Nylon industry, large international companies to lead the high-end market

  Restructuring of production carried out

    Along with the restructuring of the global industry, nylon, nylon producers have also been merger and reorganization, the world's major producers of the operations in the divestiture and integration.

    Former the world's largest manufacturer of nylon 66 industrial yarn business Dupony Long after the separation of INVISTA's nylon industrial yarn has been transferred to Turkey Sa company. Currently occupy the world's air bag wire Sa 50% market share in Shanghai, the building of 1 million tons of airbags and high-speed sewing thread silk production lines will be put into operation in 2008 and 2009.

    In December 2003, in order to get rid of Monsanto's heavy debt burden left over from the first to the Solutia Inc. filed for bankruptcy court protection, is still in the stage of bankruptcy reorganization. As a step towards bankruptcy reorganization in 2005, closed in the United States an annual output of 15 thousand tons of nylon 66 industrial yarn production lines, the company accounts for about 27% of global capacity. Solutia capacity due to scattered competitiveness declined.

    Rhodia in France was the world's second largest supplier of nylon 66, but its financial position in recent years has been poor, in order to reverse the operating situation, it has already stripped a number of operational advantages of poor and non-business. By the end of 2006, its nylon industrial fibers business (including nylon 6 and nylon 66 industrial yarn and tire cord fabric) sold to the Paris-based investment company BCP, its business is currently operated by Japanese NEXIS, accounting for about 10% of global capacity.

    Asahi Kasei's production accounts for about 7% of the world of nylon 66. Asahi Kasei in April this year, its nylon 66 industrial yarn business from the chemical fiber sector divided into parts. In addition, in August 2004 Asahi Kasei, Sumitomo, and Sominoe three companies announced the formation of joint venture production of airbag yarn plant will be used in the airbag wire in Asahi Kasei's patented technology. At present, its has been part of the nylon 66 heavy silk production (approximately 6,000 tons) turned to silk production of airbags.

    A stable supply of raw materials is the most powerful guarantee for product quality, the major structural adjustment in production of nylon, it begins toward "integration" development. Enterprises to increase the supply of raw materials, product manufacturing process control, enabling businesses to seize the initiative in the market competition, reducing the arbitrary suspension of trading on the upstream and downstream enterprises of uncertainty.

  Nylon industry, Western developed countries over several decades of development, in terms of scale and technology has been relatively mature, and is currently focused on the application of high-end products of production, while the low-end products to the East began to move. Along with the transfer of nylon industrial gradient changes brought by the world's major producer of nylon also conducted its business divestiture and integration. At present, the prototype of the world of nylon industrial restructuring has begun to show.

    The West to lead the high-end market

    DuPont developed the first nylon fiber used in resins, in 1939 to achieve industrialization. After years of development, Western developed countries in terms of size and technical nylon industry has been relatively mature, the current European and American markets to engineering plastics, films and filament yarn and other high-end carpet products. Statistics show that the last 10 years, the engineering plastics and films used in a substantial increase worldwide; carpet yarn, staple fiber and textile filament yarn consumption is basically stable, long term, short fiber and even a little amount of atrophy, the application of textile fibers and only a small growth, and that the growth was mainly driven by China.

    It is understood that the automotive industry has become the largest consumer of nylon engineering plastics market, followed by electronic products. In recent years, the developed countries to speed up the car lightweight, plastic, the pace, and to the amount of plastic per vehicle as a motor sign of modernization and technological progress, such as the BMW's engineering plastics BMW328i Model 162 kilograms each, accounting for cars 1.6% of total weight, including nylon amount of 21.8 kg. According to Solutia's nylon plastics and polymers sales manager for Asia-Pacific Yih Hui description: "a Passat sedan used in the nylon up to 10.5 kilograms of about 66, mainly for engines, fuel filters, airbags and other components, can be said that engineering Plastics in automotive applications have great room for development. Nylon also possesses a balance of mechanical properties, good thermal and flame retardant properties, can withstand long-term work requirements of electronic devices can be used to produce a variety of switches, household appliances parts, electronic facilities, large automotive electronic connectors, wiring head and hand control components such as power tools. "nylon single membrane and other multi-layer plastic film can be packaged meats, sausages, cheese, liquid food, etc., can be extended product shelf life. As the freezing, distillation and other food processing base in Asia, the United States, Europe, nylon films are fast-growing market, in which the rate of Asia's strongest market demand.

    The transfer of low-end products to the East

    While the global textile and industrial filament yarn usage in recent years is basically stable, but different usage in different regions: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, as the textile and industrial filament yarn consumption shrinking year by year, the future market demand in some areas even tends to zero; the amount developing countries such as China gradually increased in recent years, basically stabilized. This is mainly because the developed countries to focus on high-end products at the same time, weak profits of textile yarn and industrial yarn production gradually stripping applications, and to developing countries.

    In the textile filament, the developed countries because of casual dress trends, consumer demand for reduction of the fiber, a large number of Chinese textile and clothing exports to the market for its textiles produced a certain impact. In the industrial filament, since the road system in Asia is not enough developed, truck tire needs the support of nylon cord, the world's largest tire company's global procurement strategy, resulting in Japan, the United States and other developed countries to transfer the production of tires. In addition, textile and industrial filament filament profits are relatively weak. Therefore, some developed countries, textile yarn and industrial application of filament production gradually shifted to China, India and other developing countries. At present, gradually formed the West to lead the high-end market, low-end products to the East trend. Nylon industry in developing countries in recent years, progress has been made in recent years the development of some of the world's largest companies have also set up factories in Asia. Industry sources said nylon origin shift toward the Asian region.

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