In recent years, environmental protection storms have swept across the country. Following the rectification of Shaoxing’s printing and dyeing industry last year, Xiuzhou District of Jiaxing has also recently introduced the most stringent improvement standards for the weaving industry in history. The Xiuzhou District Government requires that water-jet looms in the region face new requirements for rectification and improvement. A batch of 10,000 water-jet looms scattered in natural villages and outside industrial clusters that have a great impact on the environment and have not paid taxes in accordance with the law will be rectified and removed. According to data from the Jiaxing government investigation, Xiuzhou, as the main textile industry cluster in Jiaxing, has a total of 78,482 water-jet looms and 2,700 households in the region. Judging from the current introduction of this policy alone, the elimination of these 10,000 water-jet looms is equivalent to one-eighth of Xiuzhou District. Such large-scale and powerful actions show that the government has also made great determination in this environmental protection improvement. .
In fact, in recent years, the central government has successively sent many batches of environmental protection supervision teams to Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Guangxi, Heilongjiang and other places to conduct inspections and rectifications on the elimination of backward production capacity. The scope of the strict investigation covers the whole country. The third batch of environmental protection inspection teams has been launched this time, which directly forced the local government of Jiaxing Xiuzhou to accelerate the withdrawal of “water jet looms”.
In order to allow the industry to have a more thorough understanding of the production capacity involved in the ban on 10,000 water-jet looms and the impact on the current textile market in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, the author will make a brief analysis of the impact of the elimination of 10,000 water-jet looms on the market’s production capacity.
How much gray fabric production capacity is involved in 10,000 water-jet looms
According to data from the China Filament Weaving Association, as of the end of 2016, there were more than 400,000 water-jet looms in the country, with an annual output of 44.8 billion meters of various filament fabrics. The 10,000 looms in Jiaxing are equivalent to 2.5% of the country’s number of machines.
Situation of water-jet loom equipment in key industrial clusters in 2016
It is understood that in 2016, my country’s total output of chemical fiber filament fabrics was 44.8 billion meters, a year-on-year increase of 3.46%, and the growth rate was 1.58 percentage points higher than in 2015. According to statistics from each cluster area, the total output of chemical fiber filament fabrics in Shengze, Changxing, Xiuzhou, Longhu, Siyang and Pingwang in 2016 was 30.218 billion meters, a year-on-year increase of 5.70%.
Production table of chemical fiber filament fabrics in my country’s main filament weaving industry clusters in 2016
According to a survey by many weaving companies in the market, the current daily output of a water-jet loom is about more than 300 meters, and that of an air-jet loom is more than 200 meters. The output of the 10,000 units in Jiaxing is initially estimated at 1.095 billion meters. In 2016, the output of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions The one-year operating rate is basically maintained at 80%, so the final data obtained is 876 million meters, accounting for 2.9% of the national output.
How much loss will the shutdown of these 10,000 water-jet looms have on the supply of chemical fiber raw materials?
According to estimates by industry insiders, the 10,000 water-jet looms banned in Jiaxing will reduce the use of polyester filament by 300 tons per day, which is about 100,000 tons per year. From the supply side alone, considering the national polyester yarn production capacity of 29.5807 million tons, the supply of raw materials affected by the shutdown of these 10,000 water-jet looms does not seem to have a great impact on the domestic chemical fiber market. However, in recent years, polyester yarn The market is already in a situation of oversupply, and with the acquisition and expected restart of many major polyester manufacturers including Hongjian and Longteng this year, this is undoubtedly a problem for the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions where polyester production capacity originally exceeds demand. It’s bad news. It will also bring further impact to the already sluggish market.
If you want gold mountains, you also need green mountains, but please show a “clear way” to the banned small and micro business owners!
In the context of the round of upgrading of the textile industry in 2000, the introduction of water-jet looms was once a government-encouraged project. Now, more than ten years have passed. There are currently more than 400,000 water-jet looms in the country. Under normal operation, each water-jet loom produces an average of 2.5 tons of wastewater every day. The COD concentration of these industrial sewage is per liter. Between 120 mg and 850 mg. The average water consumption per unit is 5-8 tons/day, and the wastewater volume is about 800 million tons/year. In the context of a new round of economic transformation and upgrading, the environment no longer allows the water-jet loom industry to continue this extensive extension development.
In fact, earlier, while many major textile industry towns, including Jiaxing, were making every effort to rectify key polluting industries, they also repeatedly rectified the “small and micro-polluting” industry of water-jet looms in every household. However, the results of the rectification were not satisfactory, and many problems recurred. Of course, we need green mountains more than gold. Nowadays, the extensive development of the water-jet loom industry has caused harm to the ecology. Government departments, water-jet loom operators, residents and other levels have all seen it, and rectification has reached an urgent moment. But what the author wants to say is how to effectively deal with this contradiction between environmental protection and economic benefits, and how to ban water-jet looms while allowing small and micro business owners to take the initiative to change their thinking and ensure their “fallback path”. It’s not a simple “one size fits all” approach. I think this is the problem that the government urgently needs to solve at the moment.
It is foreseeable that this “spray”The action to ban “water looms” is unprecedented. If the shutdown of 10,000 units is just a signal flare, then we have reason to believe that the country’s environmental improvement will be the main theme of 2017. The textile industry is still on the road to reducing overcapacity. Textile business owners should be warned and have actions, and our yearning for blue sky and white clouds will eventually come true.
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