Hebei Gaoyang Blankets Become "Star Industry"

Gaoyang County is located in the eastern part of Baoding, Hebei. It is located in the golden hinterland of 5 cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shi, Bao and Cang.

Inspection and quarantine personnel to inspect blankets

After the reform and opening up, Gaoyang County has been assessed by the state and Hebei as "China textile base county", "the hometown of Chinese blankets" and "the ten strong counties of Hebei characteristic economy". In September 2009, it was awarded the title of "China towel and blanket city" by the China Textile Industry Association.

Product exports sink into adversity.

Gaoyang County has 14 existing blankets producing and exporting enterprises, all of which are self operated export enterprises. Gaoyang blankets are of low quality and high quality, with a unique carpet surface, a bright color, a rich handle and smooth products. The products sell well in more than 50 countries and regions such as the UAE, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and export volume exceeds ten million yuan in recent years.

However, this year, some factors that can not be resisted make the export of Gaoyang blankets face a very severe test.

Internal worries - the substantial increase in cost of raw materials and energy costs such as acrylic, polyester and so on, has greatly increased the cost of blanket production. The increasing labor and employment problems have greatly increased the labor cost and management cost of enterprises; the appreciation of Renminbi has increased the export cost of enterprises and reduced the profit margins of enterprises.

Foreign invasion - the international economic situation is still in the cold winter. The European debt crisis is even more cloudy. The international trade situation is not optimistic. The purchasing power of the international market is decreasing. It has a negative impact on the export of Gaoyang blanket, especially in the developed European and American developed countries. This year, the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, especially the outbreak of the Libya war, made Libya export stagnate for a time, and only recovered in September. The value of Gaoyang blankets exported to Libya in the first 11 months of this year decreased by 63.1% compared with the same period last year.

In addition, the three major chronic diseases restricting the export of Gaoyang blankets still exist.

First, the main export markets are North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia, accounting for about 90% of the total export share; two, the products are mainly made of polyester blankets and acrylic blankets, most of which are medium and low-grade products; the three are mostly fixed, OEM, and few independent brands.

The added value and export price of blankets are relatively low, and the profit margins of enterprises are relatively low. They only earn meager profits in manufacturing and processing links, and the healthy development of the blankets industry is greatly restricted.

Innovation and diversification

In order to help Gao Yang blanket get rid of difficulties and seek development, the Baoding inspection and quarantine bureau provides the right medicine, combines supervision and service, and promotes the development of the blankets industry through measures such as quality improvement, brand radiation, innovation supervision, policy support and so on.

The blankets industry is a labor-intensive industry with a low technical threshold. Only by constantly upgrading technology, developing new products, improving production technology and improving product quality and grade can we move forward.

The Baoding inspection and Quarantine Bureau, with its own technological advantages and information superiority, has made suggestions and suggestions for technological upgrading of enterprises, and guided enterprises to introduce large quantities of advanced production equipment at home and abroad, such as warp knitting machines, automatic printing machines, and so on. The quality and efficiency of products have been improved rapidly.

Over the past ten years, the scale of Gaoyang blankets has grown from hundreds of people to thousands of people. The raw materials turn from acrylic fiber to polyester, and from manual plate printing to automatic flat screen printing.

Baoding inspection and quarantine bureau is closely following the international market development demand, supports the enterprise to speed up the product innovation and the market development dynamics, realizes the product and the market diversification.

On the basis of printing, the enterprises have cut flowers and embossed flowers, forming a variety of varieties mainly based on raschel blanket and acrylic blanket. The new type of polyester blankets can be compared with acrylic blankets in the aspects of handle, appearance and inner quality, and also have advantages of cost performance.

With the development of new products, Gao Yang blankets successfully opened up new markets such as the European Union.

The Baoding inspection and Quarantine Bureau actively explores the inspection mode, vigorously implements the classified enterprise management method, carries out comprehensive assessment and scientific classification for the blanket enterprises, carries out risk analysis from the aspects of the types of export products, the exporting countries and their attention to the products, and sets up the monitoring plan for the safety and health projects according to the risk level and the enterprise management level, and rationally determines the sampling inspection rate of the products, and 4 enterprises have been listed in a category of enterprises.

This not only greatly improves the pertinence and effectiveness of supervision, but also effectively shortens the inspection cycle, improves the speed of product clearance, lightens the burden on enterprises, and improves the competitiveness of export blankets.

Full supervision and strong service

It is understood that Gaoyang blankets are mostly family owned enterprises.

With the growth and growth of enterprises, traditional management methods are hard to adapt to the development of modern enterprises.

The Baoding inspection and Quarantine Bureau has intensified its technical assistance to enterprises, helped enterprises to find weak links in product quality control, and constantly improved the quality management system and product production process, so as to continuously improve the quality management level and product quality assurance capability of enterprises.

At present, 8 export enterprises of Gaoyang blankets have passed the ISO9001 quality management system certification, and have established a complete quality system document. The quality consciousness, safety awareness, responsibility consciousness and management level of the enterprise staff have made considerable progress, which has produced positive significance for the benign development of the blankets industry.

In routine supervision, the Baoding inspection and quarantine bureau is trying to build a monitoring barrier from the raw materials, processing to finished products.

By organizing inspection knowledge and operation training courses, improving self-examination and self-control ability of enterprises, random sampling of raw materials and materials, timely control of first-hand information on products safety, hygiene and environmental protection; daily in-depth understanding of production and actual difficulties of enterprises, finding out the causes with enterprises, setting up rectification measures, enabling enterprises to enter a virtuous circle, strengthening service awareness, strictly carrying out 24 hours' all-weather no holiday promise, implementing AB post policy, and ensuring timely and fast clearance of qualified products.

At the same time, the Baoding inspection and Quarantine Bureau has actively registered the blogs on Sina online with the help of the Internet information technology, created the "light textile exchange QQ group", and set up an information exchange platform. It is open to the enterprises at any time to disclose the international early warning, TBT information, product risk hints, and the latest foreign inspection standards and laws and regulations.

The smooth exchange platform for inspection and enterprise interaction not only helps enterprises to avoid risks to the maximum extent.

It also provides great convenience for enterprises to inquire and learn the relevant policies and knowledge of inspection and quarantine, and become an effective way to further promote the activities of "quality improving services into thousands of enterprises".

In the face of foreign technical trade measures, the Baoding inspection and Quarantine Bureau attaches great importance to the control of safety, hygiene and environmental protection items covered by blankets. On the basis of ensuring the production of export blankets in strict accordance with international standards, the raw materials such as polyester, silk, dyestuff, auxiliaries and other raw materials are strictly tested and regularly verified, and the testing items of banned azo dyes, color fastness, formaldehyde and pH value are regularly detected, so that products meet the requirements of standards and contracts.

Over the past ten years, Gaoyang blankets that have been inspected and exported by Baoding inspection and Quarantine Bureau have never had any quality accidents involving safety and hygiene. Enterprises have established good reputation in the international market, established long-term cooperative clients, and expanded their market share.

Despite the double attack of "internal worry" and "foreign invasion" this year, Gaoyang woolen blankets have made efforts to improve their internal strength under the help of Baoding inspection and Quarantine Bureau.

According to statistics, in the first 11 months of this year, 9 million 730 thousand Gaoyang blankets were exported smoothly, and more and more customers from developed countries in Europe and the United States, such as Yuxi, Yulong Tai and YSL were exported to Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and other countries and regions.

Gaoyang blanket has become a "star industry" to boost the rapid growth of local foreign trade.