Textile Machinery Market: Return to Normal

From the perspective of statistical data or actual sales of the company, the textile machinery market in 2011 continued its strong sales trend in 2010. However, since the fourth quarter, the gradual reduction of orders for textile machinery companies has made the industry generally popular with the industry. The trend of the textile machinery market is not very optimistic.

In fact, judging whether the market is good or not, cold and hot, you need to see what the coordinates are. If it is necessary to compare with the shortage of supply in 2010, then I am afraid that the future of the textile machinery market will not be good.

The reason why the textile machinery market was hot in 2010 and the first half of 2011 was the fundamental reason for the 4 trillion yuan support policy introduced by the country in 2009. After the money was invested, its impact was fully reflected in 2010. In the first half of 2011, It continued this trend and gradually returned to normal in the second half of 2011. Therefore, the hot selling of textile machinery products in 2010 has its special policy reasons and macroeconomic background, and is not a completely spontaneous and normal market demand phenomenon. If companies can treat the 2010 sales with a rational and peaceful attitude, the gradual slowdown in 2011 may not be too pessimistic for 2012, and even a lot of bright spots will be discovered. Textile is a long industrial chain. Different changes in various industries in this industry chain – the adjustment of the cotton spinning industry, the recovery of the chemical fiber industry, the rise of the knitting industry, and the development of the industrial textile industry will likely give the textile machinery industry a chance. Bring unprecedented opportunities.

Cotton spinning equipment:

Renewal and transformation market is huge In the production structure system of domestic textile machinery, cotton spinning equipment occupies more than 60% of the share. Therefore, the market sales of cotton spinning equipment directly affect the economic operation of the textile machinery industry. In 2008, China's textile machinery industry experienced the first negative growth in output value and sales revenue in the past ten years because the sales of cotton spinning equipment were in trouble. Spinning machines sold more than 6 million spindles, which is equivalent to half of the highest vintage. In that year, although the sales of knitting equipment, non-woven equipment, and rapier looms have all increased to varying degrees, it is difficult to compensate for the impact of the decline in sales of cotton spinning equipment on the entire industry. As the so-called cotton spinning equipment market sneezes, the textile industry will suffer from a cold. However, after the baptism of the financial crisis, the dependence of the textile machinery industry on cotton spinning equipment is undergoing qualitative changes. According to incomplete statistics, in 2011 the entire industry sold 10 million spindles, of which nearly one-third was the fleet of fine spinning machines. The sales of air-spinning and automatic winders also hit record highs. The change in product sales structure fully shows that the cotton spinning industry's investment in equipment is no longer a simple increase in quantity, but more is the need to renovate and reduce labor and improve the level of automation.

In the past ten years, in addition to 2008, China's annual increase in spinning spindles has been around 10 million spindles. The industry generally believes that this volume is high, and that this increase will continue to cause enormous competitive pressure on the market in the future, adding 5 million yuan each year. 6 million ingots is a normal growth that tends to be rational. Among these, in addition to the appropriate expansion of the scale, a considerable part of it should be used for upgrading. With the deepening of the "integration of the two industries" in the cotton textile industry, the most important task for the cotton textile industry in the coming period is to carry out special research on intelligent equipment according to the plans of the relevant departments of the country. The industry calls it intelligent. Informatization, expert intelligence system. The system achieves self-diagnosis and self-repair of the equipment through regular collection of information. The establishment and implementation of the intelligent production line of cotton spinning enterprises must be assisted by the textile machinery companies. In addition, at least 60 million spindles in the cotton spinning industry are in need of upgrading and technological upgrading. For example, in order to reduce the number of workers, the textile enterprises provide automatic winding trolleys for short spinning machines. Therefore, even if the textile machinery market is relatively cold in 2012, for cotton spinning equipment, only the renovation and transformation is a huge market.

