ASIAN PACIFIC NONWOVENS SECTOR SEEING A BOOST DESPITE TROUBLED TIMES

  THE ASIA Pacific region remains the workshop of the world in terms of nonwovens production, and it is not only China’s producers who are growing, local suppliers are feeding growing domestic markets for nonwovens products elsewhere in east and southeast Asia. Indeed, while demand and output of nonwovens in China have displayed remarkable resilience, despite the Chinese economy losing steam. According to the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), output of nonwoven fabric by Chinese factories exceeding an annual sales turnover of Chinese Yuan ...


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