Broad Prospects For Seamless Weaving Equipment In China

With the continuous improvement of the living standards of the people, the demand for underwear has gradually increased. At present, the seamless underwear market has gradually formed in China.

Along with the hot selling of seamless underwear products, it will also lead to the comprehensive and rapid development of seamless weaving equipment.

Recently, I made a random survey of the consumer's awareness of seamless underwear in a large clothing store in Beijing.

The results show that up to 85% of consumers do not understand the seamless underwear and its characteristics; 10% of consumers know, but do not know what the advantages of seamless underwear are, and are willing to try; only 5% of consumers say they have bought seamless products.

It can be seen that at present, seamless underwear is still relatively fresh in the eyes of most consumers in China, and the market of seamless underwear has not really formed yet.

In the future, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people's demand for sports underwear and body underwear will gradually increase and their functions and characteristics will be understood.

Most domestic consumers once fully accept seamless underwear products, will show a huge market space, which is also unmatched by other countries and regions.

Along with the hot selling of seamless underwear products, it will also lead to the comprehensive and rapid development of seamless weaving equipment.

Seamless equipment market is vast

The concept of seamless knitting began in the 80s of last century.

PatrickSilvaSzatkowski, the marketing manager of Saint Anthony Italian company, said that although China has just started its seamless apparel industry in recent years, it has developed rapidly.

In recent years, the development of seamless products has gradually shifted from the European market to the Asian market, and China is one of the largest markets.

In addition, investors' investment in high-tech equipment with market potential is also a factor in the rapid development of seamless equipment.

According to introduction, the seamless products of Asian market in 2010

Xu Ning, Secretary General of Yiwu seamless weaving Association, said that at present, the market share of seamless weaving equipment in China's underwear industry is about 5%.

However, from the perspective of development trend, seamless garments will become the upgrading and replacement products of traditional textile and garments.

As far as underwear market is concerned, the development of seamless underwear is quite mature. At this stage, from the statistical analysis of equipment to the market share of products, the global market is about 20%, and the domestic underwear market is 10%.

But with the development of seamless weaving technology, the increase of machine productivity and the shift of consumer direction, especially in the domestic market which is still dominated by sewing products, 30% of the products in the underwear market are expected to be seamless in the next 3~5 years.

The technical superiority is obvious and the operation difficulty is high.

Seamless weaving technology is based on the body curve and physiological functions, relying on computer-aided programming style design, the use of intelligent digital processing means of production, so that the finished products in three-dimensional, a piece of modeling structure directly from the machine produced by a technology.

Compared with the traditional knitting production method, seamless technology has the advantages of reducing labor costs, reducing the waste of raw materials, and making flexible changes in the organizational structure to create three-dimensional (3D) solid structures.

According to PatrickSilvaSzatkowski, the "seamless" process can directly weave yarn into garments, eliminating many processes, greatly simplifying the production mode and reducing the production cost.

As seamless products are not stitched, clothing is on the side seam.

Although the advantages of seamless weaving technology are obvious, but for most of the domestic enterprises that have just started, they are somewhat "acclimatized".

Liu Fan, deputy general manager of Shenzhen Mei Bai Clothing Co., Ltd., told the author that the United States mainly produces seamless knitted underwear in the past hundred years, and the existing seamless underwear knitting machine 78. Due to the high precision and fine operation of the equipment, the technical requirements are even higher, which requires more specialized technical workers.

If the operation is not proper, it is easy to produce circuit faults. Defective products and wastage are larger than traditional clothing enterprises.

And all products are single piece weaving, even if the same cylinder dyed, there will be a certain chromatic aberration, the size is greatly affected by the environment, and the tolerance range is larger.

Xu Ning also said that because of the stronger dependence of knitted garments on production equipment, different organizational structures and different styles of design were not separated from seamless electronic jacquard knitting machines. Once the equipment failed, the production was greatly affected.

High quality is the winner of the future.

Although the market prospect of seamless equipment is good, but in dealing with the problem of disorderly competition and price war in the future market, it is "benevolence and benevolence" and "wise men see wisdom", but we believe that only high-quality and high standard equipment will win the market in the future.

PatrickSilvaSzatkowski told me that seamless equipment should not only be synonymous with high production, but also represents high quality.

Many seamless products in Europe represent high quality, soft fabric and comfortable style.

Many famous brands produce seamless series of garments. Domestic enterprises should have such awareness. They only pursue low cost and price war.

The only way is to control the cost while improving the quality of products.

Only in this way can we win the market.

San Tung will continue to focus on market information, understand customer needs, provide technical support and proofing services for enterprises, improve machine performance in a timely manner to meet customer needs and jointly upgrade the industry level.

In this regard, Xu Ning said that for the future may arise due to the rapid development of seamless knitting equipment, resulting in disorderly competition, price war.

We should look for differentiation and precision development, enhance technological skills, and reduce the price squeeze between them.

And to seek breakthroughs in equipment technology, to avoid the current situation of disorderly low price competition with technology, and the high quality equipment, high capacity and high standard production capacity is the only way to highlight the tight encirclement in disorderly competition.

Although there are obvious differences between domestic equipment and foreign equipment, domestic equipment is also promising in the future.

Xu Ning put forward his own suggestions and views on the future development of seamless equipment manufacturers in China.

Domestic equipment enterprises should actively learn technological process, research and develop domestic seamless knitted key equipment and core components, and try to solve the problem of overseas equipment after-sales service, especially the supply and maintenance of spare parts.

Furthermore, combined with the current situation of low technical quality of workers in China, we have developed machines that are more suitable for domestic textile enterprises.

But resolutely resist the phenomenon of low quality in pursuit of immediate profit.

Foreign equipment is irreplaceable, some parts can not be produced in China, especially in the high-end field, foreign equipment has absolute advantage, even in a monopoly position.

Domestic manufacturers of seamless equipment must have a correct attitude and continue to improve the quality, performance and process design of equipment in the light of learning and learning attitude.

We must not go to extreme price wars and push the market towards abnormal development.