Price Hanna Consultants LLC, a global management consulting firm whose principals have specialized in the nonwoven products, hygiene absorbent products and related fields, worldwide, for more than 48 years, has published a new report which provides comprehensive global and regional market information on spunbonded, spunmelt and stand-alone melt blown nonwoven polypropylene capacity, demand, manufacturing costs and profitability through 2030.  The report provides detailed information on capacity by producer, country and location, line, technology, and beam configuration and compares regional and global supply to demand.  The report is of value to companies at all levels of the spunbonded and spunmelt nonwoven polypropylene value chain to enhance their understanding of capacities, comparative producer costs and profitability and regional and global supply/demand.  The report is available for immediate delivery in hard copy or electronic PDF.
 
This Price Hanna Consultants study providessignificant new information on the following topics:
 
·       Perspective on regional and global capacity development from 2020 – 2030. Estimates of demand and capacity utilization by global region and for the world for each year from 2025 – 2030.
·       Estimates of imports and exports by region and their impact on regional capacity utilization.
·       Analysis of regional output capacity capable of supplying modern hygiene end uses by individual machine and in total by producer and region as compared to regional demand.
·       Cost-of-manufacture estimates for selected leading regional producers using the latest generation technology are based on estimates of Q2 2025 polypropylene costs.
·       Capacity listing of spunbonded, spunmelt and meltblown capacity by producer, line and location.
 
Report highlights:
 
·       From 2020 – 2025 global spunbonded/spunmelt polypropylene capacity grew 868,000 kt or 18% over 2020.  Orders placed for capacity in the 2H of the Covid period continued to be installed through 1H 2025.  Most of this capacity consists of Reicofil 5 technology and various Chinese vendors. Forty percent of all global capacity during 2020 – 2025 was installed in China. China’s population accounts for 17% of the world.  Much of the capacity installed in China is used for exports.  

·       The global market is currently oversupplied with much of that attributable to China and to a lesser extent North America.  Chinese producers are highly dependent upon exports for satisfactory capacity utilization.  We estimate China’s capacity utilization without exports in 2025 will be 47.3% and 59.5% with projected exports.

·       Some regional markets will need more than planned capacity or require roll good imports or converted products to supply demand. Other regions will battle unneeded imports to improve in region capacity utilization.

·       CAGR demand growth is high in developing markets, such as India/Southern Asia and Africa. Overall regional growth is attractive. Hygiene end-use market demand across all global regions is strongly bolstered throughout the period by demand for adult incontinence products. Global market demand is expected to grow at CAGR of 3.1%.  With little if any new capacity expected during 2025 – 2030, capacity utilization will rise during the period.

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