News | Shandong Ever | Fashion Hit: Weihai Textile Walking on “Multiple Legs＂ to Blaze a New Path

2024-12-02 13:04 The textile and apparel industry is one of Weihai's traditional advantageous industries, currently with 148 above-scale enterprises, achieving a production value of over 30 billion yuan last year, ranking among the top ten industries in the province. However, facing new changes in the domestic and international markets, the textile and apparel industry also faces new tests. How can Weihai's modern textile industry cluster achieve an upswing? Many enterprises in our city are exploring new development ideas, walking on “multiple legs" to blaze a new path. Shandong Ever Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to the development of functional additives and functional fibers. Alginate fibers, a new material recently developed by the company, are extracted from algae polysaccharides and then produced through wet spinning technology, not only with zero emissions during the extraction process but also with inherent flame-retardant and antibacterial functions.



Sun Tao, Production Technology Manager of Shandong Ever Biotechnology Co., Ltd., said that they studied each production link from raw material selection, defoaming effect, coagulation time, traction multiplier, and finally succeeded in making the fiber's average strength reach above 3.5 cN (centinewtons) after six months of research.
 
In the context of a new round of industrial transformation and consumption upgrade, technological innovation has become a high-frequency term in the development planning of textile and apparel enterprises. More and more clothing brands are focusing on the research and exploration of functional fabrics, making fabrics "technological." In addition to antibacterial socks, Ever Biotechnology's alginate fibers are also widely used in beauty clinic, protective clothing, and other fields. Once launched into the market, the products have been favored by many major brands such as Li-Ning, Hongdou, and Maoren.




Gong Zhaoqing, General Manager of Shandong Aiwen Biotechnology Co., Ltd., stated that in the medical field, the medical dressings made from alginate fibers can form a gel with wound exudate, avoiding secondary damage caused by the adhesion of the wound to the dressing. They plan to add seven new production lines within two years.
 
Innovation has propelled the industry to a higher level, and green transformation has helped more enterprises open up new tracks. This year, in response to the characteristics of the textile and apparel industry, our city has implemented a series of improvement actions, including speeding up technological research and innovation development and intelligentised and green transformation, guiding and supporting enterprises to increase investment in technological research and development, focusing on intelligent transformation and digital transformation to resolutely upgrade traditional energy, at the same time, helping enterprises seize the opportunities of the national "dual-cycle" strategy, actively expanding the domestic market.



Jiang Minghui, Director of the Consumer Goods Industry Division of the Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, stated that the Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau will continue to optimize the industrial ecosystem, strengthen the industrial chain, support the vertical integration of the textile and apparel industrial chain with Dishang Group as the leader; further strengthen industrial collaborative innovation, accelerate the cultivation of a batch of specialized, refined, and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, encourage emerging enterprises such as Ever Biotechnology to fully exploit niche markets, and fully promote Weihai's textile and apparel industry to a new level.