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Sharp increase in demand for raw materials to make melt-blown nonwoven fabric for face masks, pushing up prices; Multiple cottage industry derivatives pop up
People's Daily report: production equipment for melt-blown nonwoven fabric lags behind the rest of the world

(18 Apr) Since the outbreak of the epidemic, masks have been flying off shelves. In a few months, raw material costs for melt-blown nonwoven fabric used in mask production also soared by over 30 times. Many manufacturers switched to producing melt-blown nonwoven fabric. In Yangzhong, Jiangsu alone, more than 860 melt-blown nonwoven fabric factories were newly registered in the past few months. The entire city was invested in melt-blown nonwoven fabric production. WeChat Moments [social networking friend group] circulated advertisements relating to melt-blown nonwoven fabric and its market price that day.

One after another, family-run workshops invested hundreds of thousands on cottage industry* to produce melt-blown nonwoven fabric for the manufacture of masks all over the country. But is the melt-blown nonwoven fabric up to standard? Some Shenzhen merchants bought a batch of masks from a recently registered company in Guizhou. After inspection, they found that their virus-filtering ability did not meet standards. The issue was suspected to be with the melt-blown nonwoven fabric.

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https://telegra.ph/Sharp-increase-in-demand-for-raw-materials-to-make-melt-blown-nonwoven-fabric-for-face-masks-pushing-up-prices-Multiple-cottage--04-19

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