The Traditional Cotton Spinning Base Is Undergoing Transformation. This Industry Cluster Has To Seize Three Things To Find A Breakthrough.

In 2010, Lanxi, Zhejiang was named "China's cotton spinning industry base". In recent years, the popularity and influence of Lanxi's textile industrial cluster have been continuously improved. It has formed a complete industrial chain, such as spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, color cloth, jeans, home textile towels, clothing, industrial cloth and so on. It is a domestic cotton textile industrial agglomeration area with great popularity and important influence.

In the context of high quality development of technology, fashion and green label for the textile industry, Lanxi's cotton textile industry is also facing many bottlenecks. To this end, local enterprises conform to the trend of intellectualization of production mode, digitalization of production form and platform of industrial organization, and strive for transformation and upgrading, accelerate intelligent manufacturing and break through the bottleneck of development. It can be said that Lanxi's cotton textile industry is turning into a fast track of high quality development after a magnificent turn.

Transformation of traditional textile bases

At present, there are more than 500 textile enterprises in Lanxi, of which 139 are regulated, with more than 2.5 imported advanced looms such as TOYOTA and Bi Jiale. In the national textile market, Lanxi denim production and cotton stretch fabric production ranked first.

"I have a deep feeling for Lanxi. Since 2003, I have come here every year to see and see the great changes and development of Lanxi's textile industry over the past ten years." Zhu Beina, President of China Cotton Textile Industry Association, said that in recent years, the cotton textile industry in Lanxi has developed rapidly and has great influence in the industry. The denim and elastic fabrics produced in Lanxi are renowned throughout the country, forming a consensus that "elastic fabrics find Lanxi".

However, at the same time, Lanxi's cotton textile industry still faces challenges such as low profit margins, low innovation, insufficient talent support, rising cost of elements, and hindered industrial chain extension. Improving the profitability and innovation of textile industry, breaking the bottleneck of talent support and continuously upgrading the competitiveness of industries have become a breakthrough point for Lanxi's textile industry to enter the new stage of development.

In the past two years, Lanxi has been insisting on the pilot project, taking digital transformation as the direction, and promoting the intelligent transformation of "machine substitutions" in the textile industry to achieve all-round optimization and upgrading of production equipment, technology, enterprise management and sales channels. Last year, the expert group of Zhejiang intelligent manufacturing expert committee was stationed in Lanxi to help carry out the work of "enterprise digital manufacturing and platform based services". A group of old textile enterprises such as JinSu dyeing, Xinlan textile, Qi Jin textile, wechen textile, Xinhai textile and so on, under the guidance of experts, have carried out enterprise digitalization transformation projects.

Many measures have made remarkable achievements. In 2018, the textile industry in Lanxi achieved an industrial output value of 22 billion 884 million yuan, an increase of 10% over the same period last year, accounting for 36% of the total industrial output value. Textile products exported 5 billion 587 million yuan, an increase of 23.4% over the previous year, accounting for 53.74%. "At present, the Lanxi textile industry has the world's leading looms of over 3 units, which can produce 2.2 meters of white cloth per kilowatt hour, far higher than the average level of 0.7 meters in the same industry in China, and less than 30 workers per 10000 spindles, far below the average level of 80 people in the same industry in China." Sun Weidong, deputy director of Lanxi economic and Information Bureau, said.

At the same time, Lanxi is committed to the diversified development of textiles, and the textile products are no longer satisfied with a piece of white cloth. Instead, they are going all the way to cowboy, wall cloth, automobile interior fabric, printed cloth, colored cloth, jacquard fabric and so on. Through transformation and upgrading, the total textile industry has accounted for 1/3 of Lanxi's industrial economy. Among them, the whole cotton elastic fabric accounts for 80% of the national market share, and has launched the "elastic fabric to find Lanxi" brand in the domestic and foreign markets. Lanxi's denim exports accounted for 1/7 of the whole country and 2/3 of Zhejiang. Zhejiang Xin Lan Textile Co., Ltd. also led the development of the blended denim fabric "Zhejiang made" standard.

The upsurge of digital transformation

As the saying goes, "there is no sunset industry, only sunset enterprises", today, Lanxi textile is taking the "old tree new buds" posture burst out strong kinetic energy.

In June this year, Lanxi formally launched the creation of the textile industry intelligent manufacturing demonstration city. It plans to gradually realize the problems of textile enterprise equipment networking, data visualization, document paperless, process transparency, workshop less personalization and service platform through 3 years, and solve the problems of textile enterprise recruitment, energy consumption, slow turnover and low efficiency. At the same time, Lanxi textile enterprises actively launched intelligent production line, intelligent workshop, intelligent engineering, and raised the upsurge of digital transformation.

Zhejiang Qi Jin Textile Co., Ltd. is one of them, facing the problems of difficult employment, rising production factor cost and so on. According to demand, the enterprise has installed production data monitoring system. With this system, the operation status of each equipment in the weaving workshop is clear at a glance. According to the introduction, Qi Jin textile intelligent manufacturing cloud platform will also be launched as soon as possible. After digital transformation, we can effectively improve product quality, reduce labor costs and improve the efficiency of problem disposal through key data analysis and processing. Yu Wei, general manager of Zhejiang Qi brocade Textile Co., Ltd.

