China's sewing machinery industry has gradually grown in size

The "sewing machine", which was once one of the "big things" for marriage and life, seems to be getting away from our lives. In fact, the home sewing machine is only a small category in the field of sewing machinery. The sewing machine does not disappear in our lives. Our sewing machines, which are the “sewing machines” for our garments, home textiles, and bags, have now developed into pre-sewing (hanging systems, automatic cutting systems, etc.) and sewing (industrial sewing machines and other sewing equipment), After the sewing (ironing, needle detection equipment, etc.) three major process equipment-based, and by the relevant software, information systems, etc., multi-variety, high-tech development of the entire industry chain.

The scale of the industry has grown

After 10 years of development, China's sewing machinery industry has risen rapidly after arduous development, laying the foundation for the world's status as a major sewing machine in the world, and it is moving from a sewing machine manufacturing country to a powerful country.

From the late 1990s to the end of 2007, China's sewing machinery industry has been at a stage of rapid growth. The output of domestic sewing machinery products has reached an unprecedented "peak" in the industry by 2007.

In 2002, the China Sewing Machinery Association showed an important message in a document issued at the China International Sewing Equipment Exhibition (CISMA) in the same year that China became the largest producer and consumer of sewing equipment in the world. country. According to the statistics of the China-Strait Coalition Information Center in the same year, there are nearly 500 large-scale sewing equipment and parts manufacturing companies in China, with an annual output of 8 million sewing machines of various sizes, and an annual foreign exchange earning of more than 400 million U.S. dollars.

In the past 10 years, the size of the sewing machinery industry in China has continued to expand. According to statistics, at the end of the “Tenth Five-year Plan” period, the annual output of sewing machinery in China accounted for 71% of the world's total sewing machine production. By the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the proportion has increased to 80%. The proportion of annual output value has also increased from 45% at the end of the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” period to the current 59%. The industry continues to gather in mainland China, promoting the development and transformation and upgrading of the downstream industry, and the international status and influence have been improved.

As the upstream industry of clothing, bags and other industries, the sewing machinery industry is also closely related to improving people’s living standards and realizing a well-off society. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the industry experienced waves of growth and sustained rapid growth momentum in the previous two years. However, starting from 2008, the international financial crisis and the adjustment of the industry’s own development cycle have contributed to the production and sales of the entire industry. The economic indicators showed a rapid decline for two consecutive years and fell into the trough in the past 10 years.

However, through active responses and adjustments, the industry’s technological innovation capabilities and resilience to risks have all been enhanced to varying degrees. In particular, with the gradual recovery of China’s economy from the second half of 2009, China’s sewing machinery industry was the fourth largest year of the year. Since the quarter, it has gradually emerged from the downturn and showed a strong and sustained recovery. The scale of production and sales has picked up quickly. In particular, in 2010, the industry showed a full recovery and high-speed growth. The annual output value reached a record high, and the output was close to the highest level in the industry. At the same time, the pace of structural adjustments, transformations, and upgrades has significantly accelerated and the effectiveness has begun to show.

From the import and export data, in 2011, the total import and export trade of the sewing machinery industry in China broke the record high. According to statistics from the General Administration of Customs, the total import and export trade of sewing machine products and components in China in 2011 was US$2.41 billion, an increase of 21.72% over 2010. Including: exports of 2 billion US dollars, an increase of 24.21%; imports of 410 million US dollars, an increase of 4.19%; trade surplus of 1.59 billion US dollars. The export of the industry maintained a high level throughout the year, with the monthly export amount renewing the highest historical record of monthly export volume for three consecutive times. In July, the export value was as high as 205 million US dollars.

In 2011, it was the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”. The China Sewing Machinery Association identified it as “the quality of the industry catching up with the year” and issued the “Twelfth Five-Year Development Plan for the Chinese Sewing Machinery Industry”. Adhering to the overall development ideas of “innovation-driven, transformation and upgrading, steady growth, and quality first”, it points out the direction for the industry to achieve a sustainable development strategy for a strong country.

