Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, the operating income of enterprises above designated size in the filament weaving industry increased by 14% year-on-year, and the total profit increased by 49.6% year-on-year.
China customs data show that in the first quarter, the cumulative export of chemical fiber filament fabrics reached 5.41 billion meters, an increase of 8.1%; The export value was 4.73 billion US dollars, an increase of 6.2%, higher than the overall textile export growth rate of 4.2 percentage points.
"Since the beginning of this year, the filament weaving industry has been moving forward in the recovery, the operation quality and efficiency have increased steadily, and foreign trade exports have been stable and improved, achieving a good start." In the recently held China Filament Weaving Association three four council and six executive director expansion meeting, Wang Jiayi, president of China Filament Weaving Association, pointed out that the "good results" achieved by the industry are not easy, which is inseparable from the enterprise actively in the "establishment" and "break" in the exploration of new momentum.
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In Wang Jiayi's view, the core of the filament weaving industry is innovation, strengthening product innovation and expanding application boundaries is crucial. "With the deep application of new raw materials, new technologies, new equipment and new processes in the field of filament weaving, the functionality and differentiation of filament fabrics continue to break through." Enterprises should deeply study the downstream market segments, unlock more application scenarios, and lead and create new demands."
Taking Zhejiang Taihua New Materials Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "Taihua New Materials") as an example, in recent years, the company has continued to promote the construction of green multi-functional nylon new material integration projects, and gradually put into production according to the production plan. With the gradual release of production capacity of the project, the competitive advantage of the company's differentiated products such as nylon 66 and recycled nylon has been further strengthened.
With continuous product innovation and market reputation, Taihua New Materials products have been widely used in clothing, home textiles, industrial applications, special applications and other fields, accumulated rich customer resources. At present, the company's customers cover Pathfinder, Decathlon, Anta, Jordan and other sports brands, as well as UniQlo, Heilan Home, Sema, Elai and other leisure brands.
To BYD, Tesla tooling, Nantai Hanlong Junlin Enterprise Group intends to rely on tooling products from the "behind the scenes" to the "front." Yang Yang, the relevant person in charge of the group, admitted that in the past, the group focused on the production of home textiles and curtain fabrics, with the goal of selling products. In recent years, the company has realized the transformation from production and processing to manufacturing services, extending the industrial chain upward to R & D and design, extending down to brand services, constantly expanding service paths, and improving the added value of products.
"We develop products that cater to the diverse needs of our customers." Zhang Yang, for example, said, "Different types of work need work clothes designed with corresponding functions to cope with different operation scenarios. For example, in the automotive industry, the work clothes of employees are easy to smell after sweating, and antibacterial fabrics are needed to solve this problem; In some workshops, the action range of the employee's operation is large, and if the fabric is not elastic enough, it will lead to the individual position of the uniform is easy to crack, these are factors that we need to consider in product development."
Whether it is Taihua New Materials or Nantai Hanlong Junlin Enterprise Group, they are the epitome of innovation and upgrading of the filament weaving industry. From fashion women's clothing, cold outdoor clothing to original gauze sunscreen clothing, sports quick-drying clothes, casual shirts, leather jackets, uniforms; From bedding to jacquard wall cloth, functional curtains, tablecloth napkins, sofa pillows, indoor soft furnishings; From luggage cloth, geotextile, canopy cloth to airbags, electronic base cloth, medical and health products, aerospace parachutes, and then to special protective clothing, today's filament fabrics can be described as "sky to earth", and the application field continues to expand.
cocoon-breaking
In recent years, China's filament weaving industry has unswervingly taken the road of ecological priority and green development, and constantly improved the "green content" of industrial development, highlighting the determination of filament weaving enterprises to "break the cocoon".
Wang Jiayi introduced: "The association through the recent industry-wide 'water jet loom wastewater treatment and water reuse' special research found that the filament weaving industry clusters and enterprises are very important to sewage treatment work, the use of centralized unified treatment and self-treatment two ways to achieve 100% sewage treatment, most areas to achieve 100% water reuse, zero sewage discharge."
