1. NON WOVEN END-USE PRODUCT

2. Technical Textiles
Technical Textiles are defined by DRA to encompass those products which are used principally for their performance or functional characteristics rather than for their aesthetics, or are used for non-consumer (i.e. industrial) applications.
Shoe components (hidden, functional) are included as technical, whilst shoe uppers (visible, largely aesthetic) are treated as non-technical

3. NON WOVEN DEFINATION
“Nonwoven” fabric is defined as a sheet or web structure made of fibers bonded or interlocked together by mechanical, chemical, thermal or solvent means. This definition excludes all fabrics that are woven, knitted or tufted, together with all papers

4. Top Ten Companies The Top Ten Global Nonwovens Companies…
1. Freudenberg
2 DuPont
3 Kimberly-Clark
4 BBA
5 PGI Nonwovens
6 Ahlstrom
7 Johns Manville
8 Buckeye Technologies
9 Colbond
10 Japan Vilene

5. In 2001 the top five nonwoven manufacturers together accounted for just under half of total world-wide nonwovens sales with the top 40 accounting for just over 90%. However, the remaining 10% of the nonwovens market is supplied by a large number of small specialist suppliers.

6. Terms & Process Fibers are processed into webs
Web technologies can be divided into four broad types:
Dry-laid
Extruded (including spunbond, melt-blown, flash-spun)
Wet-laid
Air-laid (sometimes included within dry-laid but reported on separately within this report).

7. Nonwoven fabrics are subsequently formed by bonding the fibers in the webs together. Bonding can take place as a separate process to web forming it is often carried out at the same time as the web is formed.

8. Bonding Technologies
Mechanical: Includes needle punching, stitch bonding and hydro-entangling.
Chemical: Involves the application of adhesive binders by a range of processes including spraying, printing, saturating and foaming.
Solvent: Achieved by softening or partially dissolving fibers with a solvent to provide self-bonding surfaces.
Thermal: Involves heat and/or pressure to fuse or weld fibers together at points of intersection or in patterned bond sites. This usually involves including a fiber with a lower melting point in the web.

9. The type of bonding has a direct influence of the fabric properties in terms of density, strength, flexibility, softness, etc. A wide range of finishing techniques can be applied to nonwoven fabrics to provide additional properties.

10. World End-Use Consumption of Technical Textiles by Fabric and other Final Textile Product
Fabrics and Other
2000
2010
00-10
Final Textile
Volume
Share
CAGR
Products
’ tonnes %
’000 tonnes
Woven fabrics
6,432
38%
8,448
36%
2.8%
Knitted fabrics
541 3%
750
3.3%
Nonwoven fabrics
3,851
23%
6,264
26%
5.0%
Other fabrics
316 2%
470
4.1%
Yarn type products
1,570 9%
2,079
Unspun fibre
4,007
24%
5,767
3.7%
Total
16,714
100%
23,774
3.6%

11. World End-Use Consumption of Technical Textiles Woven have higher share of the market in value terms than in volume terms.

12. Final Textile Product (‘000 tonnes)
World End-Use Consumption Analysis by Fabric and other Final Textile against Application Area.
Final Textile Product (‘000 tonnes)
Total
Application
Area
Unspun
fibre
Woven
fabric
Knitted
Nonwoven
Yarn type
products
Other
‘000
tonnes %
Share
Agrotech
368
116 64
647
186
1,381 8%
Buildtech
834
194 48
566 6
1,648
10%
Clothtech
227 86
112
551
262
1,238 7%
Geotech
111 16
128
255 2%
Hometech
732
845 29
467
113
2,186
13%
Indutech
1,230
458 12
453 52
2,205
Medtech
189
106 20
1,228
1,543 9%
Mobiltech
736
1,151 78
249
211 53
2,479
15%
Packtech
2,220 18 51
263
2,552
Protech
157
238 1%
Sporttech 55
735 42 22 71
989 6%
4,004
6,432
541
3,851
1,570
316
16,714
100%
% Share
24%
38% 3%
23% -
Oekotech
(included in
total) 45
170
214
Source: DRA

13. Fabric End-Use Consumption by Region
Nonwovens products are largely consumed in Western markets. North America and Western Europe together accounted for 60% of nonwoven consumption in 2000 compared with just 34% of woven fabric consumption and 40% of knitted fabric consumption.
North East Asia was the third largest consumer of nonwovens with a 21 % share of the total and had the highest share of woven fabric consumption (23%) and knitted consumption (30%) of any single region.

