Hua’an: Weaving the entire chain to create an “aircraft carrier” for a billion-yuan industry
Recently, the first phase of the Knitting Machinery Industrial Park in Hua’an Economic Development Zone covering an area of more than 200 acres was completed. As the economic growth pole and source of power in Hua’an County in recent years, the knitting machinery industry has evolved from an accessories factory to Zhangzhou Yongliang Knitting Machinery Co., Ltd. as the leader, driving the “7+9” knitting machinery upstream, midstream and downstream enterprises, and gradually Improve the entire knitting machinery industry chain. At present, the Knitting Machinery Industrial Park has begun to take shape, and the overall economic efficiency has improved. It has formed a supply chain for circular knitting machines from complete machines to 60% of accessories, with a total annual output value of more than 1.5 billion yuan. Hua’an’s knitting machinery industry is making great strides towards the development and transformation direction of intelligent manufacturing and interconnection.
The “heart” is created in the workshop
Machine knitting originated in 1589, when the British invented the first manual foot-operated sock knitting machine. In the 1980s, knitting machines came from Europe and the United States to Asian, Japanese and Korean countries, and then entered the mainland market from Taiwan. The entire group of knitting machinery almost completely relied on imports. “According to the then Due to the exchange rate, it would cost more than 100,000 yuan to import a complete set of machines.”
Li Abian and Li Dongming are both from Zhangzhou. They graduated from technical schools and entered Taiwan-funded knitting machinery companies. Starting as an apprentice, he worked in cutting, milling, grinding, processing, assembly, and sales… After rotating through every process in the workshop, one became the factory director and the other became the workshop director. After several years of hard work, the two accumulated enough experience and founded Zhangzhou Yongliang Knitting Machinery Co., Ltd. in 2011, becoming the first knitting machinery company to settle in Hua’an, focusing on the production of core components of circular knitting machines.
The circular knitting knitting machine is a kind of equipment used in the fields of textile clothing, decorative fabrics, industrial fabrics and other fields. “What we produce is the ‘heart’ of the circular knitting machine, which is equivalent to the engine of a car.” Li Dongming said frankly that at the beginning of his business, small-scale operations could only undertake a small number of simple production orders, and the revenue was only enough to focus on investing in core components. R&D. In this way, Yongliang started high-precision exploration of niche tracks.
“I want 30 inches and I also want 34 inches.” A casual thought from the customer led the R&D team to conduct research experiments on structural interchange and successfully developed “30 and 34 variable detachable fabrics”. In 2017, they applied for a patent “free of charge”. Dismantling and transforming the high-precision wear-resistant knitting machine triangle, from the original one machine producing one size of cloth to a new model of one machine producing two sizes of cloth.
“After the product is assembled and exported to Africa, the equipment structure is easily deformed due to the temperature and friction of the operating machines, so we have to redo the stability structural test.” Li Dongming said, Although the knitting equipment industry is developing rapidly in China, if domestic knitting equipment wants to meet the personalized needs of high-end knitting, the R&D team still needs to innovate in aspects such as product accuracy, appearance, and functionality.
In ten years, the annual output of spare parts from 0.02 mm to 200 kg has increased from 300 sets to 7,000 sets, with an annual output value of 300 million yuan. Yongliang has successively made breakthroughs in the research of key technologies such as high-precision disassembly-free anti-sway cams, anti-vibration knitting machine center units, and heat treatment processes. It has become the largest manufacturer of knitting machine accessories of the same type in Asia, occupying 35% of the market share of the global circular knitting knitting machine industry. .
“Make accessories well and supply complete machines.” As the “heart” of Hua’an’s knitting machinery industry, Yongliang’s full-speed progress has simultaneously improved the quantity and quality of orders in the upstream and downstream industries, and then attracted brother enterprises such as Fujian Yonghong and Xingfang Come invest.
The complete machine can be formed in the park
Zhao Jingyang has a long-standing relationship with Yongliang. He once worked with Li Abian and Li Dongming in the same Taiwan-funded knitting machinery company, and later maintained a cooperative partnership with Yongliang.
“Yongliang is the ‘heart’, we make the complete machine, plus other parts companies. When we encounter order problems, we all come together to think and discuss, and jointly develop new models, which can improve production efficiency several times.” In 2020, Zhao Jingyang Fujian Xingfang Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. was established in Hua’an, focusing on the design, development and production of new, energy-saving and efficient circular knitting machines.
In the complete machine produced by Xingfang, a computer needle selector can be used to select needles for loops and tucks on the needle cylinder to knit any technological pattern with complex tissue structure, and then convert it into specialized control instructions through the pattern preparation system. This produces comfortable and beautiful clothing that fits ergonomics, and is now more commonly used in car ceilings, seat cushions, carpets, and medical cloths. It customizes various circular knitting machines for customers. 90% of its products are exported, taking advantage of China-Europe flights. columns and exported to countries along the “One Belt and One Road“.
Cultivate a family and attract a bunch of people. As the agglomeration effect gradually became apparent, doubts also followed: “Is knitting machinery an old industry that has been eliminated?” “Is it necessary to build a special industrial park?”
