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Himfr.com Sees Great Potential in Non-woven Recyclable Bags Industry

Posted on: Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 09:00 CDT

BEIJING, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Himfr.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, analyzes why non-woven recyclable bags have huge potential in the China market.

Non-woven recycle bags are seen an alternative to plastic bags, known also as "environmental protection bags". Convenient and durable, its environmental friendly features quickly win over a huge market, while cotton and paper bags are quickly dismissed by consumers as these materials do not waterproof as well as non-woven fabrics. Coming with bright colours and in various shapes, non-woven recycle bags gradually move from the backstage and emerge as a "green star." Non-woven fabric, a highly durable and biodegradable material, is set to replace plastic as a choice for shopping bags the in the near future.

Himfr's expert estimates that the demand for degradable plastic packaging in China's future market will reach 200 million tons, according to an average price of 20,000 yuan per ton to count, the whole national market will yield a 40-billion yuan business.

The non-woven fabric is a material made from long fibres that are bonded together by chemical, mechanical, heat or solvent treatment. An A4-size paper non-woven shopping bag cost about 1 yuan, while sales price of these bags in supermarkets range from 3-5 yuan.

According to reports, many luggage processing plants, and some garment factories along China's Zhejiang coast are eyeing non-woven fabric business opportunities and planning to switch or to expand their production into producing non woven fabrics.

In order to seize the non-woven products market, Carrefour, Metro, Wal- Mart and some other international supermarket giants have launched their own non-woven shopping bags carrying their own brands.

In Beijing, supermarkets such as Carrefour and Lotus display a variety of non-woven bags that are priced at 3-5 yuan at the checkout, to encourage shoppers to use reusable shopping bags.

Moreover, Metro (China) has announced that the chain would stop offering plastic bags in its stores. This means that in future, consumers will need to use non-woven instead of plastic bags shall they need to buy a shopping bag from stores, creating an even bigger marketing opportunity for the non-woven material.

About Himfr.com

Himfr.com is a promising e-commerce company and a leading vertical search engine company in China. Himfr.com offers a variety of high quality products such as flag textile (http://www.himfr.com/q-flag_textile/ ), used textile machineries (http://www.himfr.com/q-used_textile_machinery/ ), standard textile (http://www.himfr.com/q-standard_textile/ ) and many more.

SOURCE Himfr.com

Source: PR Newswire

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