How To Develop The Market Of "Needle Point" In Loom Industry?

This year, the textile machinery industry is under the influence of the macro development environment and entered the adjustment period of slower growth.

"The annual inventory and prospect" of textile machinery industry, the demand, current situation and trend of textile machinery equipment in various fields are estimated and prospected one by one.

2012 is not easy for the entire textile and textile machinery industry.

Some companies believe that this year's situation is even worse than that of the financial crisis in 2008.

On the one hand, downstream textiles

The contradiction between supply and demand, cost and so on has been highlighted. The international market situation is grim, resulting in slower investment growth and less demand for equipment this year. On the other hand, the whole machinery manufacturing industry, including textile machinery, is more affected by the global economic boom than the general manufacturing industry.

Although the whole textile machinery industry is affected by the macro development environment, it will enter a period of slower growth. However, different categories of textile machinery manufacturing enterprises will also face different choices in the market direction due to the differences in the development of downstream industries.

The report released by the Ministry of industry and information technology shows that the loss of cotton spinning and chemical fiber industry at the front of the industrial chain is aggravated this year.

In addition, demand for overseas looms has increased this year.

Therefore, for loom manufacturers, extending the production of equipment to industrial textiles, home textiles and other "needle" areas (i.e. niche market, a niche market with a small but profitable basis) or targeted and professional products, and developing the offshore market in many ways may be a good choice for this year and even for some time to come.

Overseas market growth

The growth rate of textile production in China has obviously declined this year, and the export volume has decreased. The loss of cotton spinning and chemical fiber industry at the front of the industrial chain is increasing. This will affect the market demand of weaving equipment for cotton spinning and chemical fiber to a large extent.

According to the report released by the State Ministry of industry and commerce, 1~5 production increased by 11.6% over the same period last year, and the growth rate of textile enterprises decreased by 4.1 percentage points over the same period last year. The growth rate of domestic textile investment slowed down, and the fixed assets investment growth rate of the textile industry over 5 million yuan was 17.7 percentage points lower than that of the same period last year, which is lower than the 1.6 percentage point growth rate of fixed assets investment in the same period.

Even from the point of view of imports, domestic market demand for looms is not optimistic.

Data show that in 2012 1~3 months, China's imports of looms $178 million 500 thousand, down 36.05% over the same period.

The report of the Ministry of industry and commerce is expected that textile enterprises will still be in a difficult position in the second half of this year, and the overall efficiency of the industry will decline sharply compared with the previous year. This also means that the traditional loom Market in the second half of this year will not be significantly changed.

However, in view of the overseas loom Market, especially in Southeast Asia, this year's performance is in sharp contrast to the domestic market.

Data show that in 2012 1~3 months, China's looms achieved an export of US $49 million 500 thousand, an increase of 67.11% over the same period last year, although loom exports accounted for a small proportion of the total textile machinery exports and the total sales volume of China's looms. However, a substantial increase in exports has already released a positive signal for overseas market demand for looms.

Take India, the largest market of China's textile machinery exports, for example, in the 1~3 months of this year, China exported $15 million 100 thousand to India, an increase of 53.23% compared with the same period last year.

Another evidence comes from the official statistics of Japan Fiber Machinery Association.

Data show that in 1~4 months this year, Japanese export looms were 14 billion 238 million yen, an increase of 68% over the same period last year.

Under the premise of the decline of loom imports in China, the demand for looms in overseas markets is increasing rapidly.

Loom demand differentiation

At the 2012 China International Textile Machinery Exhibition and ITMA Asia Exhibition held this year, the looms of overseas looms manufacturers have become one of the highlights of the exhibition. This also indicates that one of the trends of the loom market will be towards the development of new looms with small quantities and high added value.

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Germany's Dore has launched a rapier and air-jet loom dedicated to industrial cloth and high quality fabric.

The P1 series PTS 4/S C rapier loom has a nominal width of 220 cm, and a thick filter cloth for industrial use. The AWS 8/S G air-jet loom has a nominal width of 220 cm, which is used for high demand wool fabrics in the field of garment production. PTS 16/J G rapier loom, with nominal width of 190 cm, can be used to weave high quality jacquard fabrics for home textiles.

These looms are applied in the fields of industry, high-end clothing and home textiles, which meet the personalized customization needs of the high-end textile market.

Mueller, Switzerland, shows the latest loom products such as narrow looms and trademark looms.