In recent years, in addition to continuous optimization of water saving and emission reduction measures, filament weaving enterprises have also accelerated the construction of green low-carbon recycling systems, actively researched and developed green textiles, and improved the recycling rate of waste textiles.
Fujian Baichuan Resource Recycling Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the best. The regeneration combined with anhydrous coloring process technology developed by the enterprise not only breaks the traditional energy consumption mode, reduces the dependence on oil, but also fundamentally solves the environmental pollution industry problems caused by water dyeing, fully solves the problem of small batch, fast response and diversified market needs of customers, and has been widely recognized by the industry and the market. The company has polyester silk, Oxford cloth, knitted fabric and other products, has become a well-known domestic and foreign manufacturers of recycled raw materials suppliers, products sold all over the country, but also exported to Europe, the United States, South Africa and other markets.
"To achieve the reuse of yarn, bobbin, packaging materials and other spinning equipment. It is best if companies do not use packaging materials, and if they do, they should recycle them." Wang Jiayi also reminded that enterprises should do everything possible to eliminate the "one-time" waste problem; Enterprises should form joint forces for development, strengthen cooperation between enterprises and enterprises, as well as between enterprises and the government, scientific research institutions, industry associations and other parties, and jointly study and solve the problems and challenges in green development.
In addition, it is also crucial to improve the construction of green production standards system. At the meeting, the China Filament Weaving Association launched the "Initiative on Promoting the Green Development of the Industry" to the whole industry, providing a full standard basis for enhancing the sustainable development capacity of the industry, and helping the industry to achieve a more robust, green, healthy and high-quality development.
Butterfly transformation
Between "standing" and "breaking", the filament weaving industry resists the risk pressure and changes and upgrades in the complex external environment.
"At present, filament weaving enterprises in southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other eastern 'senior' industrial clusters rely on advantages such as proximity to the market, trade facilitation, and talent gathering, focusing on promoting high-end, intelligent, green, and brand development." In the early stage of developing the filament weaving industry, the emerging industrial cluster enterprises in the central and western regions have fully absorbed the experience of traditional cluster enterprises, stood at a higher starting point, and are focusing on transforming location advantages, resource advantages, and policy advantages into industrial advantages to achieve high-quality development." Wang Jiayi concluded.
According to the statistics of the China Filament Weaving Association, by the end of 2023, the scale of China's filament weaving industry loom reached 927,000 units (of which 855,000 water jet looms), and the total annual output of filament fabrics reached 63.1 billion meters, continuing to maintain a leading trend. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2023, the annual growth rate of business income of enterprises above designated size in the filament weaving industry is 4.9 percentage points higher than that of the textile industry.
"The filament weaving industry is the basic support to ensure the scale advantage and system advantage of the textile industry, an important engine to drive material innovation and equipment innovation, a key force to maintain the smooth operation of the global textile industry chain and supply chain, and a special position and important value in the development of textile new quality productivity." Sun Ruizhe, president of the China Textile Industry Federation, affirmed the stable operation of the filament weaving industry in recent years.
Sun Ruizhe pointed out that in order to maintain the steady growth of the industry, the filament weaving industry should further broaden its new vision and new realm in the future. "The industry should find a foothold and consolidate the cornerstone of manufacturing. We will strengthen research, development and application of equipment and technology to build a high-starting point and high-efficiency production system. In particular, we will seize the opportunity to replace old growth drivers with new ones, make proper use of large-scale equipment renewal policies, and replace production capacity. To find a balance point, optimize the spatial layout. Strike a balance between in-place upgrading and industrial relocation, and develop new quality productive forces in light of local conditions. To find the intersection, use the value lever. Grasp the correlation and coupling degree between capital and market, deepen the cooperation between industry and finance, and enhance the social, especially the capital market's awareness of the industry; To find a breakthrough point, speed up the transformation of digital intelligence. We will improve the application of digital and intelligent equipment, improve new infrastructure such as the industrial Internet and big data centers, and promote the construction of smart production lines, smart workshops and smart factories."
(Information source: China Textile News)