2020, New Year, Xiaoping: Seize The Opportunity And Create A New Pattern Of Chemical Fiber.

In the past 2019, the economic situation at home and abroad was complex and severe, the global economic growth slowed down, external uncertainties and uncertainties increased, and the domestic economy remained stable. "This year, the demand side of the chemical fiber industry continued to weaken, the pressure of supply and demand contradictions increased, market prices declined, industry profits declined, and fixed asset investment increased negatively. But there are many bright spots in the operation of the industry: three refinery and chemical integration projects have been put into operation, and the first one is to realize the 5G intelligent upgrading of polyester filament production. The CV alliance has been internationally recognized, and the green development of the industry has been effective. Leading enterprises and differentiated subdivision enterprises have maintained strong competitiveness. These are boosting the quality development of the chemical fiber industry. " At the beginning of the new year, Duan Xiaoping, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation and President of China Chemical Fiber Industry Association, summed up the development highlights of the chemical fiber industry in 2019 and looked forward to the development trend of the industry in the new year.


Market bottom, the future is expected to stabilize.


According to the National Bureau of statistics, from 2019 to November, the output of national chemical fiber was 54 million 928 thousand and 400 tons, up 13.47% from the same period last year. Among them, polyester and nylon production increased by more than 10%; viscose staple fiber production decreased by 1.09% over the same period last year. Since 2019, the boom of the chemical fiber industry has declined, and the market price has been refreshing for nearly three years. "From the data point of view, from the raw material end to the product end, the entire chemical fiber industry does not look ideal. However, if combined with the overall situation of the textile industry as a whole is relatively low, the chemical fiber is not particularly bad. End Xiaoping analysis, in 2019, as the cost of raw materials dropped sharply, the growth of terminal demand declined, and some parts of the capacity surplus, at the same time, the price difference between products and raw materials also gradually narrowed, leading to a sharp contraction in industry profits.


Raw materials, in 2019, with Hengli, Hengyi, Rongsheng and other private large-scale refinery projects have been put into operation, PX and PTA capacity growth is very impressive, including ethylene glycol, especially coal glycol production technology progress is fast, although in the short term, will lead to raw material prices downward, but in the long term, will further stabilize the chemical fiber raw material supply, for the development of the industry is very beneficial.


In terms of capacity, the actual investment volume of the chemical fiber industry decreased by 18% from 1 to November in 2019, and the growth rate dropped significantly compared with the same period last year. "It has been reported that the order of bmag has been ranked in 2022. On the surface, the development trend of the chemical fiber industry is very fierce. But in fact, foreign equipment manufacturers are very rational. They have not expanded their products because of the improvement of the market. It can be said that they have made capacity control and adjustment at the end of the device." Xiaoping said, but there are still some enterprises that should be eliminated in the market but continue to produce because of some problems. This is unfair to the normal business enterprises and disrupts the market order.


"Although the market of chemical fiber industry is not ideal at present, it can be determined that the industry is already at a historical low, and the future will not be worse than it is now." Xiaoping concluded.


Green development is effective.


With the continuous development of the concept of "green life, starting from fiber", green fiber has become an indispensable part of the industry. The chemical fiber industry has introduced the "green fiber label" since 2016. As of now, 29 enterprises have been certified by the company, and the certified products are covered with recycled polyester, Lyocell fiber, chitosan fiber, PTT fiber, raw liquid coloring fiber and so on. "In the future, the certification of green fiber marks is still a long way to go. But as long as the direction is right, we must work hard to make the concept of" green life start from fiber "increasingly popular among people. Xiaoping said.


On the other hand, the green development alliance of regenerated cellulose fiber industry (hereinafter referred to as "CV alliance") has achieved some results in 2019, and has received positive attention from some international organizations. "This is very remarkable, indicating that the influence of this work is increasing." Xiaoping explained that the CV alliance was initially established passively. At that time, the international environmental protection organization released a report on the investigation of water pollution in China, which is called "fashion poison - global clothing brand". Many fiber and fabric producers in the industry are generally affected. For this kind of voice, the industry adopts the principle of no confrontation, organizes enterprises to establish CV alliance, actively does their own business, and achieves clean production by practical action. In particular, in 2019, the garden factory appraisal activities were launched, and the environmental performance of the alliance enterprises was disclosed to the outside world, which has been highly recognized by some international environmental organizations.


