South Africa is the second largest market in Africa and the largest market in sub Saharan Africa. South African spunbond nonwoven fabric manufacturer mainly include PF Nonwovens and Spunchem.
In 2017, PFNonwovens, a spunbond nonwoven fabric manufacturer, chose to build a factory in Cape Town, South Africa at a cost of approximately $100 million. This factory is PFNonwovens’ first factory in sub Saharan Africa and its second factory on the African continent. The company has already started business in Egypt.
In addition to PF Nonwovens, Spunchem also has local production capacity in South Africa. Although Spunchem has been in the South African market for the past twenty years, it has always focused on industrial applications of non-woven fabrics. After realizing the growth of the hygiene product market, Spunchem increased its production capacity for hygiene product applications in 2018 and began collaborating with leading local baby diaper manufacturers. Spunchem is also one of the few melt blown nonwoven suppliers that can supply mask materials to the local market during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Freudenberg Performance Materials has two sales offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, but does not have local manufacturing capabilities. Paul Hartmann is also very active in the supply of non-woven fabrics for the medical and hygiene products market, but he also does not have local production capacity. Another global player in the South African nonwoven market is Fibertex Nonwovens located near Durban, with its main areas being automotive, bedding, filtration, furniture, and geotextiles.
MoliCare is a well-known brand in the adult incontinence field in the South African market, selling its products through pharmacies, modern retail, and online channels. V&G Personal Products produces Lilets, Nina Femme, and Eva brands.
After selling the NationalPride, Ebrahim Kara founded another hygiene product company a few years later called Infinity Care, which produces baby diapers, adult incontinence, and wet wipes. Other well-known participants in the South African hygiene products market are Cleopatra Products located in Durban and L’il Masters located in Johannesburg. These two family businesses, with their very strong quality control departments, have occupied the space of their own brands in the South African hygiene products market.
Other important participants in the South African market include NSPUpsgaard, a company located in Cape Town and affiliated with LionMatch Company. NSP Unsgaard is a leader in the pad market and also owns a cost-effective sanitary pad brand called Comfitex, which has been expanding its market share.
In recent years, NSPEnsgaard has been improving its manufacturing capabilities, including investing 20 million rand in 2018 to increase production capacity by 55%, as part of a 100 million rand investment plan that began in 2016. According to Retail Brief Africa, the sanitary pad market in South Africa is growing at a rate of 9-10% per year. NSPEnsgaard is gradually establishing export capabilities in the Southern African Community (SAVC) region.
Twinsaver Group owns adult incontinence and baby diaper brands, as well as wet wipe brands. Through the acquisition, Twinsaver Group has strengthened its specialized capabilities in the field of wet wipes and launched various wet wipe products, including disposable wet wipes, hygiene wet wipes, and other wet wipe products, consolidating its position in this field.
These investments and improvements in production capacity reflect the potential and growth prospects of the South African spunbond nonwoven market, while also indicating the importance and investment of international nonwoven producers in the South African market. With South Africa becoming a hot spot for non-woven fabric manufacturers and hygiene product companies, it is expected that there will be more investment and capacity expansion plans in the future.
Dongguan Liansheng Non woven Technology Co., Ltd. was established in May 2020. It is a large-scale non-woven fabric production enterprise integrating research and development, production, and sales. It can produce various colors of PP spunbond non-woven fabrics with a width of less than 3.2 meters from 9 grams to 300 grams.
Post time: Sep-07-2024