Recently, the 7th executive council meeting of the 7th Council of China Textile Machinery Association was held in Shanghai. Nearly 100 delegates not only exchanged information on the textile machinery market, but also conducted in-depth discussions on hot topics such as current status and plans for smart manufacturing in the textile machinery industry, and industrial transfer under the “One Belt and One Road” strategy.
As the market picks up, we must always pay attention to market changes
Since 2017, the overall operation of the textile machinery industry has remained stable. From January to August, textile machinery enterprises above designated size realized main business income of 83.521 billion yuan, an increase of 12.46% year-on-year; total profit was 5.915 billion yuan, an increase of 21.91% over the same period of last year. From January to August, the total import and export volume of textile machinery was US$4.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18.52%.
Gao Yong, secretary and secretary of the Party Committee of the China Textile Industry Federation, conducted a brief analysis of the operation of the textile industry this year, and reminded that the textile machinery enterprises must always pay attention to market changes and be alert to raw material prices when the market situation and product orders are generally better. The risk of a sharp rise. Gao Yong said that China's textile industry has entered a new era and the stage of rapid expansion has passed. Although there is still a higher increase in the main business income of the industry, the increase in fiber processing volume is not much. The continuous upgrading of textile production equipment, the level of continuous improvement, and the concentration of production capacity to the dominant enterprises; the industry's leading enterprises to the development of both ends of the industry chain. These are the obvious trends in the current industry development. Textile machinery manufacturers must be prepared for these development trends. They must combine mainframe design, process design, and special parts design, and consider smart manufacturing together. He suggested that various textile machinery companies establish groups or alliances to unite to cope with this new industry development situation.
Regarding the trend of industrial transfer under the “Belt and Road” strategy, Gao Yong believes that with the rapid increase of labor costs in Southeast Asia and other countries, the pace of “going global” will slow down. He suggested that textile machinery companies unite to establish a comprehensive after-sales service platform to promote the export of textile machinery products.
Speaking of the status quo and future of China's textile machinery industry, Wang Shutian, president of the China Textile Machinery Industry Association, pointed out that some issues are worth thinking about: Where does the rapid development of the industry come from? Where does our confidence come from? What achievements have we achieved over the years? Which issues need to be avoided? Is there an excess of current industry competition? Is cooperation feasible? Thinking of these issues is necessary. On the other hand, at present, the application of new materials in the textile field is continuously expanding. We must consider the issue from the perspective of “big textile”. For example, the industrial textile industry has demonstrated the trend of cross-border development of product technology, and these are worthy of attention. Over the years, with the development of various technologies such as computers and the Internet, people’s lifestyles and the development of the manufacturing industry are facing changes. For this reason, textile machine entrepreneurs must think and have their own strategic positioning.
Keep growing, high-end textile machinery equipment is more popular
Gu Ping, vice president of the China Textile Machinery Association, analyzed in detail the operation of the textile industry, textile machinery industry, and textile machinery sub-sectors in 2017. In the first half of 2017, demand for high-end products in spinning machinery continued to grow. In the main products, more than 2,300 card machines were sold, an increase of 5.21% year-on-year; about 1800 units of the drawframes were sold, a year-on-year increase of 20.87%, of which the number of drawframes with self-leveling equipment was more than 833, accounting for a total of 46 %; combing machine sales of about 680 units, an increase of 12.34%; roving machine sales of about 700 units, a year-on-year decrease of 6.46%, which with 127 sets of automatic doffing device, accounting for 18.27% of the total; sales of cotton spinning spinning machine about 2.16 million spindles, an increase of 35.56% year-on-year; about 230,000 rotor spinning machines sold, an increase of 58.17% year-on-year; and about 300 automatic winder sales, an increase of 2.04% year-on-year.
Among the weaving machines, the demand for high-speed rapier looms, water jet looms, and air jet looms has grown significantly. Among them, major domestic manufacturers sold 3,592 high-speed rapier looms, an increase of 11.45%; sales of water-jet looms were 19,000, an increase of 46.15%; sales of 5,503 air-jet looms, an increase of 37.13%.
Knitting machinery runs smoothly. The knitting flat knitting machine maintained a strong growth momentum and achieved outstanding performance. In the first half of the year, it sold more than 110,000 units, an increase of 69% year-on-year. The performance of the circular weft machine in the domestic market was dull. Special models such as towel machines and transfer machines sold into bright spots; however, overseas markets performed outstandingly, and sales volume and amount increased year-on-year. Warp knitting machine sales of high-speed warp knitting machine increased significantly, while sales of lace machine decreased slightly.
Printing, dyeing and finishing machinery sales generally improved in the first half of the year. Low-bath ratio batch dyeing equipment is generally full of orders; sales of small and medium-sized belt-guided digital printing machines continue to increase; sales of mid-to-high-end stenting and shaping machine manufacturers have increased by an average of over 10%.
The demand for chemical fiber machinery increased and orders increased. The market demand is mainly concentrated on new production capacity. The market orders for polyester filament spinning machines, texturing machines and viscose staple fiber equipment have increased significantly, but the overseas market has decreased year-on-year.
