The traditional manufacturing industry is the main body of China's manufacturing industry and the base of the modern industrial system. Among them, textile is one of the oldest industries, and China is also the world's largest textile and garment producer and exporter. However, with the fierce global competition and the weakening of external demand, China's textile and garment industry is facing an unprecedented test. How do large and small textile enterprises break through the bottleneck?

Green printing and dyeing, technological innovation

Digital transformation revolutionizes the textile industry

Zhejiang Shaoxing China Textile City, one of the world's largest textile distribution centers, here has 26 professional markets, a quarter of the world's fabrics are traded here every year, nearly half of the country's textile enterprises have established production and marketing relations with here, so it is regarded as a barometer of the textile industry.

The price of acetic acid fabric per meter of a merchant is 50 or 60 yuan, much more than the polyester fabric of about 10 yuan. However, because it can be naturally degraded in the natural environment, it is favored by foreign customers.

In order to comply with the transformation to high-end fabrics, many companies have been committed to the development of green new materials. After a company independently developed bamboo fiber fabric used in suits, profits and sales have achieved steady growth.

In recent years, due to the decline in international market demand, China's textile industry has faced unprecedented pressure. The leading enterprises in the local printing and dyeing industry in Shaoxing Keqiao began to try digital transformation in the case of a sharp decline in output value.

In the textile industry, the traditional printing and dyeing production will release a lot of sewage, waste gas and waste residue, especially the dyeing process is most likely to produce pollution. After a company went through the digital transformation of printing and dyeing, the production environment has undergone tremendous changes, like the key process of placing dye, the material room workshop is like a pharmacy, after entering the "prescription", the mechanical arm will automatically take away the corresponding dye. Not only is the site very clean, printing and dyeing material has become more accurate and efficient.

Not only that, the company also put the printing workshop upstairs. "Industrial upstairs" is usually suitable for lightweight and low-carbon industries such as high-end manufacturing and biomedicine. The printing workshop can go upstairs, which means that there is a need for corresponding supporting facilities to treat wastewater and waste residue, which is thanks to the blue print fashion town created by the local government.

Under the concept of green environmental protection and high-quality development, Keqiao District has concentrated hundreds of printing and dyeing enterprises in Blue Print fashion town and built the largest green printing and dyeing base in the country, and the government has unified water treatment and centralized gas supply.

Companies are free to focus on research, development and production, and the government has invested in a technology innovation center.

In Keqiao District, high-end, green and digital are quietly reshaping the traditional ecology of the textile industry, and the total output value of the entire textile industry will be 127 billion yuan by 2023.

32% increase in labor productivity

Delivery time reduced by 30%

The digital transformation had an immediate effect

On the production line of a garment enterprise in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, the quality inspector will label the unqualified place after detecting the garment, and the digital production and management system will directly trace the path to find the corresponding station for rework.

In addition to accurate traceability, the digital system also saves labor and balances the entire production. After the digital transformation, the production and operation of this enterprise have undergone very big changes.

Pan Jiaxiang, director of Hongdou Men's 5G fully connected factory: Our labor production efficiency has increased by 32% from before to after the transformation, and the delivery cycle has been shortened by 30%.

Another textile company has carried out a digital transformation and installed a broken head detection system, which can find broken heads more accurately, and production efficiency has been improved immediately.

Qiu Li, director of Yangtze River Workshop of Wuxi A Cotton Textile Group: Before the installation of the broken head detection system, the staff had a tour of about 40 minutes, and the average joint time was about 30 minutes. Since the installation of the broken head detection system, our average joint control was about 5 minutes.

In the textile industry, the higher the number of yarns, the finer the production is more difficult. The shirt is generally in 32 to 60 yarn, more than 80 is already a very difficult variety. While the textile enterprise carried out the intelligent transformation of the production line, it accelerated the upgrading of products, and 200 ultra-high count yarn with higher quality and higher price has achieved industrialization.

Statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, the total profit of the national textile industry enterprises above designated size was 11.21 billion yuan, up 25% year-on-year; In the first quarter, the national textile and apparel exports were 65.91 billion US dollars, an increase of 2.0%, 0.5 percentage points higher than the overall export growth rate of China's trade in goods.

Source: Global Textile Network