Unlike Qi Jin textile, Zhejiang Tang Chuang Garments Co., Ltd. is a new denim production company, which was put into operation in late June. Prior to its construction, the company stepped up its efforts in digitalization upgrading of traditional industries, strengthened the application of "Internet +", and built a soft loom monitoring system, linking 180 high-speed looms to each other, linking the production workshop and office space with wisdom, realizing the whole process of procurement, production, sales and other platforms, and making efforts to create "digital workshop" and "smart factory". "Through intelligent construction, our production efficiency has been greatly improved, and the workshop has also been reduced. 180 high-speed looms only need 18 production line workers to operate. Fan Jianying, director of Zhejiang Tang Chuang Garments Co., Ltd.

In addition, Lanxi yarn manufacturing enterprise Zhejiang nine Shun Textile Co., Ltd. is currently building nine Shun spinning intelligent monitoring system. "At present, the downstream weaving, printing and dyeing enterprises are implementing digital transformation, which also forces us to increase production efficiency and actively seize the market." Xu Weihong, the head of the enterprise.

Technological innovation leads the new fashion

In the face of severe product homogenization, weak creativity and innovation and low added value of products, Lanxi textile enterprises, in addition to digitalized transformation, are also guided by the development of fashion textiles, and along the industrial chain upstream, seeking market breakthroughs. Zhejiang Qi Jin Textile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Qi Jin textile") is one of them.

Two years ago, the implementation of technical transformation of Qi Jin textile, the introduction of advanced international equipment and high-end R & D team, to overcome technical bottlenecks, to achieve high yield and high density of 100 or more high-grade shirt fabric production, and bid farewell to the embarrassment of producing a white shirt. "Before that, we also produced 21, 32 low density conventional fabrics like many other enterprises." Zhou Minfen, assistant general manager of Qi brocade textile company, said that nowadays, 100 or 120 high grade and high grade fabrics that are produced in large quantities by enterprises are being continuously supplied to the famous clothing enterprises such as Hai Lan's home and nine Mu Wang.

Zhejiang Xin Lan Textile Co., Ltd. is a whole industry chain production enterprise integrating weaving, dyeing, finishing and garment manufacturing. "The textile industry is a labor-intensive industry. We change machines to introduce 108 new looms. On the one hand, labor is reduced, and the other side has also increased productivity. Huang Min, the person in charge of the enterprise, said that originally everyone was responsible for 6 machines, and now it can take charge of 9 machines at the same time, and the output of new machines has increased by about 10%.

According to Huang Min, the company has not only formed "Xinlan textile", "Xinlan clothing", "Baolong printing and dyeing" brand, but also has two projects successively "Zhejiang made" standard project. Among them, the yarn dyed weft elastic denim prepared by the company has been certified by the "Zhejiang standard". Huang Min emphasized that the two fashion jeans made by the company are very similar to silk and knead without any wrinkles. With excellent quality, members of the Ethiopia delegation have praised "this is the charm of fashion and innovation."

There are still many textile enterprises devoted to innovation and creation in Lanxi. At present, Lanxi textile industry is constantly increasing its strength, extending its industrial chain and increasing its added value. Lanxi's textile foreign trade has touched 49 countries along the belt Road, and fashion textile is leading the international trend.

Embrace development and win the future

"If you want to go fast, then you go alone; if you want to go far, then go together." This motto also seems to answer the question of how to develop Lanxi's textile today. In fact, Lanxi textile enterprises are also practicing the development concept of cooperation and cooperation.

In January 25, 2018, Zhejiang Wanzhou Holding Group Co., Ltd. was incorporated. This group is composed of Zhejiang Jia Mei Mei Textile Co., Ltd., Zhejiang lancotton Textile Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Wanzhou import and Export Co., Ltd., a local investment, construction and growth enterprise in Lanxi, and the first group company in Lanxi textile industry.

"The supply of Wanzhou spinning to LAN cotton and Jia Mei Mei can enhance the stability of the two textile enterprises and lengthen the industrial chain." When the group was founded, Yao Ruipeng, chairman of the group, said that Wanzhou group realized the transformation from "quantity expansion" to "quality transformation" from continuous shuttle looms, rapier looms to air-jet looms, through continuous technological innovation and innovation. Wanzhou group will stick to industry and adhere to the main industry, further strengthen the integration of the two technologies, extend the industrial chain, and strive to achieve over 5 billion yuan in sales by 2020.

In November 2018, Lanxi Qi Da Textile Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Qi Jin Textile Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Qi Yi Technology Co., Ltd. were incorporated into the second textile groups after the Wanzhou group.

In the face of the increasingly complex market environment at home and abroad, more and more textile people in Lanxi realize that only by holding together can we solve the problems of serious homogenization of products and poor industrial synergy, so as to effectively enhance the ability of enterprises to resist market winds and waves and better win the future.