It makes sense that technical textiles are conquering more and more new application areas and are replacing conventional fabrics. Examples of this include reinforcement materials made of textiles in concrete construction, artificial arteries used in medical technologies and textile sandwich materials in vehicle construction and sport. This list can be extended virtually endlessly.
Commerzbank Report
A few weeks ago, the Rupp Report “Evergreen Industrial Fabrics” took a look at the upcoming Techtextil in Frankfurt, which will take place May 4-7, 2015. The same Rupp Report also mentioned the comprehensive “Commerzbank report” from Jürgen Grebe, Corporate Sector Analyst, German Commerzbank AG. Grebe presented an outstanding report that provides comprehensive insights into the growth perspectives of the technical textiles sector. In some of the upcoming articles, the Rupp Report will highlight important trends, facts and figures of this work.
尽管问题在传统的纺织工业上ry, nonwovens and industrial fabrics are still in the lead regarding profitability and growth. For example, Commerzbank says that the production of nonwovens has increased by 11 percent since 2011. For 2015, it is expected that this sector, including technical textiles, will see a moderate rise of approximately 2 percent.
德国 - 领导者
In this context, Germany plays a leading role in the development and production of technical textiles and nonwovens. The German sector — approximately 600 companies with a turnover of more than 6 billion euros — is regarded as the market leader in Europe. Nearly 50 percent of all German textile production is for industrial applications.
格雷贝说，技术领导是成功的关键因素。“德国部门被认为 - 也归功于与德国研究部门的优秀网络，这本身就是全球独特的 - 作为全球技术市场领导者。”为独特的成功至关重要，每种生产者必须避免与大规模生产的商品和低品质产品的供应商避免最大的竞争，这些产品主要在亚洲生产。根据格雷贝：“德国部门主要是成功结构变化的结果，传统纺织生产商成为高质量纺织产品的高技术和专业制造商。”
特别是对于非织造物通常是轻质产品，没有成功的方式出口大规模。然而，格雷伯说，最好的前景归功于中国市场，也由中国领导，也是其他国家。2013年德国技术纺织品的出口配额增长至62％至非织造织物的58％。
不断增长的市场
尽管全球非织造布和技术纺织品市场正在进行一些周期性波动，但目前并将继续成为增长市场。除了熟悉的梅格坦登，如全球人口增长，城市化和环境保护增加，根据格雷贝，市场增长主要是由于新的应用领域的不断发展和新生产过程的趋势。然而，潜在的生产者必须知道在这个竞争激烈的市场中需要成功。
原因为什么
Grebe provided some interesting information about strengths, weaknesses and other points to be conserved to be a successful player in this ever so promising market. The major growth potential is the strongest argument for being a part of this sector. This is particularly the case in more highly developed product areas. To be competitive, one must absolutely have a global technology leadership and be highly innovative, with strong links to scientific research institutes. That’s another reason why Germany is the top player, because the country has some world-class institutes and universities dealing with textiles. Technical textiles also need a high degree of specialization, an excellent work force and a top product quality with faultlessly environmental standards.
Weak points, and there are some, include mainly the distinctly cyclical sector trend due to strong economic influences. It needs a high investment intensity and fixed cost burden to be successful, with comparatively high break-even levels. In other words, there is no fast money to generate as a newcomer with technical textiles.
这种挑战性部门的其他障碍可能是重要的客户部门的经济衰退，在某些情况下，由于对进口高性能纤维的日益依赖性，原材料价格广泛波动和原料可用性有限。这主要是西方生产商的情况。不低估是潜在竞争对手的技术进步;这主要是在具有可疑法律的新兴国家对产品盗版的案例以及专业知识的迁移。
机会
然而，这一高度商业部门的重要人物的机会众多：新产品和生产流程的发展使研发部门活着，并且在许多情况下是有兴趣在这种有趣的环境中工作的年轻人入口。这符合新市场的开放，特别是在新兴国家以及强大的品牌的理想发展和出口。
没有大规模生产
Compared to classic textile products, industrial fabrics are very much tailor-made. That’s why this sector is strongly characterized by SMEs, with a large number of niche players. They must be innovative, clever and very fast. It’s always the same old story: not the big ones are swallowing up the small ones, but the fast swallowing the slow ones. Low-cost producers from countries such as China or India do not have this structure, that’s why Europe, and to a certain extend the U.S. and Japan, are still in the forefront of these markets.
然而，很明显，这些新兴国家特别是德国技术复杂产品生产商的销售市场的重要性。虽然，必须指出的是，这些国家的越来越多的生产者也在努力推进更高科技和高端挑战产品。这是在最后一个TechTextil中展示的，在那里海外游客的数量已经成长，如今天典型的，每个人都用相机武装，或者至少是手机，即使这是禁止的。今年，这种趋势似乎更加明显。但那是另一个故事。将继续审查本报告。
编者注：法兰克福的Commerzbank AG想提一下，“本报告中的任何信息都基于从被认为是可靠的来源获得的数据，但是，对于数据的准确性，Commerzbank组没有陈述或担保。这里包含的意见和估计数构成了我们在此日期和时间的最佳判断，并且可能需要更改，恕不另行通知。“
February 17, 2015
