In 2019,

With the in-depth adjustment of the market,

Eliminating backwardness and promoting the process of high-end development has become the norm,

Environmental protection, energy saving, high efficiency, short process, digital monitoring and intelligence

As the development direction of dyeing machinery,

Leading dyeing machinery enterprises to explore a wider market.

Domestic equipment is widely recognized

Currently, the performance of domestic dyeing equipment has gradually approached that of similar foreign products. Coupled with its high cost-effectiveness and ability to provide timely after-sales service, it has formed a significant competitive advantage over foreign dyeing equipment enterprises. In recent years, some long-established European and Japanese dyeing equipment manufacturers have significantly reduced their output, and some have even withdrawn from the Chinese market.

As a domestic manufacturer of dyeing pre-treatment equipment, Jiangsu Wuxi Xinlian Dyeing Machinery Co., Ltd. achieved sales of nearly 110 million yuan in 2018. The company's mercerizing machine can reach a speed of 130 meters per minute, which is welcomed by downstream enterprises, and sales have continued to grow since 2018. Wuxi Yangjia Machinery Co., Ltd. is a dyeing machine manufacturer, and its products have seen annual growth in domestic sales in recent years. The company's sales in 2018 were between 160 million and 180 million yuan, an increase of 40% compared to 2017. Jiangsu Hongqi Dyeing Machinery Co., Ltd. positions its products at the high end, with an annual output value of 220 million yuan in 2018, an increase of 15% compared to 2017.

　　Despite this, the development of dyeing equipment enterprises currently faces many practical problems. For example, there is a shortage of medium-pressure steam supply in some dyeing enterprise clusters, resulting in a decline in product quality. Dyeing enterprises have a demand for all-electric heating shaping machines. It is gratifying that domestic enterprises have responded quickly in this aspect, and domestic dyeing equipment enterprises can quickly adapt to user needs and produce marketable products.

　　In addition, many enterprises have reported that although sales have increased, the two biggest problems facing enterprises are insufficient market demand and disorderly competition. At the same time, insufficient labor, rapidly rising labor costs, and large fluctuations in the prices of some raw materials still have a significant impact on enterprises, which forces enterprises to continuously promote product innovation and development.

In addition, some dyeing enterprises with higher product quality requirements will consider purchasing imported dyeing equipment when updating their equipment or expanding their production capacity in the future. This requires domestic dyeing machinery manufacturers to continue to work on improving product quality and brand value.

Shaping machine market performs outstandingly

Due to the wide applicability of stentering machines, and the improvement of online monitoring, remote monitoring, waste heat recovery, automatic filter cleaning and other technologies applied to stentering machines, they are more suitable for market and environmental protection needs. Therefore, the stentering machine market has been relatively hot in the past two years, maintaining a high growth rate. With the continuous increase in market demand for functional fabrics, coating machines have also become a sales hotspot in both domestic and international markets.

In 2018, almost all stentering machine manufacturers saw an increase in sales, with leading domestic stentering machine companies such as Hengtian Lixin Industrial Co., Ltd. performing even more outstandingly, especially in export volume, which accounted for about 50% of total sales in 2018. The stentering machines produced by Yuanxin Industrial Co., Ltd. have emerged, and although the product price is much higher than that of general domestic stentering machines, the market share has rapidly increased, and brand awareness has also been continuously improved. Wuxi Feida Textile Dyeing Machinery Co., Ltd., which mainly produces stentering machines and dryers, also saw an increase in sales in 2018. The company's stentering machines use a variety of heating methods, so they are more popular in the market, and sales continue to grow.

Intelligence and personalization are major trends

Currently, the application of intelligent technology in dyeing equipment is becoming increasingly widespread. Various digital production monitoring systems, digital pulp preparation, and automatic delivery systems are playing an increasingly important role in dyeing production. They not only ensure the accuracy and reproducibility of dye and chemical preparation, but also have been increasingly recognized by users in terms of clean production, reducing labor intensity, and stabilizing product quality. It can be seen that the popularization of numerical control technology has opened up a new development space for dyeing machinery. In recent years, there has been a trend towards establishing digital monitoring systems for dyeing workshops and achieving full-process data acquisition. A large number of intelligent dyeing equipment such as dyeing workshop auxiliary handling robots, screen printing loading and unloading robots, fabric conveying, yarn conveying intelligent logistics systems and conveying vehicles have emerged, and automatic delivery technology and products of dyes and auxiliaries have gradually emerged.

