Development Trend Of Fashion Fabrics: Health Care Function

The development of health care textiles needs DNA of quality.

Nowadays, more and more research achievements are made in fabrics, showing a high trend in the development of fabric's functional properties, recycled materials and new fiber materials.

Health care textiles are one example.

Reporters learned that most of the health care functional textiles are knitted fabrics, knitted fabrics have the advantages of comfortable, breathable, cool and flexible, and are suitable for being widely made into health care sportswear, health and leisure T-shirts, and health care underwear.

However, due to the knitted fabric's own organization, health care functional textiles generally have poor appearance after washing, poor shape retention after washing and poor dimensional stability.

"Once bitten by a snake, ten years shy of the shaft."

Poor health care products have begun to bring disaster to the entire health care functional textiles market, and many consumers are increasingly suspicious of the textiles with health care functions.

Quality improvement has become a "problem to be solved" for China's health care functional textile industry.

In addition, in the "Zhang Wu Ben incident", we have seen the importance of modern people's health and the drawbacks of the health care regulatory system in China.

"Nano towels" hyped up

Rapid development, lack of standards, uneven quality levels, exaggerated publicity and confusion in price system have become "adjectives" of China's health care functional textiles.

As far as quality is concerned, for most of the health care functional textiles, consumers can not identify them by their own abilities. This needs to be strengthened by the quality supervision department to rectify the market order, and the auxiliary equipment of professional organizations is also needed.

"Towels with no dead skin, no hair removal, no bacteria, easy to absorb water, 8 yuan, a big sale at a loss!" in a section of a bridge in Panyu District, Guangzhou, the reporter saw this "nano towel" with many health functions.

Shopkeeper Mr. Chen told this reporter that he saw many sellers selling such "nano towels" on Taobao online last month. They sold very hot and bought their own products in Guangzhou for sale in the field.

Reporters carefully observed a number of so-called "nano towels", the handle is really good, but the towel has not marked the manufacturer, nor the formation of fiber, production license and product manuals is not.

"Nanotechnology is not mature in textiles." nano towels are purely hype, and businesses are also bully consumers, who can't test quality at all. "

Experts pointed out that at present, there is no national standard to determine what nano towels are.

"Nanomaterials are mostly used for waterproofing and friction resistance. They are not good enough for towels."

Hard to verify "bamboo charcoal clothing"

Bamboo charcoal is known as "black diamond" and is known as the "new guard for environmental protection in twenty-first Century".

It has a unique honeycomb pore structure, which makes bamboo charcoal fibers have a strong adsorption capacity and the ability to emit far infrared rays.

However, a recent survey by reporters found that many businesses' clothes with "bamboo charcoal" concept are very vague.

Bamboo charcoal fiber has many excellent characteristics such as removing peculiar smell, shielding computer clothing, far infrared and so on. However, reporters found that in many bamboo charcoal clothing, bamboo products can clearly indicate the origin and firing temperature of bamboo charcoal. At least, only one "bamboo charcoal underpants" indicates that the product is Taiwan Meng Zhu bamboo. After 800 degree high temperature smouldering of traditional kiln, it can effectively adsorb formaldehyde, eliminate bacteria and release negative ions.

"Bamboo charcoal fiber adsorption on formaldehyde and other harmful substances can be divided into macropores, micropores, mesopores and other different pore sizes. The adsorption capacity of specific diameter bamboo charcoal fiber to harmful substances is limited, that is, bamboo charcoal can not adsorb all gases."

Experts told reporters that in addition, bamboo charcoal fiber to achieve radiation protection effect, we must go through 1000 degrees above the high temperature, the release of negative ions or so far has not been able to verify.

At present, many manufacturers are producing bamboo charcoal fibers, but in fact, how many bamboo charcoal fibers are contained, or what kind of bamboo charcoal fibers are used are difficult to verify. This is also a big gap in the supervision of bamboo charcoal fiber quality in China.

Complaints about health textiles rose sharply

According to the complaint report recently released by the China Consumers' Association, in the first quarter of 2010, more than 130 thousand complaints were received from all over the country, of which the quality problem reached more than half, which was 56%.

