The electronic jacquard market looks promising

In recent years, with the rapid development of jacquard weaving machine manufacturing technology in China, more and more domestic high-end jacquard fabric manufacturing companies have also led to the demand for electronic jacquard machines.

Due to the impact of factors such as the increase in cotton prices and labor costs, the pace of procurement of equipment by cotton spinning companies has slowed down this year. Some cotton textile equipment manufacturers often receive notices from downstream customers to delay delivery. However, electronic jacquard makers have weathered their best-selling season against the market, becoming a rare highlight in the textile machinery market this year. In order to deliver on time, employees of many companies work overtime to improve their progress. .

Electronic jacquard machines have been widely used in foreign countries due to their high jacquard speed, low error rate, and convenient design. In the past 3 to 5 years, domestic consumers have seen a trend of transition from plain fabrics to jacquard fabrics in terms of environmental decoration, beautification of homes, and selection of clothing materials. Jacquard printing fabrics with complicated styles have become the new darling of the public. The rapid development of domestic electronic jacquard machines also caters to this trend.

Jacquard machine market hot a few years ago, most of our country's jacquard fabric production enterprises are still mainly producing medium and low jacquard fabrics. At that time, due to the high cost of foreign jacquard equipment, most of the manufacturers did not have the ability to purchase these equipments, which to a certain extent restricted the production capacity of the jacquard weaving industry in China. In recent years, with the rapid development of jacquard weaving machine manufacturing technology in China, domestic high-end jacquard fabric production enterprises have suddenly emerged.

Shandong Yantai Songhe Song Science and Technology Application Engineering Co., Ltd. actually felt this change. Zhao Yushui, director of the company's China Marketing Management Center, told reporters that the Song and Song companies' jacquard machine orders have been scheduled for the end of September this year. From 2007 onwards, the company's annual sales have at least doubled. Last year, the sales of various jacquard machines were 120 million yuan. This year, the company plans to complete a sales plan of 250 million yuan. In the first half of the year, it has already completed 130 million yuan.

Qi Wangze, deputy director of the International Marketing Management Center, told reporters excitedly that he had just received a call and an Indonesian company had ordered 4 sets of 6200-pin electronic jacquard prototypes. He said that the average foreign customers have a long inspection period for the equipment. They can determine that the prototype is an initial confirmation of the domestic jacquard equipment. Wang Ze believes that the Indonesian company will add additional orders in bulk after using the prototype.

Last year, Yin Shilai Weaving Company, a subsidiary of Shandong Yinshilai Group Co., Ltd., added 128 large jacquard machines, and the company already has 256 jacquard machines. Liu Dong, chairman of the group company, said that Yin Shi’s development of high-end positioning wide jacquard fabric is a strategic decision made by the company after the interpretation of the current industry situation. Practice confirmed that Liu Dong’s choice was correct. Last year, Yinshilai Weaving Company’s gross profit margin remained stable at more than 15%.

The domestic machine developed rapidly and "transmitted the human mind to the machine, allowing the machine to execute automatically according to the will of the person." This is a simple summary of mechatronics technology, and one of the most important representatives of mechatronics is the electronic jacquard machine. , It realizes the electronic control of weaving technology and rationally configures the weaving process parameters. It not only improves the efficiency of the textile process, but also greatly reduces the labor intensity of the workers. The rapid rise of domestic electronic jacquard machines also illustrates the rapid progress in the level of mechatronics in China in recent years.

A few years ago, most of the domestic electronic jacquard machine market share was monopolized by jacquard giants such as British Boners and Swiss Stäubli. Now this pattern is undergoing subtle changes. Domestic jacquard machines not only occupy the domestic market. Some initiative, but also began to receive unprecedented courtesy in overseas markets.

When talking about the advantages of domestic jacquard machines, Zhao Yushui said that the domestic electronic jacquard machines have the advantages of simple structure, stable operation, and low equipment failure rate. Even if they fail, they are convenient to replace and maintain. The most important is the domestic equipment. The price is only a little more than 1/3 of the price of imported equipment, high cost performance, short equipment cost recovery cycle, fully in line with the requirements of domestic customers. In general, the performance of domestic electronic jacquard machines is not lost to imported equipment, but the cost-effectiveness advantage is obvious. This is the fundamental reason why domestic and foreign customers approve home-made equipment.

The market is optimistic about the development of Jacquard textile is always the peak and the trough alternately staged in the mid-90s of last century when the jacquard fabric had fallen to the lowest point. However, in the past two years, the overall market trend has been relatively stable, and the number has grown rapidly. In the past, only jacquard fabrics were used in the apparel sector. Now its application has extended to home textiles, curtains, tablecloths, sofa fabrics, carpets, and special textiles for a few religious countries. China has become the largest jacquard market in the world.

People in the industry generally believe that although apparel jacquard fabrics closely follow the trend, the market volatility may be relatively large. However, due to the fact that jacquard products have mainly been concentrated in the home textile market, the market volatility is greatly reduced. Therefore, the overall market prospect of jacquard fabrics is still optimistic.

Yin Shilai, chairman of the company, said that at present, the proportion of domestic sales of corporate products has reached more than 80%, the company has stabilized the domestic market, the prospects of foreign high-end market jacquard fabrics are also good, firm Liu Dong this belief is the main The important reason is that the profit margin of the company's high-end fabrics has reached more than 20%.

Song Risheng, general manager of Yantai Song and Song Company's Science and Technology Application Co., Ltd., also expressed similar views. He said that with the improvement of people's living standards, jacquard fabrics as high value-added high-grade products will surely have a certain market demand in the future. It will increase dramatically. Song Risheng predicted that the next three to five years will usher in a new stage of Jacquard machine development.

Innovation is still a weak ring In order to improve the level of product automation and meet the performance requirements of high-speed operation of new-type looms, domestic jacquard machines are moving in the direction of advanced, electronic, high-speed, and multi-needle counts, and have achieved certain achievements. However, at present, some key electrical components and selection needles for electronic jacquard machines in China still need to be imported from abroad. Further breakthroughs are needed in this regard.

In the past two or three years, the weaving speed of domestic electronic jacquard machines can reach or exceed 1,000 rpm, the number of jacquard needles has reached tens of thousands of needles, and devices generally use color touch screen controllers, which can be equipped with a network integrated interface for pattern patterns. design. However, it must be pointed out that most domestic equipment still lags behind in stability and stability. Not only do foreign customers not buy it, even domestic customers have great preconceptions about domestic equipment. Where is the problem? Many people in the industry believe that there are still some problems in the innovative thinking and innovation implementation process.

Some people think that imitating is also an innovation. A foreign machine that sells for 1 million yuan can sell for 50 million yuan, and he can still make profits. This is even innovative. Some people think that since the reform and opening up 30 years ago, domestic companies have introduced and digested and absorbed a large number of domestic and foreign technologies, and mastered the basic technologies of the industry, and they have acquired the capability of independent innovation. The next step in domestic jacquard manufacturing companies should be down-to-earth and independent research and development. , As soon as possible to create more than the foreign counterparts to adapt to market demand products.

It should be said that both views are correct, but companies that always expect to be able to imitate behind others, even if they can escape the complaints of their intellectual property rights, can hardly be truly international enterprises.