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For industrial textile enterprises to successfully transform and move towards intelligent manufacturing, the first problem to be solved is to realize equipment interconnection, process interoperability, product interaction, and eliminate information islands.

-Through overseas direct investment and mergers and acquisitions, industrial capital vertically extends and controls high-quality raw material resources, design innovation resources, brand resources and market channel resources around the world, driving the industry as a whole to penetrate into high value-added areas of the industrial value chain.

-Technological innovation and consumption upgrading are the core driving force for the development of the industrial textile industry. Scientific and technological progress such as new materials, new equipment, information technology and big data also provide strong support for the innovation and development of the industry.

When the downward pressure on the economy increases, there are always some industries that give people confidence. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to November 2018, the industrial added value of my country's industrial textile industry grew by 8.4, which was higher than the manufacturing average and was also at the leading level in the textile industry.

Industrial textiles have high technical content, high added value, wide application range and great market potential, which is an important direction for the innovation and structural adjustment of the textile industry. In order to explore how the industrial textile industry looks at the general trend, seeks the overall situation, and determines strategies under the new situation, a reporter from China Industry News recently interviewed Li Lingshen, vice chairman of the China Textile Industry Federation and chairman of the China Industrial Textile Industry Association.

Science and technology and green are the key words

China Industry News: From the perspective of industrial ecology, there are many types of industries in the field of industrial textiles, with complex and diverse industrial elements, and they are closely related to other industries. How to understand the characteristics and general situation of the current industrial ecosystem of my country's industrial textile industry?

Li Lingshen: Science and technology and green are the two key words of the industrial ecosystem of the industrial textile industry. Science and technology change the industry, and green leads the future.

With the rapid development of strategic emerging industries, the upgrading of equipment, technology and technology, the cross integration of nano, information and three-dimensional molding technologies, the improvement of processing technology and application level of textile functional materials and multi-functional composite materials, the performance level of industrial textiles and the replacement ratio of traditional products will continue to improve, and the development of new products will make continuous breakthroughs, And will expand more new application space and market share.

The development of science and technology has changed the format of the traditional textile industry. A number of backbone enterprises have actively practiced and tried intelligent manufacturing, introduced novel process concepts and production methods, and built a new production mode combining automation, informatization, digitization and networking, which has led to the improvement of industry production efficiency and value chain. In the future, intelligent manufacturing is a reliable guarantee for the sustainable development and high-end development of China's industrial textile industry.

On the whole, the level of intelligent manufacturing implemented by industrial textile enterprises needs to be improved. The investment is mainly concentrated in the automation of the whole process. The informatization work is mainly to use ERP to solve the problems of finance, sales, warehouse logistics and other operation links. The Internet of things and information collection of production equipment, informatization of production links and big data application are still relatively weak.

For industrial textile enterprises to successfully transform and move towards intelligent manufacturing, the first problem to be solved is to realize equipment interconnection, process interoperability, product interaction, and eliminate information islands. For the development of intelligent manufacturing of industrial textiles, work should be carried out from the following three aspects: first, actively carry out the cultivation and transformation of intelligent manufacturing in the industry, and strengthen the cultivation and diagnosis of the industry and related enterprises on the basis of informatization; second, cultivate professional information service providers, establish industry public service platforms, and drive and lead the development of demonstration industries; third, set up industry benchmarks and pilot demonstration enterprises, and strengthen application and promotion, strengthen the visit and learning among enterprises and share the experience of intelligent manufacturing.