Chemical fiber equipment:

Continuing to maintain a strong sales trend The continued strong sales of chemical fiber equipment in recent years actually reassured chemical fiber equipment companies, especially chemical fiber filament equipment. Several major equipment manufacturers have already placed their orders in 2013, and some have even reached 2014. Therefore, the production and sales of chemical fiber filaments, some polyester filament yarns, and nylon filament yarns have not been suspenseful in 2012. However, the development of viscose filaments will be hampered by exhaust emission problems. Spandex was also listed among the overheated industries after experiencing rapid growth in 2010 and the first half of 2011, and it has fallen into the second half of 2011. As a result, in 2012, the input of chemical fiber enterprises to viscose filaments and spandex equipment may not be much improved.

However, from a longer-term perspective, the market space for chemical fiber equipment is still huge. At present, the entire society is calling for tight cotton resources and is constantly looking for alternatives to cotton. And to replace cotton, in addition to the development of natural fibers, it can only rely on chemical fiber. Therefore, in the future, the chemical fiber industry must develop not the scale but the variety. It is a further solution to the problem of imitation of cotton and imitation linen, and to solve the problem of polyester fiber over-imitation. In recent years, the reason why polyester filaments are sold well is because they have solved the problems of imitation of cotton and imitation by improving the process. The number of yarns spun out is increasing. This is in line with the technical contribution and support of polyester filament yarns. Not open.

Knitting machinery:

Technological advantage to activate the market In addition to chemical fiber equipment, currently ranked second in the list of best-selling textile machinery is knitting equipment. The knitting industry is the industry with the largest scale of development and technological progress in China's textile industry in the past few years. Both the fiber consumption of knitted products and the number of knitted garments have surpassed that of woven fabrics.

The rapid rise of the knitting industry is inextricably linked to the superiority of its woven fabrics. In this era of high-speed, high-efficiency and low-cost market competition, the knitting process flow is short and the manufacturing cost is low, which is its magic weapon to win the market.

The rapid development of the knitting industry has strongly promoted the market demand for computer flat knitting machines and circular knitting machines. Despite the changes in the market and the decline in consumer sentiment after the August of last year, the knitwear industry has had a certain impact. However, not all companies have been declining. Instead, they have become polarized. More orders have flowed into the market. Large companies such as Qingdao Jifa and many Hong Kong-owned knitwear companies in Guangdong, but some small knitwear factories have been unable to support them. As a result, round-bottom sales were sluggish at the end of last year. In fact, after orders have gradually flowed to large companies, it is a good thing for the industry to increase the concentration of production in the knitting industry, and the demand for equipment from these companies will once again be stimulated.

Among the three major knitting equipment, the warp knitting machine market is the most stable. Warp knitting machines account for a relatively large proportion of industrial textiles used in processing, and industrial textiles are not as sensitive as living textiles are affected by the market. At present, the wind turbine's glass fiber, carbon fiber, and reinforcing cloth are all popular applications in warp knitting machine processing, and geotextiles, such as grille cloth, are also finished by warp knitting machines. Therefore, the overall demand for knitting machine market demand is still rising steadily.

Shuttleless looms:

Orders depend on equipment performance With the diversification of weaving products, the fate of rapier looms, air jet looms, and water jet looms varies.

Having experienced the rapier loom that was sold well in 2010, the market gradually declined in 2011. The main applications of rapier looms are denim, dyed fabric, and wide-format home textiles. In 2011, the denim market entered a period of dullness. The expansion of production capacity in the home textile industry due to the influence of real estate has also been significantly weakened. These factors have greatly reduced the demand for rapier looms; in addition, the performance of the rapier looms has been unique to the past. For example, we can woven a wide range of home textiles and yarn-dyed fabrics, and now air jet looms and water jet looms can also be qualified through technical improvements. Therefore, these two types of equipment took up the market for some rapier looms in 2011. According to statistics, the rapier loom market sales in 2011 decreased by about 1/3 year-on-year. Losing its unique advantages, it lost speed and productivity to air-jet looms and water-jet looms. The future of rapier looms can only be developed in specific fields or shifted to high-end ones.

