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Popular Science on Core Raw Materials for Medical Protection - Environmentally Friendly New Materials Become Mainstream as Prices Stabilize
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Popular Science on Core Raw Materials for Medical Protection - Environmentally Friendly New Materials Become Mainstream as Prices Stabilize

2026-02-02

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Recently, the "2025 Early Warning on Price Fluctuations of Raw Materials for Medical Protective Products and Reserve Strategy Report" was officially released. The report not only discloses the supply and demand and price dynamics of the global medical protective raw materials market, but also highlights the application value of various core raw materials. With the advancement of industrial transformation, environmentally friendly new materials have become the key to breaking through, and the intelligent upgrading of related production equipment has also accelerated simultaneously.

Data from the report shows that the global market size of raw materials for medical protective products reached 15 billion US dollars in 2023, and is expected to grow to 18 billion US dollars in 2024, with a growth rate of about 20%. Among them, core raw materials such as melt-blown fabric, non-woven fabric, polypropylene (PP), and rubber occupy a dominant position, serving as the foundation for the production of medical protective products. As the core filtering material for masks, the quality of melt-blown fabric directly determines the protection level of masks. Its fiber diameter is only 1-5 microns, which intercepts droplets, dust and bacteria through the principle of electrostatic adsorption. During the 2020 epidemic, its price soared to 150,000 yuan per ton due to the surge in demand, and fell back to about 80,000 yuan per ton in 2023. Affected by the international energy crisis, there is still a fluctuation range of about 20%.


As the most important base material for medical protective products, non-woven fabric accounts for more than 60% of the raw material consumption of various medical materials products. The global output of non-woven fabric reached 2 million tons in 2023, with China accounting for 60% of the market share. It has the characteristics of moisture resistance, air permeability, flexibility, non-combustibility and easy degradation, and is widely used in the outer layer of masks, protective clothing fabrics, medical dressings, etc. However, its price is greatly affected by the prices of upstream raw materials such as polypropylene and cotton. In early 2024, it increased by 35% compared with the end of 2023, bringing certain cost pressure to downstream production.


In terms of production equipment, mainstream domestic medical materials manufacturers have successively upgraded melt-blown fabric production lines and non-woven fabric composite units, improving production efficiency and reducing raw material loss through intelligent transformation. At present, the fully Automaticmelt-blown fabric production lines widely used in the industry can realize the whole-process closed-loop control from raw material feeding to finished product winding, reducing the raw material loss rate per unit product from 5% to less than 2%, and increasing the production capacity by more than 30% compared with traditional equipment, which greatly reduces labor costs.


It is worth noting that driven by the concept of green manufacturing, environmentally friendly new materials such as bamboo fiber, bio-based polyester, and polylactic acid (PLA) are gradually replacing traditional materials. Among them, the degradable non-woven fabric made of polylactic acid fiber has a biodegradation rate of more than 92%, which can be widely used in disposable medical materials such as masks and Sanitary Napkins, effectively solving the problem that traditional plastic-based medical materials are difficult to degrade and pollute the environment. Although its initial price is10%-15% higher than that of traditional materials, the cost is expected to continue to decrease with the advancement of large-scale production. Insiders said that in the future, enterprises need to establish a dynamic price early warning mechanism, optimize raw material procurement strategies, and increase investment in R&D of environmentally friendly new materials to gain an advantage in market competition.