"Promoting green manufacturing and developing circular economy" is the key task of the industrial textile industry during the 13th Five Year Plan period. Enterprises in the industry have responded positively in their respective fields and done a lot of work: promoting the research and application of green production and energy-saving technology in the industry, establishing energy-saving emission reduction and cleaner production standards in key areas, and promoting energy-saving emission reduction and cleaner production in the industry, focus on accelerating the improvement of the level of energy saving and consumption reduction in the heating, drying and heat energy reuse of spunbond and spunlace processes, and improving the level of waste gas recovery and reuse of post-finishing processes; improve the development and application of recycled fibers and waste textiles in industrial textiles, and accelerate and encourage the application technology research and market promotion of recycled polyester, polypropylene and other fibers and waste textiles in heat preservation, filling, packaging, shock absorption, sound insulation, agriculture, etc; accelerate the application of green degradable industrial textiles, improve the technical level and application proportion of disposable degradable medical and health non-woven products; promote the demonstration application and promotion of hemp film and polylactic acid non-woven materials in ecological agriculture, soil and water conservation, environmental management and other aspects. Realize the recycling of recycled fibers and waste textiles to more than 3 million tons and increase the proportion of high-value recycling applications.

As one of the key development directions of industrial textiles, environmental protection industry textiles will focus on the three major actions of air, water and soil pollution control, continue to improve the performance of textiles for air filtration and water filtration, and expand the application scope of textiles for ecological restoration.

In addition, the full launch and continuous improvement of the green fiber certification system will promote more applications of green fibers in the fields of medical and health, filtration, environmental protection, security and other industrial textiles, give full play to the value of green fibers, and further accelerate the industrial textile industry. The pace of green manufacturing promotes the sustainable development of the industrial textile industry.

Taking into account the quality and speed of development

China Industrial News: What kind of change trend will the development of the industrial textiles industry show? How will the China Industrial Textiles Industry Association guide the industry to achieve high-quality development?

Li Lingshen: Generally speaking, my country's industrial textile industry has embarked on the fast lane of strategic development. From the early days, it was mostly used for national defense and military products, and now it has gradually become a component of national strategic emerging industries and diversified high-tech industries across many fields. The demand of developed countries and regions such as Europe, the United States, and Japan for high-end industrial textiles such as medical and health, structural enhancement, and safety protection, as well as the development of the Chinese market itself, will provide a broad development space for my country's industrial textile industry enterprises.

In order to guide the high-quality development of the industry, the China Industrial Textiles Industry Association mainly from the following aspects.

First, innovation leads and key breakthroughs. Take innovation as the first driving force to lead the development of the industry, improve the industry innovation system, strengthen interdisciplinary applied research, break through the key bottleneck restricting the development of the industry in technological innovation, and cultivate a new service-oriented manufacturing model in mode innovation.

Second, demand-oriented, collaborative promotion. Focus on meeting the needs of key areas of national economic development, strengthen the connection between industrial chains, improve the quality and efficiency of industrial textile supply, and promote the coordinated development of upstream and downstream industries.

Third, structural optimization, integration and development. Strengthen resource integration, military-civilian integration, optimize product enterprises, enterprise structure, regional structure, and improve the quality and efficiency of development.

Fourth, the main body of the enterprise, the government to guide. To give full play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources and mobilize the subjective initiative of enterprises in the development of the industry, the government should create a fair competitive market environment and promote the benign interaction between effective supply and demand upgrading.

China Industrial News: Industrial textiles industry is growing rapidly, how to understand the characteristics of industry growth?

Li Lingshen: the industrial textile industry is still in the stage of rapid growth and upgrading to the middle and high end, showing the characteristics of maintaining a high growth rate of production, improving economic benefits, steady growth of exports, and picking up the momentum of industry investment.

The driving force for the development of the industry is mainly manifested in: my country's huge population base, urbanization process, and industrialization development provide a huge domestic demand market for the development of the industry, which is the biggest support for the stable development of the industry; infrastructure construction, the full implementation of the two-child policy, The promotion of ecological and environmental protection awareness, the accelerated development of the health and elderly care industry, and the rapid development of strategic emerging industries provide room for continuous growth for industrial textiles; the comprehensive implementation of major strategies such as the regional coordinated development strategy and the military-civilian integration development strategy, and the in-depth advancement of the "Belt and Road" initiative have provided a strong guarantee for industry growth; my country's industrial textiles have achieved gratifying results in opening up markets in developing countries. In the future, these regions will contribute a greater share to the export of my country's industry.