14. Final Textile Product (‘000 tones)
World End-Use Consumption Analysis by Fabric and other Final Textile against Region.
('000
tones)
Region
Final Textile Product (‘000 tones)
Total
Unspun
fibre
Woven
fabric
Knitted
Nonwoven
Yarn type
products
Other
‘000
tones %
Share
N. America
1,390
1,147 98
1,223
251 75
4,184
25%
S. America
152
325 40
164
144 21
847 5%
W. Europe
1,013
1,028
116
1,139
272 46
3,614
22%
E. Europe
100
222 25
108 83 10
548 3%
M. East 44
161 15 72 59 8
359 2%
Central Asia 7 27 2 11 1 58
<1%
South Asia 95
1,075 34
121
129
1,469 9%
N. E. Asia
1,041
1,501
163
824
414 96
4,040
24%
S. E. Asia 92
700 88
103 29
1,037 6%
Africa 57
208 18 78
459
Oceania 14 39 5 23 3 99 1%
4,004
6,432
541
3,851
1,570
316
16,714
100%
% Share
38%
23% -

15. END-USE CONSUMPTION OF NONWOVENS BY WEB TECHNOLOGY

16. Dry-Laid Technology
44 % had the greatest share of industrial nonwoven market.
Dry-laid processes employ a card to comb fibres into a web. The fibres in the web may be parallel or random laid, depending upon the desired characteristics of the eventual nonwoven. Several layers of web can be lapped to create heavier or special nonwovens. Current trends in nonwoven card design are towards faster processing speeds and wider widths. Various bonding methods are used including stitch bonding, needle punching, hydro entangling, resin impregnation and thermal bonding, the latter of which has become more popular as suitable thermoplastic fibres have become widely available.

17. Extruded Technology 37% share of the market in volume terms.
These include both spunbond and meltblown nonwovens as well as smaller volumes of flash-spun fabrics

18. Spunbonds Technology
Spunbonds are produced by melting polymer and extruding a sheet of synthetic filaments on to a moving belt, then bonding the filaments to form a fabric. Whilst this technology is in itself a bonding technology, additional bonding is normally achieved by thermal methods (calender or oven), needle punching, or by chemical means although a recent development has combined spunbonding with hydro-entangling.

19. Meltblown Technology
The production method involves feeding a low viscosity synthetic polymer into a high velocity air stream, allowing the extenuated droplets formed in the air stream to fall as a micro fibre web on a collecting sheet.

20. Application
Spunbond/meltblown web composites wide variety of applications including construction, civil engineering, filtration, packaging, coating substrate, medicare and hospital apparel.
These composites can be finished with a wide range of chemicals to make them flame-retardant, UV-stable, hydrophilic, anti-microbial, etc

21. Draw Backs
Spunbonding continues to be limited by the large capital investment required.
Processing different polymers involves different polymer technologies and most individual lines are still used to process only one polymer.

22. Flash spinning Technology
Non woven fabric produced using high density polyethylene.
flash spinning a polymer is dissolved in a solvent and is extruded as a sheet which, upon extrusion, is blown into a mass of bubbles as a result of the fall in pressure. This sheet is subsequently drawn and mechanically fibrillated, resulting in a fine fibre network. These fibres are laid as a web on a moving belt prior to being bonded by heat and pressure.

