Home-made textile machines are now growing "machine"

Since the beginning of this year, with the high fluctuations in the prices of domestic steel raw materials and the increase in labor costs, the production costs of textile machinery companies have continued to rise. At the same time, in some areas, the “electricity shortage” has come ahead of schedule. Many companies have received notices of “power cuts” and can only reduce production plans. In these objective situations, we have to allow textile machinery companies to consider raising product prices appropriately. At the same time, in the face of "homogeneous" competition and extremely fierce "price wars," how to produce products with higher added value has become a key issue for enterprises.

External environment promotes product upgrade

Although the rapid rise of raw materials, wages, and other factors of production has caused textile machinery companies to fail, it has also brought new opportunities for the development of many textile machinery companies. The user companies will put forward higher requirements for technological innovation and product reliability, and the market will put forward a new test for the operation and decision-making capabilities of textile machinery companies.

Song Risheng, president of Yantai Songhe Song Technology Co., Ltd., said: “In this situation, textile companies need suppliers with high quality, cost-effectiveness, and rapid service. With increasing costs, textile companies are more willing to choose good products. Equipment and good service, so at this time, the textile machinery companies should position themselves well, and this situation will in turn encourage enterprises to change their thinking and seek better development. Therefore, the more objective the situation is, the more they can promote the development of outstanding companies." It is understood that Song and Song introduced the SEJ249 series of electronic jacquard robots. This series of products is designed for large number of needles, high warp density, and high speed jacquard weaving. It can combine multiple machines, is simple, high-reliability, exquisite, high-efficiency, and high energy-saving.

“The increase in steel and labor costs will encourage knitting companies to introduce high-tech equipment and achieve industrial upgrading. It is an opportunity for development for flat knitting companies. From the perspective of capacity, the current annual production capacity and annual sales volume of Cixing are at home. The first in the industry, and at the same time, the newest computerized flat knitting machine production base at the company’s headquarters built by Cixing has been put into use, so the production capacity is not a problem.From the perspective of competition, Cixing has always insisted on its own core technology and quality service. Forming core competitiveness; in the long run, Cixing will continue to adhere to the strategy of brand management, win the market with leading technology, excellent quality and perfect after-sales service, and continue to maintain the status of industry leader.” For the future, Sun Pingfan, chairman of Ningbo Cixing Co., Ltd., is full of confidence.

He Dabi, general manager of Shanghai Juxin Printing and Dyeing Machinery Co., Ltd. also expressed similar views: “The impact is comprehensive, and each company must adapt to this market, adapt to the development of the industry, and create products that are energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly, and in line with market demand. The upgrading and quality improvement are very important."

“We have launched a doffing robot that is designed for companies with tight labor and rising labor costs, which can effectively reduce the labor of some processes and reduce the labor intensity. In terms of energy saving, we have introduced a highly efficient compact spinning control system and high-speed ball machines. The machine not only has a more stable operating performance, but also has a significant reduction in energy consumption, said Gao Yong, general manager of Jiangyin Huafang New Technology Research Co., Ltd.

Reducing the gap between domestic and foreign countries depends on technology

Although the liberation of China's textile machinery has developed rapidly over the past several decades, it has basically satisfactorily met the demand for China’s rapidly growing textile production. However, in the face of China’s textile machinery import and export data in recent years, we should still face some Can not avoid the fact: In the entire global textile machinery system, although China's domestic textile machinery and special parts are large in number and variety, they are still not competitive in high-end products. Our export products are mostly concentrated in the low-end level, while high-end products such as shuttleless looms, rapier looms, metal clothing, and so on, the import price is much higher than the export price. On the one hand, it explains the demand points of the market. On the other hand, it also shows the gap between the technical content of a large part of domestic textile products and foreign countries.

“The gap between domestic and foreign countries is mainly reflected in technological research. Many domestic textile machinery companies are keen on counterfeiting and their enthusiasm for basic research on new products is low. This has also caused some R&D-type companies to be very cautious in the introduction and promotion of new products. The speed is slowing down," Gao Yong said.

Xu Ping, general manager of Changde Textile Machinery Co., Ltd. said that in the warp knitting machine field, there are still some gaps between the company's products and similar foreign products. Foreign products have obvious “speed”, service life, and product fineness. Advantage. He Dabi, general manager of Shanghai Juxin Printing and Dyeing Machinery Co., Ltd., and Song Risheng of Yantai Song and Song Company also expressed similar views: Foreign products have obvious advantages in product quality, reliability, and R&D investment. In response, companies have stated that they will continue to work hard in the future. On the one hand, they will increase their efforts in product technology development, narrow the gap between domestic and international technologies, and on the other hand seriously study the domestic market, rely on technological progress and innovation to meet changing market demands. .

Xu Ping also stated that the current focus of technological development of enterprises is to narrow the gap between domestic and foreign technologies, while continuing to take "differentiated" product development routes, specializing in products and improving the product's price/performance ratio, not seeking in all fields, but only seeking Technology in a particular area catches up with similar foreign products. For example, the 2,500-speed warp-knitting machine developed by Changde Textile Machinery Co., Ltd. has the same quality and stability as foreign warp-knitting machines, but its price is much lower than similar foreign products.

Using Western wisdom to race through Western technology

Although in the low-end market, the “homogeneous” competition and the “price war” phenomenon are serious, many companies are physically and mentally exhausted, and they are “unsatisfactory” in technological development. However, we are delighted to see that in some high-end areas, Some domestic companies already have world-leading technology.

The “Cold Transfer Printing Technology” launched by Shanghai Changsheng Textile Machinery Co., Ltd. is the most cutting-edge printing technology. According to Chen Guiwu, vice chairman of the company, the company has recently made new breakthroughs in this technology and has obtained a total of nearly a year. Two technical patents, including a pre-conditioning device for cold transfer printing presses, a wetting method and device for cold transfer printing, a method for producing modified pastes and printing pastes, are now available in cotton, wool, linen, and silk. The application of cold transfer printing technology on natural fibers and various regenerated cellulose fiber fabrics.

“In the field of knitting machinery, especially in the field of computer flat knitting machines, although the technical gap between domestic products and foreign countries does exist, it is not that our products are only on the low-end level. In fact, existing products of Cixing have been able to meet domestic demand. The demand for knitting companies, and the production and sales volume of our products exceeded the sum of all imported computerized flat knitting machines last year, which is evident from this.” Sun Pingfan said.

How to carry out technological development in the future and how to introduce and absorb foreign technologies? Qi Gang, Zhejiang Electronic Jacquard Machine Co., Ltd. CEO Qu Gang believes that: "Imitate is also an innovation, if people have a 1 million machine, I can sell 500,000, but there is profit, is this not innovation?" Song Risheng Answered in a sensible manner: "In the 30 years of reform and opening up, we have introduced and digested a large number of domestic and foreign technologies and mastered the industry's basic technologies. I think we should give full play to the wisdom of the Chinese people in the future. The wisdom of the Orientals is better than that of Western technologies. Well, in terms of many technological innovations, we are able to create products that are more adaptable to market needs than our foreign counterparts."