Representatives Of Global Textile And Garment Enterprises Talk Freely: Sustainable Intelligent Supply Chain Rebuilds Traditional Industries

In recent years, under the impetus of the wave of "industry 4" and "China made 2025", intelligent manufacturing has become the breakthrough and main direction of innovation and upgrading of manufacturing industry. With the production, logistics, information and other elements becoming more and more intelligent, the entire manufacturing supply chain is heading for a more intelligent direction. It has become an important engine for manufacturing enterprises to realize intelligent manufacturing, supporting enterprises to build core competitiveness.

Especially when the global economy has entered the era of supply chain, competition between enterprises and enterprises has begun to be transformed into competition between supply chain and supply chain. In intelligent manufacturing environment, building a smart and efficient supply chain is the key for manufacturing enterprises to gain advantages in market competition. Smart supply chain The innovation and development will fundamentally change the way of operation of modern enterprises and promote the reconstruction and iteration of the entire manufacturing industry.

On July 2019 30~31, sponsored by China Textile Industry Federation, China Textile Information Center, Ningbo economic and Information Bureau, Ningbo Haishu District People's government, the twelfth global textile and garment supply chain conference jointly organized by China Federation of Textile Industry Federation social responsibility office, China Textile International Exchange Center, Ningbo Garment Association and East China fashion industry CIO union was held in Haishu District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang province.

At the current session, the conference focused on the "intelligent supply chain and smart industry", and gathered together with leaders and experts from the global textile and apparel economy, management, design, marketing and other business leaders. For the future development direction of the textile intelligent supply chain, people from the excellent representative enterprises of all industrial nodes also have their own unique insights and insights. To this end, the reporter interviewed a group of enterprises in particular, hoping to find the context and direction of the future intelligent supply chain from their case.

　　 Sustainable supply chain allows ecological capital to generate surplus.

"Sustainable development, innovation and cooperation are the core of Huntsman's textile dyeing and finishing. These core concepts also support our efforts to help customers and industries create cleaner, more efficient, transparent and sustainable supply chains. stay Huntsman Corporation Dhirendra Singh Gautam, director of global dye business at the textile dyeing and finishing division, seems to be facing unprecedented environmental and economic challenges. As a global leader in the textile industry, Huntsman textile dyeing and finishing is committed to changing the status quo of the industry, creating a sustainable textile industry through innovative sustainable solutions, and with the collaboration of stakeholders in the textile value chain.

To this end, Huntsman launched a sustainable development improvement plan - SIP. SIP as a comprehensive sustainable development solution platform, Huntsman's technical expert team audits in the customer factory to provide customized solutions to the situation of his factory to help reduce water and energy consumption, and increase production and productivity.

"Innovation is the key to the growth of Huntsman's textile dyeing and finishing business, and we also need to ensure that innovative products can meet the changing needs of the industry and customers at present and in the future. Our annual R & D investment accounts for 5% of the total turnover. There are 800 patents, and in the past 5 years, more than 200 products have been launched, accounting for 15% of total sales. Dhirendra Singh Gautam said.

According to Dhirendra Singh Gautam, Huntsman textile dyeing and chemical products introduced in recent years include: a disruptive innovative multi reaction dye series -- AVITERA SE SE reactive dyes. This series meets the new standards of environmental sustainability and can achieve very high performance in the shortest time. Due to the short cleaning cycle, the AVITERA SE dye can save 50%, save 70%, save time 50%, and save salt 20%, effectively reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which is conducive to environmental protection.

In addition, in order to solve the challenge of dyeing polyester and cotton blended fabrics, Huntsman textile dyeing and dyeing also introduced the combination of TERASIL W/WW dye and AVITERA SE dye combination, which can achieve the highest dyeing efficiency in the shortest processing time and has minimal environmental impact. The PHOBOTEX RSY fluorine free durable waterproofing agent is specially designed to meet the extreme protection, comfort and durability requirements of synthetic fiber and cellulose fiber. It can provide effective protection in extreme environment, good air permeability and good rain and snow prevention effect. High IQ Repel durable waterproofing agent can provide daily stains protection for clothing, so that the clothes will last as long as new. This product can help customers improve productivity and competitiveness and meet stringent health, safety and environmental standards in the textile industry. In addition, Huntsman textile dyeing recently introduced a new generation of high-performance digital printing ink series NOVACRON Advance and ERIOFAST Vista, which can help customers achieve excellent printing effect on cellulose fiber and nylon / cotton blended fabric. NOVACRON ADVANCE is a new generation of reactive ink designed for the most advanced industrial digital printing machine. It is suitable for cellulose fiber printing with outstanding hue and color gamut. The ERIOFAST VISTA ink enables the printing machine to achieve durable and bright coloring of polyester / cotton blended fabric, and its performance in brightness, hue, cloth processing and water fastness is far more than that of other ink products.

