In recent days, many people in the circle of friends have warned: Meltblown cloth cannot be sold!
The person in charge of a non-woven company in Yangzhong Economic Development Zone told reporters: “Including manufacturers and middlemen, at least 20 people have come to me in the past few days and said that melting I can’t sell the sprayed cloth, so let me think of ways to find resources. There are still people in the market who want the quality-guaranteed meltblown cloth, but the ones with poor quality cannot be sold at all.”
Many manufacturers bought “earth machines” and started production, but the quality was simply not up to standard. Now no one wants the goods; many middlemen accept cloth regardless of quality. There is no way to take action now.
The quality of melt-blown cloth on the market is uneven. In early April, no matter what quality level, it can be sold for more than 500,000. , now the goods with poor quality can no longer be sold.
Exported masks have stricter quality requirements, and customs inspections are also very strict. It can be said that masks produced from inferior melt-blown cloth are basically circulated in the domestic market.
Many people believe that this wave of price cuts for meltblown fabrics is related to the strong rectification by regulatory authorities.
The hot market for melt-blown cloth lasted for nearly a month. In late April, WeChat Moments began to sell mask machines and melt-blown machines. After a wave of defectors withdrew, the market was left with There are only cut leeks.
“I lost all my money overnight.” Xiong Gang, a meltblown cloth manufacturer in Yangzhong City, told reporters. Previously, he invested 1.2 million yuan to purchase a machine for producing meltblown cloth. However, he just commissioned one on April 15 and received a notice from the government to suspend production that night.
Some market participants analyzed to reporters that a large amount of unqualified melt-blown fabrics flowed from Yangzhong to the Small and medium-sized mask manufacturers.
“Some downstream mask manufacturers have received low-quality meltblown cloth and want to return it, so they all come to their doorstep.” Some practitioners analyzed that this is why the Yangzhong Municipal Government has decided to comprehensively rectify it. one of the reasons.
According to the relevant standards for medical masks, the bacterial filtration efficiency of medical protective masks, medical surgical masks, and disposable medical masks ( BFE) and particle filtration efficiency (PFE) both have index requirements.
A person from a melt-blown fabric manufacturer told reporters that only melt-blown fabrics with PFE greater than 86% can be used for medical protective masks, medical surgical masks, and disposable medical masks. Face mask.
A product quality sampling data previously released by Yangzhong City of 8 meltblown cloth production companies shows that each company The bacterial filtration efficiency indicators of melt-blown fabrics vary widely, from 40% to 98%, and the bacterial filtration efficiency of a certain self-employed product is far lower than that of regular enterprises.
The bacterial filtration efficiency of some melt-blown cloths in Yangzhong City obviously cannot meet the requirements of medical protective masks, medical surgical masks, and disposable masks. Medical masks require bacterial filtration efficiency ≥95%.
Behind the worrying quality are local “small workshops” with relatively weak financial strength. In the face of the high cost of regular meltblown cloth production machines and raw materials, they have found another way and used copycats. machinery and inferior raw materials.
Take melt-blown cloth machines as an example. Regular melt-blown cloth production lines are not only expensive, but also have slow equipment debugging. “The production line has huge investment, high technical content, complex equipment installation, and high requirements for factory buildings. These are important factors restricting the expansion of meltblown cloth production capacity.”
Industry analysts said: “Normally, it costs almost 8 million yuan to build a melt-blown cloth production line. The delivery time of domestic equipment is 3 to 4 months, and that of imported equipment is 6 to 4 months. 8 months.”
“The price of a small-volume instrument is hundreds of thousands more. In addition to the construction of disinfection and cleaning plants, it requires at least one million yuan in start-up capital. If you are qualified The construction cycle of a meltblown cloth production plant takes about half a year.” A brokerage person in Beijing also told reporters.
Faced with the high threshold for investment, some small factories and workshops quickly miniaturized melt-blown cloth production lines and invented copycat melt-blown cloth machines.
Many small workshops in Yangzhong use this kind of production equipment.�. This type of equipment cannot perform electrostatic electret treatment, and the melt-blown fabric produced has no electrostatic adsorption function and is no different from ordinary non-woven fabrics.
In terms of raw materials, local manufacturer Jiang Bei told reporters that regular melt-blown cloth production requires 1,500 melt-blown grade fiber materials, but many small workshops in Yangzhong use Shanghai Secco Petrochemical S2040 Polypropylene, this kind of raw material is cheaper, but it is not a special material for melt-blown cloth. Because the fiber is thicker, the barrier effect of the melt-blown cloth is poor, and it is difficult to block bacteria and droplets.
Regulatory authorities can increase the quality of masks, strictly investigate mask manufacturers that do not meet standards, reduce the living space of inferior meltblown cloth from the demand side, and force small and medium-sized enterprises to melt Spray cloth manufacturers improve quality.
The country has launched a heavy blow and directed the supply of melt-blown fabrics to prevent middlemen from hoarding and speculating and profiting from the price difference. The cooling of melt-blown fabrics has begun! The chaotic market of meltblown cloth will eventually stop, and quality is the cornerstone that determines the continued development of the company.
On the other hand, with the further development of the global epidemic, equally savvy Indians have begun to be optimistic about the meltblown cloth market. According to market insiders, with the domestic The meltblown cloth market has cooled down, and some Indians have begun to purchase second-hand meltblown cloth equipment in large quantities in the domestic market.
But domestic sellers who do business with Indians all know that the Indian price comparison is really unbearable. When Indians buy something, they will compare the prices over and over before making a choice. They basically choose the cheapest one.
Is it conceivable that the products produced can meet the mask standards?
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