Ningbo's Knitted Apparel Industry Is Quietly Changing.

"Do you have spare cash or do you want to buy some? automation "Try it!" recently, whenever the bosses of the knitwear industry in Ningbo gathered together, someone could not help mentioning this sentence.

Faced with the continuous rising labor costs in recent years, and the shortage of phased employment that occurs every year, more and more capital producing knitted garment manufacturers have begun to believe in the power of automatic machinery, and have paid for all kinds of computerized flat knitting machines and other related automation machines.

Yinzhou Ningbo Noble Garments Co., Ltd. is one of the typical examples. This is a professional production. High-grade woolen sweater Enterprises. Although the company has developed well in recent years and its business is quite stable, the company has left a rather steady impression on the outside world. The company's output has always been in the medium scale, and few have heard of its huge investment in the expansion of enterprises. Last year, however, the company bought 34 fully automated computer horizontal machines. Moreover, these 34 flat knitting machines include 22 German STOL automatic computerized flat knitting machines and 12 domestic made cistar automatic computerized flat knitting machines, with a total investment of over about 10000000 yuan.

"This is, of course, our company's biggest one-time expenditure last year." Zhu Xudong, assistant general manager of the company, said in an interview with reporters recently. Through further interviews, it is not the first time that the company has bought an automatic computerized flat knitting machine. Since 2008, the company has been buying STOL computer flat knitting machine in Germany. "I remember that at that time, the price of the imported brand flat knitting machine was much more expensive than it is now, and it costs about 600000 yuan per unit." Their company has invested in automatic computerized flat knitting machine for three consecutive years. Up to now, the company has equipped 50 automatic stall computer flat knitting machines and 12 domestic made cistar automatic flat knitting machines.

Nevertheless, Zhu Xudong said: "this year, we will continue to invest in the purchase of the German STOL automatic flat knitting machine and other imported production equipment, in order to further enhance the competitiveness of enterprises."

Not only small and medium-sized private knitted garment enterprises are keen on purchasing automatic machinery, but also the large enterprises that have won large scale production. The responsible person of the textile and garment industry of YOUNGOR group in Ningbo (YOUNGOR vice president of yarn dyed fabric technology Co., Ltd.) recently introduced an interview with reporters. As early as 2008, YOUNGOR has already purchased 120 automatic computerized flat knitting machines of all kinds. At present, Ding Kai Zheng is busy with other major events related to automation upgrading. One of the major events is that the company decided to purchase a modern "automatic knitting hanging system" in the garment production workshop. "At least about 10000000 yuan will be spent on the system," he said. But when installed, the efficiency of the garments will be increased by 25%. This also means that the pressure of employment in this area will be greatly reduced. Ding Kaizheng said.

Another important thing Ding Kaizheng disclosed is that in the company's winding workshop, the company decided to invest 20 million yuan in 2011 to transform the automatic winding equipment system. "In the windscreen workshop, the original labor force is the yarn winding process, the yarn should be artificially tied and broken. With this automatic winding device, the machine will automatically complete the knot process after winding. In the winding workshop, it will also reduce more than 20% employment. "

It is noted in the interview that private knitted garment enterprises have invested huge sums of money in the purchase of automated machinery. There are many reasons, for example, high-end machinery and equipment can help enterprises improve their production processes. But by comparison, saving Labor cost This is obviously the most important reason for these private enterprises to choose the road of automatic production.

"At present, the cost of labor is getting higher and higher, and workers are still in short supply when factories are busiest in the beginning of the year. If enterprises do not carry out automatic transformation, there will be danger of being eliminated. "During the interview, many executives of knitted garment enterprises said so. {page_break}

In the interview process, Zhu Feilong, general manager of Noble, made a detailed account. At present, the company has purchased 62 computerized flat knitting machines, which can definitely reach more than 350 skilled workers in terms of efficiency, and now it is enough to maintain and maintain these 62 computerized flat knitting machines. The company only needs to arrange 42 employees. "You can see that these automated machines are expensive, but the labor costs that have risen in recent years have brought greater pressure to enterprises. I've figured out that with these more than 60 computerized flat knitting machines, I can recruit fewer than 300 workers, plus pensions and so on. The annual cost of labor in the company can therefore be reduced by about 10000000 yuan. Do you think it would be worthwhile for me to buy these computerized flat knitting machines?