Among them, NH2 53 is an electronic control for weaving elastic and inelastic narrow looms.

Compared with the traditional shuttle less machine, the NH2 53 machine needs less mechanical parts, which can reduce wear and reduce energy consumption by about 35%.

Compared with the previous MBJ model, the MBJ6 trademark loom has increased sixth sets of threads, so that the rated weaving width of the machine has increased to 1380 millimeters, and the output is 20% higher.

This year, Jakob Mueller's new plant in Suzhou will be put into operation to meet the rapidly increasing demand for Malata shuttleless looms and M GRIP and MVC looms and more models.

It is gratifying to note that some domestic spinning machinery enterprises are also paying more and more attention to the "needle point" market of looms, and have explored the niche market.

For example, Huzhou Modern Textile Machinery Co., Ltd. exhibited a S12 narrow high-speed trademark machine, which was successfully ordered by Fujian Xinli company during the exhibition.

This trademark machine is a high speed loom designed by Huzhou Modern Textile Machinery Co., Ltd., jointly with Italy famous loom manufacturer, designed for trademark weaving. It is a high-end market oriented machine.

The normal running speed of the machine is 550 RPM / ~680 rpm, and fast beating up can easily achieve the requirement of high quality trademark and achieve rich and colorful stereoscopic effect.

The whole machine has realized automatic control of all electric, eliminated all clutches, and realized high-speed operation. The electric control system of Italy has achieved high efficiency and high standard of whole machine control.

The textile machinery industry "12th Five-Year" development guidance points out that during the "12th Five-Year" period, loom technology research and industrialization projects include new modular shuttleless looms, high-speed towel rapier looms, high-speed towel air-jet looms, double deck looms, mechatronics special looms, carpet rapier looms, etc. many of them are still blank in China, and these fields will become an important position for looms enterprises to break through the traditional loom Market and achieve sustainable development in the future.

Refinement of traditional looms

Despite the difficulties facing the development of traditional weaving industry such as cotton weaving and denim this year, orders for weaving equipment have declined, but in the long run, the demand for traditional weaving equipment will remain above a huge base in both overseas and domestic markets.

However, with the gradual deepening of the structural adjustment of the textile industry, the demand for loom equipment will be higher and higher in the downstream enterprises, and the demand for intelligentization, energy saving and consumption reduction of looms will be better than before.

Hong Haicang, deputy director of the Shanghai Textile Engineering Society weaving Specialized Committee, believes that the technical trend of shuttleless looms includes modular design concepts and applications, information and intelligent control systems, and the application of high efficiency and low consumption technologies.

According to Hong Haicang's summary, the modular design and application of shuttleless looms abroad are most typical in Europe at the same time producing rapier and air-jet looms, such as the German German and the Italy's Yida, the rapier and air-jet looms of the company are all using the "common module".

In recent years, Japanese Tsuda Ko and Toyota Corporation's jet and water jet looms have also adopted some "common modules". Through the full application and promotion of modularization concept, the ability to respond quickly to the market, personalized customization and cost reduction has been greatly enhanced, which has been well demonstrated in foreign rapier and air-jet looms, and is an efficient production technology.

Information network technology is a higher level of computer technology application of foreign high end shuttleless looms. Most of foreign high-end looms have functions of network and weaving management.

The information network technology is the high-end control technology that needs to be perfected in the domestic high-end loom control system.

After efficient production of foreign looms, after highly mechanical and electrical integration, electrification of moving parts and intelligent control system, besides improving efficiency directly from high speed, the weft insertion system of looms has been improved. It has adopted a number of technological innovations to improve the efficient production capacity of looms.

At present, the weft program tension controller has been widely applied in shuttle shuttleless machines abroad. The products of the wholly foreign-owned enterprises in China are displayed and the price is very competitive.

Domestic air jet looms can learn from advanced foreign technology to improve the level of control system, and do in-depth research on related technologies, such as rapid detection technology, data processing, control software and servo valve. The quality and technical level of supporting equipment, such as domestic main nozzles, auxiliary nozzle, solenoid valve and electronic components, must also be improved simultaneously, so as to maximize the requirements of saving energy and reducing consumption.

Market demand is a trial for enterprise products.

In the environment of sluggish market, there is still a steady development of loom enterprises, which shows that loom enterprises will make good progress in the development of looms, so that they will win the competition in the competition with their counterparts.