23. Wet-laid Technology
Short fibres, commonly less than 10 mm, are suspended in large amounts of water and fed on to a wire screen. The water is filtered and squeezed off. The resultant fibre web is drum dried and bonded to form an isotropic nonwoven. Bonding can be achieved by chemical binders, or by including thermoplastic fibres in the mix.

24. Draw Backs
Wet-laid installations tend to involve high capital investment
Wet-laid nonwoven face environmental problems associated with the amount of water used.
In Market sectors wet-laid nonwovens are facing increasing competition from spun bonds.

25. Air-Laid Technology
In this Process, Transports the fibre in an air stream to the web bonding stage. Isotropic webs are formed and the process is commonly limited to short fibres, usually up to 76 mm, latest equipment can handle longer materials.

26. Growth rates of Web Technology
Air-laid is fastest growing web technology. Growing Rats forecast to decline over time & come closer with other web technologies.
Extruded non woven forecast declining average annual growth rate.
Dry-laid forecast to remain robust & small acceleration in growth rate.
This contrast in fortunes is partly driven by the strong demand for end-use products requiring hydrophilic fibres such as viscose and cotton which cannot be extruded.
Web
Technology
CAGR(%)
Extruded
6.8%
4.5%
4.4%
Dry-laid
5.1%
5.5%
Air-laid
12.2%
8.6%
7.3%
Wet-laid
5.0%
4.0%
5.3%
All nonwovens
5.9%
4.8%

27. World End-Use Consumption of Nonwoven Fabric in Technical Textiles by Application Area, 2000 (% Split in Volume Terms)

28. Medtech: Hygiene and Medical Textiles
The dominance of the Medtech segment is the consequence of massive volumes of nonwoven cover stock products for use in nappies (diapers), female sanitary towels.
Recent rapid growth of the medical and hygienic wipes market, which is already approaching 200,000 tones per annum
Nonwoven wipes are relatively new consumer products which are usually impregnated with a combination of fluids, chemical and/or perfumes designed to clean and protect skin.
Wound care products exhibit strong growth. Wound dressings are marketed in a vast array of types and sizes to suit various medical and surgical applications.
2000
2010
CAGR
Products
(%)
‘000
tones %
Share
Coverstock
894
73%
1,282
64%
3.7%
Wipes
190
15%
483
24%
9.7%
Gowns, Drapes 94 8%
150 7%
4.8%
Sterile
Packaging 29 2% 45
4.4%
Woundcare 21 46
8.0%
Total
1,228
100%
2,005
5.0%

29. Buildtech: Building and Construction Textiles
2000
2010
CAGR
Products
(%)
‘000
tones %
Share
Shingles
304
54%
422
51%
3.4%
Roofing Felts
171
30%
249
3.8%
Housewrap 79
14%
131
16%
5.2%
Composites 12 2% 19
5.0%
Total
566
100%
822
The bulk of nonwovens used in the Buildtech use in roofing.
US roofing market consumes large volumes of glass “shingle” products which comprise a glass fiber mat, coated with layers of blacktop and mineral granules.
Nonwovens are also increasingly used in breather membranes, mostly made from polypropylene or polyethylene, which act as underlays between layers of roofing to protect against the elements.
Breather membranes are also used as “Housewrap” to insulate the walls of timber framed buildings against wind and water but allow the moister transfer to avoid the build up of condensation within the property

30. Clothtech: Technical Components for Shoes and Clothing
Clothtech represented the third largest application area for nonwovens largely because of two main products – components for shoes and inter-linings for garments.
Shoe components form polyester fiber which provides far better abrasion resistance than its main competitor cotton,
Nonwovens are forecast to continue to increase their share of the world interlinings market, at the expense of woven and knits, particularly as suitable nonwoven technology is introduced into developing countries where woven constructions currently dominate the market.
2000
2010
CAGR
Products
(%)
‘000
tones %
Share
Shoe
Components
411
75%
550
71%
2.9%
Interlining
140
25%
220
29%
4.7%
Total
551
100%
770
3.4%

