China's footwear industry accelerates the transformation of machinery and equipment

In recent years, China's footwear industry has developed rapidly. At present, China has become the world's largest footwear producer and exporter. However, with the rise in manufacturing costs and the rise of anti-dumping in foreign markets and the shoe industry in Southeast Asia, China's footwear industry has experienced an unprecedented crisis, through the analysis of the difficulties encountered in the development of China's footwear industry and the limitations of the development of shoe industry in Southeast Asia. It is believed that the shoe industry in Southeast Asia is difficult to restrict the development of China's shoe industry, and the rapid development of China's shoemaking machinery technology will provide technical force for China's shoemaking industry. The shoe industry upgrades machinery and equipment to accelerate the transformation of enterprises and improve the shoemaking process. Technology will certainly emerge from the crisis and gain development.

The development of China's shoemaking industry is plagued with difficulties. In recent years, China's footwear industry has developed rapidly. At present, China has become the world's largest footwear producer and exporter. After more than 30 years of extensive and rapid development, many contradictions have also emerged in the development of the footwear industry in China. Among them, the export-oriented footwear industry has faced a contraction in the international market. In recent years, it has purchased the world. When famous sports shoes were used, the “Made in China” that was often seen on these products had been unknowingly changed and replaced by “Made in Indonesia” and “Made in Vietnam”. As early as a few years ago, due to rising labor costs, raw materials, and exchange rate fluctuations, many shoe manufacturers shifted their production bases to Southeast Asia. With the full launch of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, the footwear industry in Vietnam, India, and Pakistan has developed rapidly.

With the trade protection measures such as anti-dumping from major market countries, the downward pressure on China's footwear industry has been greater. At the same time, large-scale enterprises have seen the closure of a number of small enterprises. The shoe-making market in Dongguan is more remarkable. The first is the closure of Dabang Shoes Co., Ltd., which has more than 1,000 employees in Shek Pai, Dongguan. The supplier was owed about 10 million in payment, which caused a stir in the industry. Afterwards, some shoe companies continued to spread unfavorable news. The entire shoe industry shrouded A layer of sad mist. This year, the "depression" of the shoe industry is most intuitively reflected in the reports of listed companies in the footwear industry. At the shareholders’ meeting in late May, Belle International, the country’s largest women’s shoe retailer, revealed rare sales to brokers in the second quarter of this year in order to allow the market to digest negative news in advance. Belle International Management pointed out in the conference call that Belle International's second-quarter same-store sales growth will slow down further than the first.

It is difficult for the shoemaking industry in Southeast Asia to restrict the development of China's shoemaking industry. Compared with Chinese shoemaking enterprises, the main advantages of Southeast Asian companies are, first and foremost, obvious cost advantages. Although some orders have been transferred from China to Southeast Asia, it poses a threat to the status of China's global footwear foundry center. However, currently, Southeast Asian countries cannot replace China's position as a “world factory”. Because Southeast Asian countries are mostly small and medium-sized countries, the ability to accommodate industrial transfers is still limited.

Compared with China, the shoe industry chain in Southeast Asian countries still has a big gap. For example, the shoe-making industry also includes links such as rubber planting and rubber processing. Many countries in Southeast Asia do not have real industries. They only manufacture garments and shoes, and lack all previous related links as support. In addition, the widespread infrastructure implementation in Southeast Asian countries still lags behind, which also restricts the development of its manufacturing industry.

Shoemaking machinery industry provides technical support for China's shoemaking industry Dongguan has a "world shoe headquarters base" billboard that seems to inspire the industry's morale. When a large number of shoe companies transfer or close down, there will always be companies that remain in the sands and become the leader. It is particularly important to face difficulties in transformation and upgrading. The shoe-making machinery industry is the strong backing for the development of China's shoe-making industry. After nearly 20 years of imitation, digestion, and absorption, the Chinese leather machinery shoe-making machinery industry applies new technologies according to China’s national conditions. New technologies, new materials, development and design, and manufacturing of more types of shoemaking equipment have improved manufacturing levels.

At present, the domestic leather machinery manufacturers produce a wide range of tanning equipment. The products have good mechanical properties and process performance. The working width and loading capacity have been standardized and serialized to meet various types of leather such as cattle, pigs and sheep. Tanning production process requirements. Shoemaking machinery basically covers all aspects of the shoemaking process and is fully equipped with the output capability of the whole plant. This related two major types of machinery and equipment have a relatively high level in terms of production efficiency, human-machine relations, and configuration adaptability. The main models reached the international level in the 1990s and provided the leather and footwear industry with Economic, reasonable and applicable production equipment has promoted the development of the leather footwear industry in China.

The raw material costs and labor costs faced by the footwear industry have increased. Under the crisis of appreciation of the RMB exchange rate, technical equipment can be upgraded to improve the shoemaking process and technology.