High potential for high-performance automation equipment market

At present, China's overall economic environment is satisfactory. All industries are booming this year. This makes enterprises pay more attention to operations and production while ignoring product innovation. This is true in the textile industry and the textile machinery industry.

The twelfth five-year plan outline (draft) proposes that China must transform from a large textile country to a textile power, and measures such as automation, energy saving and consumption reduction, and management informatization are the priorities for modernization. We expect that the development trend set forth in the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” will be accelerated during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” and put into action.

The decisive criterion for corporate investment established by the “12th Five-Year Plan” is still to improve competitiveness by improving quality and productivity. The increase in labor costs also prompts investment to be automated. Rieter has always been committed to improving the degree of automation of equipment, reducing equipment energy consumption, and is also committed to helping customers improve the level of information management.

In the field of ring spinning, long vehicles (1000 spindles or more) equipped with an automatic doffing system are becoming a standard. The increase in reliability of automatic doffing systems has contributed to this trend. Take rotor spinning, manual equipment has almost disappeared from the investment in new projects, the current semi-automatic rotor spinning machine has high productivity, high efficiency and excellent quality level, can quickly recover higher investment costs. The next innovation will be an automatic rotor spinning machine, whose production can be increased by 50% on the basis of semi-automatic rotor spinning, and can achieve excellent yarn characteristics and quality levels.

Market acceptance of high-performance technology is getting higher and higher. Although customers used to be conservative when purchasing equipment, more and more people have gradually realized the advantages of high-performance machines and are increasingly inclined to invest in such equipment.

High cotton prices are certainly not good news for the textile industry. Although current yarn prices still have a certain margin of profit, the pressure will soon appear. Therefore, the utilization rate of raw materials of the machines, such as the combing machine's cotton pick-up rate, will become a decisive factor affecting the investment of textile enterprises.

The autoleveller draw frame can improve process performance and the quality of the final product, and the market seems to have realized these advantages. Regardless of whether it is a full-process equipment or a stand-alone purchase, many customers will choose to autoleveler the drawframe, rather than using multi-pass technology to simplify the process and improve quality.

With the increasing demand for companies to expand profitable space with high output and high quality, the mill monitoring system can be used as an effective tool, but few customers in China use this information management system. Spinning mill monitoring systems, such as SPIDERweb, the spider web system, can collect production and quality data for all machines at any time, and can display the information of the entire process in a graphical format, making the process pros and cons at a glance. Through such an information system, companies can fully analyze the process and explore the potential for process improvement to make the right business decisions. I expect that as the momentum of the modernization of the textile industry continues to increase, the demand for such intelligent information systems from Chinese customers will increase rapidly.

As a global supplier of spinning systems, Rieter not only focuses on the Chinese market, but also pays attention to international competition. Although China is developing rapidly, the current competitive advantage is weakening, especially due to the currently high cotton prices and the rapidly growing labor costs. However, Chinese customers have a wide range of equipment, and there are many production facilities that generally have even outdated technology. We have seen great market potential. Rieter Company firmly believes that the rapid transformation and modernization of production equipment will promote the continued leadership of the Chinese textile industry in the world.