Yesterday, a relevant person from a medical consumables production company in Changyuan, Henan, told a studio reporter: The price of melt-blown cloth has now been reduced. The cheapest melt-blown cloth for civilian use is 400,000/ton, and the price for medical melt-blown cloth is currently 550,000. / ton; many mask factories in Changyuan can produce civilian masks and medical masks, and they can start production as long as they buy meltblown cloth.
He mentioned: Because Yangzhong City, Jiangsu Province implemented “shock therapy” on the melt-blown cloth industry— —Business closure for rectification, many unlicensed operators from Yangzhong are trying to bring the machines to Changyuan to sell them at a low price, so that mask factories with meltblown cloth production qualifications can produce and sell their own masks.
“Some leading companies in our county have relevant business licenses and have now begun to attract investment.”
It is understood that , Changyuan City, Henan Province is the national sanitary material production base, known as the “hometown of sanitary materials”, and is especially famous for masks. Public information shows that Changyuan has more than 70 sanitary material companies of various types and more than 2,000 operating companies, usually accounting for more than 50% of the national market sales.
Relevant data shows that before the epidemic, 1.657 million masks were produced daily here, including 1.05 million medical surgical masks, 35,000 medical protective masks, and 562,000 disposable masks, covering The rate reached 75% nationwide, and sales accounted for 50% of the national market. To a certain extent, Changyuan’s reaction to melt-blown cloth can reflect the demand for melt-blown cloth in the mask market.
At the same time, a certain disposable consumables dealer from Huizhou told the studio reporter that the price of meltblown cloth has indeed been reduced, with grade 90 only costing 400,000. You can buy it.
In addition, the studio reporter learned from the person in charge of a non-woven fabric company in Yangzhong Economic Development Zone: The current price of 80-85 grade meltblown fabric is about 300,000 per ton. , may continue to decline in the future.
A person in charge of a non-woven fabric factory located in Xinba Town, Yangzhong City also said: The price of melt-blown fabrics has dropped sharply recently. Before April 17, the price was generally 1 ton. Around 430,000, the quote on April 17 was 390,000, and on April 23 it had dropped to 320,000.
This is the result of the control of economic laws in the huge melt-blown cloth market. It is an epitome of the rise and fall of melt-blown cloth prices. It reflects the trend of melt-blown cloth price reductions. Soon Later, it may be completely transmitted downstream.
In the past two months, the price of meltblown fabric has fluctuated like a roller coaster: from 18,000/ton before the epidemic, to 520,000/ton in stock, and then plummeted to 150,000/ton. , rebounded to a maximum of 700,000, and finally declined again – some manufacturers have reduced prices to 300,000/ton.
Crackdown
The price of melt-blown cloth has fallen, and relevant departments have Strong rectification is inseparable.
A few days ago, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission announced that in order to strictly prevent substandard anti-epidemic products from entering the market, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the State Food and Drug Administration have deployed national drug regulatory departments to develop masks and other anti-epidemic products. Special quality supervision and random inspections. So far, a total of 253 batches of products produced by 226 companies have been randomly inspected, covering 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).
Through random inspections, it was found that 51 batches of products produced by 47 companies were unqualified. The existing problems were filtration efficiency and The protective effect does not meet the standard requirements. The main reason for failure is that the company has lax control over raw materials and production processes, and does not have a deep understanding of product standards.
The State Administration for Market Regulation stated that substandard products will be sealed immediately once detected to prevent them from entering the market.
For downstream mask factories, due to the strengthening of relevant rectification efforts, the quality requirements for melt-blown cloth have increased, and there is a demand for a batch of “three noes” melt-blown cloth without inspection reports. If the price drops, people are afraid that they will not be able to sell it, so they try to lower the price, and the price drops quickly.
In addition to overcapacity and declining demand, the state is also severely cracking down on behaviors that drive up the market price of meltblown fabrics.
On April 23, the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department reported a case of selling meltblown cloth at high prices. Criminals make huge profits by hoarding, speculating on price increases, buying and selling short, etc. Dongyang police arrested 21 suspects and confiscated 8.89 tons of inferior meltblown cloth. The amount involved in the case is more than 20 million yuan, and the case is under further investigation.
Rectification
On April 17, the website of the State Administration of Market released A piece of news: As of the evening of April 15, all meltblown cloth production and operation enterprises in Yangzhong City have completely suspended production for rectification.
Melt-blown cloth production enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in Yangzhou City will suspend production for rectification until the products meet relevant quality standards and the production environment facilities meet safety and environmental protection requirements. They can only restart after approval. , those that cannot be rectified after review or do not have the conditions for production and operation will be resolutely shut down or banned.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, more than 800 companies have been registered to produce and sell melt-blown non-woven fabrics in Yangzhong City, and there has been a “blowout” of companies with business scope related to melt-blown non-woven fabrics. ” growth, and almost all of them were newly registered or changed their business scope after the epidemic.
Tianyancha data shows that during the epidemic, there were 1,250 new meltblown cloth-related companies across the country, and the number in Yangzhong reached 800. To some extent, there are…Two-thirds of the new companies are in Yangzhong.
Driven by huge profits, some small workshops producing melt-blown fabrics have sprouted all over Yangzhong. According to the “China Business News”, such workshops are generally small-scale ones that cost more than 200,000 yuan to install. The raw materials used in the production line are also cheap ordinary polypropylene fiber materials instead of melt-blown grade fiber materials. In the end, what was produced was a “melt-blown cloth” that had no electret treatment and a filtration efficiency of no more than 80%.
In this context, according to “21st Century Business Herald” estimates, Yangzhong’s meltblown cloth daily production capacity has reached 70 tons, and Sinopec once stated on its official WeChat that the current The daily output of meltblown cloth is only 16.5 tons, and according to unified deployment, it is directional supply. The daily production capacity of Yangzhong City has far exceeded that of central enterprises, but the quality is worrying.
This time, the rectification in Yangzhong City caused the meltblown cloth reselling market here to collapse overnight – the whole town pulled the power switch and the factory was forced to stop production. Officials set up checkpoints on the main channels so that meltblown cloth could not be transported out. The equipment manufacturers and raw material vendors that had gathered were also retreating. The price of production machines fell by 50% – the relevant departments finally cooled down the production of meltblown cloth.
With the country’s heavy strikes, the bad reselling and unqualified production of melt-blown fabrics have been effectively curbed – the downward trend in the price of melt-blown fabrics is beginning. </p
