Spunlaid nonwovens market to grow to US$22.5 billion by 2021

摘要

Spunlaid is now the most prevalent process used to produce nonwovens, accounting for almost half of global consumption in 2016. A new report* from Smithers Pira predicts that the global spunlaid nonwovens market will grow from 4.6 million tonnes or 136.9 billion m2 valued at US$ 15.6 billion in 2016 to 6.7 million tonnes or 206.5 billion m2 valued at $22.5 billion by 2021. Spunlaid is a web-forming process in which the polymers are molten, extruded and laid down to form webs. Spunlaid nonwovens include spunbond, flash-spun, meltblown, spunbond-meltblown-spunbond (SMS) and electrospun products.