“Knitting machine”��It is not a traditional spinning fabric. As people want to wear clothes, new formats of knitting machinery will always emerge. “In January 2022, Hua’an County further clarified the direction of project development, and the knitting machinery industrial park project with a planned total investment of 2.5 billion yuan and a total planned land area of 500 acres was officially launched. The park features circular knitting machines, inserts, sinkers, and hardware machinery accessories Focusing on production and manufacturing, on the basis of the existing 7 knitting machinery companies such as Yongliang, Zhaohong, Yonglitai, Xingfang, Yonghong, Huisheng, and Xincheng Jingwei, we will attract 9 leading knitting machinery companies at one time Move in.
“The accumulation of old enterprises attracts new enterprises to settle in, and the commissioning of new enterprises promotes the technological transformation of old enterprises.” Hua’an County Party Committee Secretary Ye Yu explained the original intention of the project and the industrial prospects. In his opinion, if everyone rows oars and sails a big boat, old trees can sprout new shoots. After freeing up space for the continuous development of the knitting industry, starting from the list of supporting enterprises in the knitting machinery industry chain, we will promote the establishment of a number of knitting machinery enterprises with supporting products, market matching, and complementary advantages.
For example, knitting machinery needs the support of original parts. According to the rigid demand of knitting companies to reduce costs, starting from the product fit, Xinhonglong Hardware Accessories, Yonghong Knitting Machinery and other accessories companies have been introduced to settle in, and initially more than 60% of the accessories are in the market. Local production will significantly reduce the company’s operating costs and risks, forming a complete knitting machinery industry chain. Once fully put into production, the products will cover knitting machinery and more than 90% of accessories.
Ideas determine the way out. At present, all projects in the industrial park are nearing completion. Once put into operation, the new output value will reach 5 billion yuan, and the annual new fiscal revenue will be nearly 100 million yuan. Among them, after the completion of the first phase of 205 acres of garden land, the unit land output value can reach 10 million yuan/mu, and the unit land profit and tax can reach 150,000 yuan/mu.
The entire industrial chain has emerged in Shanao
“We must keep an eye on the yield per mu indicator to make the land more valuable.” On the morning of April 17, a competition was held as scheduled in the Knitting Machinery Industrial Park of Hua’an Economic Development Zone. Directors of the township offices in the development zone gathered together. Therefore, the progress and quality of project construction are compared. The main person in charge of the management committee commented on the progress of each project and made suggestions. Arena matches like this are held every week.
“There was not enough earthwork during the previous project construction. After understanding the situation, the cadres of the development zone and the linked Makeng Township helped find 30,000 cubic meters of earth, speeding up the project construction progress and allowing the project to be put into production as soon as possible and bear fruit.” Fengchi Knitting Textile Liu Qifeng, chairman of the Machinery Co., Ltd., said that at present, the company is smoothly advancing the project construction and the production equipment is basically in place. The equipment can be installed and debugged as soon as the factory is completed.
Hua’an has established township offices in the development zone in line with the policy of “enclave industry development”, and each township has designated department-level leaders to be resident in the development zone. Song Qiuming, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Hua’an Economic Development Zone, said that in order to ensure the project generation and implementation follow-up of the Knitting Machinery Industrial Park, each township office is linked to a knitting machinery industry project to provide enterprises with “mother-like” services.
At the same time, the development zone took the lead in setting up an enterprise service center and the “Anyuan Enterprise Protection Office”, launched the weekly “Director’s Special Service Day”, and fully implemented the registration system for the main leaders of the township party and government to serve enterprises in the development zone and the special commissioner of service enterprises. system, and effectively achieve “never fail to call, be on call, provide considerate service, and do what is said.”
“Settled in September last year and put into production in October, it became an enterprise above designated size within half a year. In the first half of the next year, the output value reached 45 million yuan. Now we have received large orders and there is no room in the factory.” Zhao Jingyang looked back on his entrepreneurial journey in the past two years. He lamented that thanks to the good local business environment, he could only lead his team to focus on R&D and production, but also had more space and confidence to display his talents. In October 2021, Zhao Jingyang invested in the construction of a new factory in the Knitting Machinery Industrial Park – Fujian Xinfang Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. to comprehensively upgrade the manufacturing production line of special textile equipment. At present, the new factory has entered the trial production stage.
“If the entire industry chain wants to stand out, it needs to focus on technological innovation and focus on the key core technologies that are stuck.” Hu Shumin, director of the Hua’an County Industry and Information Technology Bureau, said, In the past three years, Hua’an County has provided 3.21 million yuan in incentive funds for knitting enterprises’ R&D investment, including segmented subsidies to support enterprise innovation and R&D. Knitting machinery companies such as Yonglitai in the park have successively conquered key technology research such as the anti-vibration knitting machine center unit, heat treatment technology, and improved efficiency-enhancing positive loop wrapping machines. They have produced knitting machines such as “Yongli” and “Yuanhe” Machinery, leading the research and development and sales of new products in the domestic knitting industry, strengthening the concentration of the knitting machinery industry.
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