Nantong Textile Industry Climbing To "New"

The textile industry is a highly recognizable and symbolic characteristic industry, leading industry and enriching industry in Nantong. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the list of the first batch of enterprises that meet the Standard Conditions for the Printing and Dyeing Industry (2023 Edition). Three printing and dyeing enterprises in Nantong were among them, ranking first in the province. With the continuous transformation and upgrading of printing and dyeing and other important sectors, Nantong textile industry cluster has accelerated to become high-end, intelligent and green, and accelerated the formation of new quality productivity. From January to September this year, the city's high-end textile industry realized an output value of 178.14 billion yuan, up 17.5% year on year.

　　 Deepen top-level design and upgrade the whole industry chain by "new" means

Systematic and scientific top-level design is the hard support to promote the continuous renewal of the traditional textile industry.

In recent years, Nantong has successively issued the "Three Year Action Plan for High Quality Development of Nantong's Textile Industry (2022-2024)", "On Establishing a Cooperative Promotion Mechanism for the Development of Nantong's High end Textile Industry Cluster" and other documents, established the textile industry chain party committee covering key enterprises, research institutes, key parks, and industry associations, and actively promoted the cooperation between government, industry, university, and research, Focusing on weak areas and key links such as creative design of the industrial chain, high-performance fibers, high-end fabrics, ecological dyeing and finishing processes, high value-added functional textiles and clothing, we will guide enterprises to forge strengths and fill weaknesses, promote in-depth cooperation in design, research and development, and production in the region, and improve the development level of the whole industrial chain of the textile industry.

In 2022, the "high-end textile cluster" jointly built by Nantong, Suzhou and Wuxi was successfully rated as a national advanced manufacturing cluster. In 2023, there will be 1466 textile enterprises above designated size in the city, with a year-on-year growth of 20.3% in operating revenue and 15.3% in total profits.

After years of tempering, Nantong has formed a spatial layout of "one zone and five bases" with distinctive characteristics, complementary advantages and coordinated interaction. "One Zone" is an international home textile industrial park in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, focusing on building a world-class home textile industrial cluster pilot zone; The "five bases" include the high-end fabric and industrial textile innovation base built by Tongzhou Bay Modern Textile Industrial Park, the green low-carbon high-end textile industrial base built by Hai'an Chang'an Modern Textile Technology Industrial Park, and the Yangtze River Delta fiber manufacturing base led by Hengke, Huafeng, Tongkun, Jinying and other enterprises, The production base of cocoon silk whole industry chain led by Hai'an Xinyuan and the new business base of textile and clothing foreign trade built by Nantong Foreign Trade Center.

　　 Rapidly attack core technology and accelerate the gathering of innovative elements

Scientific and technological innovation is the core element of developing new quality productivity.

"A kind of fiber separation and compression device", "a kind of spinning machine bunching device"... Taking scientific and technological innovation as the key driving force for steady progress, Jiangsu Dasheng Group Co., Ltd. has made efforts in three aspects, including increasing cooperation between industry, university and research, strengthening key technology research, and accelerating independent product research and development, to form a new integrated spinning technology with a domestic leading level. "We have successively established close industry university research cooperation relations with domestic well-known universities and research institutes such as Donghua University, Jiangnan University, Wuhan Textile University, etc., with an annual R&D investment of more than 60 million yuan." The relevant responsible person said that the enterprise currently has more than 60 patents, with an annual R&D rate of more than 100 new products and an industrialization rate of more than 60% of new products, The number of employees for ten thousand spindles in the smart spinning factory is reduced to 8.

In Hai'an Qihong Textile Technology Co., Ltd., the innovative application of new processes, new materials, new technologies and new equipment has become a common practice. "With an annual R&D investment of no less than 3% of sales revenue, we cooperate with Jiangnan University, Donghua University and other universities, employ well-known experts and professors as think tanks, form a sound R&D management system, and continue to provide new products and create new value." According to the relevant person in charge, the company has accumulated 18 authorized invention patents and 15 high-tech products in Jiangsu Province, In 2023, the sales volume will reach 590 million yuan.

