Protective clothing sticking machine casts solid anti-epidemic barrier

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, there has always been a huge gap in the centralized demand for masks and protective clothing. Under the unified deployment of the state, relevant downstream enterprises are basically in a state of full production. Therefore, the demand for automatic production equipment for masks and protective clothing is particularly prominent. Sewing machinery enterprises, which are equipment guarantees, have concentrated their effective resources on the research and development and innovation of related equipment. As an important equipment for the production of protective clothing, at present, related companies including the sewing machine industry have increased investment, increased R&D and production efforts, realized the technical research and development and improvement of related equipment, and adopted all means to increase production capacity to meet downstream needs. . So what are the product characteristics of the sticking machine, the production and application situation, the current situation of enterprise research and development, etc.?
As a niche product among the numerous and complicated products of sewing machinery, the sticking machine has come into people's field of vision with the needs of epidemic prevention, and has gradually been paid attention to by sewing companies.
The sticker is a special equipment for the production and processing of medical protective clothing, outdoor sports clothing (jackets, sportswear, diving suits, raincoats), tents and other products. At present, there is no unified national or industry standard for product definition and specification of this type of equipment, and its product name is generally called differently according to the difference of the application, such as heat sealing machine, laminator, hot air sealing machine, etc. The English name is generally translated For hot air sealing machine. The working principle of the sticking machine is mainly to generate hot air through the electric heating tube to melt the resin adhesive strip with a width of about 1-2 cm, so that the adhesive strip covers the sewing stitches and needle holes on the clothes or clothing, so as to achieve sealing and impermeability. leakage effect.
At present, my country is the main production and use country of stickers. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than ten manufacturers of various types of stickers in the country, mainly in Dongguan and Jiangmen, Guangdong. The main brands are Guangdong Hi-Tech, Jiangmen Iron King Kong, Dongguan Maibang, etc. around the table. After the outbreak, some large central enterprises such as Sichuan Jingshang, Dongguan Mingling and SINOMACH also started to develop related products.
In addition, this product is also produced by some enterprises in Taiwan and Europe, but the output is not high, and it is mainly customized according to the order. The main brands are PFAFF, Taiwan Jinghua, Xinyi, etc. The average price of domestic stickers is between 20,000 and 30,000/unit. Some products with higher configuration and performance are also priced at around 50,000/unit. The average price of foreign products is generally above 40,000-50,000/unit. Compared with my country's current industrial sewing equipment with an average annual output of 8 million sets, the sticker is an unpopular and niche product in the entire textile and clothing equipment field, and its products can only be used under specific requirements. Usually, 200-300 people's jacket/tent factory configuration is below 5. Therefore, the production of this type of product is greatly affected by the season, and the inventory is small. According to the statistics of the China Sewing Machinery Association, during the Spring Festival in 2020, the production of this product has been stopped nationwide, and there are only hundreds of units in inventory nationwide.
Compared with other apparel processing, the processing efficiency of the sticker machine is low. Taking protective clothing processing as an example, the average single-machine processing capacity is generally about 80-100 pieces per shift, and some old models can even produce only 50 pieces per shift. .
In recent years, with the popularization of numerical control automation technology, the technology of various sewing equipment products, including stickers, has been accelerated. Automatic control products have become the mainstream products of stickers, some of which are equipped with automatic auxiliary components, functions and Products with expanded performance, such as those that can automatically turn to automatic stickers, are increasingly favored by the market. In addition, with the expansion and upgrading of fiber materials and processing technology, strip-sealed clothing has gradually begun to be processed by more advanced ultrasonic seamless sewing. The three processes are combined into one, and the processing efficiency is greatly improved. Of course, because the product standards have not been updated synchronously, this type of process technology has not been fully popularized. At present, rubber strips are still used in extreme occasions such as medical treatment.
According to the needs of protective clothing manufacturers, the major domestic sticker manufacturers Jiangmen Dayuan Machinery, Guangdong Hi-Tech, and Jiangmen Iron King Kong responded to the call immediately after the outbreak and resumed production at full capacity.
With more domestic companies engaged in the production of stickers, the equipment of protective clothing companies has been in place, and the current production of protective clothing has also changed from a shortage to an oversupply. With the change of the national protective clothing production subsidy policy, some protective clothing manufacturers may choose to withdraw. Therefore, the demand for stickers in the market has begun to weaken. He said that the sticker machine is a niche product. In the past, the annual domestic output was only 4,000 or 5,000 units. With the weakening of the specific needs of the epidemic, the domestic market production has gradually become saturated. Therefore, Hi-Tech has begun to adjust the proportion of domestic and foreign sales, and the increase in export to 70% to meet the challenges of the downward trend of the sticker market in the second half of the year.
Dayuan Machinery Co., Ltd., Pengjiang District, Jiangmen City, has been included in the national designated protective clothing labeling machine supplier. It also played an important role in this epidemic. Most of them were sent to protective clothing manufacturers in Hubei and Henan.