Recently, the American Association of Fiberglass Composites released the "Global Trend Forecast and Opportunity Analysis of Fiberglass Composites" report that the global consumption of fiberglass composites in the next five years is expected to be 8.5% of the total annual consumption level Strong growth rate of growth, its market share is expected to reach 108 billion U.S. dollars by 2022.
The market report also provides a detailed analysis and forecast of fiberglass composites in different industries and points out that in the next five years, automotive firmware, building decoration, safety protection, aerospace and liquid filtration will be the development of glass fiber composite materials 5 key areas, its market share will account for 80% of the total amount of glass fiber composite material, and the product will show the overall high-end trend.
In terms of geographical distribution, the demand for fiberglass composites has been greatly enhanced by the strengthening and transformation of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
At present, Asian fiberglass composites market accounts for 35% of the world total output of glass fiber composites, and it is predicted that the Asian composites market will grow at double-digit rates in the next five years and the output value will account for half of the world output of composite materials. In addition, Asian fiberglass composite distributors also grow at an average annual rate of 18%.
Car firmware
Market forecast: The global market for automotive glass fiber composites is expected to grow to $ 4.3 billion by 2018 and a compound annual growth rate of 30% from 2018 to 2020. Among them, sales in Asia are expected to reach 1.3 billion U.S. dollars.
Faced with the problem: For now, the lack of overall engineering experience in fiberglass automotive firmware foundry has adapted to assembly lines based on metal parts, which are reasonably cautious about replacing equipment for risk and replacement costs. In addition, European reimbursement The vehicle law calls for the enhancement of automobile recycling capacity, which will lead to the entry of large-scale carbon fiber composite materials into the industry. However, subsequent carbon fiber composite materials will still have fierce competition despite the relatively mature technology of reinforced glass composite materials.
Company Trends: Zetajet glass fiber nonwovens developed by Textilgruppe Hof in Germany for the production of car sound absorbing panels have weights in the range of 18 g / m 2 to 350 g / m 2 Due to the specific fiber orientation technology, Therefore, the use of Zetajet fiberglass non-woven fabric prepared car bottom sound-absorbing panels, can significantly reduce the car during driving the gas resistance and negative impact, helping to improve the miles per gallon of gasoline mileage.In addition, the material Zetajet materials have been approved by the German 3 largest car brand manufacturers and will be the first to be adopted in BMW's new generation models in September this year.
The latest development of the Cormail Group in Germany, made of 100% high-strength fiberglass seat belts, does not deform over time and despite its rather high strength, the seat belt still has a smooth appearance, It will not hurt to minimize the damage to your seat belts, and it will also have the UV and slip-resistant features.
Building Decoration
Market Forecast: It is estimated that the global construction glass fiber composite material usage will reach 9.6 million tons by the end of 2018. Among them, the demand in Asia is 2.56 million tons, the demand in North America is 3.14 million tons and the European demand is 2.1 million tons While the demand in other regions is 1.8 million tons.Nowadays, architectural fiberglass composite materials in Asia maintained a growth rate of 34% while the Americas and Europe maintained growth rates of 15% and 25% respectively.
Faced with difficulties: whether it is for construction purposes, or home decoration, green fiberglass composite materials will be a great trend, but the current constraints of the entire building materials market environment, the formation of this trend may take some time. In addition, the irregular production of green building materials manufacturers is also a major reason affecting its popularity.
Corporate Trends: The German SGL Group and researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have jointly developed a building production process based on fiberglass structures to simulate the biocapacity of natural biofuels. Due to its light weight, high elastic strength and multiple Interconnected robot system can maintain a high operating tension under the premise of highly accurate deployment of fiberglass.According to the project leader, in this case, fiberglass not only used to build a model frame, but also assumed the tension and pressure of the building The building is capable of completing the structural design of large span cantilevers and benefits entirely from the outstanding performance of carbon fibers.
The newest addition to the US-based Maximawe Group is a complete suite of indoor roof protection systems that incorporate a blend of fiberglass composites and modified spunbond products with a new type of binder used in the manufacturing process Bio-based adhesives, will not release formaldehyde and other indoor harmful volatile gases, but can be distributed at any time within the system of water vapor to keep the material system as a whole dry.It is worth mentioning that the system also added a liquid application system, To reduce noise pollution, especially for the high-rise building market.
Security
Market Forecast: The global market for safety and protection products is estimated to have sales of 75 billion U.S. dollars in 2018 and 21 billion yuan in Asia, an average annual growth rate of 11.5%. In 2018, the global safety of glass-fiber and Protective supplies market profit margin will reach 20%.
