The US Textile Industry Once Again Makes A High Profile Voice. Made In China 2025 Is In Trouble

The revolutionary fiber and textile innovation manufacturing center led by DoD of the US Department of Defense was officially established in December 2015, raising textile materials to the status of national importance. This news not only made military enthusiasts curious, but also worried senior textile experts in China. There is almost no place for textile machines in Made in China 2025.

The high profile of the United States and China's loss of voice

All walks of life in the United States have never forgotten what American soldiers wear. In the 1960s, the textile and textile machinery industry in China, which was once a big hit, has almost been forgotten by Chinese people.

In addition to the United States, the textile industry of the European Union, Germany and Japan began to transform ten years ago.

Germany accounts for 70% of the industrial high-end textile market. Munich is a new high-tech city in Germany, but spinning machine enterprises with a history of 100 years still exist and continue to maintain the world's leading level. The price of similar machines is five times that of China. In the United States, American textile machinery accounts for 50% of the carpet market. A tufting machine uses 2200 servo motors. MIT and Boeing are also developing textile machinery.

In China, the textile and textile machinery industry, which once achieved great success, is now almost marginalized.

Predicament of China's textile machinery industry

In terms of scale, during the 12th Five Year Plan period, China textile industry The number of directly employed people in the whole industry is more than 20 million; The textile industry uses nearly 9 million tons of domestic natural fiber, which is directly related to the livelihood of at least 100 million farmers. China's textile industry has won the position of the world's first "textile power". In terms of market share, the domestic market share of domestic textile machinery has reached more than 70%. Everything seems to be OK.

However, domestic textile equipment is still concentrated on conventional fiber processing equipment. However, new high-end textile equipment, such as refinement, high-speed, energy saving and consumption reduction, and functionalization, still rely mainly on imports. The application of integration, modularization, automation, and informatization of textile machinery design and manufacturing is still very uncommon.

In fact, if we cannot vigorously develop future oriented materials and equipment, the textile industry will not only lag behind the basic industries, but also seriously drag down the military industry and high-tech industries. Because we can not provide high-performance carbon fiber and three-dimensional looms.

However, the reason why Boeing will develop textile machinery is closely related to the large scale use of aircraft composite materials. However, the progress of domestic large aircraft has been seriously delayed, which is closely related to the insufficient capacity of textile machinery.

The US Department of Defense is once again working on the textile industry

As the most important strategy of American reindustrialization, the National Network Innovation Center (NNMI) is undoubtedly the most favorable driver. At present, 10 NNMI have been established in American states, and the latest project is textiles, namely the Revolutionary Fibers and Textiles Institute for Manufacturing Innovation (RFTMII).

Not to mention the manufacturing industry in China, but the senior people in the domestic textile industry are often confused about the establishment of the "revolutionary fiber and textile innovative manufacturing institute" in the United States.

The project will support 150 million dollars of new funds for the research and development of new fibers and fabrics, including 75 million dollars of public investment and more than 75 million dollars of private investment. The establishment focus will be on the development of "fibers with special properties of research, originality and commercialization".

In fact, the military has long favored the textile industry.

In 2012, the US Department of Defense commissioned its subordinate Advanced Project Research Agency (DAPRA) to lead an unmanned automatic sewing project. This is a new kind of automatic sewing technology. The sewing machine can be controlled by a computer. It can move the cloth "one stitch at a time" accurately under the needle, and thread it accurately - under normal circumstances, this is a job that depends on people's hands and vision. This is a new technology invented by SoftWeare, an automatic sewing technology company from Georgia, USA. It is responsible for robot programming instead of manual work.

The early advance of the Pentagon has turned to automatic Sewing technology The company provided a large amount of funds. The Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense is optimistic that it will soon be possible for American factories to realize automation and "produce clothing without direct labor". The Ministry of Defense expects that this can be used to replace the work of 50000 people.

In other words, China will be kicked out of the US clothing industry.

This is not the only bad news. Considering the needs of the US military in actual combat, the goal of the US revolutionary textile innovation center is to create an innovative "ecosystem" that supports end-to-end innovation, in addition to improving the US manufacturing capacity and large-scale manufacturing processes, and comprehensively support the soldiers' ability to fight in a variety of vicious environments.

Soft textile It becomes a cold weapon to avoid self bleeding and kill the enemy at the same time.

However, in China, when there is a huge overcapacity of civilian consumer goods, textile machinery can not form a new technology core as soon as possible, which will make the textile industry in trouble. The low-end industry is struggling, and the demand from the high-end is not strong, and the textile industry seems to be fading. If you cannot find a new light source, the residual light will eventually disappear