Behind the brilliant achievements hidden worries: printing and dyeing industry "fat" how to reduce?

In 2018, printing and dyeing enterprises handed in a satisfactory report card. Recently, the China Printing and Dyeing Industry Association released data showing that in January to November 2018, the output of printing and dyeing cloth of Enterprises above the scale of 44.496 billion meters, an increase of 2.26% over the same period in 2017. During the period, printing and dyeing enterprises above the scale achieved 265.725 billion yuan in main business income, an increase of 4.55% over the same period of last year, and realized a total profit of 13.657 billion yuan, an increase of 13.06% over the same period of last year.



However, it is worrying that behind the bright results, printing and dyeing enterprises are continuing to expand their losses. From January to November 2018, 322 printing and dyeing enterprises above the scale lost money, with a loss of 18.78%, an increase of 3.7 percentage points over the same period in 2017. The total loss of loss-making enterprises was 1.366 billion yuan, an increase of 13.06% over the same period in 2017.



In view of this kind of & ldquo; big but deficit & rdquo; of & ldquo; of puffiness & rdquo; of physique, how to cure printing and dyeing enterprises?



Big but not strong & ldquo; etiology & rdquo; where?



Cost Rising Lack of Innovation



The reasons why printing and dyeing enterprises continue to expand their losses and loss areas can be found in this data release. According to the report, from January to November 2018, the main business cost of printing and dyeing enterprises above the scale was 232.984 billion yuan, an increase of 4.77% over the same period of last year.



It is generally believed that the rising price of dyestuffs in the upstream has become a problem that can not be ignored by printing and dyeing enterprises. At present, China's dyestuff industry is in an oligopoly situation with highly concentrated production capacity. The leading enterprises have gathered nearly 70% of their production capacity and strong bargaining power. Since 2018, the price of dyes has been rising one after another, and the price of disperse dyes is approaching the historical high in 2015, which directly leads to the dramatic increase of dye cost in printing and dyeing enterprises, and the cost proportion has increased from 25% to 30% or more.



Printing and dyeing enterprises face these problems, the only solution is to concentrate on raising dyeing fees and transferring costs downstream. However, although the downstream weaving industry does not grasp the bargaining power, the current prosperity of the textile market is not high, and the weaving enterprises are also complaining about the rising dyeing fees. So from the perspective of 2018, the rising tide of printing and dyeing industry has decreased compared with 2017. It can be seen that in the environment, the printing and dyeing industry is also considering the acceptability of weaving enterprises.



In addition, a series of factors, such as rising labor costs, warming coal market, rising heat and power consumption, and the cost brought by environmental pressure, have made the comprehensive operation cost of printing and dyeing enterprises increase continuously, and made the already overburdened printing and dyeing enterprises suffer heavy losses.



Besides being influenced by the external factors of the market environment, the lack of innovation ability is also the main reason for the further expansion of enterprises'loss. According to the Statistical Bulletin of National Science and Technology Investment in 2017, a total of 1760.61 billion yuan was invested in R&D in that year, and the intensity of R&D investment was 2.13%. Over-scale textile enterprises spend 44.974 billion yuan on R&D expenditure, and the intensity of R&D investment is only 0..69%.



In this regard, some industry experts pointed out that: & ldquo; many printing and dyeing enterprises declare that the number of new products reaches three digits every year, but most of them only change in technology, pattern, color and other aspects, even if ‘ novelty & rsquo; products with higher content are mostly follow-up, follow-up and imitation products. There are few original new products with independent intellectual property rights, high technology content and strong competitiveness. ”



Relevant enterprises also agree with this statement. Xi Bin, managing director of Guangdong Zhaotian Textile Technology Co., Ltd., said frankly that many printing and dyeing enterprises are impatient in the research and development of new products, choosing to surround and occupy the market with the strategy of “ big and scattered ” not only did they not form their main products, but also abandoned them once the sales of products did not go up, and continued to seek new profit growth points.



How about Enterprises & ldquo; physical fitness & rdquo;?



Science and Technology Research and Development Improvement Technology



Under the situation of domestic and foreign difficulties, China's printing and dyeing industry presents the following characteristics: ldquo; virtual fatness & rdquo; physique, which urgently needs to be strong & ldquo; physique & rdquo;.



In response to this phenomenon, Chen Zhihua, president of China Printing and Dyeing Industry Association, pointed out that printing and dyeing enterprises should further improve their printing and dyeing technology level and technological innovation ability. He told reporters: & ldquo; In the future, the development of printing and dyeing technology should pay attention to improving textile quality and production efficiency, focusing on the development of high-quality textile dyeing and finishing technology, functional textile dyeing and finishing technology, multi-component textile dyeing and finishing technology, high color fastness textile dyeing and finishing technology and new fiber dyeing and finishing technology; further innovation of technology, including clean production technology, and so on. Intelligent manufacturing technology in printing and dyeing industry should be strengthened, including on-line detection, digital automation technology and MES system. ”



Chen Zhihua said that technological innovation is the motive force for the survival and sustainable development of enterprises. The research and development, application and innovation of new printing and dyeing technologies are the key to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises. The revolutionary technological innovation will promote the upgrading of the printing and dyeing industry and promote the development transformation of the printing and dyeing industry from scale, quantity to quality effect, which is also the future development direction of the industry.