As a Swiss independent testing and certification organization with a history of more than 170 years and focusing on textile and leather testing, TESTEX has been a member of the OEKO-TEX Association since 1993. The company focuses on the certification system for hazardous substances in raw materials, finished products and semi finished products. TESTEX provides OEKO-TEX series product certification and services, providing a comprehensive solution for the textile supply chain. OEKO-TEX has always made it our mission to "make consumers and businesses able to protect our planet through responsible decisions". At present, consumers are paying more and more attention to the concept of green and environmental protection. Not only that, consumer purchasing decisions are becoming increasingly complex, but transparency is also becoming increasingly difficult. How to make consumers understand that the purchased textiles are safe textiles without harmful substances, and how to display the products supply chain in a transparent way to consumers, become the key to enhance consumer confidence in the brand. "Complexity and variability are intricately intertwined in the textile industry. The sustainable development of textile industry requires a lot of planning, investment and continuous improvement, while global standards help to simplify the planning process. OEKO-TEX provides the most authoritative global standards and certification for enterprises in the textile industry to enable their products to be tested by hazardous substances in independent agencies and optimize their production conditions and supply chain in terms of sustainability. " Zhu Jianping, manager of business department of TESTEX Beijing Textile Inspection Co., Ltd., said. 　

For reporters on the question of what elements a successful sustainable supply chain should have, Duan Yujing, vice president of Zhongke Shi Yu (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., gave three principles: management, transparency and participation. In its view, the fourth industrial revolution - the green revolution has arrived, first of all, to achieve "decoupling" of carbon emissions. This requires enterprises to make significant changes in business strategy, marketing mode and brand development concept. Take the responsibility of social responsibility as the responsibility, continue to benefit the green operation of environmental protection, provide green products for consumers, carry out green marketing, improve the efficiency of resource utilization, achieve the "peak value" of all kinds of resources, achieve the "surplus" of ecological capital elements and the healthy development of enterprises under the joint action of various factors such as technology, system and capital.

　　 Who will be the next draught?

As consumers pay more and more attention to environmental protection and pay more and more attention to their physical and mental health, the change of consumption concept brings new opportunities for the development of textile and garment enterprises' supply chain system. For example, hemp fiber has the functions of soft and comfortable, natural antibacterial, mildew resistant, anti mites, moisture absorption, sweat fast drying, UV absorption, odor absorption and other natural fibers. For example, one hectare can isolate and store 20 tons of carbon dioxide in the fiber during the 100 day growth period, and isolate and store 500Kg carbon dioxide in the soil. The products made from hemp are also known as "carbon sink products" by the outside world.

As a leader in the clothing industry, Youngor Group After exploring the characteristics of hemp, the layout of the industry has been carried out more than ten years ago. The hemp fiber and hemp spinning production base has been built, and a high proportion of blending, high branching and cleaning production has been achieved. It has broken through the key technologies such as dyeing, softening and wrinkle resistance of hemp fabrics, and has developed many kinds of high-quality high-grade garments, home textiles and household fabrics. In April this year, the key technology and application of the high quality hemp textile industry chain was identified by the expert group of China Textile Industry Federation. The expert group confirmed that the overall technology of this achievement has reached the international leading level.

According to Wang Ronghua, general manager of fiber division of Taiji stone Limited by Share Ltd, the company has always regarded "green, healthy and fashionable" as the basic concept of product research and development, combining Taijiquan health energy fiber with AI intelligence, integrating consumer health management into Tai Chi stone fiber products, bringing consumers a brand-new health experience. "We firmly believe that the big health industry will be a rapid development of the tuyere industry." Wang Ronghua said.

For the application and development of Tai Chi stone fiber, Taiji stone company has applied to the field of sweater blended with cashmere in addition to traditional underwear, home textiles, clothing and non-woven fabrics, and silk field mixed with silk, as well as mixing with down feather. It not only solved the shortcoming of the original material, but also made the new product have the function of Tai Chi stone fiber, and became a natural high-grade fiber and renewed its vitality. In addition, Taiji stone also applied Tai Chi core to fiber products, making Taiji stone products an artificial intelligence carrier, allowing consumers to understand the body health index in an intuitive way and to provide early warning for physical health. Tai Chi core will become a health management expert in the 5G era.

