Development Of Textile And Footwear Industry

Denmark, Finland, Holland, Norway, Sweden and other 5 Nordic countries have implemented carbon taxes; New Zealand and Britain have launched carbon labels; the United States has adopted the clean energy security act of the United States, and will impose punitive carbon tariffs on products that do not implement carbon emission reduction.

Whether active or passive, we have stepped into the low carbon era.

Recently, it was reported that the national development and Reform Commission is studying the carbon tax collection scheme, which is expected to be implemented as early as 2012.

According to the research report, the average energy consumption of China's textile and garment industry is about 4.84 tons of standard coal / ton.

Green barriers are better than confrontation.

Moderator: following the introduction of carbon tariffs and carbon labelling abroad, China has also proposed the introduction of carbon tax. What are the pros and cons of textile and garment enterprises?

Chen Feng: on the one hand, European and American countries continue to raise standards and implement trade barriers; on the other hand, the need for industrial upgrading, enterprises will face more and more energy pressure in the future, and energy conservation and emission reduction must be realized.

To levy carbon tax in China, it is bound to form a quantitative index in every link of raw material, production, circulation and consumption. This is an opportunity for textile and garment enterprises with higher starting point and higher research and technology level, and some enterprises with serious pollution may face production shrinkage and business crisis.

Yang Huayang: the domestic carbon tax will be introduced. On the surface, it seems to increase the cost of enterprises. In fact, the state is making use of tax means to urge enterprises to carry out energy conservation and emission reduction and industrial upgrading.

In addition, according to the WTO agreement, if the domestic carbon tax has been introduced, other countries can not repeat the carbon tariffs.

Last year, the export of Quanzhou's textile and clothing reached US $2 billion 100 million. If the exporters can take the initiative to take measures to make the carbon emissions of the products meet the national standards, we can reduce the potential green trade barriers.

Wang Yingli: low carbon will ultimately consider the energy use, technological upgrading and pollution discharge of enterprises, and the root of them is energy conservation and emission reduction.

The low carbon test faced by China's textile industry is very severe. Especially in developed countries, the implementation of "carbon tariffs" will make the Chinese textile industry at the low end of the textile supply chain suffer a great impact.

In order to achieve low carbonization, only through careful investigation, estimation method and accurate carbon emission data can we find a way to reduce carbon emissions.

The process controls the emission accounts.

Host: for Quanzhou.

Wang Yingli: textile enterprises can start from many aspects in terms of low carbon, including internal basic design and equipment.

If the internal management operation is not in place, it is very likely that good technology will not work.

In addition, energy saving and emission reduction projects should be pformed into data.

For example, how much carbon dioxide emitted from a shirt during the production process, through these data, the enterprise managers can have clear objectives for the next step, know what problems to pay attention to in the procurement of raw materials, and what key links need to be improved in the production process.

In this way, there is a clear "discharge account".

Yang Huayang: research shows that a treaty of 400 grams of polyester pants, if life expectancy is 2 years, washing, drying, ironing will produce carbon dioxide emissions of 47 kilograms, is 117 times its own weight; a 250 gram heavy cotton T-shirt in its "lifetime" emissions of 7 kilograms of two carbon dioxide, is its own weight 28 times; hemp fiber cloth on the ecological impact of less than 50% cotton; bamboo fiber yarn in the underground as long as 2 months can be dissolved, and a cotton yarn needs at least 10 months.

In recent years, Quanzhou enterprises such as the seven wolves, nine Mu Wang, tiger capital and Qipai have begun to reduce their use of petrochemical raw materials and chemical fibers, and actively develop and adopt low carbon fabrics such as bamboo and linen.

Instead of traditional yarns, bamboo fiber yarns not only reduce costs, reduce emissions, but also increase profits.

Chen Feng: in addition to raw material control, the consumption of resources in the production process is reduced, which not only reduces production costs, but also achieves better economic benefits and improves the market competitiveness of enterprises.

Waste utilization textile industry new hot spot {page_break}

Moderator: to achieve sustainable development in Quanzhou's textile and garment enterprises, what aspects should we make further efforts in the future? Are there any good low-carbon models at home and abroad that can be used for reference?

Chen Feng: Western countries have put forward the concept of environmental protection in the clothing industry since the 80s of last century. After entering the twenty-first Century, domestic enterprises began to have environmental awareness.

Two or three years ago, some enterprises in our city began to carry out eco textile certification in their export products, and some brands' low carbon strategy took the lead.

If the domestic YOUNGOR and Ruyi group pay great attention to the promotion of technology to products, YOUNGOR has developed more environment-friendly hemp fabrics on the choice of raw materials, and Ruyi group has provided the most primitive materials for enterprises through the development of animal husbandry.

Yang Huayang: recycled materials and recycled materials may become the next hot spot in the textile industry. Many world famous brands and international buyers have begun to develop or purchase large quantities of recycled textiles.

For example, the manufacturer of environmental recycled fiber and yarn, JimtexYarns, British clothing retailer, Marsha general store and American department store retailer WAL-MART, etc. in Germany, any clothing store can find environmentally-friendly clothing; France imported most of its garments a few years ago with environmentally-friendly materials; Nike made recycled sportswear by recycling plastic bottles from Japan and Taiwan dumps.

In China, Lining also works with Japanese Imperial textile company to recycle waste products from old clothes and waste plastic bottles, and then decompose them into new fabrics and make new ones.

This process will reduce the energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of ecosphere system by about 80%.