On April 17, Hubei Xinxin Company airlifted 300,000 isolation gowns, 13 million masks, and 450,000 CPE gowns to the EU. “In less than 24 hours, this batch of goods can be delivered to customers.” General Manager Pan Yuanjing said that the epidemic situation abroad was tight, and the company’s orders could not be received, and production continued.
Xinxin Company is a microcosm of Pengchang Town, a “famous town in the nonwovens industry” participating in the supply of international epidemic prevention materials. Supplying medical and civilian anti-epidemic materials to more than 100 countries and regions every day, Pengchang is at full capacity, releasing production capacity and helping the global war against the epidemic.
From “1+6″ to the resumption of work in the whole industry
The wide Xianpeng Avenue is strung with non-woven factories. The streets are full of traffic and people are full of voices.
“Mask machine”, “protective clothing”, “melt blown cloth”… Pengchang “supported” on a piece of “cloth”, the most talked about and the most screened in the circle of friends, are all related to non-woven fabrics.
The town with a population of 120,000 and more than 300 non-woven factories gather the information flow, logistics and capital flow of global epidemic prevention materials.
In the meltblown cloth workshop of Hengtian Jiahua Company, rolls of meltblown cloth are uploaded from the production line.
“Each line produces 8 tons per day, with a daily output of more than 20 tons, and can produce more than 20 million masks.” Hengtian Jiahua originally produced SMS non-woven fabrics. According to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, nearly 8 million yuan was invested in emergency production. Meltblown cloth for medical masks.
Batches of raw material products, after retransmission and distribution, link and support more than half of the town’s mask production capacity.
From equipment manufacturing, raw material supply to product production, the interlinked industrial chain of Pengchang gradually returns to spring after winter stings.
In the early stage of the epidemic, in order to honor the “military order” of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, Xiantao laid out “1+6″ in Pengchang, that is, one main material raw material enterprise and six medical protective clothing enterprises, working day and night to rush production for front-line medical staff. “Battles”. From thousands of pieces per day to 30,000 and 50,000 pieces, Xiantao overfulfilled the task.
As the domestic epidemic situation continued to improve, Pengchang did not have time to take a breath and immediately turned to the international supply of epidemic prevention materials.
With the “hard-core” support of the relevant departments of the city’s commerce, finance, finance, human resources and social services, as well as Xiantao Customs, Xiantao Port, and CIMC Donghan Shipping to resume customs and ports and resume work at the first time, “sea, land and air” promote export “road” “Lutong”, more than 300 non-woven enterprises in Pengchang have resumed work.
From protecting Hubei to supplying the world
When the “epidemic” was the most tense, Xiantao provided 80% of the province’s medical protective clothing, 20% of which came from Yucheng Company.
“Battle shirt” is excellent, and the soldiers are worry-free. After fighting the “epidemic” for more than 70 days, none of the more than 40,000 medical workers who aided Hubei was infected, which made Zhou Lirong, general manager of Yucheng, very gratified.
With the production capacity and reputation gathered in the “epidemic” supply guarantee of the civil war, Yucheng was favored by UNICEF. On April 17, a representative of a third-party inspection agency commissioned by UNICEF made a special trip to Xiantao to inspect the protective clothing purchased from Yucheng “closed door”. The 100,000 pieces of protective clothing to be shipped all meet the standards.
After that, Yucheng successfully received an order of 800,000 protective clothing from UNICEF, and 100,000 have been delivered so far.
It wasn’t the order that made Zhou Lirong worry, but the old customer who came and couldn’t deal with it. “Small orders can be taken, and orders that are too large can’t be taken.” Zhou Lirong admitted that there are still orders from British, French, Polish, and Belgian merchants. She could only politely decline large orders from Italian and Spanish customers.
Hubei Xinxin Company has a top-level meltblown cloth production capacity, and many customers are asking for more than three times the high price.
Xinxin Company is the leader of Xiantao non-woven fabric industry. It has passed ISO9001, ISO13485, FDA and CE certification. With 350 million pieces of clothing, 200 million round caps and 400,000 protective suits, it is one of the largest suppliers of medical protective equipment in the world.
Entering April, when it was difficult to find a “cover” in the world, Xinxin Company stopped a mask workshop and concentrated its production capacity to make isolation gowns, CPE gowns, etc. that other manufacturers could not do. Xinxin’s strategy is to “reserve old customers”. Even if the price given by old customers is slightly lower, Xinxin will give priority to supply orders.
It is reported that there are 57 non-woven enterprises in Pengchang, and the orders are all scheduled until the end of May.
Build a world-class nonwovens platform
On April 17, at the project site of the 2,000-mu start-up area in Pengchang Nonwovens Characteristic Town, excavators waved their giant arms, and transport vehicles shuttled back and forth.
As Xiantao’s “Project No. 1″, the nonwovens town with a total investment of 5.7 billion yuan and a planned area of 14.3 square kilometers carries Xiantao’s dream of building a world-class nonwovens platform.
For more than 30 years, Pengchang has “finely woven” a piece of cloth, with nearly 40% of the country’s non-woven production capacity, and more than 80% of its products are exported. It is one of the main producers of protective materials in the world.
Behind the brilliance, another fact is undeniable. “The proportion of self-operated exports is small, there are few brands, the added value of products is low, and the profits are thin.” The main person in charge of Pengchang Town said that most of these non-woven enterprises play the role of “heroes behind the scenes”.
The epidemic is a test and an opportunity for the industry. Planning “four bases and two centers” and building an industrial park is a “new chess” for Xiantao to seek opportunities from crisis and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the nonwovens industry.
The Guangzhou Jinsheng Brilliant Project was launched, the Shanghai Jieyingtu meltblown cloth project signed an agreement, and the US-funded Aplas project hit it off. There are 8 signed projects in the start-up area, and 200 million yuan is the “investment threshold”.
“The investment promotion is so hot that I didn’t even dare to think about it in the past.” The person in charge of Pengchang introduced that the projects that settled in and came to negotiate covered from raw materials, fabrics, to the upstream and downstream of various products, “whole industry, all elements”, many of which are aimed at Listed high-tech companies.
Investors are looking for Pengchang’s industrial agglomeration ability, leading position in the global supply chain and broad growth space. More and more industry leaders join the “group chat”, which has become a catalyst to enhance the brand image, product quality and added value, and lift the entire industry chain.
At present, it is a national emergency protective material reserve base, a national nonwoven raw and auxiliary material supply base, a national nonwoven product production base, a national foreign trade transformation and upgrading base (nonwoven), a national nonwoven product quality supervision and inspection center, The world-class non-woven fabric platform integrating the “four bases and two centers” of the national non-woven fabric technology center has been implemented from paper and promoted efficiently in Pengchang. According to the first phase plan, after the platform is completed, it will produce 20 million pieces of medical protective clothing, 100 million N95 medical masks, and more than 2 billion disposable medical masks.
Post time: Apr-26-2022