In the next five years, glass fiber composite materials will grow strongly, and the five major areas have to be said!

Recently, the American Fiberglass Composites Industry Association released the "Global Glass Fiber Composites Market Trend Forecast and Opportunity Analysis" report. The report pointed out that in the next five years, the global glass fiber composites market total consumption level is expected to grow strongly at an annual growth rate of 8.5%, and its market share is expected to reach $108 billion in 2022.

This market report also provides detailed analysis and prediction of glass fiber composite materials in different industry fields, and points out that in the next five years, automotive firmware, architectural decoration, safety protection, aerospace, and liquid filtration will become the development of glass fiber composite materials. In the five key areas, its market share will account for 80% of the total volume of glass fiber composites, and the products will show an overall high-end development trend. From the perspective of regional distribution, the strengthening and transformation of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East has greatly increased the demand for glass fiber composite materials. At present, the Asian fiberglass composites market accounts for 35% of the world's total output of glass fiber composites. It is predicted that the Asian composites market will grow at a double-digit rate in the next five years, and the output value will account for half of the world's total composite output. In addition, fiberglass composite distributors in Asia are growing at an average annual rate of 18%.

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Car firmware

The market predicts that the global automotive fiberglass composites market is expected to grow to $4.3 billion in 2018, with a compound annual growth rate of 30% from 2018 to 2020. Among them, sales in Asia are expected to reach $1.3 billion.

Facing the problem At present, the glass fiber composite automotive firmware foundry factory lacks overall engineering experience and has been adapted to assembly lines based on metal parts. Due to risks and replacement costs, it is very cautious to replace equipment. In addition, the European Reimbursement Vehicles Act requires an increase in vehicle recycling capacity, which will lead to large-scale carbon fiber composite materials entering the industry. At that time, although the enhanced glass composite technology technology is relatively mature, the carbon fiber composite materials that are later in the market will still bring intense competition.

The company's Zetajet glass fiber nonwovens , which can be used to produce automotive sound absorbing panels, developed by TextilgruppeHof, Germany, range in weight from 18 g/m2 to 350 g/m2. Thanks to the specific fiber orientation technology, the bottom sound absorbing panels made with Zetajet glass fiber woven fabric can greatly reduce the air resistance and negative impact generated by the car during driving, helping to improve the gasoline per gallon. The number of miles traveled. In addition, the material can be specially functionalized according to customer needs. At present, Zetajet materials have been recognized by the German top three 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 safety belt made of 100% high-strength glass fiber by the German Kolmaki Group does not deform over time. Despite its high strength, this seat belt has a sleek appearance that minimizes the damage of the seat belt and does not feel depressed. In addition, this seat belt has the characteristics of UV resistance and smoothness.

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Building Decoration

Market forecasts are expected to reach 9.6 million tons of glass fiber composites for construction by the end of 2018. Among them, demand in Asia is 2.56 million tons, demand in North America is 3.14 million tons, demand in Europe is 2.1 million tons, and demand in other regions is 1.8 million tons. Today, architectural glass fiber composites in Asia have maintained a 34% growth rate, while the Americas and Europe have maintained growth rates of 15% and 25% respectively.

Faced with problems Whether it is for construction or home decoration, green fiberglass composite building materials will be a big trend. However, due to the current environment of the entire building materials market, the formation of this trend may take some time. In addition, the non-standard production of green building materials manufacturers is also a major reason for its popularity.

The company moved to the German SGL Group and researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany to develop a building technology based on glass fiber structure, which is a biomimetic simulation of the ability to build natural organisms. Due to the light weight and high elastic strength of the special glass fiber, the multi-connected robot system can highly accurately control the glass fiber while maintaining high working tension. According to the person in charge of the project, in this case, the glass fiber is not only used to build the modeling frame, but also bears the tension and pressure of the building. The building is able to complete the structural design of the long-span cantilever, thanks to the excellent properties of carbon fiber.

The new product of the US Jiasmaiwei Group is a complete indoor roof protection system. The substrate of this system is a fusion of glass fiber composite materials and modified spunbond products. The binder used in the production process is a new bio-based adhesive that does not release formaldehyde and other indoor harmful volatile gases, but can The water vapor inside the system is emitted at any time to keep the material system as dry as possible. It is worth mentioning that the system also adds a liquid application system to reduce noise pollution, especially for the high-rise building market.