Tempering fibers and textiles belong to the textile high-tech project, forming a new high-tech industry system in the textile and garment industry. It not only improves people's comfortable and healthy quality of life, but also has important practical significance for energy saving and environmental protection. For the direction of research and development of temperature regulating functional textiles, Duan Yu Jing predicts: "at present, the temperature regulating functional textiles can be applied to the fields of civilian four seasons clothing, outdoor sportswear, home textiles, home decoration, protection and safety, medical and health, etc., if the temperature regulation function is combined with other functions, it can also extend to military stealth, intelligent wearable, physiological monitoring and other fields. The spring of functional textiles has arrived, and the future technological change will surely break all the cognition of mankind today.

Since 2013, in order to respond to the green and sustainable development of environmental protection, the demand and threshold for textile chemicals at home and abroad are getting higher and higher. This also brings opportunities to new textile functional finishing agents. Wang Huan, general manager of Zhejiang Fu Pu Sheng new material Co., Ltd., said: the company launched the first series of hydrophilic and decontamination finishing products in 2018. When it was launched, it was quickly purchased by downstream brands and their factories and processing units. It was used for easy decontamination finishing of polyester, cotton and its blended fabrics. After being decontamination, the fabrics were stained with soy sauce, tomato paste and ballpoint oil and other stains. All of them could be wiped clean with clean water, so that fabrics were easy to decontamination and easy to handle. After finishing, the fabrics had been washed for many times, and still had the function of easy decontamination to keep fresh and clean. At present, this product accumulates more than 1000 tons in less than two years.

Sun Jianyou, chairman of Shanghai Sheng Yi Cheng Textile Co., Ltd. seems that the application of graphene technology is a milestone breakthrough for fabric production. The combination of graphene and fiber can not only absorb the far-infrared heat released by the human body, but also reflect the human body's blood circulation. It can also stimulate the resonance heating of the water molecules in the human cells, so that the heat can be uniformly transmitted to the whole body, and at the same time, it can really realize the warmth from inside to outside, thereby speeding up the metabolism of the human body, repairing the damaged cells and enhancing the biological activity of the human body. In addition, the excellent graphene fabric has good antistatic property and genuine non-toxic antibacterial and anti mites.

　　 How to build an intelligent supply chain?

The intelligent supply chain of Gu Xinyi, chairman of Haiyan GUI Shi Di Industrial Co., Ltd. should focus on the core enterprises, control the flow of information, logistics and capital flow, start with the purchase of raw materials, make intermediate products and final products, and finally send the products to consumers by the sales network, and connect the suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers to the end users into a whole functional network chain structure. Haiyan GUI Di, as a professional garment manufacturing and investment company integrating design, production, marketing, processing and brand, is deeply aware of the necessity and urgency of building a green and sustainable supply chain. For this reason, Haiyan GUI Di effectively integrates upstream and downstream resources, optimizes and links them, so that every link can get maximum benefits, form a smooth and valuable supply chain, achieve rational allocation of resources through rapid response, avoid waste of raw materials, manpower and costs, and establish a sustainable supply chain of green and environmental protection.

There are many customers in Hangzhou Huaying Xintang down products Co., Ltd: MONCLER, FILA, Anta, Lining, Barbara and other famous brands at home and abroad. Zhang Juanjuan, deputy general manager of the company, said: "the scrub detergent is not environmentally friendly to destroy the soil environment. We have been working hard to develop environmentally friendly, fluorine free pesticides five years ago to achieve continuous reuse of zero emissions."

Liu Yanmei, vice president of Zhejiang Mei Xinda Textile printing and Dyeing Technology Co., Ltd., said: the company has formulated a green strategy for making intelligent products, clearly put forward the goal of sustainable development strategy, and the direction of product development must be ecological, functional and technological. In the process of development and production, closed loop management is also formed from source control to terminal management. At the same time, social responsibility report is released voluntarily, so that information is transparent and open. In addition, by balancing the relationship between natural essence and science and technology with the upstream and downstream of the textile industry chain, the organic concept and sustainable concept are penetrated into materials, texture, patterns and functions, and pluralistic colors and design elements are used to demonstrate the individual style and proposition of consumers.