March 28-30, ushering in the peach and Li years of 2023yarnexpo spring and summer yarn exhibition will join hands with intertextile fabric exhibition, CHIC clothing exhibition, intertextile home textile exhibition, PH Value knitting exhibition in the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai) 8.2 hall full dress opening. As always for the industry to present a textile fiber yarn feast, from the source to help the industry smooth chain, stable chain, welcome the spring textile market off to a good start.

In the past 20 years, yarnexpo yarn exhibition has not only witnessed, assisted the vigorous development of the upstream textile fiber yarn industry, but also has a number of industrial leading enterprises. They are either the biggest in their field, the most technologically advanced, or the first with a......

This issue share 2023yarnexpo spring and summer yarn exhibition "old friend" Heng Shen Group interview, revealed how to from a silk to an industrial chain, to the global nylon leading enterprises, and the first to learn the exhibition site will appear in the new products, new technology, a glimpse of the development of nylon industry trends, new results.

Technology-based, break through the "neck" problem

Hengshen Group was founded in 1984, adhere to the "life only do one thing" of the original mind, deep cultivation in the field of nylon, in the accumulation of time, wash out magnificent echo. At present, Hengshen Group has more than ten entity enterprises, such as Shenyuan New Materials, Hengshen Composite Fiber, Fubonte, Nanjing Fubonte, Hesheng Gas, etc. It has established three production bases of nylon 6 industrial chain with Fuzhou, Fujian as the center, radiating to Nanjing, Jiangsu and Maastricht, Netherlands, and opened up eight industrial chains from upstream raw materials to downstream polymerization, spinning, weaving, etc. In the industry has irreplaceable market competitiveness and industry discourse power.

Caprolactam is an important raw material for the production of nylon fiber. However, caprolactam has been monopolized by several international chemical giants such as Germany BASF for a long time, and the domestic market basically depends on imports. "In order to break the bottleneck restricting the development of the company's nylon industry and reverse the situation that domestic high-end caprolactam is heavily dependent on imports, Hengshen Group invested 40 billion yuan in 2013 to build Shenyuan New Materials, a world-class polyamide integration project with an annual output of 1 million tons. We also successfully purchased 400,000 tons of caprolactam integration project technology license from DSM, the world chemical giant, landed in Lianjiang County and invested in the construction of Shenyuan New Materials Project, which was successfully put into production in 2017." Heng Shen Group chemical fiber plate general manager Mei Zhen said.

In order to further promote the high-quality development of nylon industry chain, Hengshen Group signed a contract to acquire Fibrant (Forbonte) caprolactam and related businesses (formerly DSM caprolactam business) in 2018, becoming the world's largest producer of caprolactam and ammonium sulfate. In 2022, Hengshen completed equity delivery with Ancolo, becoming China's first high-end engineering plastics enterprise integrating industrial chain based on polyamide. Mei Zhen said that through the important measures of "strong chain and chain extension", Hengshen Group has all the elements to become the world's most competitive caprolactam manufacturer in a real sense, breaking through the "jam neck" problem that restricts the development of the company's nylon plate. And take this opportunity to build the largest polyamide integration industry base and global synthetic fiber science and technology ecological production base.

Digital enabling, promoting the "smart change" of the industrial chain intelligent equipment high-speed operation, AGV unmanned transport vehicles orderly shuttle, rocker arm robot coordination... In the smart workshop of Hengshen Group, the digital application scene has been fully penetrated. Under the tide of digitalization, Hengshen Group takes advantage of the trend and actively explores the new mode and new path of traditional textile manufacturing to digital "intelligent" manufacturing, so as to realize industrial digitalization and digital industrialization.

As the first pioneer in nylon industry to use SAP to fully cover the 7 modules of production and manufacturing, research and development design, marketing management, logistics and warehousing, Hengshen Group with the whole industrial chain "intelligent change" to leverage the "qualitative change" of enterprise development. "Big data to empower big industry, digital brain first, ERP (resource planning) integration of internal and external resources; The introduction of intelligent equipment, the realization of "machine replacement" landing, with ESP (intelligent manufacturing) for efficient production of enterprises; Sales model innovation, integration of digital marketing new trends, ESS (smart marketing) to connect the textile upstream and downstream customer needs." According to Mei Zhen, Hengshen Group's digital application is not limited to the manufacturing link, but opens up the whole process of production, supply and marketing.

We need new drivers for digitization and new vitality for deepening reform. The application of digital technology is an important means of Hengshen Group's high-quality development, which will play a pivotal role in enterprise management, workshop production, marketing upgrade, front-line personnel replacement and other aspects. In 2021, Hengshen Group won the second prize of 2021 textile industry informatization achievement Innovation Application, setting up a "new model" for the transformation and upgrading of similar enterprises in China.

New products unveiled, focus on environmental protection and sustainable

"Clear water and lush mountains are gold and silver mountains", Hengshen Group has always been committed to building an environmentally friendly enterprise, and has never stopped its pursuit of green concessions. 2023yarnexpo spring and summer yarn exhibition field, green products such as regeneration, biobase, degradable, stock solution coloring, collagen, anti-ultraviolet, black and white graphene, heat, cool, antibacterial, flame retardant and other all-weather application of high-performance products and differentiated products will be featured, hoping to pass the concept of sustainable and healthy development through the exhibition platform. Encourage more customers and consumers to use green and low-carbon products, and help the country's "double carbon" goal.

High-performance green environmental protection differentiated products

"We pursue sustainability in our products and follow the 'three Rs' principle of reducing, recycling and reusing in our product development and production. The exhibition will focus on the recycled nylon Hengshen nylon 6 recycled fiber is made from polyamide waste through recycling, screening and unique conversion process. It has passed the GRS global recycling standard certification, and carried out carbon footprint calculation in cooperation with SGS. The carbon emission of one ton of recycled yarn is 5.22tCO2e /t. Compared with conventional yarn of the same size 10.08 tCO2e/t, the reduction is 48.2%." Mei Zhen said.

Talking about the next development plan, Mei Zhen said that the future caprolactam technology innovation, nylon polymerization technology upgrade, nylon spinning technology improvement are all important means to achieve sustainable development of the industrial chain. Hengshen Group always adheres to the strategic development idea of "focusing on the main industry and laying out the whole industrial chain". Focusing on the caprolactam industry with an annual output of 1 million tons, Hengshen Group extends the upstream and downstream industrial chain, accelerates the pace of scientific and technological self-reliance, and extends to the fields of new materials such as modified engineering new materials and electronic grade chemicals. Constantly guide the industry to technology, brand, product added value and other high level, healthy competition situation development.

Hai'an County Qinfeng Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. specializes in production and sales：polypropylene staple fiber, Polyester Staple Fiber, functional polypropylene short fiber, functional polyester staple fiber, hydrophilic polyester staple fiber,  polypropylene, PP staple fiber, polyester staple fiber.