3

Security

The market predicts that global safety and protection products market sales are expected to be $75 billion in 2018, and Asia will reach $21 billion. The average annual growth rate of this market is 11.5%. In 2018, the global glass fiber safety and protective equipment supply market will have a profit margin of 20%.

Facing the Challenge In the large-scale international activities, how to apply the fiberglass composite material successfully and non-polluting to the hardware security of the event venues remains to be overcome.

The company's latest "antibacterial respirator" from the US FOSS company has superior sterilization efficiency. The material used in the built-in filter media of the respirator is recyclable glass fiber, and the fiber material prepared by the special process has excellent safety. Two-component sheath-core staple fibers were selected for the antimicrobial fiber layer of the filter media.

Japan's Wisconsin launched Gt cut-resistant gloves, which received $3 million in sales three months after its launch in 2017. This cut-resistant glove contains three layers of stretch fabric. The addition of anti-UV inhibitor and air anti-bacterial agent makes the glove not only have good environmental protection function, but also has certain mosquito repellent effect, especially suitable for the field environment.

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Aerospace

Market Forecast The American Aerospace Industry Association predicts that the 2018-2022 period will be a good harvest for the global commercial and military aviation market, and almost all aviation sectors will grow. The association also expects that military aviation sales will increase by 45.7 billion US dollars during this period, while civil aircraft sales will increase to 102.5 billion US dollars, an increase of 3.8%. Glass fiber reinforced composites and carbon fiber composites will be equally divided.

Faced with the problem Glass fiber composite materials as an important carrier material for manned aviation, its development faces two major technical problems, one is to reduce the damage of the space environment to the human body, and the other is to improve life-saving technology and safe return technology.

The company is moving to the latest collection of wind turbine blades from the Temp Group in Portugal, called TE-copd. The blade adopts SE2020 glass fiber yarn from 3B Group in the reinforcement material, and adopts the axial cloth, C cloth and the composite foam sandwich composite stack, which not only solves the problem of the weight of the traditional process product, but also has many The direction reinforcement and the new reinforcement feature of the multi-layer structure, together with the roots are embedded with iron, meet the requirements of tensile strength, shearing and fatigue resistance of the product, and increase the safety during the use of the product.

American Aerospace Corporation used carbon fiber T300, aramid fiber and special glass fiber composite materials to produce a new civil aircraft interior test piece. The test piece has high glass transition temperature, good ablation reproducibility and high high temperature mechanical property retention rate. In addition, this material 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 and deformable. Its new shape hardens on cooling while retaining the "memory" of its original shape, thus restoring the original shape after heating. The head of the American Aerospace Corporation said that the product will be promoted in Europe and Asia since May this year.

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Liquid filtration

Market Forecast "2018 Water Treatment Pre-Control Report" pointed out that the sales of glass fiber composite materials for liquid filtration will reach 5.8 billion US dollars in 2018, the European market still dominates, and Asia will surpass the Americas to leap to the second .

Faced with difficulties, whether for civilian or industrial use, how to achieve higher filtration efficiency, more detailed separation, and harsh detection by regulatory agencies is a common problem faced by filter materials companies.

Enterprise Trends Hollin Corporation of the United States recently introduced a modified glass fiber, a nanowave filter membrane, that can be used in commercial HVAC systems. This nanowave filter membrane is a synthetic substitute for glass fiber material, but it has stronger endurance and higher release efficiency than the latter. The product is processed from a single polymer. In addition, the nanowave filter membrane allows more submicron particles on the surface of the membrane to maintain longer lasting filtration efficiency and higher MERV classification by energization.

CycloneFE4.1, a cyclone separation needle glass filter production system from FibeRio, USA. This latest filter membrane production system produces membrane materials with an average diameter of 500 nm and below, and high-standard distribution technology guarantees consistency in other properties such as slip, barrier and absorbent layers. . At present, a number of filter materials companies have begun to order the system from the company to produce a variety of needle-punched nonwoven materials with glass fiber expansion capabilities, so the development prospects of this product are very promising.

The product developed by Lydall Company of the United States is a new generation of composite grade nanofiber filter material MSPP. The filter layer of MSPP is to sandwich the electrospun polyacrylonitrile nanofibers between two layers of carbon fibers to form a sandwich structure, which increases the chance of collision between the Brownian moving particles and the nanofibers, thereby improving the filtration efficiency. The filter layer of MSPP also contains a layer of compressed electrospun glass fiber mat containing silver nanoparticles, which has good antibacterial effect. This product is used in bag filters for high filtration levels.