In the complaints industry, the clothing industry is the largest, reaching 29.4% of the total.

Among them, the number of complaints about health care products (including health care functional textiles) increased significantly, up 42.1% over the same period last year.

"People's living standards have improved, and their input in health care has also increased significantly, especially those who are old and weak or suffer from chronic diseases. They rely on health care functional textiles as their own treatment and Johnson, but the results are often less than desirable. Many products are inferior in quality, and some have also added a lot of prohibited ingredients."

Experts pointed out that although the disease can not be cured, but this kind of textile can also regulate human body function, with a series of functions such as far-infrared radiation, radiation protection, magnetic function, antibacterial function and so on.

In the view of Zhou Bangyong, Deputy Secretary General of China Health Care Association, the current health care functional textiles market is more serious than the lack of standards.

He pointed out that in the ten kinds of functions such as antibacterial, negative ions, anti radiation, anti thrombosis, magnetic function, far-infrared, and varicose veins claimed by the manufacturer, only functional textiles such as magnetic health, far-infrared, antibacterial and health care have the standard of association, and other claimed functions have no standards, not to mention national standards.

The head of marketing in Guangzhou, a health care functional textile manufacturer, told China's "fiber inspection". "In order to avoid competition with traditional cotton and chemical fiber clothing, our company will play a healthy brand this year, and seize more market with new products."

At present, the textiles with health care functions have begun to expand to many fields, such as health, environmental protection, medical treatment, chemical industry and nanometer.

In 2015, there were 200 billion markets for health textiles.

"In 2009, China has become the world's second largest health care functional textile consumer market after the US, with a total sales volume of US $13 billion 400 million, second only to the US $14 billion 700 million, and is growing at an annual rate of 20%."

In May 30, 2010, the Chinese health care association and the China Knitting Industry Association jointly held the Summit Forum on the current situation and development of Chinese health care functional textiles, and the data provided by Zhou Bangyong showed that

At present, health care functional textiles, as part of the health care products which are juxtaposed with health food, have exceeded the market sales of health foods.

"In 2015, the market scale of health care functional textiles reaches 200 billion yuan."

Zhou Bangyong predicts.

According to the reporter, Japan's health care functional textiles have accounted for 39% of all textiles, the United States is 28%, and China's proportion is still very small, the market prospect is very broad.

According to the definition of health care functional textiles CAS115-2005 of China Health Care Association in October 2006, health care functional textiles refer to health care functions such as far-infrared ray function, magnetic field function and antibacterial function. They are designed to regulate and improve body functions, not to treat diseases, and do not produce any toxic and side effects on human body.

There are many varieties of health care textiles.

As far as clothing is concerned, there are hundreds of health care textiles, such as shirts, sanitary clothing, chest gird, bottompants, sportswear, underwear (autumn and winter suits, body and warmth), T-Shirts, shorts, pajamas, cultural shirts, maternity clothes, professional wear and so on.

Experts point out that, while counterfeit and shoddy flooded, some of the textile products that really have good health effects are "hidden in the boudoir".

On the one hand, because of its lack of affinity to the people, it is also too high technology on the other hand, so that even the salesmen themselves do not know clearly.

The industry is in urgent need of "high quality cry", which is based on systematic training of salesmen in enterprises so that they can introduce products to consumers in plain language.

"Because health care functional textiles have certain technological content and health effects, they can not only meet the needs of clothing, but also meet the needs of health. Therefore, the price is higher than traditional textiles, which is beyond criticism."

Zhou Bangyong believes that the close cooperation between the upper and lower reaches is the cornerstone of the healthy development of health care textiles, that is, the interaction of "material, beauty and road".

The responsibility of upstream is to ensure the safety and effectiveness of raw materials; the middle reaches are the manufacture of fashionable and comfortable products; the downstream is to explore new marketing channels and techniques, and implement brand strategy.

Yao Mu, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, pointed out that knitting industry and health care functional textiles have made outstanding achievements in the aspects of raw material innovation, technological and technological innovation, special equipment innovation, design innovation, functional innovation, humanistic concept innovation, brand management and management innovation, especially in practical functional aspects. Knitted fabrics and knitted garments have taken a broad road.