When the spotlight at the composites expo shifted from new material formulas to unmanned vehicles on the workshop floor, the competitive logic of the fiberglass industry had already been rewritten. At the 29th China International Composites Expo held in early September 2026 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, the joint exhibition zone for fiberglass industrial fabrics and smart manufacturing equipment in Hall 7.2 became a hotspot—not for a revolutionary yarn, but for intelligent logistics systems covering the entire process from roving to electronic fabric. Visitors' most frequent questions were no longer about unit prices, but 'how many workers can be reduced and how many percentage points can yield improve after the upgrade.'
Industry Trend
The composites expo has always been the best window to observe the technology roadmap of the fiberglass industry. The signal from this edition was clear: as tank furnace spinning technology matures, the bottleneck constraining capacity expansion has shifted from the melting stage to handling, warehousing, and quality traceability. Taking electronic fabric as an example, its production involves multiple processes such as weaving, desizing, and surface treatment. The transfer efficiency of yarn rolls between processes directly determines equipment utilization. Under traditional manual handling, a single transfer can take dozens of minutes and easily cause yarn abrasion, while automated systems can compress transfer time to minutes while achieving full traceability for each roll through barcodes and visual recognition.
What deserves more attention is that this logic is no longer a laboratory concept. Public information shows that related solutions have been implemented in several leading fiberglass enterprises, including Jushi Group, Taishan Fiberglass, and International Composites. These companies share common characteristics: large production capacity and product structures extending toward electronic-grade materials—precisely the areas with the highest logistics complexity. According to internal industry estimates, after full-process intelligent transformation, manual labor dependence can be reduced by more than 30%, and quality traceability coverage can approach 100%. For fiberglass plants with annual capacities of tens of thousands of tons, this means saving tens of millions of yuan in labor costs annually while significantly reducing customer complaint risks.
Industrial Transmission
The intelligent upgrade of logistics systems is reshaping the cost structure of the fiberglass industry chain. For upstream equipment manufacturers, the era of simply providing looms or desizing machines is over; system integration capability has become a new competitive barrier. Taking the loom as an example, the electronic fabric loom displayed by Beiren Technology is not an isolated device but a node deeply coupled with automatic doffing, AGV transport, and automated warehouse storage. This integrated 'equipment + software + scheduling' solution makes single-machine efficiency improvement no longer the only indicator; instead, overall line balance and changeover flexibility have become the core concerns of customers.
For downstream composite product manufacturers, the quality traceability brought by logistics automation has more far-reaching significance. Industries such as aerospace and new energy vehicles have extremely high requirements for batch consistency of fiberglass-reinforced materials. Manual records are prone to omissions, while system-collected process data can pinpoint the production time, equipment parameters, and operators for each roll of yarn. This means that during factory audits, buyers can request digital quality archives from suppliers rather than relying solely on paper inspection reports. It is foreseeable that within the next two years, whether a supplier possesses full-process digital traceability capability will gradually become an entry threshold for large procurers.