31. Hometech: Technical Components for Furniture, Household Textiles and Floor Coverings
Over recent years, nonwoven synthetic fabrics have begun to take a major share of the primary carpet backing market.
wipes, nonwoven synthetics are slowly taking share from traditional woven natural fibres (e.g. leno woven floor cloths) in developed markets, although waste materials are still used in large volumes in many other regions
These products have experienced very high levels of growth in Western markets over recent years and growth looks set to continue over the near future.
Smaller segments wrappings for bed and upholstery springs are forecast to grow strongly, as nonwovens take share from wovens.
2000
2010
CAGR
Products
(%)
‘000
tones %
Share
Carpet Backings
163
35%
230
29%
3.5%
Wipes 73
16%
188
24%
9.9%
HVAC Filters 51
11% 91
12%
6.0%
Mattress
Components 50 68 9%
3.2%
Spring
Insulators 34 7% 47 6%
Furniture 30 42 5%
3.3%
Dust Cloths 23 38
5.0%
Pillow Tickings 21 4% 41
7.1%
Tickings 10 2% 14
3.1%
Mattress Spring
Wrap 6 1%
9.3%
Vacuum Filters 5 11
7.4%
Total
467
100%
783
5.3%

32. Indutech: Textiles Used in Industrial Applications
2000
2010
CAGR
Products
‘000
tones %
Share
(%)
Battery
Separators, etc
126
28%
260
30%
7.5%
Wipes
121
27%
258
7.9%
Liquid Filters 98
22%
168
19%
5.6%
Papermaking
Felts 44
10% 58 7%
2.8%
Dust Filters 31 60
6.9%
HEPA Filtration 19 4% 38
7.1%
Abrasives 9 2% 15
4.6%
Other Filters 6 1% 17
10.5%
Total
453
100%
873
6.8%
Industrial wipes include dry and pre-moistened wipes used in areas such as manufacturing, food service applications and clean rooms.
Filtration is a faster growing industrial application for nonwovens. Nonwovens are ideally suited to many filtration applications, combining relatively low cost with a largely open pore structure.
different types of fibre can be used in this end-use to provide specific combinations of temperature tolerance, acid and alkali resistance, etc.

33. Mobiltech: Textiles Used in Automotive, Marine, Railway and Aerospace Applications
In vehicle and transport sectors, environmental, recycling and fuel efficiency considerations, as well as the trend within the automotive industry to standardize vehicle components across global ranges, are favoring the in-creased use of non-woven trim, carpeting, insulation and filtration materials.
Cabin air filters where an electro statically charged filter medium is combined with a nonwoven pre-filter to ensure a clean air supply to the vehicle interior.
Sound and heat insulation materials have also forecast to have high growth rates up to These are used in a number of places within cars and commercial vehicles.
Glass has traditionally had a large share of this market but shift towards the use of polyester and also natural fibers such as jute and flax.

34. Geotextiles Application: The Nonwoven Used in Ground Stabilization Pit Linings, Erosion Control. Agrotech: Textiles for Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry and Fishing. Main Application area Crop protection Cover & Capillary nonwovens for use in horticultural applications that provide consistent watering of plants. Protech: Textiles for Personal and Property Protection application area Disposable Chemical Protection, Face Masks & Cut Protection. Packtech: Packaging Textiles: The packaging sector uses over 51,000 tones of nonwovens annually in a variety of flexible and rigid packaging applications. Major uses include food filtration and coverings, envelopes, tea bags, medical wrappings and more general wrapping purposes.

