Fierce Competition Forces High-End And Intelligent Products To Be The Trend Of Development

In recent years, the demand for knitwear continues to grow, driving the rapid development of knitting equipment. At the same time, the knitting machinery and equipment industry continues to absorb the latest achievements of the world's science and technology. The technical level has developed rapidly, and the technology intensive characteristics are more prominent. It can be said that after years of rapid development of China's knitting equipment industry, the industrial scale effect has emerged. At present, under the leadership of a group of leading enterprises such as "Cixing", the industry has entered the intensive cultivation stage of developing independent technology and building famous brands. Domestic knitting equipment is also playing an increasingly important role in the world. The 16th Shanghai International spin At the industrial exhibition, many knitting equipment enterprises participated in the exhibition, telling about the progress of the industry and the problems encountered.

Fierce competition forces high-end products

Intelligence is the trend of development

The rapid development of the knitting equipment industry and the rapid expansion of the industrial scale have brought higher cost performance products to the domestic downstream market and effectively responded to the impact of foreign products on the domestic market. At the same time, the early market expansion has also fully accumulated capital and experience for the subsequent upgrading. At present, the industry is highly competitive, and enterprises are full of sense of hardship. The person in charge of Fujian Taifan Industry Co., Ltd. said that at present, the pressure of competition in the industry is too great, especially last year, when the market was depressed, the enterprises have thought a lot of ways to reduce costs.

On the one hand, the cost reduction is to improve the production process of knitting machinery manufacturers themselves, so as to save energy and reduce consumption on the production line; On the other hand, it helps downstream enterprises reduce management and operation costs. The most important manifestation of this is to introduce more intelligent equipment to help downstream enterprises solve the problem of high labor costs. However, some enterprises' practices in cost reduction have hurt the good momentum of the healthy development of the industry. The relevant person in charge of Quanzhou Jingmagnesium Machinery Co., Ltd. said that the current fierce competition in the industry has led some enterprises to cut prices and disrupt the order of the industry. While cutting prices, they used low-quality accessories to ensure profits, which is detrimental to the long-term development of the industry.

As for the practice of vicious competition, insiders pointed out that the reason behind it was the unreasonable industrial structure. It is understood that at present, the market competition of knitting machinery has squeezed the profit of low-grade products. Some enterprise representatives said that the profit of low-grade knitting machines was only about 10%, or even lower; The profit of high-grade knitting machinery can reach more than 30%. High grade products have high technical threshold and obvious technical advantages. However, many key technologies in the industry have been mastered by major enterprises at home and abroad and technical barriers have been set up in the form of patents. Large enterprises, especially foreign enterprises, generally have a long business history, and have accumulated many years of technical experience in machinery manufacturing, knitting process research, electric control system development, etc. It is difficult for newly entered enterprises to fully grasp the technology involved in the industry in a short period of time, and reach a higher technical threshold.

In response to this situation, domestic enterprises have their own initiatives. For example, after Ningbo Cixing Co., Ltd. acquired the world's third-largest computer flat knitting machine manufacturer, Stengel Group, and took the Swiss R&D base as the new product R&D platform, the successfully developed products were first produced in small batch in Shanghai, and then transferred to Ningbo for large-scale production after the technology was mature. Quanzhou Jingmagnesium Machinery Co., Ltd., originally a Taiwan owned enterprise, has been acquired by Italian Santoni Holding. With Italian technology, the company's products are more refined and stable.

From the perspective of market demand and technical development of different types of knitting equipment, the computerization of knitting machinery has increased year by year, and computer control technologies, including electronic needle selection, electronic thread adjustment, and electronic automatic yarn bending, have been widely applied, and the level has continued to improve. It is an important way to improve production efficiency to increase the maximum speed of the big round machine under stable working conditions. In recent years, Italian Santoni Company and Taiwan Attapult Company have launched high-speed models. The computer jacquard circular knitting machine is limited by the needle selection frequency of the electronic needle selector, so the machine speed is low. However, through the improvement of manufacturing, matching and control accuracy, the rotational speed of the computer jacquard circular machine is also increasing.

