Jointly Create Excellence: YuBang Technology Featured in China Reform Daily, Focusing on "Intelligent Transformation and Digitalization," Intelligently Painting a New Future for Textiles

《China Reform Daily》 (approved by the Central 編辦 and directly under the National Development and Reform Commission) published an article titled "New Quality Productivity in a Piece of Fabric - Exploring Fujian Yubang Textile to See How Private Enterprises 'Intelligently Transform and Digitize'," detailing how Fujian Yubang Textile Technology Co., Ltd., as a national key enterprise integrating R&D, weaving, dyeing and finishing, and printing of chemical fiber fabrics, uses new technologies in "intelligent transformation and digitization" and innovative development to transform traditional industries and promote the textile industry towards high-end, intelligent, and green development.

New Quality Productivity in a Piece of Fabric

——Exploring Fujian Yubang Textile to See How Private Enterprises 'Intelligently Transform and Digitize'

(May 22, 2024 Author: Ding Nan, Wu Yanjie)

Outdoor sportswear is one of the fastest-growing areas in the textile industry in recent years. From "a strand of silk" to "a piece of cloth" to "a piece of clothing", the "three movements" of clothing contain "thousands of threads", "thousands of changes", and even newer quality productivity that moves towards "newness".

In the intelligent workshop of Fujian Yubang Textile Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yubang Textile"), located in the Fuqing Functional Zone of Fuzhou New Area, Fujian Province, each OEM-branded sportswear will go through multiple processes such as slicing, spinning, texturing, weaving, oil removal, pre-setting, dyeing, final setting, printing, testing, quality inspection, and garment making. Here, "clouds want clothes and flowers want faces" is the digital empowerment of the production process, and the full "sense of technology" in product design constitutes the textile ecological chain from "silk" to "cloth" to "clothing".

"Since its establishment 12 years ago, Yubang Textile has a market share of over 25.19% in the domestic nylon 66 knitted fabric segment, ranking first in the country. 'White silk comes in, and ready-made clothes go out' is no longer a dream." Wu Xiaohang, chairman of Fujian Mingcan Group and chairman of Yubang Textile, said that the company is currently actively using new technologies to transform traditional industries and promote the textile industry towards high-end, intelligent, and green development.

Ecological Textile

Intelligent Manufacturing Creates a Green New Life

On the coast of Fuqing Bay, the sea breeze is gentle. Walking into the Yubang Textile Park, which covers an area of more than 400 acres, a towering wind turbine is turning in the wind, and photovoltaic panels on the roof of the factory building are shining, presenting a picture of harmonious coexistence between green energy and industrial production to reporters.

In May 2012, the Yubang Textile project with a total investment of 2.1 billion yuan settled in Fuqing City and was officially put into production in 2016. After years of development, it has grown into a national high-tech enterprise integrating R&D, weaving, dyeing and finishing, and printing of chemical fiber fabrics.

Here, the intelligent production line is like an efficient symphony orchestra. The original white chips from upstream chemicals are transformed into delicate yarns full of vitality through high-tech processes of melting, rubbing, pulling, and twisting; high-speed weaving machines weave exquisite fabrics with high gauge and high density, and dyeing machines precisely control dyeing conditions to ensure that every inch of fabric is evenly colored... The entire production process is efficient and precise, and each link demonstrates the organic and perfect combination of industrial standards and humanistic aesthetics, complementing each other.

Digital and intelligent equipment not only improves production efficiency but also ensures product quality. Taking the Yubang Textile dyeing and finishing workshop as an example, the manual weighing of materials in the past had problems such as large accuracy errors, low efficiency, and serious pollution. Nowadays, workers only need to enter data lightly, and the machine can automatically complete it, which greatly improves work efficiency and product quality.

"As a national-level green factory enterprise, we have built our own park photovoltaic power generation equipment, increased the proportion of clean energy use, and also introduced Italian Danitech and other high-efficiency and energy-saving dyeing vats, and adopted dyeing vat wrapping insulation film technology to significantly reduce energy consumption and continuously promote green production," said the person in charge of Yubang Textile's dyeing and finishing plant.

Scientific and Technological Innovation

Leading the New Trend of Textiles

Currently, sunscreen clothing has begun to become a hot-selling product in the clothing industry. Among many brands, Yubang Textile fabrics stand out with their high gauge and high-density materials.

'     The UPF (Ultraviolet Protection Factor) value of our products is as high as 800+~1000+, which significantly exceeds the market average level, bringing consumers unprecedented excellent sun protection, and also bringing more comfort and fashion product experience,' said the group's fabric sector chief engineer.

Fujian is a major textile province in China, and the output value of the textile and apparel industry has exceeded one trillion yuan. In Fujian, promoting the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the traditional textile industry through innovative R&D is becoming a consensus among more and more enterprises. In 2022, Yubang Textile jointly established a corporate R&D center in Shanghai with upstream and downstream leading enterprises and textile-related advantageous universities, and formed a joint R&D team to continuously cultivate fabric technology innovation.

Nylon 66 knitted fabrics are widely used in high-end sportswear and footwear fields due to their moisture absorption, breathability, warmth retention, and ultra-comfortable, ultra-wear-resistant, and high-elasticity product characteristics. However, in the past, China's self-sufficiency rate of nylon 66 has been low, with a high degree of dependence on foreign countries, and the growth of production capacity has been slow. The main reason is that the core raw material adiponitrile technology has not achieved a breakthrough. Yubang Textile has independently developed and created a number of innovative processes, successfully breaking through the "bottleneck" technology of fine denier high-density nylon 66 automated weaving.

According to reports, the breakthrough of this technology has enabled Yubang Textile to develop "antibacterial variable modulus high-breathability nylon 66 fabrics" with leading indicators, filling the gap in domestic high-end functional sports fabrics, reducing dependence on foreign supply chains, and giving nylon 66 knitted fabrics a new vitality in the combination of fashion and health.