Glass fiber is a kind of inorganic nonmetal material with excellent performance, which has a wide range of applications. Glass fiber downstream demand includes building materials, transportation (automobile, etc.), industrial equipment, electronics (PCB) and wind power, accounting for 34%, 27%, 15%, 16% and 8%. Compared with steel, aluminum and other metal materials, glass fiber has the advantages of light weight and high strength. Compared with carbon fiber, glass fiber has the advantages of high cost performance and high specific modulus.
Glass fiber as an alternative material, product innovation and new applications are constantly found, the life cycle is still in the stage of continuous growth, and the production and sales keep higher than the growth rate of GDP.
Technological progress and cost reduction bring about long-term growth. Technological progress is reflected in the extension of high added value and the expansion of single line scale, and further brings about the improvement of revenue level and the decrease of cost.
Continuous technological progress: functional glass fiber with special properties such as high strength, high modulus, low dielectric, high temperature resistance, insulation and corrosion resistance is breaking through the technical bottleneck, and its application fields will be further expanded. New automobile, new energy (wind power), shipbuilding, aircraft, high-speed railway and highway, anti-corrosion, environmental protection and other fields will become new growth points of glass fiber industry, Especially thermoplastic yarn and wind power yarn.
Cost continues to decline: the core lies in the single line scale and process technology improvement, which is manifested in the large-scale and intelligent tank kiln, large leak plate processing, new glass formula, high-quality sizing agent and waste wire recycling.
Post time: Jul-09-2021