China Textile Export Faces Threat From ASEAN

According to statistics from China Textile Products Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, exported textile products and clothings from China to America reached 19.45 billion USD in the first half of 2014. It realizes a steady growth of 6.9%. Among that, textile products grew by 5.7% and clothings rise by 7.4%.

However, no enterprises feel relaxed even under such a positive situation. They states that export trade is actual a passive action that limited by market changes. One must focus on the changes all the time to avoid failure.

Zhu Zejiang, the general manager of Guangdong Foshan Tongze Company said, “Compared with 2013, there do has a slightly growth this year. We have made a growth at nearly 10%. The first several months in 2014 are relatively slack while orders increased after April. This is closely related to the improvement of American economy.

Export volume and growth range are important indexes when evaluating trend of China export. However, shares of China products in American market can truthfully reflect status of China textile and clothing industry in global industry.

According to the statistics from American Customs, China textile products and clothings accounted for 34.7% of American market from January to May 2014, which decreased by 0.5% compared with the same period in 2013. What’s more, the share decreased progressively month by month during that period.

At the same time, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) accounted for 20.1% from January to February, similar to the same period in 2013. And then, the data increased from March. In the end, share of ASEAN in American market is 20.7% from January to May, increased by 0.3% than corresponding period in 2013.

Although a growth of 0.3% is small, it reveals potential risks for China export enterprises. Some companies have run into the facts of losing customers. It is a warning. Countries like Vietnam have similar industrial mode and workers’ quality with China. Production costs there are lower. Therefore, companies from Vietnam are great threats to us. China might lose its winner status in textile export.

Fall and Winter Knitted Velvet Fabrics Sold Well

Recently, the traditional market in China textile city starts the sale of fall and winter knitted velvet fabric. Most of the products are presented with samples. The types of those products are continually increasing. As for those presented with prompt goods, they are mostly seen in some large stores. In autumn, the warp knitted velvet fabrics will start their sale in some regions. However, even in a slack market, there are also great products with firm price.

The second and third floor of eastern market is special business areas of knitted velvet. Among all products there, knitted fabrics like dyed spandex fabrics, Korean velvet fabrics, upright pile fabrics, corduroy fabrics, pleuche fabrics, velvet fabrics with high density, island velvet fabrics, coral velvet fabrics, short-pile velour fabrics, four-way spandex fabrics, cowboy spandex fabrics are sold at some regions. The price is firm while the orders generally require for medium or even small quantity.

Types and pattern of jacquard coral fabrics, swiss dot fabrics as well as printed fabrics make some increase. These kinds of fabrics are usually used for manufacturing fashion women sweaters and suits. Therefore, they enjoy a good popularity among clothing manufacturers and the orders increase in some areas. Korean style fabrics also have an increasing orders amount for the new types.

Polyester semi-gloss FDY, DTY and POY thin printed double plush fabrics are generally presented with rose-red, pink, blue, green, light brown or nigger-brown hearts pattern on them. The sales of them increased in some large-scale stores.

Maternity and Baby Products Require Improvement

It is known that several quality and security issues happened in recent years. These inevitably weigh on consumer sentiment. The whole market is in dire need of excellent maternity and baby products. Under this circumstance, the first Maternity and Baby Industry Quality Control Expo 2014 was successfully wrapped up on 22nd July, 2014.

This expo had participants came from related fields like food service industry, textile industry, clothing industry, cartoon culture industry, etc.. Lou Yingcai, the Assistant Dean of Zhejiang Textile Test Institute and General Secretary of Zhejiang Textile Standard Committee also took part in the expo. They gathered to discuss over the improvement and detection of maternity and baby products.

China has become the second largest consumer of maternity and baby products after America. Its market size is expected to reach 2 trillion RMB in 2015. Due to inadequate industry norms, quality and safety incidents of maternity and baby products occurs occasionally, which greatly dampen consumer moral.

With implement of Two Children Allowed Policy, maternity and baby products will be accelerated to integrate into each side of life and production. Thus the quality and security problems in this industry will also be paid with more attention in future.

Maternity and baby products is consistently associated with children’s health, thus the related products, brands and channels should be made to develope with deep cooperation. Enterprises in this field must provide qualified products with favorable price.

What’s more, quality control system in this line should maintain uniformity from raw materials to products, or even consumers. Last but not least, products with low quality must be forbidden to enter into circulation field.

Get rid of pollution ‘short legs’ keqiao area businesses have turned to digital printing

The face of increasingly severe environmental pressures, many printing companies keqiao zone set their sights on less polluting digital printing, and some companies even at the cost of introducing new technology digital printing equipment abroad.
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Vigorous investment in digital printing
Keqiao Development Zone is located in a small and medium enterprise printing, has decided to invest $ 3 million from abroad a digital printing machine. “Purchasing a first try, if good, will present three flat screen digital printing equipment, all changed.” Ms Chan said the person in charge of the enterprise, and now increasingly demanding environment, we do not want to sewage problems suspense.

Recently keqiao area printing digital printing business operators to increasingly high degree of concern, enthusiasm for investment in digital printing high. Over a large-scale printing and dyeing business owners these days, Mr. Zhang has been shuttling between Shanghai and Hangzhou, study current digital printing production and market conditions. Zhang said, turning from digital printing dyeing, re-learn everything, there is an old saying called “the observatory.” So, why such a large campaign Zhang? “Digital printing is only in the last part – when washing produce very little waste compared to traditional printing can certainly solve the sewage problem.” Zhang said, the investment of digital printing, traditional printing can get rid of the pollution of the “short leg.”
Digital printing due to ink-jet printing, dyeing process which dyes remaining only 5%, while the most advanced of its traditional printing equipment also dye the remaining 30%. Dye surplus, the more and more water, the higher the concentration of wastewater, sewage treatment more difficult it his.