Faced with the problem: In a large international event, how to successfully and pollution-free glass fiber composite materials used in the activities of the venue hardware security, the challenge to be overcome.
Business Trends: The latest antibacterial respirator FOSS company has a superb bactericidal efficiency of the respirator's built-in filter media using recycled glass fiber raw materials, special technology to prepare the fiber material has excellent Security. The antibacterial fiber layer of the filter media was chosen to use bicomponent sheath-core staple fibers.
Japan's Wisconsin introduced Gt cut-resistant gloves, which topped $ 3 million in sales after three months in the market in 2017. The cut-resistant gloves contain three layers of stretch fabric, and the addition of UV inhibitors and airborne antibacterial agents makes gloves not only Has a good environmental features, but also has a mosquito repellent effect, especially for the wild environment.
Aerospace
Market Forecast: The AIAA predicts a boom in the global commercial and military aviation markets from 2018 to 2022. Almost all aviation sectors will gain growth, and the Association also estimates that during this period, sales of military aviation Will increase 45.7 billion US dollars, while sales of civilian aircraft will increase to 102.5 billion US dollars, an increase of 3.8%. Glass fiber reinforced composites and carbon fiber composites will be divided.
Faced with difficulties: As an important carrier material for man-made aviation, fiberglass composite materials face two major technical challenges. One is to reduce the damage caused by space environment and the other is to enhance life-saving technologies and return technologies.
Enterprise trends: Portugal Temp Group recently introduced a new fan blades, called TE-copd. The blades used in the reinforcement materials from the Group 3B SE2020 glass fiber yarn, and the use of axial cloth, C cloth and the quality Foam sandwich composite stacked, not only to solve the problem of the weight of the traditional process products, but also has a multi-directional force and multi-layer structure of the new enhanced features, together with the roots of iron embedded, to meet the product tensile, shear Cutting, fatigue resistance and other strength requirements, increasing the safety of the product during use.
American Aerospace Corporation (CFG) made a new civil aircraft interior test specimen with carbon fiber T300, aramid fiber and special fiberglass composite materials. The test specimen has high glass transition temperature, good ablation reproducibility and high mechanical properties retention at high temperature. In addition, this material also has a certain 'memory', which can be expanded to 400% of the original surface area.When heated to 60 degrees Celsius to 70 degrees Celsius, the material becomes flexible, deformable.Its new shape on cooling Sclerosis, while retaining the 'memory' of its original shape, thus restoring its original shape upon heating.Americas Aerospace Corporation official said the product will be launched in Europe and Asia starting in May this year.
Liquid filtration
Market forecast: The 2018 Water Treatment Pre-control Report states that sales of fiberglass composites for liquid filtration will reach 5.8 billion U.S. dollars by 2018, with the European market still dominating and that Asia will overtake the Americas two.
Faced with the problem: whether the civilian or industrial use, how to get higher filtration efficiency, more detailed separation of the field, through the stringent testing of regulatory agencies, filter material enterprises are facing common problems.
Business trends: the United States Hollin recently introduced a commercial HVAC system can be used for modified glass fiber - nano-wave filter membrane. This nano-wave filter membrane is a glass fiber material synthesis alternative, but it The latter has a stronger endurance and higher release efficiency.The product is processed using a single polymer, in addition, the nano-wave filter membrane can be energized way to make the membrane surface more sub-micron particles to maintain more durable Filtration efficiency and higher MERV classification.
Cyclone FE4.1 from Cyclone FE4.1, a cyclonic needled glass fiber filtration membrane system developed by FibeRio, USA This latest filtration membrane production system produces membrane materials with an average diameter of 500 nm and below with a high standard of distribution technology To ensure consistency among other properties such as slipstream, barrier and absorber layers, several filtration material companies have begun ordering the system with the company to produce a wide range of fiberglass-forming capabilities Acupuncture nonwovens, so the product's development prospects are very good.
Lydall company developed the United States is a new generation of composite-grade nanofiber filter material MSPP MSPP filter layer is electrospun polyacrylonitrile nanofibers sandwiched between two carbon fibers to form a sandwich structure, an increase of Brown motion particles and nano Fiber collision opportunities, thereby enhancing the filtration efficiency MSPP filter layer also contains a layer of silver nanoparticles containing compressed electrostatic spinning glass fiber mat, it has a good antibacterial effect of the product for the bag filter can be achieved Efficient filtration level.