How can new designed non woven production line in China achieve high-end survival?

There is still a gap between the overall technology of China’s non-woven equipment manufacturing enterprises and Germany’s, and there are still many things to learn from foreign advanced technology. Recently, Zhu Xianmin, vice president of China Nonwoven Machinery and Equipment Association, said frankly after watching a multi-axial high-speed warp knitting machine produced by a German enterprise.

According to experts, the global market for non-woven machinery will reach US $ 22.9 billion by 2017, with Asian textile manufacturers expected to invest the largest proportion of new equipment. Statistics show that in May this year, 90 % of the world’s new spinning machines, shuttleless looms and flat knitting machines were imported into Asia, especially into China. There is no doubt that Asia is still the world’s textile and clothing manufacturing center.
According to the research team of the non-woven machinery manufacturing industry of the Prospective Industry Research Institute, world-renowned non-woven equipment enterprises have successively invested and set up factories in China, and their production scale in China has reached one-third of the total production of non-woven machinery in China. In addition to supplying the Chinese market, equipment produced by foreign-funded enterprises is also exported in large quantities and even returned to the country of origin. China is changing its direction from one of the largest non-woven equipment demand markets to the Asian non-woven equipment manufacturing center and even the world’s non-woven equipment manufacturing center.
In recent years, with the acceleration of the upgrading of China’s textile industry, the product structure of the non-woven equipment market has undergone tremendous changes, with less and less sales of traditional non-woven equipment, and the sales of automatic, continuous, high – speed, intelligent and large-capacity non-woven equipment have increased significantly.

Although China is a big textile country and the world’s largest producer and exporter of textiles and clothing, the textile industry in China has also been severely hit by the rising prices of raw materials, rising labor costs and appreciation of RMB. The sales volume of non-woven machinery manufacturing decreased due to the influence of the recession in the textile industry.
Zhu Xianmin gave an example: the domestic production of high-speed warp knitting machines has been very difficult to reach 1000 revolutions. If you want to reach 2000 revolutions and achieve even weft placement, the technology gap is not small. However, foreign countries already have a new RS Lacher warp knitting machine with parallel weft laying device and a multi-axial knitting machine with a speed of 2000 revolutions.
At present, the German company accounts for 60 % of the company’s total sales of warp knitting machines in China. In recent years, the equipment exported to China has been increasing every year. This is enough to show that domestic and Asian market demand has firmly attracted the attention of global non-woven machinery manufacturers.
Foresight Industry Research Institute’s ” Analysis Report on Demand and Investment Forecast of China’s Non – woven Machinery Manufacturing Industry” shows that China’s non-woven machinery manufacturing industry has maintained a rapid development momentum in recent years.
By the end of 2010, the total assets of non-woven machinery reached 77.613 billion yuan, up 27.78 % year on year. The industry realized sales revenue of 81.565 billion yuan, up 42.13 % year on year. Overall, after the decline in the industry growth rate in 2008, the expansion of the industry has accelerated significantly and the overall development situation is good.

Xiong Xiaokun, a light industry researcher with CIC’s consultant, told China Enterprise News that China is currently the world’s largest buyer and seller of non-woven machinery and is moving towards the Asian non-woven equipment manufacturing center, even the world’s non-woven equipment manufacturing center.
From a global perspective, in the past, the competition in the non-woven machinery manufacturing industry was mainly concentrated in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and other non-woven equipment manufacturing powers. In recent years, driven by domestic and Asian market demand, the scale of China’s non-woven machinery manufacturing industry is expanding continuously.
Although the production capacity of the non-woven machinery industry has shown a blowout growth under the support of the policy, the industry dilemma caused by overcapacity has been highlighted once again due to the continuous fermentation of factors such as the continuous downturn in the international market of the non-woven machinery industry and the rapid increase in labor costs. At the same time, with the advent of the global financial crisis, the plight of the entire non-woven machinery industry has gradually emerged.
It is reported that compared with the same period in 2011, the sales targets of most non-woven machinery enterprises have declined. The industry dilemma caused by overcapacity has become acute once again due to the continuous fermentation of factors such as the continuous downturn of the industry market and the rapid growth of labor costs. In this market environment, the upgrading of non-woven machinery industry is imminent.