Security protection product market gap considerable

With the improvement of the national economy and the improvement of living standards, the society's self-protection awareness has become increasingly stronger, and the demand for safety protection supplies is also increasing. Construction workers, welders, blast furnace workers, fire fighters, forest guards, and field soldiers all require safety protection equipment for various purposes.

The "security" market gap is considerable

“China is the largest labor market in the world. According to statistics from authoritative departments, the number of employees in our country is nearly 770 million. It is conceivable how many labor protection items are required for such a huge employment force each year, and what is the number of labor protective clothing? It is quite objective.” The opening remarks of Liu Xurong, director of the Safety Supervision Center for Special Protective Products of the State Administration of Work Safety and Secretary General of the Labor Protection Committee of the China Safety Production Association, have inspired the industry. Anti-static, flame-retardant, acid-base chemical defense and other special labor protective clothing may need more than 20 million sets per year. According to the calculation of the production capacity of the 285 clothing companies that currently obtain the safety mark, far from meeting domestic demand.

Labor protection articles are protective equipment used to protect workers from accidents or occupational hazards in the course of their work. They are designed to protect the safety and health of workers when production conditions cannot eliminate various dangerous and harmful factors. The last line of defense. According to incomplete statistics, due to the lack of labor protection or unsatisfactory labor protection, all types of casualties in China account for about 15% of the total number of casualties in industrial and mining enterprises.

In order to avoid such injuries, the Safe Production Act specifies the use of labor protection products. First, the production and business operation units must provide employees with labor protection articles that meet national standards or industry standards, and supervise and educate employees to wear and use them in accordance with the rules of use. The second requirement requires practitioners to strictly abide by the safety production rules and regulations and operating procedures, obey the management, and properly wear and use labor protection articles.

Director Liu said that in 2004, the state adjusted the supervision and management system for labor protection supplies, cancelled the labor production safety license system, and changed the supervision of labor protection products into market access and use of products. The supervision of the links. In 2005, the State Administration of Work Safety issued the "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Labor Protective Products." It also clarified 22 types of labor protection articles that directly endanger the personal safety and health of workers, that is, special labor protection articles implement "safety mark" management. By the end of last year, there were more than 1,200 manufacturing companies that applied for special labor protection articles.

According to inspections by the State Administration of Work Safety, most use companies can now purchase according to regulations. The “safety mark” has also been recognized and responded to by most enterprises, effectively preventing fake and shoddy products from entering the field of use. Correspondingly, the use of enterprises in the protection of labor protection supplies has greatly changed, 75% of state-owned enterprises are more standardized. However, there is a gap between small and medium-sized enterprises and individual private enterprises. In particular, construction, building materials, and small chemical companies generally have inadequate workers equipped with protective equipment.

Sell ​​products, sell services

With the increase of people’s self-protection awareness, the society’s demand for labor protection supplies is increasing. According to surveys, the average national labor protection cost for each employee is approximately 300 to 1,500 RMB per year, and The variety and performance requirements are also increasing. Workers not only require products with safety protection properties, but also require products with a sense of comfort, beauty and lightness.

For laborers, there are many kinds of occupational hazards in the production environment, and it is impossible to provide a kind of protective equipment for occupational hazards. Therefore, a product that integrates multiple functions into one can truly protect workers’ Safety and health.


For example, the uniforms worn by oil workers should have multi-functional requirements such as flame-retardant, anti-static, waterproof and oil-repellent.
Li Lingshen, president of the China Industrial Textiles Industry Association, said that the development of a variety of protective functions as one of the safety textiles is one of the key directions during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period. We will focus on improving the research and innovation level of textile yarns, fabrics, and garments in the field of security protection, and breaking through the high-temperature dyeing technology of high-performance fibers and the multi-layered composite technology of various materials. The China Safety Production Association is also actively supporting the development of safety material manufacturers, encouraging companies to develop advanced flame-retardant, fire-resistant, low-smoke, low-toxic, high-temperature, corrosion-resistant materials and safety materials that can effectively reduce occupational hazards. Improve the safety material product line and strengthen the application of safety materials in various industries.

According to reports, China's labor protection products manufacturing companies mainly focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. Their production products are single, and one company only produces one or several related products. According to statistics, 23% of enterprises with labor insurance products with sales of less than 1 million yuan accounted for 30%, and 1 million - 5 million accounted for 37%, while companies with annual sales of more than 5 million yuan had less than 40% of the total. The number of enterprises with more than 10 million yuan is even less, and it is far from forming scale advantages. Small scale and low risk resistance are the common features of most labor protection products companies.

Liu Xurong emphasized that this is incompatible with the rapid development of China's economy, especially for the protection of labor protection products of some well-known brands in the world. It has entered or is preparing to enter the Chinese market. The industry is not in a position to establish a group of business-led, capital-linked, and technology-based technologies. It is a new type of enterprise that is based on power, information, quality, and profit.

Most manufacturing and distribution companies in China only pay attention to selling products and do not pay attention to product quality and after-sales service. The concept of production, marketing, and public relations of foreign-funded enterprises is based on users. Under the premise of ensuring product quality, the products are made more comfortable and beautiful, and the market is more comprehensive, more convenient, and better. For example, NORTH believes that professional security knowledge is exactly what Chinese users need. It is a powerful public relations tool for poverty alleviation through technology and provides users with targeted technical training. JSP company did not sell products at the beginning of entering the Chinese market and engaged in more than one year of technical training. It also prepared customer product manuals for users, which collected product use problems encountered by users in various countries. Each question has detailed answers.

More than a dozen "foreign brands" such as 3M, DuPont, Yige, Bagu, North, Delta, etc. entered the Chinese market. On the one hand, they brought advanced technology and on the other hand broke the pattern of the Chinese market. Is in some blank high-end market. Such as 3M company, almost occupied half of China's noise, dust protection.

Fortunately, in the face of the "knowledge black box" for the development of the domestic industry, a group of enterprises, institutions, and testing organizations are constantly learning from, absorbing and innovating the "charging" process. Fu Enfu, chairman of Shaanxi Yuanfeng Textile Technology Research Co., Ltd., told reporters that the development of the domestic security protection industry must follow the path of integration and innovation of the industrial chain. Shaanxi Yuanfeng cooperates with the Ministry of Public Security's Equipment Finance Department to implement a special police combat clothing fabric development technology research project. The joint research and application of Yantai Spandex Co., Ltd. in the application of special fibers to the project is a successful example of innovation in the target industry chain with terminal demand.

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