Middle And High-End Socks Machine: Usher In The Five Year Development Opportunity

Statistics show that China's annual demand for cotton socks is about 1 billion 800 million pairs, and is still 8%~10%.

Investment fever

In 2011, although the socks industry experienced some difficulties, there were some bright spots.

Many enterprises have realized the importance of pformation and upgrading, and have intensified the intensity of technological pformation and equipment renewal.

For example, the Datang town of Zhuji, Zhejiang, as the main base of socks production, invested 2 billion 650 million yuan in technical renovation last year, imported more than 20 thousand sets of advanced international production equipment, and more than 1000 new high-grade production lines. The whole town's socks and raw materials matching industry achieved 23 billion 500 million yuan of industrial gross output value, 21 billion 400 million yuan of sales income and 1 billion 700 million yuan of profit.

Among them, the 20 million new high-end socks production line of Wang Jia Jing emerging socks Industrial Park started in August last year, and the more than 2000 square meter old factory building has been pformed into a 21 thousand square meter new factory building.

The capacity of Zhuji Kat LAN Textile Co., Ltd., located in the new hosiery Industrial Park of Wangjia well, has also been improved.

Zhou Teng, chairman of the company, told reporters that now, at the project site of the project, workers are busy building the last plant, and the entire plant is expected to be completed and put into operation by May this year.

At the same time, located in Yiwu, Zhejiang, the Swire sock industry group has also stepped up its technological pformation efforts.

It is understood that in 2011 alone, the company purchased 3000 high-end hosiery machines, and one worker could monitor more than 30 machines at the same time.

In order to achieve the goal of achieving the annual output value of socks in 2015 to 1 billion 500 million yuan (equivalent to 2 times the annual output value of socks) in Zhuji, Zhejiang, the company plans to implement a number of sophisticated projects in the coming years, and it is estimated that the total input of technical pformation will exceed 7 hundred million.

Predicament and Countermeasures

In the complicated international situation in 2011, the export of manufacturing industry encountered many difficulties. The Yiwu Hosiery Industry was also unable to escape. The export of foreign trade has been in a state of oscillation.

According to the data provided by the Yiwu socks industry association, the number of socks exports in the whole industry last month was 1 billion 707 million pairs in 1~10 months, down 17.86% compared with the same period last year.

At the same time, many hosiery enterprises are faced with problems such as labor shortage, rising prices of raw and auxiliary materials, and accelerating the appreciation of RMB. These problems increase the difficulties of foreign trade enterprises, and ensure that exports can be upgraded in time to become the only way for enterprises.

Since July 2011, after observing the international situation, the socks industry has increased the technological input of enterprises, actively introduced advanced equipment, increased stockings production, and made new breakthroughs in foreign trade and exports.

For example, the Yiwu socks industry has deeply studied the creative design and foreign demand through increasing investment in science and technology. At the same time, it has expanded the coverage of exporting countries, and has further opened the market of Taros, Southeast Asia, South America, Africa and other countries and regions on the basis of consolidating the European and American markets.

The pformation and upgrading not only opened the product sales of hosiery enterprises, but also increased the sales profits of socks enterprises.

At the beginning of the new year, the group was extremely busy. The US Gold Toe company made a one-time order of 20 million dollars. "The traditional middle and low grade cotton socks yield less than 10%, while the production of Gold Toe series socks is about 40%," Ren Yu, manager of the production department of Dan Jia group, said.

Equipment development is not enough.

Although the hosiery machine market is good at present, there are still some short boards to make up for hosiery machines in China.

For example, there is a big gap between China's knitting machinery and foreign first-class machinery. The middle and high-grade knitting machines occupy a large proportion of China's textile machinery imports.

At present, in addition to the advanced technology and equipment of some large-scale hosiery production enterprises, the equipment of other enterprises is relatively backward. Generally speaking, the advanced equipment occupancy rate is less than 30%, which has seriously hindered the expansion of China's hosiery enterprises' capacity and the improvement of product quality.

With the continuous development of new socks, the requirements for hosiery machines are getting higher and higher. The domestic socks manufacturers should also increase their input in order to develop a functional and efficient hosiery machine.

At the same time, weaving hosiery machine manufacturers need to combine product development with downstream use units, namely socks enterprises.

Because, according to the new product release trend, socks are developing towards new materials and special functions, especially medical and health care functions, such as antithrombotic stockings, medical double pressure compressed stockings, leggings and tights.

These socks with special properties can be produced directly on the hosiery machine by entering the knitting program.

Knitting socks producing these special socks will become a new demand hot spot for hosiery machine market in the future.

In addition, the knitting of traditional hosiery machines starts from the stockings mouth to the end of socks, and the socks need to be stitched down after the machine is released. This greatly affects the production efficiency. With the new socks machine, the whole operation from stocking head to stocking end can be realized, and the stitching process is omitted.

This hosiery machine can not only improve the production efficiency of socks enterprises, but also help the growth of the hosiery enterprises' capacity in China.

Of course, this also puts forward new requirements for hosiery equipment manufacturers.