On December 12, the 2020 Climate Ambition Summit was held via video. The Climate Ambition Summit was initiated by the United Nations and relevant countries to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, further mobilize the international community to strengthen climate action, and promote the multilateral process. Leaders of many countries participated and delivered speeches. Our country also announced that China will “strive to achieve 2030 goals by 2030”. carbon dioxide emissions will peak before 2060, and we will strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.”
In addition, according to CNBC News, US President-elect Biden issued a statement that day, saying that on his first day as president, the United States will rejoin the Paris Agreement and strive to make the United States Achieve “zero emissions” of greenhouse gases by 2050.
Some time ago, with the successful moon landing of “Chang’e 5”, an old newspaper from 15 years ago It is obvious that once our country makes a commitment, it will definitely complete it in accordance with scientific planning. Therefore, energy conservation, environmental protection, and carbon emission reduction are very likely to become new social hot spots in the future.
In the textile industry, it has posed new challenges to textile enterprises and also created new opportunities. .
The market for recycled fabrics is vast
According to authoritative statistics, recycling 1 ton of waste textiles is equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 3.2 tons. Instead of landfilling or incineration, it can save land resources, protect the environment, and reduce the consumption of crude oil resources.
Therefore, to reduce carbon emissions, the development of various types of recycled and environmentally friendly fabrics is a very important means.
In 2018, recycled textiles were still a relatively new concept in the market, and there were only a few manufacturers of recycled textiles. However, after two years of development, recycled textiles have gradually “flyed”. Entering ordinary people’s homes” has become a relatively common product.
At this stage, recycled textiles are mainly exported to European and American markets. Although the European and American markets have been greatly affected by the epidemic, which has dealt a blow to the export of recycled fabrics, during the process of visiting the market , cloth bosses generally expressed optimism about the prospects of recycled fabrics.
On the other hand, as our country attaches greater importance to environmental protection, especially after the commitments made at this Climate Ambition Summit, the country is very likely to become an emerging renewable energy industry in the future. In the fabric consumption market, once recycled fabrics become popular in China, the development of recycled fabrics will inevitably usher in a new golden era.
Looming machine replacement is accelerated
We have seen that Tongxiang, a traditional textile cluster, has recently taken certain production reduction measures in the polyester industry chain due to emission reductions.
Such production reduction measures are of course only a “temporary cure”. If you want to “treat the root cause”, you still need to rely on the upgrading of textile enterprises. .
In fact, since the rectification of water-jet looms in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in 2017, the upgrading of looms in textile enterprises nationwide has entered the fast lane. Especially in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, in order to ensure profit margins within a limited number of machines, higher requirements have been placed on machine performance and product applicability.
According to experts from textile machinery companies, compared with the original old models of looms, the latest water-jet looms at this stage will save more than 20% of energy and increase energy consumption by about 10%. Productivity. As technology continues to advance, this number will inevitably increase further in the future.
In addition, from 2019 to this year, the epidemic and overcapacity have made more and more cloth owners realize that the era of “cloth without worries about selling” as in the past has passed.
Therefore, the editor judges that as carbon emissions receive more and more attention from society, the update speed of looms by textile companies will inevitably be further accelerated.
For textile companies
Energy conservation and emission reduction are already a commonplace issue, but at this stage, textile companies generally consider this from economic aspects. However, in the future, just like the current environmental issues, textile companies may need to consider social benefits in addition to economic benefits when dealing with energy conservation and emission reduction.
Therefore, whether it is the commissioning of new production capacity or the transformation of old production capacity, energy conservation and emission reduction may become a new important factor that textile companies need to consider.
In addition, the scale of the domestic recycled fabric market is almost zero at this stage. Once the concept of reducing carbon emissions emerges, on the one handOn the other hand, it will also help the formation of the domestic recycled fabric market to a certain extent. Therefore, recycled fabrics may be a big blue ocean in the textile industry in the next few decades, with increasing popularity, but at the same time, they will gradually produce various differences like conventional fabrics. For textile companies, this is also an opportunity that must be seized. </p
