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Buildtech, mobiltech at focus in Cinte Techtextil China

14 Aug '18

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Courtesy: Messe Frankfurt

Buildtech and mobiltech sectors will be at focus at this year’s Cinte Techtextil China, with a number of leading global and Chinese brands exhibiting to eager buyers. The show will provide a strong barometer of the state of the global technical textiles industry, and in particular which sectors in Asia as a whole, and China specifically, are performing well.

Cinte Techtextil China is Asia’s leading biennial fair for the technical textiles and nonwovens sector, and will feature over 500 exhibitors from around 20 countries and regions during September 4-6. The fair offers products and technologies for 12 application areas which cover the entire industry.

With a rise in national and regional infrastructure projects, the market for buildtech products, especially geotextiles and construction textiles, is rapidly expanding. In particular, the government’s global Belt and Road project, as well as continued investment at home in highways, high-speed rail and more, is fuelling this expansion. According to CNITA, in 2017 China started 35 new railway projects, with additional private capital investment in this sector totaling some $53 billion that year. The same investment in highway construction increased 17.7 per cent, while water conservation project investment by private firms reached a new record of $105 billion.

With this potential in the Asian market, it’s no surprise a number of new exhibitors will feature in the buildtech sector at the fair, including FPC Technical Textile from Saudi Arabia, Kobe-cz from the Czech Republic, as well as Lenzing Plastics, while Johns Manville are one of the returning exhibitors this year. FPC Technical Textile produce high-end specialty fabrics including PVC coated fabrics and fibre glass PTFE fabrics, and will focus on the latter at the fair.

Kobe-cz will showcase their nonwoven fabrics, mainly from glass fibre with temperature resistance up to 800 degree Celsius. Exhibiting for the first time at the fair with their plastics division, Lenzing (Austria) will feature its technical laminates for building industries, roofing membranes, vapour barriers, isolation facings and barrier packaging, as well as PROFILEN PTFE yarns, films and fibres.

Johns Manville’s (US) products on offer include polyester spunbond, PP and PBT meltblown, glass fibre nonwovens, micro glass fibre nonwovens, hybrid nonwovens, glass fibre needle mat and glass microfibres.

With new textile innovations and application possibilities spreading throughout the automobile industry, coupled with the fact China is the world’s largest auto producer, Cinte Techtextil is the place to see the latest products and technologies for this sector. Automobile production in China reached 29 million units in 2017, an increase of 3 per cent year-on-year. Staggeringly, new-energy vehicle production grew by 53 per cent last year, while SUVs and commercial vehicles increased 13.81 per cent and 13.95 per cent respectively.

With such strong growth in China, a number of leading international mobiltech producers, as well as top domestic suppliers, will be at Cinte Techtextil.

Abifor (Switzerland) will present products designed for automotive, construction and other technical applications, in particular their specialty hot-melt powders. The company has its own production unit in Shanghai, and reports that an increasing number of domestic customers are starting to focus on more sophisticated products.

SKS Group (Sweden)will showcase high performance single end yarn for automotive and industrial hoses, and single end cord for automotive and industrial belts.

Swisstulle (Switzerland) will have a range of products on offer for automotive, rail and aviation uses, including sunshade materials, nets, tube reinforcements and new possibilities for luggage compartment covers.

Windel Textile Far East (Germany) with production undertaken in China, offers textile greige, half-done and finished materials. It offers nonwoven, knitted and woven fabrics (substrates), and glass fibre solutions. At the fair, it will showcase substrates for adhesive tapes/wire harnessing tapes, and Maliwatt- and coagulated microfibre fleece for covering vehicle interiors. (SV)

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