Recently, the traditional market in China textile city starts the sale of fall and winter knitted velvet fabric. Most of the products are presented with samples. The types of those products are continually increasing. As for those presented with prompt goods, they are mostly seen in some large stores. In autumn, the warp knitted velvet fabrics will start their sale in some regions. However, even in a slack market, there are also great products with firm price.

The second and third floor of eastern market is special business areas of knitted velvet. Among all products there, knitted fabrics like dyed spandex fabrics, Korean velvet fabrics, upright pile fabrics, corduroy fabrics, pleuche fabrics, velvet fabrics with high density, island velvet fabrics, coral velvet fabrics, short-pile velour fabrics, four-way spandex fabrics, cowboy spandex fabrics are sold at some regions. The price is firm while the orders generally require for medium or even small quantity.

Types and pattern of jacquard coral fabrics, swiss dot fabrics as well as printed fabrics make some increase. These kinds of fabrics are usually used for manufacturing fashion women sweaters and suits. Therefore, they enjoy a good popularity among clothing manufacturers and the orders increase in some areas. Korean style fabrics also have an increasing orders amount for the new types.

Polyester semi-gloss FDY, DTY and POY thin printed double plush fabrics are generally presented with rose-red, pink, blue, green, light brown or nigger-brown hearts pattern on them. The sales of them increased in some large-scale stores.

It is known that several quality and security issues happened in recent years. These inevitably weigh on consumer sentiment. The whole market is in dire need of excellent maternity and baby products. Under this circumstance, the first Maternity and Baby Industry Quality Control Expo 2014 was successfully wrapped up on 22nd July, 2014.

This expo had participants came from related fields like food service industry, textile industry, clothing industry, cartoon culture industry, etc.. Lou Yingcai, the Assistant Dean of Zhejiang Textile Test Institute and General Secretary of Zhejiang Textile Standard Committee also took part in the expo. They gathered to discuss over the improvement and detection of maternity and baby products.

China has become the second largest consumer of maternity and baby products after America. Its market size is expected to reach 2 trillion RMB in 2015. Due to inadequate industry norms, quality and safety incidents of maternity and baby products occurs occasionally, which greatly dampen consumer moral.

With implement of Two Children Allowed Policy, maternity and baby products will be accelerated to integrate into each side of life and production. Thus the quality and security problems in this industry will also be paid with more attention in future.

Maternity and baby products is consistently associated with children’s health, thus the related products, brands and channels should be made to develope with deep cooperation. Enterprises in this field must provide qualified products with favorable price.

What’s more, quality control system in this line should maintain uniformity from raw materials to products, or even consumers. Last but not least, products with low quality must be forbidden to enter into circulation field.

The face of increasingly severe environmental pressures, many printing companies keqiao zone set their sights on less polluting digital printing, and some companies even at the cost of introducing new technology digital printing equipment abroad.

Vigorous investment in digital printing
Keqiao Development Zone is located in a small and medium enterprise printing, has decided to invest $ 3 million from abroad a digital printing machine. “Purchasing a first try, if good, will present three flat screen digital printing equipment, all changed.” Ms Chan said the person in charge of the enterprise, and now increasingly demanding environment, we do not want to sewage problems suspense.

Recently keqiao area printing digital printing business operators to increasingly high degree of concern, enthusiasm for investment in digital printing high. Over a large-scale printing and dyeing business owners these days, Mr. Zhang has been shuttling between Shanghai and Hangzhou, study current digital printing production and market conditions. Zhang said, turning from digital printing dyeing, re-learn everything, there is an old saying called “the observatory.” So, why such a large campaign Zhang? “Digital printing is only in the last part – when washing produce very little waste compared to traditional printing can certainly solve the sewage problem.” Zhang said, the investment of digital printing, traditional printing can get rid of the pollution of the “short leg.”
Digital printing due to ink-jet printing, dyeing process which dyes remaining only 5%, while the most advanced of its traditional printing equipment also dye the remaining 30%. Dye surplus, the more and more water, the higher the concentration of wastewater, sewage treatment more difficult it his.

Digital printing technology matures
Digital printing, dyeing and printing industry in keqiao area is no stranger, but a few years ago due to the speed restriction has been used only for proofing production lines become climate. Located in Binhai Industrial Zone RGB Dyeing Co., Ltd. is an earlier attempt to digital printing business, its products in the domestic market will soon hit a new world.

In recent years, digital printing technology matures, digital printing production is also a substantial increase in the use of digital printing technology is rapid, speed is no longer the bottleneck of digital printing. “Three or four years ago, 1 hour print speed of 5-10 m have been considered high-speed, and now has achieved 100 meters above the hourly rate.” “RGB” general manager Chen Yuming said that with the increase in production, these in digital printing costs has also been reduced from the original ink costs only 100 yuan per meter, down 10 yuan now.
Chen Yuming been concerned keqiao digital printing industry, he told the author, along with cost reduction and product individual needs, the last three years, investment in digital printing business keqiao increasing, especially last year, the number of digital printing machines increases the hundreds. Digital printing is becoming a hot spot for investment keqiao dyeing enterprises, a number of well-known digital printing equipment manufacturers have come to Shaoxing sell equipment, such as Hangzhou Honghua Digital Technology, Hangzhou, computer technology and other open-source companies are still in Shaoxing has a distribution network.

Investment in digital printing to pay attention to what
Traditional textile printing business is not very different, easy to form a vicious price competition. So, digital printing can replace traditional printing it? “Difficult!” One in 10 years of study of the digital printing industry, told the author, only the cost of printing, traditional printing is about 2 yuan per meter, and digital printing at more than $ 10, this cost gap on the leading digital printing in Price competition tends to be a disadvantage. Chen Yuming also admitted that because of the price, he often suffered its customers “abandoned.”
. “Currently digital printing biggest competitor is the cost,” Chen Yuming believes that today’s textile printing, pop elements change quickly, the need for more design; orders yardage getting shorter, but more complex designs, fastness also higher; and as people’s environmental awareness, tolerance and fabric color variation tighter specifications, digital printing and dyeing industry must be the direction for future development.

So, the current investment in digital printing and dyeing enterprise transformation should pay attention to what? Chen Yuming has proposed to locate a clear second to consider the return on investment, then there need to continue training, efforts to increase staff to operate digital printing expertise, ability to learn self-control digital printing equipment and ink control. The only way to make the digital printing technology to get faster and better development.