The future of automotive nonwovens is moving towards green, low-carbon, smart, and lightweight development. Automotive textiles represent one of the key application areas in the technical textiles industry, playing a vital role in enhancing the driving experience, ensuring road safety, and promoting vehicle lightweighting and sustainability. They are widely used in interior fabrics, airbags, seat belts, sound and thermal insulation materials, lightweight composites, and more.  

Under the theme of "Green, Lightweight, and Smart Integration," the industry is targeting the explosive market demand driven by the new energy vehicle sector, systematically showcasing cutting-edge advancements in technological upgrades and sustainable development. This includes comprehensive displays of key products such as automotive interior materials, lightweight composites, smart sensing fabrics, and acoustic insulation materials.  

Within the exhibition area, nearly 20 representative exhibits each feature distinct technological highlights. Experts have shown particular interest in synthetic bio-leather products for automotive trim systems and fully molded car seat covers. Among these, the synthetic bio-leather product—a mass-produced, automotive-grade innovation—made its industry debut. This product is based on proprietary fungal strains and a comprehensive genetic modification toolkit, combined with unique bio-elastomer cross-linking technology.  

Today’s nonwoven technologies, spanning from raw materials to processing techniques and from product design to end applications, reflect a series of innovative achievements with high technological sophistication and international advanced standards. This marks solid progress in independent controllability and innovation, bringing together stakeholders across the entire upstream and downstream industrial chain. In the process of product development and industrial innovation, excellence in a single segment is no longer sufficient; only collaborative progress across the entire industrial chain can truly represent the comprehensive strength of an industry. More enterprises within the industrial chain are actively participating in the development of technical textiles, jointly driving the industry forward.  

With the rapid rise of China’s new energy vehicle industry and its accelerating global expansion, automotive textiles are embracing broader development opportunities. Today, each vehicle incorporates over 50 types of nonwoven products, primarily used in various interior/exterior trim parts and acoustic components. Research on the forming and performance of "nonwoven automotive panels," such as dual-component flame-retardant and antibacterial fiber forming technology, thin web air-fiber two-phase hot-air bonding technology, and specialized low-damage needle-punching composite technology for filaments, will shape the future trends of nonwoven automotive applications—lighter, more comfortable, and greener.  

Looking ahead, we should focus on the following areas:  
First, promoting the widespread application of green, low-carbon, and sustainable technologies in the industry.  
Second, continuously enhancing the safety, aesthetics, and quality of interior materials.  
Third, actively integrating emerging technologies such as AI and big data to explore flexible and intelligent manufacturing pathways.  

This is not only our direction of effort but also the essential path for the high-quality development of the automotive nonwoven industry in the future.