Large trucks filled with white fabrics drove into the factory. Machines roared in the production workshop, and employees were busy on the production line… Shaoxing Yongtong Printing Co., Ltd., which resumed production after the holiday, has been busy these two days. . Feng Chen, the company’s deputy general manager, said that the company currently has sufficient orders and “all 12 production lines are operating at full capacity.”
In Ma’an Street, Keqiao District, printing and dyeing companies have become busy after the Spring Festival holiday. Work hard to make orders.
In the past year, the printing and dyeing industry in Keqiao District performed well. The total output value exceeded 50 billion yuan for the first time, reaching 50.076 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13%; the added value was 19.53 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.2%.
The output value of the printing and dyeing industry has broken records, thanks to technological innovation. Yongtong Printing focuses on the field of artificial cotton printing and invests more than 4% of annual turnover in R&D funds every year. Last year, the company’s “rayon reactive printing technology and rayon textiles” won the 22nd China Patent Excellence Award. The company also participated in the formulation of Zhejiang manufacturing standards for rayon printing, which effectively improved product competitiveness.
According to statistics, in 2021, there will be 33 new high-tech enterprises in Keqiao’s printing and dyeing industry, 9 new provincial high-tech enterprise R&D (technology) centers, and 80 new authorized invention patents.
Digital reform has provided a strong boost to corporate technological innovation. At Zhejiang Yingfeng Technology Co., Ltd., the digital workshop has automatic batching, automatic quality inspection, and automatic packaging, basically realizing the automation of the entire printing and dyeing production process, and greatly improving production efficiency. At the same time, results in product quality control, energy consumption and other aspects are gradually emerging. “Last year, the company’s total output value increased by 30% compared with the previous year.” Fu Shuangli, chairman of the company, said.
There is more than one printing and dyeing company that has tasted the benefits of digitalization. Zhejiang Baofang Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. invested more than 10 million yuan in digital transformation last year, using big data as support to promote process optimization and new product development. “The company’s improvement in the dyeing process has directly reduced water consumption by 20% and saved tens of millions of yuan in annual costs.” Qi Xin, the company’s executive director, said that the company’s total output value is expected to increase by about 10% this year compared with the same period last year.
Keqiao’s printing and dyeing industry generally shows a stable and positive development trend. According to the person in charge of Ma’an Street, with the in-depth advancement of “cross-domain integration” of Shaoxing’s printing and dyeing industry, the construction of the five major printing and dyeing groups that have been relocated from Yuecheng District to Keqiao has been completed, four of which have been put into operation, and the last group will be in July put into production. By then, the overall competitiveness of Keqiao printing and dyeing industry cluster will be further enhanced.
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