Chemical Fiber Industry: The Problem Of High Cost Era And Its Late Development Way

The characteristics and main problems of the high cost era?

As labor costs, financial costs, energy costs, energy conservation and emission reduction costs, logistics costs continue to rise, inadvertently, China's economy has entered the "high cost era", chemical fiber industry is no exception.

Since the reform and opening up, the low cost competitive advantage has ceased to exist. It was once a low cost development mode strongly supported by the rapid development of China's chemical fiber industry, but now it has become a handicap for sustainable development.

In addition to protecting the environment and conserving resources, how to break the high cost era has become an urgent problem for the industry to achieve sustainable development.

This is the replacement of the development mode, and the development of the chemical fiber industry will usher in a huge challenge.

In recent years, chemical fiber enterprises have experienced the arrival of the high cost era, and the cost advantage has been lost.

In the face of the severe situation at home and abroad, the downstream textile industry has also shown a cautious attitude towards the demand for chemical fiber.

It will not be easy to pay for the price increase of chemical fiber products. On the other hand, the rapid growth of domestic chemical fiber production capacity leads to more intense market competition, so the high cost of the chemical fiber industry can not smoothly downstream, and the economic efficiency of the industry has dropped sharply.

In the high cost era, the main problems existing in the chemical fiber industry are manifested in the following aspects.

Lack of independent innovation ability, high-tech fiber,

The proportion is still low, and the core technology and key technology and equipment of most high-tech fibers still need to be breakthroughs. We need to intensify the popularization and application of technologies that can increase production efficiency, save energy and reduce consumption and clean production.

In addition, compared with some fields, the basic theory research of chemical fiber in the field of teaching is lagging behind.

In the past more than 10 years, there has not been a new teaching material for chemical fiber, which makes the chemical fiber education in schools unable to catch up with the actual industrial development.

Outdated basic theories such as backward production capacity, if not updated, will inevitably affect the innovation and upgrading of the whole industry.

There is fierce competition in the homogenization of conventional products. Some enterprises are forced to take the means of low price competition to disrupt the market order due to inventory pressure and shortage of funds.

The export market of chemical fiber is facing increasing pressure from international competition. On the one hand, the global financial crisis has led to a decline in external demand. "Trade protectionism" has risen rapidly, and the trade protection for China's textile and chemical fiber products has been frequent. On the other hand, the low cost competitive advantages of other emerging economies and developing countries such as India and Vietnam have been relatively prominent, and the traditional advantages of "made in China" have been gradually lost.

Industrial marketing and brand building are lagging behind. At present, China's chemical fiber industry is still dominated by production. The overall profit level is relatively low, lacking of international and modern marketing system, and lack of well-known brands, resulting in many differentiated and functional new products can not achieve better results.

SMEs face the pressure of survival.

Mainly reflected in the polypropylene industry and recycled fiber industry, the financing difficulties of SMEs are difficult to solve effectively, and the competitiveness of these enterprises is relatively low, which can not smoothly pmit the high cost to downstream products. The profit margins are greatly squeezed, and some enterprises are facing the test of survival and death.

Where is the way forward for the sustainable development of chemical fiber industry?

China's chemical fiber industry has experienced sustained and rapid growth, and is now in the critical stage of pformation and upgrading. The sustainable development of the industry is facing many problems. For example, there are structural surplus in total development, greater challenges from resources and environment constraints, arduous tasks of energy saving and emission reduction, insufficient self innovation capability and further optimization of industrial structure.

Sustainable development is China

In the future development of the important task, the "12th Five-Year" development plan of the chemical fiber industry clearly put forward the goal of sustainable development in the "12th Five-Year" period: to speed up the research and industrialization of biomass fiber, further improve the level of clean production and comprehensive utilization of resources, and establish a recycling economy development mode of chemical fiber industry.

By 2015, the recovery and utilization of waste polyester and chemical fiber fabrics are 7 million tons, the coverage rate of energy contract management is over 20%, the coverage rate of cleaner production audit is over 30%, and the treatment of waste gas emission in the production process of dry spun acrylic fiber and viscose fiber will be strengthened, and the relevant national emission requirements are ensured.

Progress has been made in the study of enterprise carbon footprint certification.

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The chemical fiber industry has been actively promoting the industry's energy conservation and emission reduction, and building a green and low-carbon development platform for the industry.

Products, China Chemical Fiber Association, Donghua University, chemical fiber and textile product development center jointly issued the "China fiber trend in 2012/2013", aiming to guide the development of new products and downstream products to high value-added, green and low carbon development. The association has joined hands with the Tek group. Among them, the project of recycling reutilization system for polyester fiber products has entered a substantive stage. The association has worked with Intertek Tianxiang group to provide environmental impact assessment, diagnosis and solution for chemical fiber enterprises, and has carried out carbon footprint certification. Sheng Hong chemical fiber, Hengli Chemical fiber, Eagle Xiang Chemical fiber and Xinmin technology four enterprises have become the first batch of enterprises to obtain Intertek-CCFA product carbon footprint certificate and green leaf label in China. During the international chemical fiber conference last year, the "China chemical fiber recycling economic alliance" was formally established, and its work has been functioning normally and has achieved initial results. In March this year, the Ministry of industry and information technology

The above measures are aimed at better implementing the "12th Five-Year plan" of the chemical fiber industry, accelerating the pformation and upgrading of the industry, and achieving sustainable development.

At the same time, the chemical fiber industry will continue to vigorously promote energy conservation and emission reduction and resource recycling.

We should speed up the industrialization of R & D and application of new technologies and equipment for energy saving and emission reduction, promote the treatment of black liquor from cotton pulp and reuse of waste bottles and flakes, and increase the intensity of technology application and facilities construction for the treatment and recovery of viscose wastewater and waste gas.

We should strengthen the pformation from terminal management to process monitoring and clean production technology, and promote cleaner production of viscose and recycled fiber.

Timely admittance conditions for viscose fiber industry.

We should speed up the elimination and replacement of backward production processes and equipment with high energy consumption, high pollution and low efficiency.

We should encourage and standardize the development of the fiber industry, accelerate the R & D of biomass renewable and biodegradable materials, actively promote cleaner production, strengthen the comprehensive utilization of resources, reduce the discharge of pollutants, establish a recycling economy development mode of chemical fiber industry, and guide the green consumption of the society.

In the future, the way out for the sustainable development of the chemical fiber industry is still pformation and upgrading. We must conscientiously implement seven tasks clearly put forward in the "12th Five-Year plan" of the chemical fiber industry: vigorously promote the quality of conventional products, enhance the added value of products, strive to upgrade the level of high performance fiber production, vigorously promote the development of biomass fibers and their raw materials, actively promote energy conservation and emission reduction and recycling of resources; speed up the improvement of the level of independent technology and equipment for key technologies and equipment; pform the way of industry development, enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises, and continue to optimize the layout of industrial zones.