With the wings of innovation, enterprises in the textile industry are poised to take off. There are 3 national specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprises, 22 provincial specialized, special and new enterprises, and 2 provincial intelligent factories; There are 1 national industrial design center, 1 national enterprise technology center, 1 national engineering technology research center, 9 provincial industrial design centers, 40 provincial enterprise technology centers, 42 provincial engineering technology research centers, 4 provincial engineering research centers, and 2 provincial academician stations, Let the textile industry continue to climb higher and "new".

In order to release more innovative factors, Nantong further strengthens the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation through fiscal, financial, tax and other policies and measures, encourages leading enterprises to participate in or lead the formulation and revision of international standards, national standards, and industrial standards, and creates Nantong's "boutique home textile" standard system; Build a national bedding quality supervision and inspection center, establish a brand professional service platform, support enterprises to cultivate their own brands, promote the integrated development of product design, cultural creativity, technological innovation and brand construction, and create regional brands with certain competitiveness such as "Nantong Home Textile", "Nantong Silk" and "Nantong Clothing". At present, the city has cultivated one nomination award for China Quality Award, three quality awards for provincial governors, 12 quality awards for mayors, and 23 well-known trademarks in China.

　　 Follow the digital wave and compete for green low-carbon track

In late autumn, the reporter walked into Jiangsu Lianfa Textile Co., Ltd. and saw that intelligent production scenes were everywhere. "AI quality inspector" is taking the place of manual quality control to measure the width and density of products in real time. No matter how small a defect is, it cannot escape its "eyes". "The 'AI Quality Inspector' is an intelligent testing equipment for the textile industry that we have installed and modified, which can help enterprises adjust production processes in time and reduce losses." Zhu Rujiang, manager of the IT Department of Lianfa Textile and deputy general manager of Nantong Julian Digital Technology Co., Ltd., said that the enterprise currently has five "AI Quality Inspectors", and will achieve full coverage of the enterprise's production workshops in the future.

"Weaving" has changed from "intelligent" manufacturing. More and more enterprises are thriving on the intelligent and green track, which outlines a new picture of industrial upgrading for the traditional textile industry.

Jiangsu Dasheng Group has built the first smart spinning factory in China during the "14th Five Year Plan" period, with the comprehensive utilization rate of resources increased by 30%, the production efficiency increased by 25%, and the unit comprehensive energy consumption reduced by 15%, setting a new example of intelligent textile in China; Luolai Life has built an intelligent embroidery workshop, with production efficiency increased by 25%, equipment utilization increased by 10%, production cycle shortened by 50%, defective product rate reduced to 0.5%, and employment reduced by 34%; Kede Baobao Linglin Lining (Nantong) Co., Ltd., which has the honors of "Low Carbon Enterprise" and "Green Factory in Jiangsu Province" issued by the China Textile Federation, has invested in the construction of photovoltaic power generation projects, air source heat pump projects, water source heat pump projects, etc. It is estimated that the annual carbon reduction will reach 2000 tons, and the emissions of wastewater pollutants will be reduced by more than 50%... At present, among the domestic textile manufacturing enterprises above the designated size in the city, There are 17 cloud enterprises above three-star level in the province, 11 enterprises implementing and evaluating the integration of industrialization and industrialization, and 3 industrial Internet benchmarking factories; It has built a secondary node for industrial Internet identity resolution in the national textile industry, connecting more than 1000 enterprises; Five national green factories in the textile industry have been built.

The relevant person in charge of Nantong Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology said that he would continue to deepen the work of eliminating backward production capacity and updating equipment in the textile industry, support key energy consuming enterprises to establish energy management and control centers, build a green manufacturing system with coordinated promotion of green design products, green factories, green parks and green supply chains, and promote the upgrading and green transformation of the textile industry. (Reporter Liu Lu and Yan Chunhua)

(Source: Nantong Daily)