Wenzhou Shoe Industry "Machine Change" Export Rapid Growth

Wenzhou customs yesterday released foreign trade data, except last March, last January to January this year, Wenzhou footwear exports year-on-year growth has been a single digit or even negative. But in February of this year, the footwear export of our city swept away in the doldrums, an increase of more than 70% over the same period last year, mainly due to Wenzhou city. Shoe enterprises Machine substitutions.

Performance:

Wenzhou shoes exported 2 billion 217 million yuan in February. The import and export volume of our city in 1~2 month was 23 billion 1 million yuan, up 21.17%.

Footwear exports in February were gratifying and exported 2 billion 217 million yuan, up 73.52%.

The import of raw cattle and horse skin related to shoe production has also seen rapid growth in 1~2 months this year, with imports of 311 million yuan, up 46.41%.

Affected by the overall economic environment, the export situation of Wenzhou footwear last year was grim. In January of this year, Wenzhou footwear Exit The amount is 2 billion 936 million yuan, down 10.48% compared with the same period last year.

Information from shoe companies shows that footwear exports in our city increased rapidly in February this year, mainly because of the fact that Wenzhou shoes are in the market. foreign trade The market is regaining competitiveness.

The reason is: a large number of imported machinery, the implementation of "machine substitutions"

1~2 month, our machinery and equipment imported 125 million yuan, up 1.34 times.

Among them, the import volume of shoemaking equipment was the largest, up 45.88%.

Imports of textile machinery and equipment also increased significantly over the same period last year.

Lucheng District Business Bureau responsible person said that after two years of "machine substitution", the quality of Wenzhou shoes has been improved rapidly, and the cost has not risen with the rise in labor costs, which has become an important reason for Wenzhou shoes regaining competitiveness.

"Last year, we invested a total of 18 million yuan for technical transformation." Giant group General manager Pan Jianzhong revealed. Last year, the company invested 3 times its technological transformation, and a lot of money was spent on the purchase of imported shoe making equipment. The level of shoe making mechanization has reached about 30%. Next, they will invest more in making the mechanization of shoemaking to achieve the level of mechanization in western shoe making enterprises.

In the production workshop of gigantic group, the reporter saw that a modern equipment was running, and the workers were operating on the computer program. According to the workers, the effect of laser equipment is increased by 5 times. According to the statistics of the giant group, three years ago, the company recruited 8000 workers every year. After the Spring Festival, the company was afraid of not getting enough workers, but only 5000 people were recruited this year, and the workers were quickly recruited.

"There is no difference in quality between products that are cut and cut by laser equipment, and the styles of shoes are more complicated." Pan Jianzhong said. The fancy and perforation of the upper can be produced by the original handwork. Because of the different technical level of each worker, different batches of shoes will have different quality, and some complex upper style can not be manufactured manually.

Pan Jianzhong revealed that after the company changed the machine, more European and American customers came to order. This year, the company's order has been arranged for October, and now the company has made preparations for next year's production.