Going beyond the factory to build China’s “Textile Silicon Valley”
Going out of the factory to create China’s “Textile Silicon Valley”
China’s manufacturing industry, which is in the throes of transformation and upgrading, is glowing with new vitality and vitality. From low-end to high-end, from manufacturing to creation, more “brands” have emerged from the former “factories”, and Ningbo Cixing Co., Ltd. is a typical example.
Not long ago, Cixing’s first intelligent robot sewing system was launched, which solved the back-end processing problems that had plagued the knitting industry for many years. Sun Pingfan is the chairman of Ningbo Cixing Co., Ltd. and the chairman of Cixi “Second Generation” Association. Under his leadership, China’s “Textile Silicon Valley” is about to emerge on the coast of the East China Sea.
“Since computer knitting machinery is an advanced production equipment in the knitting industry with high technical level and precision manufacturing requirements, the domestic market has been monopolized by Germany and Japan before 2003. The high price of imported equipment has seriously hindered the production equipment of my country’s knitting industry. Update and upgrade.” Sun Pingfan, who started his own business at the age of 17, still feels emotional when he thinks back to the past years. After joining the WTO, as labor costs continue to rise, the pressure of international competition in my country’s knitting industry is increasing. It is urgent to eliminate backward hand-operated flat knitting machines and upgrade them to computerized knitting machines.
As an important equipment supplier for China’s knitting industry, Cixing Co., Ltd. continues to provide services for the equipment upgrade of knitted sweater companies. Along with industrial upgrading, Sun Pingfan led his team to develop and produce electric flat knitting machines, microcomputer flat knitting machines, and fully computerized flat knitting machines. Soon, the first domestic computerized flat knitting machine was born in Cixing. This Cixi native led the company to kick off the upgrading of production equipment in the sweater industry.
The core technical team of the company, headed by Sun Pingfan, independently developed a cost-effective computer knitting flat machine product, successfully realized “import substitution”, broke the long-term monopoly of foreign companies, and better satisfied the needs of many domestic downstream products. Meet the equipment upgrading needs of small and medium-sized enterprises. In 2009, the number of Cixing brand computerized knitting machines sold exceeded the total number of domestically imported computerized knitting machines.
Relying on the solid foundation of the domestic market, this “textile giant” began to explore overseas. Cixing successfully acquired the third largest computerized flat knitting machine manufacturer – Swiss Stanger and its Italian Fashion Design Center. With the help of Stanger’s international sales network, Cixing has opened up the international market. At the same time, through the “dual brand” operation strategy, Cixing integrated Stanger’s technology, brand, and R&D advantages to vigorously expand the domestic high-end textile machinery market, thereby greatly accelerating the layout of Cixing computerized flat knitting machines. Production and sales remain stable. Soon, Ningbo Cixing Co., Ltd. successfully listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange GEM.
Today, this well-deserved leader in the computerized flat knitting machine industry has won recognition and praise from more and more knitting companies.
Short review:
For China’s textile industry, which is in pain, successful innovation practices are extremely precious. In the industrial action of reducing costs, promoting innovation and expanding markets in the textile value chain, Sun Pingfan and his Cixing undoubtedly played a pioneering role. Using high and new technologies to reshape the textile industry, “Cixing Intelligent Manufacturing” is a sharp edge for the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry in Ningbo and even the country.
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