In 2011, sales volume of both domestic and imported air-jet looms increased significantly. This is a direct result of the improvement of the performance of the air-jet looms, in particular, it can replace the performance of some rapier looms, so that the extra-wide home textile fabrics have been selected on the air-jet looms. It is understood that several air-jet looms manufacturers have full orders in the first quarter of this year, and 2012 is expected to continue to maintain strong sales last year.

Most of the water jet loom weaving is polyester filament, so the polyester filament market is often regarded as the eye of a water jet loom. In 2011, the hot flashes in the polyester filament market not only provoked polyester filament equipment, but also drove sales of water jet looms. At present, the development of the filament industry is booming. Several major chemical fiber companies, including Hengli Chemical Fiber, are still expanding their scales. Therefore, the water jet loom should not be ordered in 2012.

Printing and dyeing machinery:

The shortcomings of the technical shortcomings restrict the printing and dyeing industry. The days of the printing and dyeing industry have not been very good in these years. Occasionally, stenters, steam dyeing machines, and rotary screen printing products sell better. The national requirements for mandatory indicators for energy-saving and emission-reducing have become more and more stringent. The “Admission Requirements for Printing and Dyeing Industry” implemented from 2010 undoubtedly heightened the access threshold for printing and dyeing enterprises. In 2011, the country included the printing and dyeing industry as one of the key industries for sewage treatment. Local governments along the Taihu Lake region have closed a large number of printing and dyeing plants.

Printing and dyeing equipment is one of the most complex types of equipment in the textile machinery industry. Different fibers, different fiber blends, and different printing and dyeing processes must use different printing and dyeing equipment. In recent years, starting from the national requirements for energy conservation and environmental protection, printing and dyeing equipment manufacturing companies are also focusing on the water consumption and wastewater treatment of pre-treatment equipment, but so far they have not been completely resolved, especially the technology of pre-knitting equipment. The most important reason for this is that domestic manufacturers of printing and dyeing equipment have not combined with printing and dyeing companies. Therefore, domestic printing and dyeing equipment is still blank in many aspects, there are many low-grade products waiting to improve. Therefore, compared to cotton spinning, weaving and other equipment, printing and dyeing equipment manufacturers focus on whether or not there is no market problem, but the equipment can not meet the technical requirements of the enterprise.

Textile accessories:

Substitution of Import Tasks Urgently The marketing of textile parts and equipment is sometimes not fully synchronized with upstream companies. When textile products are not sold well, textile companies often increase the frequency of replacement of products in order to exploit the market. In 2011, due to the large fluctuations in cotton prices, many companies changed from the original spinning pure cotton yarn to the spinning chemical fiber yarn, and accordingly had to replace some of the equipment, thus pulling the sales of equipment. Therefore, most of the textile and equipment companies last year maintained a booming production and sales situation.

However, it is regrettable that most of the domestic textile equipment occupies the low-end market, and the high-end market is still tightly controlled by foreign companies. According to statistics, in the first three quarters of last year, China imported more than 700 million U.S. dollars worth of textile components and equipment, an increase of 36.23% year-on-year, accounting for 17.57% of all textile machinery imports. The reason for importing is that, on the one hand, certain key components have not yet been successfully developed by Chinese companies, such as drums and air splicers on automatic winders; on the other hand, some high-end textile equipment, even though domestic companies have developed, However, the technical level and quality can not meet the needs of enterprises. For example, the majority of carding and connection metal clothing currently rely on imports. In addition, it is suitable for high-speed spinning, compact spinning with rubber rollers, aprons, perforated aprons with stacking troughs, gathering rings, upper and lower pins, lifting spindles, and high-quality bobbins.

Nowadays, textile companies are increasingly demanding equipment for high speed, high production, and automation. For the host to achieve these goals, the equipment can not keep up, it can not be achieved. Therefore, accelerating the pace of product R&D and producing textile parts and equipment that will replace imports will usher in a greater market space for textile equipment companies.