Viewing Pformation And Upgrading Of Ningbo'S Garment Industry From The Expo

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Looking back on the clothing industry in Ningbo, there are two outstanding problems. One is the lack of high quality accessories and the lack of interaction with the surrounding areas, leading to the lack of upstream links in the industrial chain. Two, the development of the garment design field is lagging behind, and it becomes a soft rib to upgrade product quality and industrial competitiveness.

YOUNGOR: the "revolution" industry of hemp

To Beijing to release hemp products, to introduce hemp fiber in Italy, this year, YOUNGOR Group Chairman Li Rucheng busy rush around, only for a theme - hemp.

As Li Rucheng wishes, full of low carbon, environmental protection and healthy smell of hemp fiber and products, is in China, Europe and other places set off a whirlwind.

The current cotton price continues to rise, reflecting the advanced consciousness of YOUNGOR's early involvement in the field and the search for new textile fibers.

In fact, from suits and shirts to printing and dyeing, spinning, to the development of non ironing fabrics, and to the establishment of direct camp network, YOUNGOR has been "intensive cultivation" in the upstream and downstream of the textile and garment industry chain in recent years.

In collaboration with the Research Institute of the PLA General Logistics Department, we studied the technology and application of hemp fiber and further pushed YOUNGOR to the forefront of the industrial chain.

Hemp is known as "the second layer of human skin".

As a new type of textile fiber, hemp has not only the functions of moisture absorption, air permeability, deodorization, bacteriostasis, radiation resistance, but also natural green and low carbon fiber, which is a typical functional and environment-friendly rare and precious textile fiber.

"Its superiority and unique style are unmatched by other natural fiber products."

An industry source said that hemp can replace linen and other fibers, so that the domestic textile and garment industry to reduce dependence on imported fiber and cotton.

According to Li Rucheng, the sales volume of hemp fiber has accumulated more than 500 tons. Many famous brands in China are producing hemp or hemp blended products. Wearing and using hemp products has become a new high-end fashion.

But because hemp products technology is not yet fully mature, the annual capacity of 5000 tons has not been completely released. YOUNGOR's optimistic goal is to reach 50 thousand tons in 5 years, so that ordinary consumers can wear hemp clothing through the scale and industrialization of the price of hemp fiber.

Half a month ago, YOUNGOR moved the "hemp family" life hall to Italy.

More than 700 years ago, Marco Polo introduced China's silk to Europe. After more than 700 years, I would like to make second 'Marco Polo' and introduce Chinese hemp into Europe.

The president of the Italian foundation, romet, expressed strong cooperation desire to Li Rucheng.

Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria 4 textile and Garment Association presidents saw the achievements of hemp application in China.

They said, "it is amazing that China can make hemp fiber industrialization."

Armani, Zegna, CK and other garment industry counterparts, after seeing the series of products of the hemp family, excitedly said: "hemp textiles have always been a special item of high quality people's quality of life, and China's hemp degumming technology is ahead of the world."

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With the two kinds of equipment products, the computerized flat knitting machine and the computerized seamless knitted underwear machine, Ningbo Yu Ren Knitting Machinery Co., Ltd. started from 6 million yuan in 2004, and only used 3 years to achieve the three level sales revenue from million to tens of millions of dollars.

Last year, with the outstanding performance of annual sales of over 16000 units, the company has won the "double crown" throne of the first and first sales volume of the global flat knitting machine for China's domestic horizontal knitting enterprises.

In the first half of this year, the company completed its industrial output value of 1 billion 100 million yuan and doubled its production and sales.

As a manufacturer of mechanical equipment at the front of the industrial chain, "the traditional industries such as knitted sweaters with all-round services" are the driving force for the rapid development of Yu people.

In the view of Sun Pingfan, chairman of the company, Yu man stepped on the time window of the domestic sweater industry pformation and grasped the development opportunities brought by the upgrading of traditional industries.

More than 20 years ago, the prosperity of Cixi Baisha knitting Market enabled Sun Pingfan to enter the field of hand-held flat knitting machine.

However, the diversification of market demand makes the traditional hand-held machine encounter a technical bottleneck which is difficult to break through.

Foreign computerized flat knitting machines began to enter the domestic market at the end of last century.

However, a foreign computer flat knitting machine, whose productivity is more than 10 times higher than that of a hand-held machine, is equivalent to 500 hand-held machines, making many traditional enterprises dare not to do anything.

In 2003, Sun Pingfan resolutely abandoned the production of handcrank, set up Yu Ren knitting machinery company, and accumulated all his years of operation into the development and production of computerized flat knitting machine.

From the first more than 300 days and nights of the initial research and development, and now holding more than 30 national patents, the Cixing computer flat knitting machine has finally been recognized by the market, and has become the first choice for upgrading the upgrading of equipment in the traditional knitting clothing enterprises in China.

Invested about 10 million US dollars to establish a R & D sales center in Switzerland and build a textile science and technology park with ITEMA company in Italy.

In May of this year, Yu completed the acquisition of the third international computer flat knitting machines, the Swiss Stanger group and its Italy fashion design center and Stanger Shanghai Textile Machinery Co., Ltd., and so on, so as to accelerate the layout of the international strategy.

"After the acquisition, the company will take advantage of Stanger's technology, global marketing network and Yu Ren's domestic production cost advantages to implement external expansion and industry mergers."

Sun Pingfan said, we will introduce foreign wool yarn composition, manufacturing technology research and design and development technology, so that the machine's production design function is stronger, better for domestic knitting sweater industry, and common development with traditional enterprises.