Technological innovation and consumption upgrading are the core driving forces for the development of the industrial textile industry. Scientific and technological progress such as new materials, new equipment, information technology and big data provide strong support for the innovation and development of the industry. Supply side reform provides new momentum for promoting the upgrading of the industry. The industry will accelerate the upgrading of advanced equipment and high-tech production capacity investment, accelerate technological transformation and new product development, and constantly enhance the competitiveness of the industry.

Actively promote transnational layout

China Industry News: In recent years, my country's industrial textiles have continued to strengthen foreign cooperation. Please summarize the achievements and paths of the industry in international development.

Li Lingshen: China Industrial Textile Industry Association strives to give full play to the role of industry associations as a bridge and link, taking the opportunity of promoting the construction of "Belt and Road Initiative" and "China-Africa Cooperation". Continue to promote the transformation and upgrading of the domestic industrial textile industry and the positive interaction with the global layout.

In recent years, the international development of the industrial textile industry has accelerated. The transnational resource allocation of many backbone enterprises in the industry is mainly carried out along two main lines: one main line is to take industrial capital as the leading factor, carry out the transnational layout of productivity through investment and cooperation, create the manufacturing base layout mode of "China's neighboring countries", and maintain and enhance the leading edge in the global supply chain. For example, Berry International Group (Berry), the world's top 40 non-woven fabric manufacturers, has 135 production and operation bases in the world, including 12 operations in Asia. In 1994, Berry's Nanhai Nanxin Non-woven Fabric Co., Ltd. was established and invested in the installation of China's first Leffin line, opening the chapter of the group's development in Asia. Suzhou Company was established in 2006, Foshan Factory was relocated to a new site for expansion in 2015, and the most advanced Leffen 5 production line was invested in 2017, with an additional 20000 tons of production capacity to serve the Asian market. For example, Chinese interlining companies have invested in several spunlace production lines in Vietnam's Yuexiang Industrial Park to meet the growing demand for disposable sanitary products.

Another main line is that industrial capital vertically extends and controls high-quality raw material resources, design innovation resources, brand resources and market channel resources around the world through overseas direct investment and mergers and acquisitions. drive the industry as a whole to penetrate into the high value-added areas of the industrial value chain. For example, Orient International Group has deployed abroad, with 96 business institutions distributed in 28 countries and regions on five continents, and actively expands its business along the "Belt and Road" on the basis of traditional trade and manufacturing. Its subsidiary Shanghai Shenda Co., Ltd. The company acquired AURIA South Carolina automotive interior materials manufacturer and participated in NYX Company of the United States; jiangsu Hongfa Zongheng New Material Technology Co., Ltd. (PGTEX) has set up a warp knitted composite material production enterprise in El Paso, USA. Zhejiang Chaolong Textile Machinery Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Foshan Bidefu Co., Ltd. jointly invested in the U-NIQUETEX of nonwovens production enterprises in Charlotte, USA. On the whole, through overseas investment practice, the international operation ability of industry enterprises has been improved rapidly.

In addition, the association often carries out exchanges and communication between international counterparts and domestic enterprises, promotes the domestic industrial textile industry to be in line with the international advanced level, organizes domestic enterprises to conduct overseas investment research, and discusses the industrial layout and industrial cooperation of domestic enterprises in overseas regions, which is conducive to Chinese enterprises to go out and enhance their international competitiveness.

In the future, China's industrial textile enterprises will explore the following areas in terms of foreign investment: nonwovens and disposable sanitary materials industry, actively layout in densely populated areas such as Southeast Asia, Russia and Africa, and encourage qualified enterprises to set up factories in developed countries such as Europe and the United States; geotechnical and construction textiles will be distributed to areas with intensive infrastructure construction projects along the "Belt and Road Initiative" route; coated fabrics (synthetic leather), etc. to the luggage shoes and hats and clothing centralized transfer of regional layout, do a good job of supporting the industrial chain.