The "Twelfth Five-Year Development Plan for China Sewing Machinery Industry" shows that as of the end of the "11th Five-Year Plan", there are about 830 sewing machine manufacturing enterprises in China's sewing machinery industry (including foreign-funded enterprises), of which the sewing machine machine 620 manufacturing enterprises, non-sewing sewing machine equipment manufacturing enterprises (Note: mainly refers to other than the sewing function inspection cloth, cutting, spreading, ironing, bonding, needle detection, hanging, laser and other related seams There are about 210 manufacturing facilities and more than 1,000 parts and components manufacturing companies, which mainly distribute six major production areas in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Shaanxi. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the industry has cumulatively completed output of 74.96 million units, output value of 193.5 billion yuan, profits and taxes of 9.26 billion yuan, cumulative exports of 53.92 million units, and exports of 7 billion US dollars.

During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the total economic output of the industry kept growing, the quality of economic operations continued to increase, the added value of export products rose rapidly, and the average annual economic growth rate reached 11.5%; major breakthroughs were also made in the adjustment of product structure, such as mechatronics joints. The proportion of manufacturing equipment increased from 2% at the end of the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” period to 25.04%. The proportion of computer-seam sewing machines in total sewing machine production increased from 5% to over 36.5%. The annual output of special industrial sewing machines accounted for the total of industrial sewing equipment. The proportion of volume has increased from 3% to 9.5%; the corporate structure has also been further optimized.

Technological innovation continues to ferment

Although China's sewing machinery has made remarkable achievements, it has looked at the global market, especially in comparison with the countries with the most advanced sewing machine technologies in Germany, Japan and other countries, the added value of China's sewing machinery products has yet to be improved. The influence of private brands on the international market also needs to be strengthened.

Over the past 10 years, especially after 2005, China’s technological innovation and system construction have achieved remarkable results. Mechatronics products have become the mainstream of R&D of sewing machinery enterprises in China.

According to the patent database of the State Intellectual Property Office, as of the end of 2011, the total number of patents in China's sewing machine industry was 12,580, including 2,952 invention patents, 4,496 utility model patents, and 5,132 exterior design patents (including more than 1,500 textile machines). The industry has accumulatively authorized 1,187 patents for inventions.

Among them, domestically-funded enterprises continued to maintain a high momentum of innovation and invented 223 invention patents, accounting for 77% of the total number of invention patent applications, and applied for 729 utility model patents, accounting for 93% of the total number of such patent applications. 613 patents, accounting for 95% of the total. In addition, in terms of the total number of patents owned, domestically funded enterprises also achieved a complete overtake in 2011. By the end of 2011, domestically-funded sewing machine enterprises have cumulatively applied for 755 invention patents, 3,027 utility model patents, and 2,094 design patents, respectively. 25%, 67% and 40%.

The gap between mainstream sewing machines in China and Japan has further narrowed. Taking the invention patent of 2011 as an example, with the exception of heavy machinery (26 items) and brothers (16 items), which continue to occupy the top two of the industry, domestic enterprises occupy seven seats in the top ten, among which Shanghai Guiyi Sewing Equipment Co., Ltd. With 12 patents listed as the first domestically-funded company and the third largest in the industry, it shows the strong innovation dynamism of domestic small and medium-sized sewing machines and the excellent sustainable development capability of China's sewing machinery industry.

At present, digital, sensing, laser, fuzzy control, remote control technology, etc., to further enhance and expand the application of high technology in the field of sewing machinery, has become the future development trend of the global sewing machinery industry. It is reported that in order to solve key technologies such as high-speed, oil-free, and wear-resistance of sewing machinery, some internationally renowned enterprises have already adopted high-end technologies such as linear motors, nanomaterials, and magnetic levitation, as well as three-dimensional ironing technology and three-dimensional ironing equipment with high degree of automation. Into the research and development of sewing machinery. At the same time, their application of information technology is also deepening, in order to create a fully automated sewing machine and rapid response system to adapt to various processes.

Brand management continues to strengthen

From 2002 to the present, with the development and transformation and upgrading of China's garment industry, China's sewing machinery industry has also been transformed and upgraded. The modern management of enterprises has been continuously improved and the brand construction has been continuously strengthened.

In 10 years, a large number of brands such as Huibao, Toyama, Zhongxi Heavy Industry, Chuantian, Huayang, and Bote emerged. According to the data from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, there are currently 15,620 registered trademarks of the national sewing machines, of which 2,253 are new trademarks in 2011. This figure represents a huge leap in comparison with 2002.

