The textile industry is a traditional advantageous industry in Suzhou. It was known as the “Rao of Silk and Silk” during the Soochow Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms. With the expansion of the industry and the prosperity of the market, it won the reputation of “the sun rises thousands of pieces, and clothes and quilts are available all over the world”. The establishment of the Qing Dynasty The Suzhou Weaving Bureau is world-famous.
In recent years, Suzhou has formed a number of textile industries with obvious professional characteristics, including Wujiang silk sector, Zhangjiagang woolen sweater sector, and Changshu clothing sector. In the cluster center, the industrial chain covers fiber, spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing to downstream clothing, home textiles and industrial textiles. Currently, Suzhou’s textile industry is deeply implementing upgrade projects such as enterprise intelligent transformation and digital transformation, accelerating the construction of innovation platforms, and focusing on the construction of a collaborative innovation system.
The reporter learned from the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology that the Suzhou textile industry has achieved remarkable results in cultivating high-end textile clusters, ranking first in the country in terms of total volume and complete industrial chain layout Ranked first in the country in technological innovation and leading in the country in technological innovation, it has grown into a world-class advanced manufacturing cluster with initial global influence and competitiveness, building new advantages to compete in the global industrial landscape.
Tackling core technologies and breaking foreign monopolies
June 2019, from Wujiang Shengze’s Shenghong Holding Group and Donghua University took the lead in establishing the Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center, becoming the 13th national-level manufacturing innovation center in the country and the first in Jiangsu Province. It is also the first one in the country led by a private enterprise. National manufacturing innovation center.
Over the past two years, the innovation center has built a number of research and development centers focusing on new functional fiber materials, high-end fiber materials and textiles, and cutting-edge new fiber materials. A technological innovation supply system supported by key laboratories, pilot bases, and national textile testing centers has established a collaborative innovation system for industry, academia, and research with in-depth cooperation, and explored the establishment of an integrated innovation system that lays out the innovation chain with an industrial chain. A number of key Breakthroughs in core technology research have been achieved and the results have entered the stage of transformation.
As the leading organizer of the innovation center, Shenghong has always regarded innovation as the driving force for development, and has successively built a national-level enterprise technology center, a postdoctoral research workstation, etc. A series of scientific research and innovation platforms continue to break international monopolies in core technologies in the fields of microfibers, PTT fibers, and functional fibers. Especially after the outbreak last year, research projects on fiber technology and products for emergency protection attracted attention from across the country and even the world. The Shenghong Joint Innovation Center has established a 10 million yuan “Shenghong·Emergency Support and Public Safety” fiber materials scientific research special fund to promote the industrialization of relevant subject foundations, key technologies and scientific and technological achievements. In less than one month, a total of 109 projects were received from key enterprises, scientific research institutions, universities and other units, breaking through 6 key technologies and forming 11 innovative production processes.
This year, Shengze has launched another 200 intelligent transformation projects. Intelligent transformation and digital transformation have injected innovative vitality into the traditional textile industry and promoted silk Textile has undergone a gorgeous transformation from “fabric” to “material”, and has developed from production and manufacturing to diversified and high-end development such as research and development, trade, and fashion.
Including Shengze, Suzhou’s textile industry has formed a large number of “one township, one product” characteristic towns, with two 100-billion-level bases in Wujiang and Changshu . With the comprehensive integration of the industrial chain, innovation chain and value chain, “Suzhou Weaving” deepens cross-border e-commerce and creates a cross-border e-commerce public service platform. The one-stop foreign trade comprehensive service attracts many buyers and moves towards the world-class high-end textile industry. The pace of the cluster is becoming more and more steady.
Towards intelligent manufacturing and innovative industrial chain ecology
Through intelligent manufacturing, Suzhou The textile industry promotes industrial structural adjustment that combines stock optimization and incremental innovation. On the one hand, it uses intelligent transformation to upgrade equipment. On the other hand, it opens up the data flow of the entire textile industry chain, carries out changes in business models, and achieves large-scale personalized customization improvements. User experience, innovation in the upstream and downstream ecology of the entire industry chain.
