The Downstream Demand Of The Textile Industry Is Not Strong, And The Overall Sales Are Not Satisfactory

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2012 for the whole spin In terms of the industry, it seems that the overall sales are not satisfactory. However, compared with the cotton textile and chemical fiber industries, the growth rate of the knitting industry can still remain above 10%, which is also a good result. Although it is slightly lower than the 20% growth rate in previous years, it can still be regarded as a normal growth rate.

At present, although the sales of knitting machines have also been affected, the overall situation is not beyond the range that people can bear: although lace machines fell sharply at the beginning of the year, they rebounded in May and June; The overall sales of warp knitting machines are OK; The sales of computerized flat knitting machines declined significantly. In fact, the feelings of most knitting needle manufacturers are very similar to those of knitting machine manufacturers. Many knitting needle enterprises reported that although this year's peak season is only one month, three or four months less than previous years' peak season, the overall sales were affected, but from the off-season situation, the impact is not significant. This kind of influence is even weaker for enterprises that mainly produce medium and high grade knitting needles.

As knitting needles are consumables, they can not only be matched with the main machines of hosiery machines, computerized flat knitting machines, circular knitting machines and other production enterprises, but also be used for the wear and renewal of equipment of hosiery enterprises and sweater production enterprises. The sharp decline in sales of knitting machinery has made knitting enterprises pay more attention to the demand of knitting enterprises.

But more unfortunately, with the spread of the financial crisis in Europe and the United States and the rise of processing and manufacturing industries in Pakistan, India, Vietnam and other countries, there has been a trend of rising domestic manufacturing costs and low-end foreign trade orders gradually beginning to shift to Southeast Asian countries. Under the impact of this series of objective factors, the traditional sock industry in Zhuji City is in crisis. Shen Yong, the general manager of Zhejiang Pinghu Jinli Knitting Needle Co., Ltd., had a deep feeling about this. He told the reporter that because their company mainly produces knitting needles for hosiery machines, when Zhuji's hosiery industry was booming a few years ago, the company's overtime products were in short supply. Recently, most of the hosiery enterprises in Zhuji stopped production and reduced production, causing the sales volume of Pinghu Jinli Knitting Needle Co., Ltd. to shrink significantly.

Due to the direct impact of fiber price fluctuations, some problems occurred in the sales of computerized flat knitting machines this year. This also allows Kunshan Kaiyi Knitting Co., Ltd. Qian Huogen to prove the correctness of his failure to use the computerized flat knitting machine to knit needles. He said: "When the computer flat knitting machine was popular, many customers in Shanghai rushed to use needles and drove Mercedes Benz and BMW from Shanghai to Kunshan to get needles. At that time, I felt the potential crisis of using needles for flat knitting machines. Everyone could do too much, and there would be problems sooner or later."

The target of positioning medium and high grades is to replace imports

Faced with many unfavorable conditions, many people in Zhuji Sock enterprise Technological innovation has been carried out to find new markets for socks export. New materials, such as coffee bean fiber, pearl protein fiber, wood fiber, have become new materials for hosiery weaving. For example, a kind of socks woven from wood fiber has achieved mass production in Fangzhou Socks Industry Company. The unique glue element of this kind of socks is breathable, antibacterial, and will not harden and pilling after washing. Its wear resistance is more than 10 times higher than that of ordinary cotton socks. It is understood that the successful development of this new product will increase the output value of the enterprise by more than 20 million yuan every year. The use of new materials on socks has undoubtedly raised new technical requirements and problems for many knitting needle production enterprises. Only enterprises that constantly meet this new requirement will firmly grasp their own initiative.

Shen Yong, general manager of Zhejiang Pinghu Jinli Knitting Needle Co., Ltd., told reporters that the company is considering product transformation due to the current poor market. In the future, the company plans to change the focus of product research and development from sock knitting needle to big round knitting needle. He said that although the manufacturing process of big round knitting needles is much more difficult than hosiery knitting, the company is still confident in developing this product.

When talking about the direction of product development, Qian Huogen of Kunshan Kaiyi Knitting Needle Co., Ltd. said that the company will still focus on the research and development of medium and high-grade products in the future, and the company's goal is to replace imports. Qian Huogen explained: "Although our knitting needles cannot be matched with well-known foreign looms, we can make efforts to make our product quality reach the level of foreign enterprises. In this way, once the imported knitting needles fail, we will have the advantages of timely delivery and high cost performance. More importantly, there is a large potential demand in this market."

Multi link construction of high-quality knitting needles

Knitting needle is a kind of knitting equipment with complicated product models and specifications. At the same time, it is also a precision product. It is a metal product that requires good dimensional consistency, smooth surface, good elasticity, fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance. Only when the strict requirements for use are met, can satisfactory knitwear be produced. To produce high-quality knitting products, we need to start with selecting high-quality steel, paying attention to production details, and conducting complete testing. {page_break}

First, select special high-quality steel. As China's iron and steel industry not only has a weak research foundation, but also does not attach enough importance to the research and development of special and small batch steel grades under the market economy conditions, China's knitting needle manufacturers have no special steel to choose from in China, and have to purchase from German, Swedish and other manufacturers, although the price is relatively expensive, However, it has very important reuse and significance for improving product quality and grade. Qian Huogen of Kunshan Kaiyi Knitting Needle Co., Ltd. stressed that the quality of raw materials has a direct bearing on the quality of knitting needles. Spending more money to buy good materials to produce knitting needles is an average cost of a few cents more per needle. Customers can recognize that as long as the product quality is good, even if the price of finished products is raised a little, they will not worry about the sales of products.

Secondly, the knitting needle is a process element of knitting machinery, which is closely related to the quality of knitted fabrics. Since the knitting needle is an inconspicuous small part, the consistency of batch products is required to be good in the production process, so attention should be paid to the manufacturing quality of details, such as size, shape, hardness, elasticity, surface roughness, etc, These small links often determine the grade of product quality.

Finally, a complete detection system is needed. Although the knitting needle is small, its manufacturing technology design in many fields, such as wear, tear, fatigue, etc., needs targeted failure analysis, chemical analysis, and then adjust the analysis indicators accordingly, which requires a complete detection system. At the same time, a complete detection system is also a need for the production enterprises to continuously improve their quality. Although these requirements are not low for domestic knitting needle production at present, if domestic knitting needles want to be used in knitting needle international market This is another threshold that must be crossed.