Quanzhou Textile Enterprises Test Water "Special Fabrics" Profit High Technology Difficult

In recent months, Dafa has been in frequent contact with military related units and has considered doing something in military fabrics. At the same time, reporters learned that many of the fabric of gage company received the PLA General Logistics Department Quartermaster Equipment Research Institute. Spin The importance of fabric experts is being further approached. After the successful launch of the self flame retardant fabric, the Tai Lung Group is also further exploring and developing high-end special fabrics.

The special fabrics that test the ability of R & D and technology are beginning to receive. Quanzhou Frequent attention of textile enterprises. However, on this research and development road, enterprises say there are still many difficulties.

　 Profit is high and technology is difficult.

According to the industry, special fabrics are mainly purchased by the government, and government procurement has two characteristics: one is capital adequacy, the other is that the order plan is more stable. Such customers are what textile companies like.

"At the same time, special fabrics are unique and profitable. Therefore, the development and market development of this product has become an active field for local textile enterprises. Many industry insiders said.

However, on the way to special fabrics, the voice of enterprises is not as good as it looks. Start the trial plan, but for various reasons, the implementation of the plan is not fast. This is the general situation of the local enterprises to test the water military fabrics.

"The pace of military operations in the company has slowed down. On the one hand, it is affected by the overall economic environment. On the other hand, the products are running in." Chen Shuyi, deputy general manager of Dafa technology group, told reporters that military products are mainly cotton, so as to achieve antistatic effects. The main intention of Dafa is to replace cotton products with cotton like chemical fiber products. At present, the company is running in with the relevant units.

"There is still a problem of technology research and development. Although special fabrics have high profits, their technical requirements are also very high. The technical difficulties are not all enterprises can do. Our flame-retardant fabric, the initial target market is the field of fire protection, but at present it is only sold in the ordinary consumer market, and has not entered the target market in large scale. " Mr. Wu, director of research and development of Taiwan long group, illustrated by his company's case that there are not many local textile enterprises that can skillfully operate in the development, production and sale of special fabrics.

　　 Large input and small output

Another headache for enterprises is that the development and investment of special fabrics are long and more capital, but the payback period is longer.

"Enterprises are concerned about cost control, when the price of fabric is not within the scope of cost control, then enterprises will not consider. Special fabric products are facing this embarrassment. The industry has said that fabric manufacturers to invest in large cost research and development products are not necessarily favored by enterprises. The special fabrics developed at a high cost will not be strong in circulation. Although the profit of single products will be relatively high, there will be little profit to draw from the comprehensive calculation.

According to Chen Shuyi, Dafa has also been a high-end car airbag product. After a period of time, the low return rate has reduced the enthusiasm of the enterprise. Chen Shuyi gave a comparison of the data. One hundred thousand cars in a year, less than 2 million meters of fabric used for such products, and the largest order at most is only 100 thousand meters. And the capacity demand of Dafa for one year is about 70 million meters. " Japan TOYOTA's air bag products are the biggest in the world, but when they negotiate business, they dare not say how big the business is for a year. We can't find the demand for orders that are comparable with the capacity.

"In fact, some local textile enterprises are not weak in R & D capability, and technically can meet the needs of special fabrics. But they did not develop in this way. The main reason was that they invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to produce products. Enterprises hoped to scale production and sales, but the market demand was only small. From the point of view of business operation, it seems "thankless". This creates a contradiction. " A textile industry insider revealed.

However, many enterprises have a relatively calm mindset. They believe that special fabrics can be used as a brand propaganda tool. "The production of special fabrics is a manifestation of R & D strength. Whether the market needs or not, the development of enterprises should be strengthened in research and development, which is the key to the sustainable development of enterprises. Mr Wu said.