35. Ten Highest Volume Nonwoven Products These ten products account for almost 70% of the market by weight and just under 60% by value.
Product
‘000
tonnes
% Share of
Total
(volume)
$US mn
(value)
Medtech: Coverstock
893.7
23.2%
2,150.7
14.0%
Clothtech: Shoe Components
411.3
10.7%
1,688.4
11.0%
Buildtech: Shingles
303.6
7.9%
910.8
5.9%
Medtech: Wipes
190.4
4.9%
632.3
4.1%
Buildtech: Roofing Felts
171.4
4.5%
514.3
3.3%
Hometech: Carpet Backings
163.4
4.2%
637.1
Clothtech: Interlinings
139.8
3.6%
1,304.3
8.5%
Indutech: Battery Separators, etc
125.8
540.6
3.5%
Indutech: Wipes
120.7
3.1%
390.9
2.5%
Geotech: Ground Stabilisation
119.4
274.7
1.8%
Others
1,211.1
31.5%
6,318.2
41.1%
All Nonwovens
3,850.7
100.0%
15,362.2

36. World End-Use Consumption,
Ten Fastest Growing Products Most of the fastest growing products represent relatively new, and consequently small, applications
Product
CAGR %
World End-Use Consumption,
2000
‘000 tonnes
Percentage Share
Mobiltech: Cabin Filters
15.2%
7.7
0.2 %
Packtech: Misc. Packaging
10.9%
39.6
1.0 %
Indutech: Other woven Filters
10.5%
6.3
0.2%
Hometech: Wipes
9.9%
73.0
1.9 %
Protech: Face Masks
9.3
Medtech: Wipes
9.7%
190.4
4.9 %
Mobiltech: Insulation
9.6%
51.7
1.3 %
Hometech: Mattress Spring Wrap
9.3%
6.0
Medtech: Wound care Nonwovens
8.0%
21.5
0.6 %
Indutech: Wipes
7.9%
120.7
3.1 %
Others
4.1%
3,324.5
86.3 %
All Nonwovens
5.0%
3,850.7
100.0 %

37. Analysis of End-Use Consumption by Growth Rate and Current Consumption
Around half of the 52 nonwoven products are growing rapidly (above 5% per annum).
6 of these are currently consumed in volumes above the average for nonwovens overall of 70,000 tonnes (principally wipes, some filters, and fabrics for electrical applications as battery separators)
9 large nonwoven product segments such as interlinings, shoe components and now cover stock are mature or maturing
18 products (35% of the total) such as wound-care, disposable packaging and wrappers for mattress springs are growing quickly but from relatively small bases.
37% of the market represented by specialist nonwoven products expected to remain in low volume applications such as tea bags, abrasive products and certain items of protective clothing.

38. Small volume products with good future prospects
Agrotech: Cover/Protection, Capillary Matting Buildtech: Composites Hometech:Vacuum Filters, HVAC Filters, Pillow Tickings,Mattress Spring Wrap, Dust Cloths Indutech:Air Filters, Dust Filters, Other Filters Medtech:Woundcare Mobiltech: Cabin Filters, Insulation Packtech: Misc. Packaging Protech:Face Masks Sporttech: Bags/Shoppers, Flags (18 Products)
Products with currently high consumption levels that are forecast to continue to grow rapidly
Buildtech: HousewrapHometech: WipesIndutech:Wipes, Liquid Filters,Battery separatorsMedtech: Wipes (6 Products)
Forecast to remain specialist and/or small volume products
Geotech: Pit Linings, Erosion Control Hometech:Mattress Tickings,Mattress Components,Spring Insulators,Furniture Components Indutech:Abrasives,Paper making Felts Medtech:Sterile Packaging Mobiltech: Needled Carpet, Automotive Carpet Backing, Transport Composites, Marine Composites Packtech: Teabags Protech:Cut/Slash Protection, Dust Protection, Disposable Chemical Protection Sporttech: Artificial LeatherSubstrates, Equipment Composites(19 Products)
Maturing bulk products with low forecast growth
Buildtech: Roofing Felt, Shingles Clothtech:Interlinings, Shoe Components Geotech:Ground Stabilisation Hometech: Carpet Backings Medtech: Gowns/Drapes, Coverstock Mobiltech: Trim(9 Products)

