Jinjiang: Three Dimensional Innovative Textile Industry Promotes "Innovation" To "Quality"

2023 is a year of pressure for the textile industry. Under the profound influence of market fluctuations and complex domestic and international situations, demand contraction, supply shocks and expectations have weakened, and the problems of weak endogenous power and insufficient market demand in the industry remain prominent; In the face of risks and challenges, the textile industry of Jinjiang has shown strong resilience and vitality with technology, digital and green innovation as its guide. Jinjiang Textile is accelerating the transformation from Made in China to Created in China, from Chinese speed to Chinese quality, and from Chinese products to Chinese brands.

Technological innovation cultivates new quality productivity

Clothes, food, housing and transportation should be first. The textile industry has a profound impact on people's quality of life, quality of life, consumption upgrading and industrial upgrading. In the past year, from "quality manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing", and from "going out" to "going up", Chinese textile and clothing brands began to build world-class products, developing towards brand premium and technology premium, gradually occupying the commanding heights of the industry, mastering the technical voice, and presenting successful samples on the global fashion stage.

A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation has accelerated the evolution, and the position of China's textile industry in the world textile value chain has steadily improved, and its influence and voice have continued to increase; Scientific and technological innovation has gone from "following and running together" to the coexistence stage of "running together and leading".

In September 2023, Anta launched the first Anta "Storm Armor" equipped with "Anta film" and positioned as a comfortable storm proof assault suit. The advent and application of "Anta membrane" broke the technical and price barriers of foreign technologies in the field of high-performance waterproof and moisture permeable materials.

High end products are derived from constantly breaking through the "innovation chain" and constantly tackling the "choke" core technology.

The featherless feather featured by super light is less than 30 grams per square meter, about half the weight of an egg; Yunrou series is about 43% thinner than conventional fibers, more delicate and soft; The UDF (ultraviolet protection coefficient) of the original yarn sunscreen series can reach 500+, which is more cool, elastic, and sunscreen performance. In combination with the demand for consumption upgrading at present, a series of new fabrics have been developed and launched to Xingxing Group, attracting many merchants to come to negotiate.

"I hope these products can better empower customers." Du Guohai, director of R&D of Xiangxing Group, said that in recent years, Xiangxing has continued to increase the proportion of R&D investment, promote technology iteration, product updates, and constantly introduce high-end fabrics with functional, environmental friendly and comfortable characteristics, so as to better meet consumers' demands for daily commuting, leisure, sports and other multi scene clothing.

The update and iteration of products also continuously enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise. A few days ago, the China Printing and Dyeing Industry Association announced that Xiangxing Textile and Fengzhu Textile were among the top 30 Chinese printing and dyeing enterprises in 2023, occupying two seats among the three enterprises listed in Fujian Province.

Scientific and technological innovation is the largest variable, exploring new possibilities for the development of the textile industry.

Fudi New Material Co., Ltd. takes the innovation of "living water" as the guide and runs out of the differentiated development route. With the help of the two-component skin core structure process, the company has developed Fudi super fine denier ES fiber, which can be widely used on the hot air non-woven fabric on the surface of diapers and sanitary napkins. It has the characteristics of being skin friendly, delicate and soft, bringing consumers the ultimate skin care experience. With the R&D and production of new textile materials, Fudi New Materials Co., Ltd. ranks among the national high-tech enterprises and the provincial "specialized, special and new" enterprises.

The emergence of new consumption culture leads the business trend. The "holiday economy", "healing economy", "sports economy" and "ice and snow economy" drive the new growth point of consumption economy. "Yueji" consumption, rational consumption and experiential consumption have gradually become the mainstream. Consumers in different times have different group memories and interest preferences, which constitute the current diversified social cognition and organization. For example, the new lifestyle represented by urban archaeology and mountain ism promotes category innovation.

Driven by the suburban outdoor, urban camping and so on, the fashionable and functional wear of sportswear, overalls, martin boots, fisherman's hats and so on has become popular. During the "Double 11" period of Tmall, the sales of "three major pieces of cycling", such as complete bicycles, cycling clothing and cycling equipment, all increased by more than 100%. Anta children develop products around rhythmic gymnastics, dance, body training and other subdivided scenes; "HOTSUIT" has achieved the first place in the field of sweatwear in the world in three years. From sunscreen clothes in summer to "bare leg artifact" and shark pants in winter, products focusing on life details, functions and appearance have become new favorites. Circle and subculture are typical characteristics of new consumer groups. The concept of environmental protection, retro sentiments and other multiple values affect consumption decisions, and Chinese youth pay as much as 61% attention to the "use of recycled and renewable materials". Influenced by the New Vintage style, space mirrors, bell bottoms and other "earthy" retro elements are again popular.

Of course, from the omnipotent golden sentence that "not A can't afford it, but B is more cost-effective", to Pinduoduo's market value in US stocks surpassing Alibaba, from the slowdown of global luxury consumption to Tmall's determination of "the lowest price of the whole network" as the core KPI, all reflect the reality of more rational and prudent consumption in the past year. From the consumer side, the development of social platforms and content e-commerce has promoted the direct connection between producers and consumers. Through market education, consumers have begun to pay more attention to materials, processes and other information.

Digging data value through digital innovation

Entering the intelligent workshop of Huayu Zhengying Group, rows of automated textile machines were running at full speed, and white yarns were shuttling between them. As an enterprise mainly engaged in shoe upper textile materials, the Group now produces more than 40000 tons of warp knitted mesh annually. However, in the workshop with such a large production volume, only a few workers patrol the equipment on site.