It is gratifying that nowadays, technology-oriented printing and dyeing enterprises are not in the minority. Zhaotian of Guangdong persists in the path of scientific and technological innovation. We extract more than 6% of R&D expenditure from sales revenue every year for product R&D and technological innovation, and insist on taking the path of & lsquo; industry-university-research & rsquo; from fibers to fabrics to technology. We have established three major technologies in cooperation with universities, research institutes and world leading companies in industries such as Donghua University, Japan Dongyang Textile, Austrian Essence, etc. The R&D center now has 4 authorized invention patents, 2 utility model patents, and 4 invention patents under examination and approval. 'rdquo,'Xibin said. It is understood that at present, the company has become an important service provider in the domestic functional knitted fabric industry.



Shishi City Port Overflow Dyeing and Finishing Co., Ltd. has also developed a series of elastic leisure fabric products in recent years in cooperation with Nagoya Co., Ltd., which has 140 years of history. More than 50 new elastic series fabrics have been developed by the two sides, which has become one of the main fabrics purchased by the Japanese company worldwide for $2.2 billion annually.



How to ensure that “ medicine to disease elimination ”?



Enhanced Cleaner Production Design



Of course, scientific and technological research and development alone is not enough to eradicate the diseases of “ excessive fat &rdquo. Chen Zhihua said that the printing and dyeing industry has high water consumption and energy consumption, shouldering the important task of energy saving and emission reduction in the textile industry. At the same time, green and sustainable development is an important aspect of the transformation and upgrading of the printing and dyeing industry, and also an inevitable trend of the development of the industry.



Chen Zhihua said: & ldquo; Printing and dyeing industry should speed up the implementation of structural adjustment, comprehensively improve the industry's energy-saving and environmental protection level and sustainable development ability, further eliminate backward equipment with high energy consumption, high water consumption and low efficiency; increase the research and development of cleaner production technology, reduce pollution from the source, improve resource utilization efficiency, and further improve pollution control; Technologies and facilities should be strengthened to combine process control with end-treatment to achieve standard discharge or resource utilization of major pollutants; control of harmful substances should be strengthened from the source, and environmental friendly dyeing and chemical additives should be used to enhance the ecological safety of products and meet the growing needs of the beautiful ecological environment of the people. ”



In recent years, some printing and dyeing enterprises continue to increase efforts to update related technologies and equipment. Jiahua Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. intentionally introduced an efficient exhaust gas purifier at a price of 1 million yuan to protect the atmospheric environment and ensure production safety. Zhejiang Lego Industrial Co., Ltd. spent more than 2.8 million euros on importing Shaoxing's first & ldquo from Switzerland, and Zhejiang Yingfeng Science and Technology Co., Ltd. successively introduced anhydrous dyeing cylinder & rdquo. Huayue Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. has invested no less than 50 million yuan in introducing new water treatment equipment. Its daily treatment of 2,000 tons of reverse osmosis water treatment equipment has increased the reuse rate of water from 70% to more than 95%.



However, there are also industry experts reminding enterprises: & ldquo; it is not wrong to invest in new equipment to achieve cleaner production, but enterprises should not blindly & lsquo; like the new and hate the old & rsquO; instead, we should make great efforts to upgrade old equipment so as to avoid unnecessary risks and investments. ”



Chen Zhihua also suggested that the development of printing and dyeing industry should incorporate more fashion elements. With the improvement of people's living standards, fashion consumption has increasingly become a new economic growth point of the industry, & lsquo; industry + Fashion & rsquo; is the future development trend of the industry. In the future, the industry should give full play to its own advantages in the fashion field, strengthen product design and R&D, promote upstream and downstream cooperation in the industrial chain, and reflect and enhance the value of the supply chain. ”



In recent years, digital printing has become the fashion industry's new favorite, many printing and dyeing enterprises also showed strong interest in it. We used to do a lot of traditional printing and dyeing business, and the pressure of environmental protection in these two years is great, so we have to transform. Digital printing is a good direction. The responsible person of Fujian Rongsen Colour Company said: & ldquo; The reason for the transformation is that the pressure of environmental protection is on the one hand, on the other hand, traditional printing is increasingly unable to meet the requirements of today's market for fabric color expression and diversity, and the great improvement of digital printing accuracy makes the production of high-definition printed textiles possible, allowing designers to break through traditional weaving. The limitation of printing technology, give full play to imagination. ”



Of course, Enterprises & ldquo; physical strength & rdquo; can not do without good & ldquo; Fitness & rdquo; environment. Chen Zhihua said: & ldquo; China Printing and Dyeing Industry Association will adhere to close contact with enterprises at the grass-roots level, listen to the voices of enterprises, reflect the demands of enterprises, act as a good link between enterprises and the government, and lead the printing and dyeing industry into a new era and dye a new future. He expects that the printing and dyeing industry will continue to develop steadily in 2019.The main operating indicators remain relatively stable.