　 　Changzhou Hongda Technology Group The automatic overfeeding system for stentering machines launched by the company uses intelligent image technology to monitor the fabric weft density on the fabric feeding side during the shaping process. When the fabric weft density cannot reach the set value, the overfeeding adjustment system can adjust the weft density to the ideal state in real time to ensure the consistency of the fabric weft density, achieve the standard unit area weight of the knitted fabric, improve the first-pass success rate, and provide a guarantee for the production of high-quality textiles.

With the arrival of the intelligent era of dyeing, personalization is also gradually becoming popular. Personalized customization has great market potential in the current market. Some enterprises, represented by the online printing system launched by Hangzhou Honghua Digital Technology Co., Ltd. The "Miyin" platform has begun to explore and practice in this area. The platform aims to build the fastest online digital printing customization platform, which can help consumers customize personalized products with original content, and can provide flexible manufacturing and single-piece customization services.

　　In addition, strong alliances and expansion of equipment application fields are also new trends in the development of dyeing enterprises. Fujian Jilong Machinery and Shanghai Taiwei have cooperated to launch the world's first new printing machine model that seamlessly connects rotary screen printing and digital printing. LV series rotary screen digital combined printing machine. Using the advantages of rotary screen and digital inkjet printing to complement each other in production, such as rotary screen printing for bright colors, large areas, or special pastes such as glue paste, pearl paste, and coatings that cannot be done by inkjet; digital inkjet printing for printing colors with rich layers and cloud patterns, which can print fabrics with rich, bright colors and special pastes, and has good color reproducibility, high output and low cost.

Environmental protection remains an eternal theme

Currently, "Green textiles" is still a prominent theme in the development of the textile industry, and environmental protection requirements are becoming increasingly stringent. Downstream enterprises have shut down most dyeing enterprises that do not meet environmental protection requirements, which has also increased the demand for more environmentally friendly and energy-efficient high-end equipment.

　　On the other hand, many dyeing equipment manufacturers have felt the requirements of the downstream market for equipment variety adaptability, which has created opportunities for enterprises with strong R&D capabilities. For example, with the improvement of environmental protection requirements, the market share of blue light screen making will become increasingly high in the future, and the market potential of such products is unlimited.

　　In recent years, with the rapid development of the knitted fabric market, overflow dyeing machines with low liquor ratios, low-energy air-flow dyeing machines, and air-liquid dyeing machines that combine both are becoming the main products of various equipment manufacturers. Among them, the growth of air-flow machines (including air-liquid machines) is even more significant.

　　In addition, with increasingly stringent environmental requirements, manufacturers and research institutions have increased their R&D investment in waterless dyeing equipment. With the continuous emergence of new textile fibers and fabric structures, and the increasingly strict requirements for energy saving and emission reduction, dyeing processes will inevitably be continuously improved and optimized, and this must be achieved with the aid of dyeing equipment, prompting equipment manufacturing enterprises to invest more actively in R&D.

　　 Digital inkjet printing machines not only have the characteristics of diversification, small batches, and personalized customization, but also meet the needs of environmental protection and clean production. With the continuous improvement of technology, the printing speed of high-speed digital printing machines has approached that of screen printing machines, while the production cost has gradually decreased, ushering in a period of rapid growth. Rich color expressiveness, no flower back restrictions, no plate making required (saving time and plate making costs), as well as water saving, energy saving, improved working environment, and reduced labor intensity, are all advantages that traditional screen printing equipment cannot match. In the face of the development trend of high-speed and low-cost inkjet printing, many companies have already launched Single Pass full-width inkjet printing equipment. The attractive market prospects are attracting more and more companies to invest in the development of digital printing machines and their supporting products, but the situation of high input and low output has also brought huge pressure to inkjet printing machine manufacturers.

Source: Textile Big Data