ZGL:On a never-ending route to innovation Overview

By+Zhao+Zihan

Jiangsu Yingyou Textile Machinery Co.， Ltd.， a national key high-tech enterprise with nearly four decades of experience in textile machinery manufacturing under ZGL-branded Yingyou Group， is equipped with strong technical strength and advanced manufacturing level. Its finishing and dyeing & printing textile machinery has occupied half of the domestic market， and exported to Southeast Asia， South Africa， Russia and other countries and regions. At the forthcoming INDO INTER TEX 2015， Yingyou Textile Machinery， as a representative of Chinas high-end textile equipment manufacturing industry， is to exhibit its cutting-edge technology of Chinese textile machinery to the world on this technical exchange platform.

Yingyou Textile Machinery， as a national leading enterprise in textile finishing industry， has been entitled “A Global Textile Finishing Expert”. Its developed automatic magnetic-bar flat screen printing machine and coating discharge printing machine have reached the international advanced level and been greatly favored by the market.

Based on the innovation of nearly twelve years， Yingyou Textile Machinery， with an annual output of 2，000 sets of textile finishing equipment， is enjoying an increase of various economic indicators by over 50% per year.

In recent years， the sales of the company have occupied a leading position in both domestic and overseas textile finishing industry thanks to its advanced technologies and excellent quality as well as timely adjustment of product designs according to customers demand. It has developed a series of various textile finishing equipment that are of independent intellectual property rights and adapt to national conditions， including more than 60 kinds of products with over 150 kinds of specifications and nine series such as natural luster finishing， shearing， brushing， pilling， sanding， stretch-breaking of tow， gilling， and special style finishing. Yingyou is able to grow under adverse conditions， regardless of the market situation.

ZGL — A synonym of finishing equipment

To further explore the international market， Yingyou made a decision to register “ZGL”， a more international logo， as the brand identity.“ZGL” is more and more recognized by domestic and foreign merchants accompanied by the continuous growth of Yingyou Textile Machinery.“ZGL” has been regarded by many as a synonym of high-end finishing equipment.

The perseverant product innovation and technical reform have brought Yingyou huge economic benefits. Zhang Guoliang， President of Yingyou Group， once said： “The existing industry with outmoded products as well as the traditional market must be endowed with new content through such technological progresses which will give it a prolonged life. Our textile machinery is just a good example for it has always been in a leading position in the industry for over twenty years which relies on constantly accumulated qualitative results through technological progress.”

As Yingyou Textile Machinerys main products， Yingyou natural luster finishing machine， raising machine and automatic magnetic-bar flat screen blanket printing machine are enjoying domestic market shares as high as 95%， 70% and 65% respectively. Among them， the former two are traditional products that the company has researched and developed for many years， and after years of development， are still firmly occupying the initiative in the market， showing a more and more powerful trend.

“ZGL Manufacturing”， synonymous with highend finishing textile machinery equipment， also just like gold stamping quality assurance， is a symbol of high-end technology and products， and is growing to a Chinese textile machinery brand with more and more high added value and quality.

Carbon fiber developed for China

In 2006， Yingyou Textile Machinery took on heavy responsibilities in R&D， production， installation， and maintenance of manufacturing equipment in the carbon fiber project. In order to ensure the project could be completed on schedule， the experts and technical personnel of Yingyou Textile Machinery Research Institute led by Chi Yubin， GM of Jiangsu Yingyou Textile Machinery Co.， Ltd.， completed a total of more than 20，000 pieces of design drawings in just three months， with a rapid delivery to be processed.

Within four years， Yingyou Textile Machinery successfully accomplished the production and installation task of the production line with an annual output of thousands of tons of carbon fiber， with total production of more than 250 sets of various types of equipment. This process is of entirely independent design and manufacturing， installation and debugging， by the technical personnel of the company. It possesses fully independent intellectual property rights， and truly realizes the localization of carbon fiber， while at the same time， it is also a qualitative leap for Yingyou in the scientific and technological innovation ability.

In May of 2010， the carbon fiber project won national acceptance， and Yingyou Textile Machinery was awarded the first prize for scientific and technological progress by China National Textile and Apparel Council thanks to its significant contributions in the project.

Meanwhile， Yingyou accelerated the research and development of carbon fiber plastic composite through newly-set-up affiliated enterprises associated with carbon fiber. At present， a production line with an annual output of one hundred thousand carbon fiber bicycles is enjoying normal production as well as sales at home and abroad.

An innovation seeker

According to Chi Yubin， under the influence of global financial crisis， Yingyou made a bold decision to adjust product structures for the improvement and innovation of the existing products according to the market development trend， and concentrate strength on speeding up new product development. For the external， the company took more active measures in terms of sales. In addition， Yingyou Textile Machinery put a large number of efforts into research for the development of more energy-efficient and more intelligent equipment， which not only made much improvement and promotion in technology， but also put the new material — carbon fiber materials — into the products.

Even during the period when the market confidence was most severely impacted by the international financial crisis， Yingyou textile machinery products were still well accepted by the market with rising sales rather than falling. The latest generation of automatic magnetic-bar printing machine that uses Danfoss automation control is gradually replacing the imported， while the intelligent-control and strongpilling “MB331B-36 high-speed carbon fiber raising machine” as well as “SME485A high-speed carbon fiber brushing machine” that is a domestic initiative greatly enhances the technology content of textile machinery products from raw materials thanks to its innovative application of carbon fiber material in textile machinery. It is kicking off a new round of technological revolution that features “l(fā)ow carbon” in the whole machinery manufacturing industry.

Yingyous development objective in the next three to five years is the construction of a 100-million-yuan enterprise group， a modern complete set of textile machinery equipment production base， a carbon fiber production base with an annual output of 10 thousand tons， a carbon fiber composite material production base， and a carbon fiber bicycle production base with an annual output of millions. Another one is to speed up the implementation of four modernizations of the enterprise in terms of equipment and techniques， enterprise system， information management and personnel， and business philosophy.