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시장보고서
World Nonwovens Industry: Profiles of 20 Leading Producers: part 2 of 3, 2008/09
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Abstract
Worldwide sales of nonwoven roll goods continued to increase at a mid-single
digit growth rate in 2007, reaching nearly US$17 bn. Of the 2007 total, about
79% of sales, worth around US$13.4 bn, was generated by just 40 producers.
Sales of the 20 medium sized producers profiled in this report - which rank
from number 11 to number 30 among the world' s leading companies - ranged
individually from US$125 mn to US$237 mn and together accounted for about 18%
of the global total.
The 20 companies ranking 11-30 include long established players as well as new
ones. Hollingsworth & Vose has been in the business for more than 160 years
but Pegas Nonwovens and Concert Industries are relatively new companies.
Recent investments among the 20 companies include new lines in the Czech
Republic and Denmark for Fibertex as well as new lines in China and Russia for
Avgol - which is also upgrading its North Carolina lines. Companhia
Providencia plans to add two new spunmelt lines in the USA and Concert
Industries is adding a new air-laid line in Germany.
This will be the last year in which Western Nonwovens will be profiled in this
series of reports as a separate entity. In mid-2008 the company filed for
protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy code and
most of its plants were subsequently sold to Milliken Industries. Another
company which has faced difficulties is Propex Fabrics, the world' s largest
manufacturer of needlepunch nonwovens. Propex also filed for protection under
Chapter 11 in 2008, but in April 2009 it obtained approval to sell its assets
as a going concern to an affiliate of Wayzata Investment Partners - a private
equity firm.
Table of Contents
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
- The global nonwovens market
- Medium sized companies
- Companies which joined the list of 20 medium sized producers
- Companies which exited from the list of 20 medium sized producers
- Companies which remained among the 20 medium sized producers
- Geographical location
11 AVGOL, ISRAEL
- Products and markets
- Development of manufacturing capacity
12 COMPANHIA PROVIDENCIA, BRAZIL
- Products and markets
- Facilities
13 HOLLINGSWORTH & VOSE, USA
- High Efficiency and Specialty Filtration
- Engineered Composite Materials (ECM) and Industrial Specialties
- Battery Separator & Additive Materials
- Engine & Industrial Filtration
14 CONCERT INDUSTRIES, CANADA
- Products and markets
- Growth strategy
- Reorganisation and restructuring
15 TWE GROUP, GERMANY
- Company structure
- Products and markets
16 PROPEX FABRICS, USA
17 COLBOND, NETHERLANDS
- Ownership
- New products, and product and process improvement
- Manufacturing facilities
- Products and markets
- Building and construction
- Civil engineering
- Flooring
- Automotive
- Construction
18 JAPAN VILENE, JAPAN
- Investments and joint ventures
- New technology
- Products and markets
- Automotive Materials
- Industrial and Electrical Materials
- Air Filters
- Medical and Consumer Materials
- Apparel Materials
- Strategies for future growth
19 VITA NONWOVENS (FORMERLY BRITISH VITA), UK
20 C H SANDLER, GERMANY
- Manufacturing facilities
- Products and markets
- Product innovation
21 ASAHI KASEI (FORMERLY ASAHI CHEMICAL), JAPAN
22 PEGAS NONWOVENS, CZECH REPUBLIC
- Investment
- Manufacturing facilities
- Products and markets
23 JACOB HOLM INDUSTRIES, SWITZERLAND
- Company development
- Business structure
- Facilities
- Products and markets
24 GEORGIA-PACIFIC (FORMERLY FORT JAMES), USA
- Staff changes
- Corporate structure
- Products and markets
- Technology
25 TOYOBO, JAPAN
- Polyester spunbonded nonwovens
- Needlepunched nonwovens
26 MITSUI CHEMICALS, JAPAN
- Products, markets and manufacturing facilities
27 LYDALL, USA
- Thermal/Acoustical
- Automotive
- Industrial
- New product introductions
Performance Materials
- Geographical markets
- Closures
28 UNION INDUSTRIES, ITALY
29 ANDREW INDUSTRIES GROUP, UK
- Products and markets
- Manufacturing facilities
30 WESTERN NONWOVENS, USA
- Company structure
- Products and markets
- Operations by segment
- Industrial Nonwovens
- Performance Insulation
- Expansion
- Acquisitions
- Divestments
List of tables
- Table 1: Sales by the world' s top 40 roll goods producers, 2007
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