According to Frost &sullivan Consulting estimation, reduced the cost of using carbon fiber is equivalent to $20 per kilometer. When using the steel, this number is only $1.
BMW's goal is - by the end of 2020, cut the cost of the carbon fiber frame to the aluminum frame at the same level.BMW's plan, lightweight car body and energy efficient will be the core competitiveness to the survival of the company in the future. And electric vehicles and carbon fiber body is the core of top priority.
"The more developed countries, the higher the proportion of technical textiles in all textile industry, to account for about 60%." said by vice chairman Hou Jianming of Shijiazhuang textile machinery co., LTD., at present, China is in technical textiles high-speed development stage, double-digit increases in the future. In Hebei province and technical textiles accounted for only about 17%, We need to further increase the share of CTT, improve the competitiveness in the future. Technical textile refers to the specially designed, have the characteristics of engineering structure of industrial fabrics, more used in automotive transportation, aerospace, new energy and other fields. Released by the ministry of textile industry "twelfth five-year" development planning, by 2015, CTT fiber processing capacity will reach 12.9 million Tons, accounting for the industry proportion will reach 25% of the total textile processing.
The application of PP in China diversificated in recent years, in addition to the traditional braiding bag maintain a certain growth, used in automobile and home appliance in the field of rapid growth of PP, especially fiber grade PP, two-way stretching PP film (BOPP), material for home appliances, a car there's been a great increase in the demand of the special material. Although most of PP made in China can provide these applications, but some high performance, special technology products are still unable for chinese production, such as ternary copolymerization PP, high ethylene PP block copolymer, Meltblown PP material, the auto modified material need a lot of imports.