In February 2020, due to the Spring Festival holiday, the operating rate of the non-woven industry will be about 50%. Therefore, in the early stage of last year's outbreak, with the rapid rise in demand for masks, the situation of "one mask is hard to obtain" was directly formed.
In the second half of 2020, with the recovery of supply and price from the shortage of masks, the change of mask market is the result of the substantial increase of domestic production capacity.
Since 2021, the epidemic situation has been repeated, and the demand for meltblown cloth and masks has increased greatly again. However, compared with the outbreak in early 2020, the enterprises have made full preparations, and the production line capacity of non-woven cloth and masks enterprises is sufficient. In the case of this repeated epidemic, domestic non-woven fabric and mask enterprises started full power for the first time to ensure market demand. At present, the operating rate of the non-woven industry has been stable in the range of 65% - 70%, and most of the enterprises have reached the beginning of February.