On December 12, the 2020 Climate Ambition Summit was held by video. The Climate Ambition Summit was held at the initiative of the United Nations and related countries to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and further mobilize the international community to strengthen climate action and advance the multilateral process. ".

In addition, according to CNBC News, President-elect Joe Biden issued a statement on the same day that on his first day as president, the United States will rejoin the Paris Agreement and work to make the United States achieve "zero emissions" of greenhouse gases in 2050.

Some time ago, along with the "Chang'e 5" successful moon landing, a 15-year-old old newspaper fire, it is clear to see that once China has made a commitment, will inevitably follow the scientific planning to complete, so some time in the future, energy saving and environmental protection, reducing carbon emissions is very likely to become the new social hot spots.

To the textile industry, the textile enterprises put forward a new challenge, but also produced new opportunities.

Recycled fabrics market is vast

According to authoritative statistics, recycling 1 ton of waste textile is equal to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 3.2 tons, which can save land resources, protect the environment and reduce the consumption of crude oil resources, etc. compared with landfill or incineration treatment.

Therefore, to reduce carbon emissions, the development of various types of recycled and environmentally friendly fabrics is a very important means.

In 2018, recycled textiles is still a relatively new concept in the market, and there are only a few companies doing recycled textiles, but after two years of development, recycled textiles have gradually "fly into the common people's home" and become a more common product.

At this stage, recycled textiles are mainly exported to Europe and the United States market, although under the epidemic, Europe and the United States market has been very big impact on the export of recycled fabrics, but in the process of visiting the market, the cloth bosses generally showed optimism about the prospects of recycled fabrics.

On the other hand, with the strengthening of China's attention in environmental protection, especially after this climate ambition summit to make commitments, the future of the domestic is very likely to become an emerging consumer market for recycled fabrics, once the recycled fabrics are popular in the country, the development of recycled fabrics will certainly usher in a new golden age.

Weaving machine renewal speed up

We see, as a traditional textile cluster in Tongxiang on the recent reduction of emissions on the polyester industry chain for certain measures to reduce production.

Of course, such measures to reduce production is only the "symptoms", want to "cure" or to rely on the replacement of looms.

In fact, from 2017, the water jet loom rectification in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, the nationwide textile enterprises loom replacement has entered the fast track. Especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in order to ensure profitability within a limited number of machines, the performance of the machine and the applicability of the product has put forward higher requirements.

According to textile machinery business professionals, compared to the original old model of loom, the latest water jet loom at this stage will save more than 20%, while increasing production efficiency by about 10%. As technology continues to progress, the future of this figure will certainly be further improved.

In addition, from 2019 to this year, the epidemic and overcapacity has made more and more cloth owners realize that the era of "cloth is not worried about selling" as in the past has passed.

Therefore, I judge that, in the case of carbon emissions are more and more important to society, will inevitably further accelerate the speed of textile enterprises to update the loom.

For textile enterprises

Energy saving and emission reduction has been a clichéd issue, but at this stage, the textile enterprises are generally considered in economic terms. But in the future, just like the current environmental issues, textile enterprises in response to energy saving and emission reduction, in addition to economic benefits, perhaps also need to consider the social benefits.

Therefore, whether in the production of new capacity or the transformation of old capacity, energy saving and emission reduction may become a new important factor for textile enterprises to consider.

In addition, at this stage, the scale of the domestic recycled fabric market is almost zero. Once the concept of reducing carbon emission rises, it will expand the foreign trade market of recycled fabrics on the one hand, and help the formation of domestic recycled fabrics market to a certain extent on the other hand.

Therefore, recycled fabrics may be a big blue ocean in the textile industry in the next few decades, with increasing popularity, but at the same time, it will also gradually produce various differentiations as conventional fabrics. For textile enterprises, this is also an opportunity that must be seized.