Non-woven fabric machinery continues the strong demand situation, high-speed and high-production complete sets of production lines have become hot spots in the market, while different, flexible production lines continue to emerge. Spunlaced nonwoven fabrics market sales blowout, there is a situation of supply in short supply. Acupuncture non-woven fabrics machinery production company sales increased by an average of more than 10%.
Do a good job of products, accelerate the development of intelligent and high-end
Focusing on the development principles and objectives set forth in the “13th Five-Year Plan for Development Guidance Opinions” of the textile machinery industry, textile machinery companies have accelerated the pace of technological progress and achieved fruitful results. Li Yi, vice president of China Textile Machinery Association, gave a detailed introduction on the identification of scientific and technological achievements, the award-winning situation of textile machinery enterprises, and the finalization of government textile development companies. At present, the 59 scientific and technological research projects proposed in the “13th Five-Year Plan for Developing Guidance Opinions for the Textile Machinery Industry” are progressing steadily, and some projects have made progress. From January to October of this year, the China Textile Machinery Association has held nine scientific and technological achievements appraisal meetings and identified 18 products. Among them, the “Special Weaving Technology and Equipment and Industrialization” project jointly developed by Donghua University and Xuzhou Henghui Weaving Machinery Co., Ltd. and DYECOWIN high-temperature dyeing machine developed by Lixin Dyeing and Finishing Machinery Co., Ltd. reached the international advanced level. The results achieved reached the international advanced level, and one of the achievements was the leading domestic level.
In 2017, the “Textile Light” science and technology award of China National Textile and Apparel Council passed the initial evaluation (net rating), re-evaluation, and public announcement. The final result will be released; four textile machinery projects are recommended to receive first prize, and nine are recommended to receive second prize. It is recommended that 10 items be awarded the third prize. Digital technology and numerical control equipment have become the winners of the awards, and weaving new technologies such as multi-layered three-dimensional fabric weaving equipment are the highlights of the awards. In addition, the 2017 Hong Kong Sangma Textile Science and Technology Awards winners were announced. The senior engineer of the China Academy of Textile Machinery Engineering Co., Ltd., Han Aiguo, “GA313 Wide Sizing Machine” won the first prize. This year, China Textile Machinery Association recommended a number of key technical projects for textile machinery under development to the "Textile Light" Science and Technology Education Foundation. After screening, the "winding machine without groove digital winding system" and "cloth wear-resistant coating Layer Preparation Technology is included in this year's funded area; "winding machine without drum digital winding system" was developed by Beijing Jingwei Textile Machinery New Technology Co., Ltd. and Fudan University. The winding machine adopting digital winding technology can produce density. High-quality yarn reels with good uniformity and unwinding characteristics; “Creation technology for wear-resistant coating of clothings” developed by Jinlun Wire Cloth (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. and Xi’an Jiaotong University, using advanced wear-resistant friction-reducing graphite-like coatings Layer technology can effectively increase the life of the clothing.
In addition, the China Textile Machinery Association has undertaken the task of compiling the two government research reports of the Development and Reform Commission “Development of Industrial Development Strategies”, “Study on Problems of Textile Industrial Smart Devices” and “Study on the Implementation Goals and Paths of Textile Intelligent Manufacturing” of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The two government research reports provide advice and suggestions for the government to support the adjustment of the industrial structure of the textile industry and support the improvement of the level of textile equipment. In particular, they have proposed representative and technologically advanced industrialization projects that can be completed in the next three years. The two research reports were completed in July and May this year and passed the review and acceptance of the two ministries.
Regarding the current topic of smart manufacturing, Gao Yong said: “The textile machinery industry is one of the first industries to participate in smart development research. However, the current textile industry 2.0 still needs to make up classes, and industry 3.0 is still being promoted. Industry 4.0 has only a few demonstrations.” Gao Yong called on textile machinery companies to do a good job of product development, development of good data, networking, and automation. On this basis, assisting the intelligent means to move toward intelligence. We should lay a solid foundation and keep up with the pace of social intelligence; at the same time, we must closely track the progress of intelligence and understand new intellectual achievements.
Wang Shutian proposed that we must consider the input-output ratio of users in terms of smart manufacturing, and consider the economy; we must consider how to use big data to provide users with better production advice. He believes that we need to open our own thinking in understanding intelligence and information. In the new situation, we should also stay awake. The most important thing is to make products.
Zhu Xianmin, Chief Engineer of China Textile Machinery Association, analyzed the situation of intelligent textile manufacturing. He introduced the “Intelligent Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration Project” of the Ministry of Industry and Information, and “Intelligent Manufacturing Integrated Standardization” and “Intelligent Manufacturing New Model Application Project” of the Ministry of Industry and Finance. He said that the current direction of the government for smart manufacturing is to establish a demonstration area, improve the smart manufacturing standard system, promote the alliance of smart manufacturing suppliers, and develop Internet +, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Zhu Xianmin also analyzed two cases of Alpha Dogs and Fabrics Whole Flower Weft and Industry Cases in detail. He proposed that the basic elements of smart manufacturing are data-analysis-decision-execution, and artificial intelligence should have self-learning capabilities. In the new era, we must seize new opportunities and at the same time create opportunities that are conducive to our own development. Textile machinery companies not only sell products, but also provide more services.
