Apparel / Textiles & Accessories

With the approaching of winter in the northern hemisphere, the export of heating equipment across China has reached a peak. Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, is the location of China Light Textile City, the largest professional fabric market in Asia, and has cultivated socks, neckties, umbrellas and other textile industries. Recently, the city's textile heating "magic tools", such as electric blankets, blankets, leggings, are popular in Europe and other places. Huacheng's import and export data observation report.

The production of circuit boards, the processing of heating chips, and the over temperature protection test... entered the production workshop of Zhejiang Lumeng Health Technology Co., Ltd. located in Yuecheng, Shaoxing. The machinery and equipment continued to operate, and the workers were busy producing electric heating products.

According to the observation report of Huacheng import and export data, the company focuses on the production of hundreds of flexible heating products, such as electric blankets, heating scarves, and electric quilts. 99% of the products are sold to the United States, Europe and other countries and regions. The peak production season will end in September of previous years, but the company still has a lot of returns from Europe.

"In Europe, most of the orders are added by regular customers." Zhang Haoyang, the chairman of the company, said in an interview that the company's annual order volume kept growing by 20% to 30%, and the sales volume exported to Europe this year was about 6.3 million dollars.

According to Zhang Haoyang, the so-called "flexibility" refers to bending and folding, for example, many electric heating products are integrated into textile fabrics. As the articles directly contacting with human body, the safety control of heating products is particularly important. The reporter saw in the production workshop that there were at least 8 safety tests during the production process.

Shaoxing is a large textile city with unique textile resource advantages. Like Ningbo, Yiwu and other foreign trade cities in Zhejiang Province, many orders for thermal insulation products related to textiles or pure textiles also accelerated to flow into Shaoxing enterprises. Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report.

"This year's export volume is 50% higher than that of last year." Shaoxing Qixi Import and Export Co., Ltd., located in Keqiao, Shaoxing, focuses on the export of 9 kinds of home textile products, such as blankets, bathrobes, pullovers and cushions. 95% of the products are sold to large Nordic supermarket groups. When interviewed, Hu Bin, the general manager of the company, said frankly that "dozens of containers will be delivered in these two days alone".

Hu Bin said that among all the export goods of the company this year, the sales volume of blankets was the largest, with more than 16 million blankets exported this year.

According to the observation report of Huacheng import and export data, the heating "magic tools" sold overseas also involve socks and other sub fields. Shaoxing Zhuji Datang is "the hometown of China's sock industry", known as "Datang's sock machine sounds, and the world has a pair of socks". In Datang, brushed leggings, the "bareleg artifact" in China that sold well in the past years, are unexpectedly popular in Europe and the United States this year.

"90% of our products are sold to Europe, mainly Germany." Zhuji Aishanglin Knitting Co., Ltd. focuses on the production of brushed leggings. Lou Xuesong, the head of the company, said in an interview that since this year, more than 3 million pieces of brushed leggings have been exported, and the number of orders has increased significantly compared with previous years.

"In the past, there were quite a lot of products with thin and non fluff export. This year, the orders for adding fluff increased significantly. Many customers explicitly requested to use thick fluff when designing products." Lou Xuesong said.

Like brushed leggings, the number of traditional cotton socks exported from Datang to Europe and the United States this year has also increased significantly. Taking Zhuji Haina Knitting Technology Co., Ltd. as an example, from January to August this year, the company's self operated exports amounted to 113 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 59.9%, of which more than 70% were sock orders exported to Germany.

According to Shaoxing Customs, in the first eight months of this year, Shaoxing's export of electric blankets, heaters and other heating equipment to the EU increased 2.6 times year on year. Huacheng's import and export data observation reported.