39. Extruded Nonwoven Products that Account for 80% of Consumption, products account for 80% of the total volume of extruded nonwovens (covering spunbond, meltblown, flash spinning)
Product
Volume
2000 (000t)
% Share of
Total Extruded
Cumulative
Percentage
Medtech Coverstock
607.7
42.3%
Buildtech Roofing Felts
104.3
7.3%
49.5%
Hometech Nonwoven Carpet Backings
96.3
6.7%
56.2%
Buildtech Housewrap
79.0
5.5%
61.7%
Clothtech Shoe Components
58.9
4.1 %
65.8%
Medtech Nonwoven gowns, drapes
45.4
3.2%
68.9%
Agrotech NW Crop Cover, Protection
42.8
3.0%
71.9%
Mobiltech Nonwoven Trim
40.6
2.8%
74.7%
Packtech Misc. NW Packaging
37.3
2.6%
77.3%
Protech Disposable Chemical Protection
28.8
2.0%
79.3%
Sporttech Bags, Shoppers
25.6
1.8%
81.1 %
Others
271.8
18.9%
100.0%
1438.4

40. Indutech: Battery Separators, etc 107.0 17.4% 66.8%
Wet-Laid Nonwoven Products that Account for 80% of Consumption, Wet-laid nonwovens are highly concentrated with four products accounting for almost 90% of the total volume by weight.
Product
Volume
2000 (000t)
% Share of
Total Wet-
Laid
Cumulative
Percentage
Buildtech: Shingles
303.6
49.4%
Indutech: Battery Separators, etc
107.0
17.4%
66.8%
Indutech: Nonwoven Liquid filters
73.2
11.9%
78.7%
Clothtech: Shoe Components
58.9
9.6%
88.3%
Others
72.0
11.7%
100.0%
Total Wet-Laid
614.8

41. Dry-Laid Nonwoven Products that Account for 80% of Consumption, Dry-laid nonwovens are concentrated with 13 products accounting for 80% of total dry-laid consumption.
Product
Volume
2000 (000t)
% Share of
Total Dry-Laid
Cumulative
Percentage
Clothtech Shoe Components
293.5
17.5%
Medtech Coverstock
273.9
16.3%
33.8%
Clothtech Interlinings, nonwoven
131.4
7.8%
41.6%
Medtech Wipes
113.4
6.7%
48.3%
Geotech Ground Stabilisation
101.5
6.0%
54.4%
Indutech Nonwoven Wipes
86.9
5.2%
59.5%
Mobiltech Nonwoven Trim
69.1
4.1%
63.7%
Hometech Nonwoven Carpet Backings
67.1
4.0%
67.6%
Buildtech Roofing Felts
56.7
3.4%
71.0%
Mobiltech Needled Carpet
53.2
3.2%
74.2%
Mobiltech Insulation
51.7
3.1%
77.3%
Indutech Papermaking Felts
43.7
2.6%
79.9%
Hometech HVAC Filters
40.8
2.4%
82.3%
Others
297.8
17.7%
100.0%
1680.7

42. Inter-fabric Competition at the Product Level
Nonwovens growth can be attributed to two different factors:
overall market growth
The increased competitiveness of nonwovens at the individual product level, resulting in increased share of nonwovens at the expense of other fabric forming technologies, especially weaving

43. Inter-fabric Competition at the Product Level
At the product level, the nonwovens market can be usefully split into two distinct groups:
Group A: products that are made exclusively from nonwovens – e.g. HVAC filters (where growth is attributable wholly to market growth)
Group B: products that can be made from either nonwovens or another fabric type – (e.g. carpet backing, which can be either nonwoven or woven) where volume changes reflect movements in both market size and nonwoven share.