For the next step of the CV alliance, Xiaoping proposed that we should continue to create a good internal and external environment for the survival and development of enterprises. Therefore, we must adhere to the six cardinal principles, namely, sticking to the principle of no confrontation, persisting in doing our own business, persisting in improving environmental indicators, ensuring that there are no environmental incidents, insisting on win-win cooperation, and actively planning all kinds of publicity activities.


In recent years, many international brands such as Adidas, Volvo, IKEA and so on have announced that they will adopt 100% renewable materials in the future. On the one hand, they will lead the green development of the society. On the other hand, they will also urge the raw material enterprises to pay more attention to the development of recycling. When it comes to recycling, Xiaoping has revealed the confusion of the industry at present: "now consumers generally emphasize functional and fashionable consumption, and such textiles are generally interwoven products, but such textiles bring a difficult problem of recycling. This is an objective contradiction and needs further discussion."


But Xiaoping also revealed that some universities in the industry are developing biodegradable polyester. If the research and development is successful, the above problems can be solved. "But when degradable polyester has not made breakthroughs, enterprises should pay attention to honesty and credit, and use recycled fiber to meet market demand." Xiaoping appealed.


Steadily promoting the intelligent manufacturing of the whole industry chain


In 2019, the intelligent manufacturing solutions for the chemical fiber industry were continuously optimized. The application of intelligent equipment in some chemical fiber enterprises initially realizes the "machine substitution", process control and manufacturing execution, achieves "intelligent linkage", and the internal and external systems synergy together to realize "precise transmission" of data, intelligent storage system realizes "unmanned operation", on-line monitoring and monitoring to realize "lean management" and so on, all these effectively support enterprises to expand the industrial chain upwards, horizontally open up the supply and logistics chain, extend the financial and service chain, and help create a new mode of chemical fiber industrial cluster. As the first enterprise to realize the 5G intelligent upgrading of polyester filament production, new Feng Ming has won the honor of "intelligent manufacturing benchmarking enterprise" of the Ministry of industry and information technology. The combination of 5G and manufacturing industry will accelerate the process of intelligent manufacturing of chemical fiber, which has a model significance for constructing "5G+ chemical fiber" ecosystem and accelerating the development of high quality industry.


"Intelligent manufacturing in the future must be interconnected with the upstream and downstream industries, and the chemical fiber industry has a high degree of specificity. It has inherent advantages in the development of Intelligent Manufacturing in the whole industry chain." To this end, Xiaoping pointed out that the total capacity of the top ten chemical fiber enterprises in China accounted for about 50% of the total capacity of the country, but the downstream customers were mostly large and medium sized, highly dispersed enterprises. Such an upstream and downstream relationship will make the e-business, supply chain finance, logistics and customer service of B2B industry, and even the future customer management easier to achieve. This is also a very important part of building an intelligent manufacturing Internet. "


"The development of intelligent manufacturing industry can not be haste, because IT technology is acceleration, and if we go too fast, many things need to be knocked down and rebuilt. What enterprises need most now is to speed up the replacement of machines without hesitation, and to leave data and interfaces for the future maturity of information technology, and then gradually promote the informatization construction of the whole process. Xiaoping continued to emphasize.


Now, we welcome the year of "13th Five-Year plan", and usher in the decisive year of building a well-off society in an all-round way. "Looking forward to the steady development of the chemical fiber industry in 2020 is still a major trend. We must follow the trend of development and unswervingly implement the new development concept, focus on the long-term development of the industry, enhance the overall competitiveness of the industry, grasp the new opportunities of optimizing and upgrading the industry, enhancing the ability of scientific and technological innovation, and accelerating the green development. Efforts should be made to resolve risks, strengthen self-discipline, avoid unhealthy competition, concentrate on doing well in their own affairs, do well in the domestic market, and turn external pressure into a powerful driving force for speeding up reform and opening up and promoting the high quality development of the industry. Xiaoping concluded.