world's largest exhibition of fabrics and accessories, the Shanghai exhibition, which was held at the time of the Golden Nine and Silver Ten, has an obvious attribute of “wind vane”. What kind of fabric development trend has been presented in this year's Shanghai Exhibition?
Trend 1: More diversified spot
Due to the rapid growth of online shopping, cross-border e-commerce business, the fabric enterprises put forward higher requirements for rapid response, fabric spot has become a major trend in recent years.
In the past, the fabric spot tends to concentrate in some categories with large sales volume, such as Chunya spinning, polyester taffeta, nylon spinning, and later added four-side elasticity, T400 and other products, the common characteristic of these products is strong generalization and good circulation.
Times in the continuous development of consumer spending is becoming more and more personalized, the past these traditional fabrics, although still occupy a pivotal position in the market, but some of the demand for differentiated fabrics is also growing rapidly, so some textile enterprises are also in this area of strength.
For example, this year, the rise of new Chinese fabrics, new Chinese fabrics is a relatively new category, while its market demand is very large, so there are textile enterprises for the national style market demand for fabrics targeted to provide spot supply, achieved good results.
Trend 2: more functional
Over the past few years, functional fabrics have been a hot spot in the textile industry. Functional fabric is the most powerful point is that it can not only meet consumer demand, and even create new demand, when a new product functionality to a certain extent, to meet the specific needs of consumers, the corresponding market will develop at a high rate, represented by the sunscreen sunscreen products, elasticity, breathability represented by the sports equipment, in order to three anti-stress, strength of the outdoor products represented by this is the case.
Fabric functionality continues to increase, one because the fabric companies continue to increase investment in research and development, the second is because of the rapid development of fiber technology. From the overall trend, at this stage, the raw materials of functional fabrics are experiencing a shift from polyester to nylon 6 process.
And in this exhibition, many textile enterprises went further, came up with stronger performance of nylon 66 production of fabrics, which may turn out to be another trend in the future production of functional fabrics. In addition, a few years ago, the rise of graphene technology because of its rich functionality, but also gradually in the textile market to shine.
Trend 3: more environmentally friendly fabrics
Low-carbon environmental protection is a common trend in the international and domestic markets.
Overseas, developed markets in Europe and the United States, and some well-known international brands continue to improve the demand for low-carbon and environmentally friendly fabrics.
Domestically, in September 2020, China announced to the world 2030 years ago to achieve carbon peak, 2060 years ago to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, the goal is also reflected in the textile industry.
Therefore, in recent years, regenerative fibers, bio-based fibers and other fibers have become more and more popular in the market, and the related fabric market share is increasing, and the related technology is also advancing rapidly. In addition, the combination of green fabrics and functional fabrics is also the common choice of many textile enterprises in the current market.
Trend 4: the market is more differentiated
This year's textile industry has a very popular point of view, the future of the textile market will be two kinds of differentiation, one is the pursuit of the ultimate cost-effective, the other is the pursuit of the ultimate differentiation. This viewpoint has been confirmed to a certain extent again in this Shanghai exhibition.
Due to the increasingly fierce competition in the market, the current stage of the textile market has been transformed into a certain degree of the buyer's market, many textile enterprises reflect that many customers now have a high demand for cost-effective fabrics, the quality and price of both equally important, want to maintain profitability in such a market, the technology, efficiency, management and other aspects of the enterprise to put forward higher requirements.
There is also a class of textile enterprises in the market choose to focus on specializing in a niche area, such as the channel fabric field, the field of pleated fabrics, this kind of small and refined route of enterprises can often get a stable source of orders through comparative advantage.
Opportunities and challenges coexist in the market
The ultimate service object of fabrics is consumers, and the increasingly diversified needs of consumers have created the trend of spot fabrics, with more and more spot types, more and more colors, and more and more categories gradually extending from the original conventional products to some relatively niche categories.Science and technology is the first productive force, the progress of science and technology is also a quantitative change caused by qualitative changes in the process. Now the textile industry has formed a consensus to increase investment in research and development, personnel training and technology accumulation of enterprises into a period of rapid development, so the market of fibers, fabrics, new products are endless, more and more to meet the multi-dimensional needs of consumers to develop products, the consumer market expansion.
In the environmental protection concept is more and more popular today, green fabrics, recycled fabrics have been from the textile enterprise
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