44. Competition Between Nonwovens and Other Fabrics by Product, 2000
Group A:
Products Which Use Only Nonwovens
Group B:
Products Where Nonwovens Compete With
Other Fabric Types
Percentage
Share of
Total Nonwovens
Agrotech: Capillary Matting
Buildtech: Shingles
Hometech: Vacuum Filters
Hometech: HVAC Filters
Hometech: Mattress Components
Hometech: Spring Insulators
Indutech: Air Filters
Medtech: Sterile Packaging
Medtech: Wipes
Mobiltech: Cabin Filters
Mobiltech: Auto Carpet Backing
Mobiltech: Insulation
Mobiltech: Transport Composites
Mobiltech: Marine Composites
Packtech: Teabags
Protech: Face Masks
Sporttech: Equipment Composites
0.6%
7.9%
0.1 %
1.3%
0.9%
0.5%
0.8%
4.9%
0.2%
0.4%
0.3%
Agrotech: Crop Cover, Protection
Buildtech: Housewrap
Buildtech: Roofing Felts
Buildtech: Composites
Clothtech: Interlinings
Clothtech: Shoe Components
Geotech: Ground Stabilisation
Geotech: Pit Linings
Geotech: Erosion Control
Hometech: Wipes
Hometech: Pillow Tickings
Hometech: Mattress Tickings
Hometech: Mattress Spring Wrap
Hometech: Dust Cloths
Hometech Furniture Components
Hometech: Carpet Backings
Indutech: Abrasives
Indutech: Wipes
Indutech: Dust Filters
Indutech: Liquid Filters
Indutech: Other Filters
Indutech: Papermaking Felts
Indutech: Battery Separators, etc
Medtech: Coverstock
Medtech: Nonwoven Gowns, Drapes
Medtech: Woundcare
Mobiltech: Needled Carpet
Mobiltech: Trim
Packtech: Misc. Packaging
Protech: Cut, Slash Protection
Protech: Dust Protection
Protech: Disposable Chemical Protection
Sporttech: Bags, Shoppers
Sporttech: Artificial Leather Substrates
Sporttech: Flags
1.1 %
2.1%
4.5%
3.6%
10.7%
3.1%
0.1%
1.9%
4.2%
2.5%
1.1%
3.3%
23.2%
2.4%
1.4%
2.8%
1.0%
0.0%
0.7%
Total of 17 Products with 21.2% share
Total of 35 Products with a 78.8% share
of all nonwovens (815,300 tonnes pa)
of all nonwovens (3,035,400 tonnes pa)

45. Overall Polymer/Fibre Usage Cotton, Wool,Wood-pulp,Viscose ,Polyester ,Polyamide ,Polypropylene Polyethylene, Acrylic Aramid, Other synthetic high performance fibres Carbon,Glass,Ceramic
Polyester and polypropylene together accounted for almost 70% of all fibre and polymer used in nonwovens in 2000
Glass fibre, with 14%, was the only other fibre with a share of the market above 10%.
Extensive use of viscose in the more rapidly growing product segments such as wipes, filters and medical gowns and drapes, this fibre is forecast to increase its share of the nonwovens market to over 11 % by 2010.

46. Fibre Usage by Web Technology World End-Use Consumption of Wet-Laid Nonwovens by Polymer/Fibre Type, 2000 (% Split in Volume Terms)
only glass, polyester and viscose are used in any quantity in wet-laid nonwovens.These three fibers account for around 95% of all wet-laid nonwovens, with glass itself representing over two-thirds of the market.

47. World End-Use Consumption of Extruded Nonwovens by Polymer/Fibre Type, 2000 (% Split in Volume Terms)
Extruded nonwovens are more concentrated, with only 4 polymers represented and the polypropylene and polyester accounting for around 99% of the market. In this web technology it is polypropylene that takes a two-thirds market share. This share is expected to increase slightly to 2010 at the expense of polyester.

48. World End-Use Consumption of Dry-laid Nonwovens by Polymer/Fibre Type, 2000 (% Split in Volume Terms)
Dry-laid nonwovens use a far wider range of fibres, but even here three fibres dominate – polyester, polypropylene and viscose. Glass also has a significant share while cotton and polyamide have only a small presence.

49. References WORLD MARKET FORECASTE TO 2010
DAVID RIGBY ASSOCIATES LIMITED
Class Notes Tech Textile By Sir Jacek Rutkowskiical

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