In the traditional impression, clothes with high wool content often cause people to suffer from “static electricity” in dry winters, and pilling and shrinkage are also common problems. “Cardigan” label. A fabric with a high wool content developed and produced by Suzhou Huafang Group Wool Textile and Dyeing Co., Ltd. not only has good electrical conductivity, but also has key indicators such as breaking strength and static shrinkage that are much higher than national and industry standards. This product was selected The first batch of “Made in Suzhou” brand certification list.
In the company’s production workshop, the reporter saw that there was no visible dust on the ground, no flying lint in the air, and the entire production environment was very clean. Huafang has introduced high-end wool spinning and dyeing equipment. While increasing output, it has continuously improved the process during the production process and carried out various special finishes such as moth-proof, anti-shrinkage, anti-wrinkle, waterproof, dust-proof, and gloss enhancement.
Huang Zurong, production section chief of Huafang Group Wool Textile and Dyeing Co., Ltd., introduced that the “wool polyester serge” fabric developed and produced by them uses high-quality Australian Wool raw material, through continuous improvement of the early process, makes this fabric feel flexible and elastic; after adopting internationally leading spinning, weaving, and finishing processes, the static shrinkage of the fabric is reduced, and the dimensional stability is well maintained Come down. At the same time, the fabric’s resistance to breakage makes the garment more durable, and the use of conductive fibers also makes this fabric have better…�Conductive and antistatic properties, capable of handling more complex working environments.
Currently, Suzhou’s textile industry is at a critical stage of transformation and upgrading. A complete industrial supporting system and advanced manufacturing capabilities are important foundations for the high-quality development of the textile industry. The deep integration of advanced technologies such as the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence with traditional manufacturing has provided technical support for the textile industry to improve quality and efficiency. The upgrade of the consumption structure has provided market space for the textile industry to move towards the mid-to-high end.
In the new “dual cycle” development pattern, Suzhou’s textile industry is constantly moving forward on the development path of intelligent manufacturing, and textile materials are developing from wearable to wider areas , meeting the needs of improving the quality of life and meeting special industries.
Precision support, policy guidance to seek new chapters
Suzhou textile industry leading enterprises gather , product market share is high, providing good conditions for industrial innovation. Shenghong Group’s main products, polyester yarn and printed and dyed fabrics, have a market share of 6%; Huafang Group’s main products, various yarns, have a market share of 3%; Bosideng’s main products, down jackets, have a market share of 40%.
Haitai Textile started with Japan’s water-jet looms and South Korea’s pulping. After 17 years of struggle, it has become a national high-tech enterprise. It has a national-level postdoctoral workstation and is authorized with 3 to 5 invention patents every year. It has become an industry leader in the fields of microwave anti-wrinkle, anti-knife, moisture-wicking sports fabrics and other products. But the company’s chairman, Shen Li, has always remained sober. He believes that anything that can be bought with money is worthless, and companies must maintain their pursuit of innovation and quality.
The Suzhou Enterprise Service Center spent one year conducting research on the city’s textile industry clusters. The research report states that cultivating high-level innovation clusters is the only way for Suzhou’s textile industry to move up the middle and high end of the global value chain.
The person in charge of the center introduced that Suzhou has gathered a group of leading enterprises with strong international and domestic competitiveness and industrial chain integration capabilities, including Hengli , Shenghong, Bosideng and other 9 tens of billions of enterprises, the city’s textile enterprises above the designated size focus on intelligent equipment, intelligent operations and intelligent products, promote the level of enterprise intelligent manufacturing, and continuously enhance the strength of innovation carriers. For example, Dongdu Group has developed an intelligent garment hanging system, which uses IoT technology to control the path movement of the hook, enabling simultaneous processing of multiple varieties and specifications.
It is understood that Suzhou will study and formulate the “Suzhou City Action Plan to Create a World-class High-end Textile Cluster” based on existing policies, focusing on high-end textile clusters. The “three major sectors” of industrial transformation, technological innovation and transformation, and the cultivation of emerging business formats focus on six aspects: manufacturing capacity improvement, industrial talent introduction and training, new technology and new product achievement transformation, integration of large and medium-sized enterprises, excellent industrial chain construction and regional brand promotion. Research and introduce a “1+3+6” landmark industrial policy system for high-end textile clusters, highlighting the orientation of supporting the excellent, supporting the strong and supporting the new, tailoring support methods for key areas and subdivided categories, giving full play to the policy’s “native” role, and effectively Provide precise assistance and strengthen support for industrial development.
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