The innovative vitality of “between the latitude and longitude” – see how Fujian’s textile and garment industry climbs up the value chain
Walking into the weaving workshop of Huayu Zhengying Group in Jinjiang, Fujian, hundreds of warp knitting equipment are running rapidly, and the snow-white yarn is turned into cloth in the blink of an eye and shipped out. However, only a few workers occasionally came forward to check. In a newly vacated space in the distance, hundreds of newly purchased warp knitting machines are arriving one after another.
“We have recently invested more than 100 million yuan to expand production capacity.” Su Chengyu, the company’s executive president, said, “We are able to increase capital and expand production counter-cyclically because the company is optimistic about the prospects of the industry. Since the beginning of this year, the company’s orders have increased significantly.”
Su Chengyu told reporters that as market competition has intensified in recent years, companies have decisively decided to comprehensively update equipment and vigorously promote intelligent transformation. Since the implementation of digital production, Huayu’s product development cycle has been reduced from an average of 30 days to 15 days, the product defect rate has dropped from 25% to 5%, and equipment energy consumption has dropped by 23%.
Fujian is a major textile province in my country, and the output value of the textile and clothing industry has exceeded one trillion yuan. In Fujian, it is becoming the consensus of more and more companies to promote industrial digitalization and intelligence and empower the traditional textile industry with the industrial Internet.
In the workshop of Fujian Yongrong Jinjiang Co., Ltd., rows of textile machines are busy running, with only a few workers operating on site. The person in charge of Yongrong Group said that through automation and modern equipment transformation, labor and land costs can be saved by 60 to 70%, and production costs can be saved by nearly 25 million yuan every year.
In recent years, the clothing company Fujian Qipai Group Co., Ltd. has invested 560 million yuan in comprehensive automation upgrades of its factories, establishing an overall intelligent ecosystem covering all aspects of production, logistics, etc.
“There are almost 400 processes in the production of a suit. Personalized customization is mostly small orders, and it is easy for errors to occur in distribution between processes. Automatic deployment through intelligent production lines effectively solves this problem.” Fujian Zhou Li, Secretary of the Party Committee of Qipai Fashion Technology Co., Ltd., said that through digital upgrades, the company’s order-taking capabilities and profit margins have been greatly improved.
Faced with changes in the market environment, many textile and garment companies have responded to the situation and made progress amidst changes. Some companies have gained new development space by switching tracks. At Fujian Jinxin Jinyi Health Technology Co., Ltd. in Jinjiang, workers are busy producingmasks and protective clothing. Ke Fengwei, the general manager of the company, said that the company is a subsidiary of the Jinba Group and has never been exposed to the medical field before. After the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia, the company responded to the government’s call to transform the production of anti-epidemic materials. Unexpectedly, switching to the production of anti-epidemic materials opened a door to a new industry for them.
“At present, the company’s daily production capacity of mask products is more than 4 million pieces, and the daily production capacity of protective clothing and isolation gown products is nearly 20,000 pieces.” Ke Fengwei said that the company is taking advantage of the trend to enter the medical device industry.
The industrial chain is the backbone of the real economy. Focusing on the textile and apparel industry, Fujian Province encourages leading enterprises to take the lead in establishing an industrial collaboration system to effectively improve the resilience of the industrial chain and supply chain.
In recent years, Hengshen Group, a leading textile enterprise, has actively moved upstream of the industrial chain through numerous international mergers and acquisitions. Chen Jianlong, chairman of Hengshen Group, said that through international mergers and acquisitions and technical cooperation, the company broke through the supply chain blockade of important textile raw materials and became the world’s leading chemical fiber raw material caprolactam production group. The company is focusing on the caprolactam project with an annual output of 1 million tons, and by extending the upstream and downstream industrial chains, it has derived a variety of new material projects such as lithium battery new energy raw materials.
Chen Chuanfang, deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said that in recent years, Fujian has focused on promoting thetransformation and upgrading of traditional industries, through intelligent transformation and increasingInvestment in technological innovation. At present, Fujian’s textile and garment industry is developing in the direction of branding and high added value, and is constantly transforming into mid-to-high-end supply.
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