Quick Facts on the Recent Textile Industry

At present, the new economic form characterized by green, low-carbon and circular is accelerating, and the textile industry has also begun to transform and upgrade, with the goal of "green environmental protection, intelligent manufacturing, high efficiency and energy saving", and strive to improve the quality and efficiency of industrial life.

New models and new formats in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai

Recently, the official has just announced the top ten typical cases of new models and new formats of the textile industry in Zhejiang Province in 2022. Its core is to take low-carbon environmental protection as the purpose, through the integration of existing resources superimposed on modern intelligent automation system, improve the production process, in order to obtain real money profit improvement. For example: Zhejiang Dongjin New Materials Co., Ltd.'s "flexible manufacturing of outdoor sports functional clothing fabrics based on the whole industry chain mode"; Shaoxing Qianyong Textile Co., Ltd.'s "digital printing technology of functional nylon fabrics"; Zhejiang Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center-Zhejiang Yingfeng Technology Co., Ltd. jointly built the laboratory of "dyeing and finishing design, process, equipment, system organic integration and intelligence".

Born with the epidemic, protection evolved

With the implementation of the new 20 articles, the post-epidemic era 2.0 has begun. Antiviral and antibacterial textiles are increasingly concerned. Textile enterprises are also continuously strengthening the research and development of antiviral and antibacterial functional textiles, such as Anel cooperating with Tianjin High-end Equipment Research Institute of Tsinghua University to process antiviral and antibacterial fabrics using electron beam grafting modification technology; Yiling Pharmaceutical cooperated with textile enterprises to jointly develop the preparation process and application of spunbond non-woven fabrics containing Lianhua Qingwen extract, etc.

Accelerating the "Green Transition"

In Dongguan, the "world-class garment industry cluster pilot zone", a large number of textile and garment enterprises actively embrace green environmental protection materials, promote the deep integration of new technologies and cluster development, guide the industry to accelerate the transformation to high-end, digital and green, "science and technology fashion green" has become a new positioning of the textile industry in the new era. For example, the following well-known enterprises have joined the "green transformation" army.

Guangdong Zhaotian Textile Technology Co., Ltd. officially joined the "3060 China Textile and Garment Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Action" plan, by inviting experts to carry out all-round diagnosis of enterprises, promote enterprise energy saving, consumption reduction and emission reduction, establish a green manufacturing system, and realize the green transformation and upgrading of enterprises. In terms of the selection of clothing raw materials, Dongguan Bili Garment Co., Ltd. selects cotton and linen natural fibers, partially recycled cotton and polyester, Tencel, modal and viscose recycled fibers; In terms of clothing color selection, it is mainly based on natural colors, does not pursue overly complex colors, and reduces dyeing pollution; In terms of clothing process selection, environmentally friendly clothing production technology is selected and high-pollution production technology is abandoned. Thanks to the concept of green environmental protection, the added value of environmental protection and green products of Bili Apparel has been further improved, which has been welcomed by young consumers.

In the future, the green transformation of the textile and garment industry is the general trend, and enterprises can join the carbon reduction plan, formulate sustainable development goals and incorporate them into their corporate development strategies to ensure the promotion of energy saving, consumption reduction and emission reduction of enterprises, promote products to climb to the middle and high end of the value chain, and contribute to the green transformation and upgrading of the industry together with cooperative manufacturers.