After experiencing the rapid development of the industry in 2006 and 2007, and the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, the industry and companies are becoming increasingly rational. They no longer simply pursue the development of “quantity,” but rather emphasize the quality of development and implement it successfully. Product structure adjustment, enterprise management upgrade and brand optimization. There are two general development trends: First, most companies are becoming increasingly specialized. They use full-scale production of sewing equipment such as flat, bag, and special machines, and embroidery machines, or a certain series of special machine products. Lord, other products are OEM. Second, part of the company's industrial chain or diversification, not only the production of a full range of sewing equipment products, but also produce sewing production before cutting bed, motor and other products, or even more cross-industry involved in the mold, casting, garden machinery and so on.

Shanggong Shenbei Group Co., Ltd., a state-controlled listed company in the Chinese sewing machinery industry, successfully acquired the “trump card” of the world's sewing machinery manufacturing industry in 2005—the third-ranking German “DA company” at the time. Dukup Adler, at that time, caused shocks in the world's sewing machinery industry and set an example for China's sewing machinery companies to implement cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Another state-controlled listed company in China's sewing machinery industry, Xi'an Standard Industry Co., Ltd., an industry leading company, recently announced an external announcement that China Standard Industry Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai Yuanzhong Industrial Co., Ltd. and Xi'an Standard Industrial Co., Ltd. In Xi'an, Xi'an signed the "Reorganization Plan (Agreement) for Integrating the Industrial Sewing Machine Business and Related Assets of Shanghai Huigong Sewing Machine No.3 Factory of China Standard Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.". The agreement stipulates that Shanghai Huigong No. 3 Factory's industrial sewing machine business and the "Hai Ling" brand will be included in Xi'an Standard Industry Co., Ltd.'s business system and brand architecture, and will be operated overall.

In another case, on July 16, 2009, Jack Holding Group Co., Ltd. issued an announcement to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Zhejiang Xinjie Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. in Germany on July 1st took 45 million yuan. , Through the non-equity, non-bearing-style acquisition of two world-renowned German automatic cutting equipment manufacturing companies --- Bullmer (Benma) and Topcut (Topka), and the newly formed Topcut-Bullmer ( Topka Benma) company.

After the acquisition, New Jack established the Toka Benma Company. In 2010, Germany Topka Benma Company pushed new products, completed the development and modification of special cutting beds such as leather cutting beds and ultrasonic cutting beds, and obtained huge orders from Airbus, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other companies. In 2011, the German Daka Benma Spreader D600 was put into operation in China.

Jack shares rely on the high-end automation technology of Tukabenma to accelerate the research and development of high-end automatic sewing machines, and connect its main business sewing equipment with pre-seam craft cutting bed, in addition to Jack's motor and other related industries, further making it Become a service provider and supplier of complete solutions for the apparel, automotive and aerospace industries.

At the CISMA 2011, Gem Electromechanical Co., Ltd. also announced that in addition to the foundry industry, it cooperated with Otako, a powerful manufacturer of suspension systems, to manufacture suspension systems.

In the recent 10 years, China's sewing machinery industry enterprises have made remarkable progress in the modernization management, management informationization, and flexibility in design and manufacturing, and various modern management models such as “lean manufacturing”, “5S” and “6 Sigma management” have been increasingly Many enterprise applications have become a powerful promoter of the core competitiveness of corporate brands. Most companies such as New Jack, Xi'an Standard, Sino-Czech, Gems, and Toyama have successfully implemented various information management systems such as ERP and PLM in their enterprises. Some companies even introduced lean production, 5S, and 6 Sigma management. The management model has been for many years, and the modern management of the company has achieved initial success.

In addition, the sewing machinery industry enterprises in China have significantly increased their investment in brand building and awareness of publicity, and their brand influence and international competitiveness have improved significantly. The acceptance level of domestic brands in domestic first-class garment enterprises has improved. For example, Zhongjie and Xinjie, two industry leaders, have successively won the “China Academy of Fashion Brands” award for the “Oscar” of China's garment industry for many years. They are close to the garment industry at close range, and have strengthened the domestic market. Sewing machinery market reputation and recognition.