At the exhibition, Dianyang Knitting Machinery Co., Ltd. mainly brought computer double-sided circular knitting machine, computer jacquard circular knitting machine and other machinery, and matched three functional position full width jacquard needle selection system (full needle, half needle, flat needle) on the series of double-sided computer jacquard knitting machines, which is stable in operation. The machine adopts a computer system that is easy to learn, convenient for input, and can read standard drawing files through a jacquard controller, with short time and high efficiency. CF memory card is used for mechanical storage to facilitate the access and storage of drawings and files on the computer.

In addition to the computerization of the round knitting machine, the flat knitting machine has become more intelligent. Rongrong Feihu (Dongguan) Machinery Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. exhibited WW-252SC/WW-252SCM series fully computerized horizontal knitting machines at this exhibition. With the control of computer needle selection, it can perform full function knitting and molding. The independent sinker system can also easily weave special tissues that lack tension. The machine adopts a touch screen, which can easily change the set value of the machine, saving effort and time. Wen Weiqi, general manager of sales of the company, said that the intelligent knitting machine can help customers save the cost of personnel operation and training, and also save manpower, which is welcomed by downstream customers.

Zhejiang Luosu Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a professional manufacturer of cotton socks and silk socks. They also applied computer technology to stockings machines. ROSSO-04MJ and ROSSO-12 stockings machines launched by the company are fully computerized electrified single needle tube stockings machines, which can produce stockings and pants, flower in flower, twill, bikini and other products with various patterns and patterns. The person in charge of the company introduced that computer operating equipment can produce more diversified products more quickly, which can ensure that customers keep up with the market trend and improve their competitive strength. Moreover, compared with the same type of machinery abroad, there is not much difference in the type and quality of socks produced by this machine, but the price can be 40% cheaper.

There are still constraints in refined development

Knitting enterprises need knitting machines to operate for a long time, stably and efficiently, and have high requirements for product accuracy, stability and reliability. The processing accuracy of knitting machine parts is an important factor affecting product quality. The head of Quanzhou Jingmagnesium Machinery Co., Ltd. said that the knitting needles used by enterprises are generally imported. In addition to the inherent weakness of domestic knitting needles in strength and service life, the precision of processing technology is also insufficient. One person in charge of the enterprise even said that the use of domestic knitting needles would drag the mechanical performance of the machine.

According to the introduction of the enterprise, the foreign knitting needles can generally last for 6 months, while the domestic good knitting needles can barely last for 3 months. According to insiders, the reason why small knitting needles have become a weak point in the development of the industry is that the current situation of knitting needle manufacturing enterprises in China is generally small in production scale, weak in R&D capability, low in equipment accuracy and low in heat treatment level has not been significantly improved. Only some models of products of individual enterprises have made progress, which has touched foreign products and reduced their sales prices at home. The assets of knitting needle manufacturing enterprises are also uneven. The assets of larger enterprises may exceed ten million yuan, and the assets of smaller enterprises may only be several hundred thousand yuan. Due to the limited independent development capacity of most enterprises, the technological content of domestic needle making equipment is relatively low, and the processing accuracy can not meet the requirements of high-end knitting needles. Most products are mainly medium and low-grade knitting needles, which is still far behind the knitting needle products produced by well-known foreign companies.

As a well-known knitting needle manufacturer abroad, the head of Samsung Precision Knitting Company in South Korea said that the main reason why their knitting needles are popular in China is the stable quality. Samsung's knitting needle customers have included major domestic computer flat knitting machine manufacturers, such as Cixing flat knitting machine, Feihu flat knitting machine, etc. It is understood that knitting machinery enterprises have a large number of non-standard parts to produce, and the industry generally uses outsourcing processing to obtain parts. In consideration of the requirements for parts processing accuracy and technical confidentiality, core parts suppliers have established long-term and stable cooperative relationships with existing large enterprises in the industry. With the progress of technology, the processing technology of parts suppliers and knitting machinery enterprises have developed together, and the processing accuracy has rapidly improved. The mature parts processing technology has become one of the main barriers for new enterprises to enter.