"By jointly developing a 'visual inspection system' with colleges and universities, and using sensor detection to replace the traditional 'people staring at the machine', the operating efficiency of the warp knitting machine has increased from 70% to 85%, and the product yield has also climbed from 85% to 90%." Su Chengyu, CEO of Huayu Zhengying Group, said that Huayu will continue to deepen the 5G new generation information technology In combination with industrial application scenarios, gradually establish a warp knitting production application platform combining industrial Internet and big data.

On the wall of Liansheng Shutan's new factory building, the words "5G smart textile smart garden" are particularly eye-catching. In the textile workshop, 300 sets of the world's latest water jet "Tsudakoma 8200" are operating 24 hours a day. Similarly, in warping workshop, sizing workshop and automatic heald threading workshop, the roar of machine operation is ceaseless, and the number of workers is also very few. It is worth mentioning that the workshop also has the first 5G AGV smart car in Fujian.

Cai Minghua, general manager of Liansheng Shutan, said that each machine in the 5G smart workshop is equipped with a MES production management system. Through the use of ERP technology, management personnel can clearly understand the situation of each production link. The company also has a factory building under construction, and will introduce new production equipment to build a smart workshop.

Deep integration of digital technology and advanced manufacturing. The textile industry has entered a stage of high-quality development, and there is a realistic basis for promoting new industrialization.

Early layout, Fengzhu Textile adheres to the concept of industrial transformation and upgrading in the new era, takes intelligence and green as the theme, speeds up the upgrading and transformation, and uses intelligent technology and green technology to build a modern new printing and dyeing factory in Anton and is committed to becoming a benchmark in the printing and dyeing industry.

The intelligent three-dimensional storage system of Fengzhu Textile can realize the whole process from material warehousing to finished product warehousing, automatic packaging, robot automatic sorting, subpackaging, AGV unmanned forklift, automatic transportation and other full system unmanned automated 24-hour closed operation management, creating a "black light factory". This is also the first three-dimensional intelligent storage system in the national textile printing and dyeing industry to achieve production line linkage as a whole.

Accelerate green innovation, turn "green" into "gold"

Looking down from the air at the Fengzhu Textile Green Factory located in Andong Park of the Economic Development Zone, the rows of solar photovoltaic panels on the roof are very eye-catching. This is the first photovoltaic project with flexible roof support in China, with an area of 36000 square meters and an annual power generation of 5 million kilowatt hours.

"We have adopted the design of energy conservation and environmental protection in all aspects of the factory." Ye Weigang, the administrative director of Fengzhu Textile, introduced that this green energy-saving factory, which has invested 850 million yuan, has introduced 25 intelligent and green high-tech manufacturing technologies, including waste gas recovery and purification, waste heat recovery, cascade utilization of water resources, intelligent street lights, etc., to build an energy-saving production workshop.

Green development is a global consensus and the requirement of the times, which reflects the trend and direction of social evolution and industrial transformation. Global factor resources, policy resources, innovation resources and market resources are all gathering towards green development.

Fengzhu Textile also took the lead in the industry in passing the international ecological textile OEKO-TEX Standard 100I certification (requiring "no harm to the skin of infants"), breaking the ecological barriers of developed countries; Take the lead in meeting the new national standard of School Uniform for Primary and Middle School Students (GB/T31888-2015), and gradually form a complete set of green lines for the production process of school uniform fabrics for primary and middle school students through equipment transformation, process improvement and standardized production, so as to provide safe and high-quality school uniform fabrics.

Walk towards "green" and click "green" to become "gold". In the factory of Xiangxing (China) Group, which is only a wall away from Fengzhu Textile, the large screen of full process data visualization is always tracking every move in the production process, helping enterprises to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction.

"The green concept is the fundamental driving force for the sustainable development of modern enterprises. The Group has adhered to sustainable development since its inception, taking the benefit of society as its own responsibility." Xiang Xing Chairman Huang Zaixing introduced that Xiang Xing has always actively implemented the "dual carbon" goal within the enterprise, constantly optimized the process, and achieved the process traceable.

It is reported that Xiangxing Group has invested more than 20 million yuan to establish two sets of sewage treatment and membrane reuse equipment, and insists on using clean energy and green production processes. Among them, while introducing a large number of efficient, intelligent and low consumption production equipment, we strengthened the motor transformation of water jet looms, introduced digital management technology and 6S lean management mode, strengthened the use of recyclable raw materials with low pollution and low consumption, and increased the output of recyclable and degradable products. The company has also adopted three-level energy consumption collection and monitoring technology to achieve a new breakthrough in energy conservation and carbon reduction. The water reuse rate has reached more than 60%, and the total carbon emissions growth rate is 8.5%, which is far lower than the 35.5% growth rate of the output of printed and dyed fabrics. The total carbon emissions of unit products have significantly decreased.

In Xintai Group, technology research and development of new environment-friendly materials and waterless dyeing technology is becoming one of the key directions of Xintai's layout.

"With the application of intelligent textile materials, green environmental protection and other materials, we have greatly improved the environmental performance of shoe upper materials." The relevant person in charge of Xintai Group introduced.

The transformation of production equipment for environment-friendly materials and the introduction of waterless dyeing equipment have reduced the water consumption and chemical use of enterprises by more than 95%, realizing green production and sustainable development.

The green concept is infiltrated into product research and development, which reduces the cost and energy consumption of enterprises, and improves the quality and competitiveness of products.