The Sales Volume Of China'S Knitting Industry Increased Steadily In 2012.

This year, for the whole

In the industry, sales are generally not satisfactory.

But compared with the cotton spinning and chemical fiber industry, the growth of the knitting industry can still be maintained at 10%.

Although it is a little lower than the 20% increase in previous years, it can still be regarded as a normal growth rate.

In fact, most of the knitting needle manufacturers feel very similar to the knitting machine manufacturers. Many knitting needle enterprises reflect that although this year's peak season is only one month, the peak season time has been reduced by three or four months compared with the previous years. The overall sales have been affected, but from the off-season situation, the degree of impact is not large.

And this effect is even weaker for enterprises which are mainly middle and high grade knitting needles.

At present, although the sales of knitting machinery have also been affected, the overall situation has not exceeded the scope that people can tolerate: Although the lace machine has dropped sharply in the beginning of the year, it has picked up again in May and June; the overall sales of the warp knitting machine can still be achieved; the sales of computerized flat knitting machines have declined considerably.

In fact, most of the knitting needle manufacturing enterprises feel very similar to the knitting machine manufacturers. Many knitting needle enterprises reflect that although the peak season is only one month this year, the peak season time has been reduced by three or four months compared with the previous years. The overall sales have been affected, but judging from the off-season, the degree of impact is not large.

And this effect is even weaker for enterprises which are mainly middle and high grade knitting needles.

Downstream demand is not strong, knitting sales are shrinking.

Because knitting needle is a consumable product, it can not only match with the main engine of the production enterprise such as hosiery machine, computerized flat knitting machine, circular knitting machine, but also can be used for equipment wear modification of socks enterprises and sweater manufacturing enterprises.

The sharp decline in sales of knitting machinery has given needle manufacturers more emphasis on the needs of knitwear manufacturers.

But more unfortunately, with the European and American countries

The spread of manufacturing industry in Pakistan, India, Vietnam and other countries has brought about the trend of domestic manufacturing costs rising and low-end foreign trade orders gradually moving to Southeast Asian countries. Under this series of objective factors, Zhuji's traditional socks industry is in crisis.

Shen Yong, general manager of Zhejiang Pinghu Jinli knitting needles Co., Ltd., has deep feelings about this. He told reporters that because their company mainly produces knitting needles for hosiery machines, in the past few years, when the socks industry in Zhuji was booming, some of the company's overtime products were in short supply. But most of the socks manufacturers in Zhuji recently stopped production and reduced production, resulting in a large shrinkage in Pinghu Jinli needle company sales.

Due to the direct impact of fiber price fluctuation, there are some problems in the sales of computerized flat knitting machines this year.

This also allows Kunshan Kai Yi knitting needle Co., Ltd. money fire root confirms that he did not have the computer knitting machine knitting machine production line correctness.

He said: "at the time when the computer cross machine bought fire, many customers in Shanghai drove the needle, drove the Benz and BMW from Shanghai to Kunshan to get the needle. I felt the potential crisis of the needle with the horizontal machine. All the things that everyone could do was too much to get out of the problem sooner or later."

Positioning high-end target is to replace imports

Faced with many disadvantages, many socks enterprises in Zhuji have launched technological innovation to find new markets for socks exports.

New materials such as coffee bean fiber, pearl protein fiber and wood fiber have now become new raw materials for stocking.

For example, a stocking made of wood fiber has been mass-produced in the ark hosiery company.

The unique element of the socks has the characteristics of breathability, antibacterial, no hardening after washing, no pilling, etc. the wear-resisting property is more than 10 times higher than that of ordinary cotton socks.

It is understood that the development of this new product is successful, and it will add more than 20 million yuan per year to the enterprise.

The use of new materials on socks will undoubtedly put forward new technical requirements and difficulties for many knitting needle manufacturers. Only by constantly meeting this new requirement will enterprises firmly grasp their initiative.

Shen Yong, general manager of Zhejiang Pinghu Jinli knitting needle Co., Ltd., told reporters that because the current market is not very good, the company is considering the pformation of products. In the future, the company plans to pform the product research and development focus from the socks knitting needle to the large circular knitting needle.

He said that although the manufacturing process of large circular knitting needles is much more difficult than knitting machines, the company still has confidence in developing such products.

Kunshan Kayi knitting needle Co., Ltd. Qian Horgan talked about the direction of product development, said the company will continue to focus on high-end products in the future, the company's goal is to replace imports.

Qian said: "although our knitting needles can not be matched with the well-known looms abroad, we can make our products reach the level of foreign enterprises through efforts, so that once the looms of the imported looms fail, the advantages of timely delivery and high cost performance will come out. What's more, the potential demand in this market is huge."

Creating knitted knitting needles with many links

Knitted needle is a kind of knitting equipment, which is very complicated in both product type and size. At the same time, it is also a precision manufacturing product. It is a kind of metal product which requires uniform size, smooth surface, good elasticity, and also requires fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance.

Only by using harsh requirements can we produce satisfactory knitwear.

In order to produce high quality needles, we need to select high-quality steel products, pay attention to production details and conduct a complete inspection.

First of all, we need to choose high quality steel.

Because China's iron and steel industry is not only weak in research foundation, but also under the market economy condition, it does not pay enough attention to special special-purpose and small batch Steel Research and development. This makes our knitting needle manufacturing enterprises have no special steel products to choose from in China, but they have to purchase from manufacturers such as Germany and Sweden. Although the price is more expensive, it has a very important reuse and significance for improving product quality and grade.

Kunshan Qian Yi knitting needle Co., Ltd. Qian stressed that the quality of raw materials directly related to the quality of the needle, and spend more money to buy materials to produce knitting needles, the average cost per cent to each needle is more than a few cents, customers can be recognized, as long as the product quality is good, even if a little increase in the price of finished products, will not worry about product sales.

Secondly, knitting needle is the process component of knitting machinery, and is closely related to the quality of knitted fabric. Because knitting needle is an inconspicuous small part, it requires batch products to have better consistency in the production process. Therefore, we should pay attention to the manufacturing quality such as size, shape, hardness, elasticity, surface roughness and so on. These small links often determine the grade of product quality.

Finally, a complete testing system is also needed.

Knitting needle is small, but its manufacturing technology

Many fields, such as wear, tear and fatigue of knitting needles, need targeted failure analysis and chemical analysis, and then adjust the analysis indicators accordingly. This requires a complete testing system. At the same time, a complete testing system is also a need for continuous improvement of the quality of production enterprises.

Although these requirements are not low for the production of domestic knitting needles, it is a threshold for domestic needles to have a place in the international market of knitting needles.