Digital printing technology matures

Digital printing, dyeing and printing industry in keqiao area is no stranger, but a few years ago due to the speed restriction has been used only for proofing production lines become climate. Located in Binhai Industrial Zone RGB Dyeing Co., Ltd. is an earlier attempt to digital printing business, its products in the domestic market will soon hit a new world.

In recent years, digital printing technology matures, digital printing production is also a substantial increase in the use of digital printing technology is rapid, speed is no longer the bottleneck of digital printing. “Three or four years ago, 1 hour print speed of 5-10 m have been considered high-speed, and now has achieved 100 meters above the hourly rate.” “RGB” general manager Chen Yuming said that with the increase in production, these in digital printing costs has also been reduced from the original ink costs only 100 yuan per meter, down 10 yuan now.
Chen Yuming been concerned keqiao digital printing industry, he told the author, along with cost reduction and product individual needs, the last three years, investment in digital printing business keqiao increasing, especially last year, the number of digital printing machines increases the hundreds. Digital printing is becoming a hot spot for investment keqiao dyeing enterprises, a number of well-known digital printing equipment manufacturers have come to Shaoxing sell equipment, such as Hangzhou Honghua Digital Technology, Hangzhou, computer technology and other open-source companies are still in Shaoxing has a distribution network.

Investment in digital printing to pay attention to what
Traditional textile printing business is not very different, easy to form a vicious price competition. So, digital printing can replace traditional printing it? “Difficult!” One in 10 years of study of the digital printing industry, told the author, only the cost of printing, traditional printing is about 2 yuan per meter, and digital printing at more than $ 10, this cost gap on the leading digital printing in Price competition tends to be a disadvantage. Chen Yuming also admitted that because of the price, he often suffered its customers “abandoned.”
. “Currently digital printing biggest competitor is the cost,” Chen Yuming believes that today’s textile printing, pop elements change quickly, the need for more design; orders yardage getting shorter, but more complex designs, fastness also higher; and as people’s environmental awareness, tolerance and fabric color variation tighter specifications, digital printing and dyeing industry must be the direction for future development.

So, the current investment in digital printing and dyeing enterprise transformation should pay attention to what? Chen Yuming has proposed to locate a clear second to consider the return on investment, then there need to continue training, efforts to increase staff to operate digital printing expertise, ability to learn self-control digital printing equipment and ink control. The only way to make the digital printing technology to get faster and better development.

Traditional Printing Another Way – Imitation Digital Printing

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Printing is the essence of flowers, flower attributed to fashion, digital technology has created a digital fashion development, and people turn to the pursuit of fashion Forced advances in technology. With the continuous development of digital printing technology, the traditional printing industry to further shocks. But it can not completely replace the traditional digital printing, then how reasonable arrangements between digital printing and traditional printing complementary, into new technology to enhance the point? Generally have the following observations and recommendations:

1, color digital printing on relatively poor. A large number of digital printing products are similar to the original work or imitation color. Can not be compared with the traditional color printing; does not specify a color for their customers, especially spot demanding customers.

2, high cost of digital printing, the loss is high. When digital printing process due to nozzle clogging, uneven friction fabric, wrinkles and the adverse higher, not completely mass production.

Given the status of traditional printing and digital printing, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of digital people for the pursuit of fashion, combined with digital printing and traditional printing, digital printing technology came into being fake!

Digital printing is an imitation of the digital inkjet printing technology with the perfect combination of traditional network-based application of new technology, which is different from traditional innovative use of spot color separations private network technology in the existing network platform printing technology, breaking the cycle of songs and limiting devices to be close to the cost and efficiency of the traditional printing digital printing printing comparable to the effect of, great to meet the consumer demand for digital fashion pursuit.
Imitation digital printing technology with printed fabrics, not only has the characteristics of low-carbon environment, the more important is the color change fabric richer, lifelike and vivid flowers. A three-dimensional fabric, especially for young people’s tastes. On the other hand, imitation digital printing in energy efficiency compared to ordinary printing to save a lot of value-added products is 3 to 5 times digital printing.

Imitation digital technology to meet today’s dominant individual consumption. Now clothing fashion cycles are getting shorter, pattern changes more quickly, producing increasingly high demand, order smaller quantities. Cost and time consumed by conventional printing plate, no matter how it is difficult to meet the requirements of the modern trends in printing, digital printing and imitation has unique advantages in this regard.

Meanwhile, digital printing has great potential in foreign markets. Europe is the biggest digital printing products, demand and production, digital printing has penetrated into apparel, home textiles, customization, and other fields. Small volume, variety, and rapid response mode greatly enhance the value chain clothing brand.

In short, digital printing as a revolutionary technological advancement for textile printing industry to bring endless vigor and vitality, but its price is expensive, especially nozzles, ink and other supplies not yet fully mature, operating costs are extremely expensive, and there is limited proofing small batch production, the real mass production also needs a little time to verify. The imitation of digital printing as a new means of digital printing technology, perfect make up the traditional printing and digital printing imperfections, suitable for mass production of digital flowers, flower power is not inferior to the performance of a digital direct injection and transfer printing, and bright colors degree, feel, color fastness, penetration is much better than the digital direct-injection and transfer printing, after all, a high-volume digital production orders.