Future Development Trends of Reflective Material Industry

The use of reflective fabric can be divided into occupational safety protection, personal safety protection, and consumer product markets, and different application scenarios have different requirements for the performance of reflective fabric. The occupational safety protection field includes transportation, sanitation, firefighting, construction, etc., and requires the use of reflective clothing under mandatory regulations. It emphasizes the reliability, stability, and cost-effectiveness of the products. The personal safety protection market has a high demand for reflective fabric types, high customization requirements, and customers pay more attention to style and comfort and have higher requirements for materials, such as school uniforms and night running sports products. The fashion consumer product market has a variety of application scenarios with huge market space, including fashion clothing, functional fabrics, bags, hats, etc. Customers have more personalized requirements for the material and color diversity of reflective fabric, emphasizing fashion and design. Therefore, the future development of the reflective material industry is worth attention,.

its development trends are concentrated in the following four aspects:

Firstly, improve the matching degree of raw materials and manufacturing processes to reduce the loss rate of finished products and improve weather resistance, wash resistance, fire resistance, and other indicators. 

Secondly, research in the field of adhesives. The existing adhesives are still mainly solvent-based, and future adhesives will develop towards more environmentally friendly water-soluble and solvent-free types.

Thirdly, carry out forward-looking research and development, use micro-prism and other related technologies to penetrate into new fields, such as some companies have entered the research and development of optical films, microstructure functional films, optical anti-counterfeiting and other products in the electronics industry.

Fourthly, expand towards new types of fabrics that meet consumer and fashion needs, represented by patterned reflective fabrics and colorful reflective fabrics