Modern textile is one of the nine emerging characteristic industrial chains that Hubei is focusing on developing. Hubei has comparative advantages in raw materials, production and processing, talent, and technology, but it has shortcomings in fabric production, especially high-end fabric production. How to make up for this shortcoming in the industrial chain? Let’s take a look at the reporters’ front-line research.
This is the 2023 Wuhan International Textile Fabrics and Fabrics Exhibition held in May this year Excipients Expo, with more than 200 domestic and foreign companies participating.
Celebrity clothing designer Hou Lining: “For 2024 In spring and summer, we are looking for a lot of unique fabrics. Silk and acetate are our commonly used fabrics.”
Like Red Man Clothing, many local clothing companies in Hubei come here to purchase fabrics. However, their purchasing targets are basically enterprises from other provinces. Textile Industry Why can’t Hubei, which has a good foundation, meet the market’s demand for fabrics? The reporter visited and learned that the production of a piece of fabric requires four processes: spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, and finishing. Data in 2022 show that Hubei’s spinning capacity is 3.425 million tons and weaving meters are 5.136 billion meters, ranking among the top three in the country. However, the third step of producing fabrics, printing and dyeing, has a production capacity of less than 500 million meters. In other words, only Less than one-tenth of the cloth can be printed and dyed in the province. Printing and dyeing are like a thin bottleneck, blocking the production of fabrics.
Chen Yiren, Professor of the School of Textile Science and Engineering, Wuhan Textile University: “Printing and Dyeing There is also a lot of technical content in the middle. Some printing and dyeing auxiliaries require organic and automated color matching.”
The shortcomings in printing and dyeing have kept high value-added terminal fabrics out of the province and formed agglomeration advantages in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. As a result, Hubei’s rare high-capacity printing and dyeing enterprises cannot receive high-end orders and lack the motivation to upgrade technology. To solve the problem of Hubei printing and dyeing enterprises with a small base and weak technology, it is necessary to attract leading enterprises. But printing and dyeing companies need to deal with wastewater and gas. How to find a balance between protection and development? The reporter specifically visited the Jingzhou Economic Development Zone Textile Printing and Dyeing Circular Economy Industrial Park, which is the only textile printing and dyeing base built in Hubei and the only “China Green Printing and Dyeing Innovation Demonstration Base” in the province.
Liao Zhiyong, Production Technology Director of Jingzhou Shenlian Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.: ” In order to meet the needs of great protection of the Yangtze River, in the early stage we implemented the emission standards of the printing and dyeing industry. Now we have to Implement the Yangtze River direct discharge standards and implement the standards more strictly.”
Wang Xiaoqiang, Chairman of Jingzhou Jingxiang New Materials Co., Ltd.: “High-voltage electrostatic oil-water separation, two oil fume equipment automatically clean the oil dirt inside. At present, we follow the Zhejiang Shaoxing Binhai’s environmental protection requires it to be done.”
Not long ago, Wang Xiaoqiang moved his factory from the printing and dyeing industrial park in Keqiao, Zhejiang to Jingzhou. In order toTo attract enterprises, the park has thought of many ways to reduce production costs. For example, steam, which is in high demand by printing and dyeing enterprises, is introduced from nearby thermal power plants through specially constructed pipelines in the park.
Wang Xiaoqiang, Chairman of Jingzhou Jingxiang New Materials Co., Ltd.: “Sewage treatment Our cost is 8 yuan, while the cost over there is 17 yuan or 15 yuan; the steam here is 200 yuan per ton, and the cost there is 260 yuan ; Our natural gas is 3 yuan, while their natural gas is 4 yuan. The energy consumption is relatively much lower.”
With Wang Xiaoqiang, there are also leading enterprises in the industry such as Fuchun Dyeing and Weaving. After the enterprises are put into operation one after another, they will break through the park’s daily sewage treatment limit of 30,000 tons. Now, the supporting sewage treatment plant has been expanded and upgraded, and its daily treatment capacity will increase to 52,000 tons after it is put into use.
Huang, Deputy General Manager of Jingzhou Jingkai Industrial Investment Development Co., Ltd. Chen: “We have put forward requirements for newly introduced enterprises – the requirement for water reuse to reach more than 50% in 2035. The first is to reduce energy consumption and reduce pollution through green printing and dyeing; the second is also to emphasize the use of technological improvements Overall productivity makes products more diverse and competitive.”
If the printing and dyeing production capacity limits the quantity of fabrics in Hubei, then the production capacity of new chemical fibers determines the ceiling of fabric quality. Founded nearly 30 years ago, Aidi, a Hubei company, controls both international and domestic markets. But as long as it involves the research and development of high-end functional fabrics, companies need to cooperate with outside the province.
Yan Chun, Executive Deputy General Manager of Wuhan Aidi Group Co., Ltd.: “These fabric companies in the province are engaged in the development and production of cotton and blended fabrics, such as nylonThese filament-type chemical fibers are mainly produced by companies outside the province.”
On the one hand, this is because the lack of petrochemical projects in Hubei leads to a shortage of chemical fiber materials. In 2022, the operating income of chemical fiber in the province is 5.455 billion yuan, accounting for only 0.5% of the national chemical fiber manufacturing industry; on the other hand, On the one hand, Hubei lacks large chemical fiber fabric companies, and it is difficult for relevant research and development results to be retained locally.
”Moisture can only pass from this side to the outside, and When you turn it over, no matter how much you drip, the water will not drip down.”
Wu Jihong, a professor at the School of Textile Science and Engineering, Wuhan Textile University: “The use of chemical fibers has accounted for half of the fabrics, and chemical fibers have done very well in terms of functionality and fashion. Many technological achievements have Textile manufacturers that have moved to some developed coastal provinces are willing to take risks and provide some funds.”
In response to these problems, this year, Hubei established a comprehensive service platform for the digital supply chain of the textile and garment industry – Huafang Chain, and promoted the Wuhan branch of the National Textile Fabrics Museum and the China Textile Industry Federation Testing Center to settle in Hankou North, plans to establish a resource library for fabric accessories that is synchronized with the world, and provide services such as product quality testing, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and new product research and development. At present, Hubei is also studying and promulgating the “Three-Year Action Plan for the High-quality Development of the Textile and Garment Industry in Hubei Province”, implementing more large projects to solve the supply problem of chemical fiber raw materials, and stepping up the layout of multiple characteristic chemical fiber bases and public research and development platforms in Hubei.
At present, Hubei is also studying and promulgating the “Three-Year Action Plan for the High-quality Development of the Textile and Garment Industry in Hubei Province”, implementing more large projects to solve the supply problem of chemical fiber raw materials, and stepping up the layout of multiple characteristic chemical fiber bases and public research and development platforms in Hubei.
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