What was published

The national standards platform records a new edition of the standard for woodpulp composite spunlace nonwoven. The entry, read on 19 October 2026, states:

  • Number and titles: GB/T 26379-2026, 纺织品 木浆复合水刺非织造布, English title Textiles — Woodpulp spunlaced nonwoven.
  • Dates: published 2 July 2026, effective 1 August 2027, status 即将实施 — published but not yet in force.
  • Replacement: it wholly replaces GB/T 26379-2011 (全部代替).
  • Classification: CCS W59, ICS 59.080.70. Issued by 国家市场监督管理总局 and 国家标准化管理委员会; administered by 全国纺织品标准化技术委员会.

What the scope covers, in the document's own terms

The published scope describes woodpulp pulp or woodpulp paper combined with textile fibre, combined by spunlacing, including material that is then given a functional finish. It states explicitly that it does not apply to flushable spunlace nonwoven.

That boundary is worth reading twice. "Woodpulp composite" and "flushable" are not interchangeable descriptions, and the standard keeps them apart on purpose. A dry towel that is meant to be discarded rather than flushed sits on the covered side of the line. A product marketed as flushable falls outside this document and needs its own basis; this standard will not supply one.

Why a date eighteen months out matters today

Nothing breaks on 19 October 2026. The 2011 edition is current, and a report citing it is a report citing a current edition. The problem is arithmetic: any document that names an edition and is meant to outlive 1 August 2027 is naming an edition that will have been withdrawn by then.

Those documents are not hypothetical. A retailer's technical file, a framework agreement, a tender specification and an approved-supplier form all tend to name a standard number and then sit unrevised for years. When the standard moves and the file does not, the gap surfaces at the least convenient moment — an audit, a re-tender, or a shipment held while someone works out which edition the certificate was issued against.

The step that costs nothing is to read the edition number in your own paperwork and put the date next to it. Where the answer is 2011 and the document runs past August 2027, the two questions to settle early are whether the specification follows the new edition, and who pays for re-testing if it does.

What this does not mean

  • It does not mean the 2011 edition is withdrawn today. It is withdrawn on 1 August 2027.
  • It does not tell you what changed between the editions. Only the text of the new edition says that, and this note does not summarise a document it has not read.
  • It says nothing about our products. This site does not claim that any towel conforms to either edition.