Guangdong's non-woven industry develops into new areas and actively builds a 10-billion-dollar medical and health materials cluster

China News Service, Foshan, November 6 (Reporter Wang Jian) ​​According to news from the Guangdong Nonwovens Association on the 6th, the 40th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Guangdong Nonwovens Association and the 2026 Council Meeting of the Asian Nonwovens Association (ANFA) were recently held in Foshan, Guangdong. Foshan Nanhai Medical and Health Materials Provincial Industrial Cluster was officially launched at the conference site. This means that my country's nonwoven industry is accelerating from traditional auxiliary material processing to high-end medical and health new materials.

According to reports, in the 1980s, relying on the input of technology from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Guangdong took the lead in forming a non-woven industry cluster, and now there are more than 1,000 related companies in the province. Over the past forty years, the focus of the industry has quietly changed: Nanhai Jiujiang has gathered well-known companies in the industry such as Toray, Nanxin, and Bidefu to build a complete chain from polypropylene raw materials and non-woven fabrics to surgical protection and maternal and infant care terminal products. In 2025, the output value of this cluster will reach 15.125 billion yuan, with 137 enterprises gathered together and two "national brand" industrial base titles.

Under the restructuring of the global supply chain and the EU carbon border mechanism, the competition logic of the nonwoven industry is switching - from fighting for scale and cost to fighting for degradable materials, functional modification and green manufacturing. At the same technical forum, "Father of N95 Materials" Cai Bingyi and industry representatives from Europe, India and other places focused on new topics such as environmental regulations, biological enzyme bacteriostasis, and automotive lightweight materials, reflecting the main direction of the industry in the next decade.

As one of the country's largest industrial textile production and export areas, Guangdong's clustering and high-end solutions may provide a new example for medical and health nonwoven materials to participate in global competition.

The relevant person in charge of the Guangdong Non-Woven Association said that in the future, the association will continue to be based in the Greater Bay Area, link up the non-woven industry resources in Asia and even the world, continue to build a platform for technical exchanges, supply and demand docking, and government-enterprise collaboration, promote the Guangdong non-woven industry to adhere to innovation-driven, green and low-carbon, continue to consolidate the advantages of industrial clusters, deepen domestic and overseas industrial cooperation, and help my country's non-woven industry reach a new level.