At the beginning of the year, Urumqi, the city of the Silk Road, gently dressed in snow, witnessed a new chapter of the Saurer Customer Day - the 2025 International Spinning Technology Summit, which was successfully held on January 7th.

Government and association leaders, as well as Saurer's customers from Europe, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East, partners, industry colleagues, industry media, etc., more than two hundred members gathered together to share and exchange ideas on the world textile situation. In-depth keynote speeches, round-table dialogues, and dazzling technology demonstrations intuitively led the participants to explore Saurer's latest breakthroughs in the fields of high-end, intelligent, and green. The signing of an order on the spot marked the new starting point of 2025, highlighting the vitality and energy of the textile people. The forum was like a bridge connecting the vast world of the beautiful Xinjiang with the ever-changing spinning technology.

I. Opening Ceremony & Signing Ceremony

Mr. Xu Bo, Member of the Standing Committee of Xinjiang Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee (Vice Mayor), delivered a speech. He mentioned that Xinjiang has the regional advantages of rich R&D resources, convenient transportation and logistics and the core hub of the Belt and Road, which plays an extremely important role in the development of China's cotton textile industry. Since the central government decided to implement the development of textile and garment industry in Xinjiang, Xinjiang textile and garment industry has entered a period of rapid growth, and has become one of the provinces and regions in the western part of China that have attracted the most transfer of textile and garment industry from the Middle East. At present, the scale and quality of Xinjiang's cotton industry chain is constantly improving, and high-end, intelligent and green continue to strengthen. On behalf of the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone, he extended an invitation to entrepreneurs, welcoming them to come here to invest and prosper, and work together to explore new development opportunities and create a better future.Saurer, as one of the enterprises with the most complete production lines and the strongest comprehensive strength in the world's textile machinery and equipment, has become a driving force for the promotion of The pioneer of high-end, market-oriented and green development of manufacturing industry, and the pioneer of developing new quality productivity to promote high-quality economic development.

Mr. Dong Kuiyong, President of China Cotton Textile Industry Association, delivered a speech and made a report on "Sustainable Development of China's Cotton Textile Industry". He started from the basic overview of the industry, raw material structure, industrial development goals and tasks of the three aspects of the introduction. He pointed out that in recent years, China's cotton textile industry scale and equipment to gradually adjust and optimize the production efficiency of equipment to improve the yarn, cloth production is basically stable, China's cotton textile industry system of the degree of completeness and resilience of the vitality of the comparative advantage of the cotton textile industry is still in China still has a vigorous vitality. At present, the development of cotton textile industry in Xinjiang has obvious advantages. At the same time, he introduced the current recycling of waste textiles and the use of recycled cotton, and pointed out that on the one hand, the selection of regenerated cellulose fibers should be considered in product design; on the other hand, it is necessary to establish cooperation with downstream enterprises to jointly formulate a recycling plan, and to provide technical support and training in collection, sorting, and dismantling, so as to achieve the maximum utilization of resources. He further emphasized that by 2035, China's textile industry should become a major driver of world textile science and technology, an important leader of global fashion, and a powerful promoter of sustainable development.

Ran Junli, Vice President of Cotton Textile Technology, delivered a speech and made a report on "Analysis of Technology Status and Trends in Cotton Textile Industry". She mentioned that China is currently continuing to promote the construction of a strong textile country, the core of which is to promote the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of the textile industry with the help of the comprehensive application of high and new technologies, in the key areas of high-tech fiber materials, high-end textile equipment, advanced textile technology and modern management techniques, to achieve new breakthroughs, leading the forefront of textile science and technology. She further introduced, in the textile equipment technology, textile equipment is continuing to intelligent, green, high-end, integrated, continuous direction. Through big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, automation, optimization and predictive maintenance of the production process are realized to improve productivity and flexibility. Among them, full-process intelligent cotton spinning sets and systems are encouraged by the digital transformation policy to develop in the direction of more advanced artificial intelligence, as well as in the direction of 5G+Industrial Internet. The introduction of artificial intelligence for production scheduling and quality prediction can realize more accurate resource allocation and quality control. As a global leading supplier of intelligent complete spinning equipment and full-process solutions, Trelaw has been committed to leading and promoting the transformation of the textile industry, promoting the high-quality development of China's cotton textile industry and the construction of the industrial system, and has made significant contributions to this end.

Mr. Do Dinh Phuc, Vice President of Traly Spinning, the representative of Vietnam customer, as a speech, and introduced the general situation of Vietnam and the general situation of Traly Spinning. Tralytex Company, established in 1980, is a professional enterprise engaged in the production, trade, import and export of jute products, and has 6 spinning mills with a total of 120,000 spindles up to the present time. The five mills in Tỉnh Thái Bình have a total of about 90,000 spindles, and there is also a twisting mill, all of which are equipped with solar power generation systems, and the Hung Yen mill, with 31,680 spindles of Saurer ring spinning, still has room for further investment. They will be ready to renew their relationship with Saurer in future projects.

Mr. Sandeep Garg, COO of Nitin Spinning, a leading manufacturer of cotton and blended yarns for woven finished and printed fabrics and knitwear in India with a global presence in more than 50 countries, addressed the audience on behalf of the Indian customer.Nitin Spinning has been using the first Zinser roving machine since 2003 and has added Saurer machines with each expansion project and has 75 machines to date. They are very satisfied with these machines. In addition, they have 7 ACO9's and will continue to invest in strategically increasing their production capacity in the future and look forward to a long-term relationship with Saurer.

Mr. Shahryar. Mehran, Customer Representative of the Middle East, addressed the audience and explained that Savin Tab was established in 1997 to manufacture different grades of 100% cotton yarn, cotton/polyester blended yarn, viscose/polyester blended yarn and 100% viscose and acrylic yarns as well as open-end and ring yarns conforming to national and international standards with an aim to enter the global market. Savin Tab has 30 Zinser Z72XL compact and non-compact ring spinning machines with 1,920 spindles each. Sister company Razi Textile also has Saurer equipment. Savin Tab and Khoy Textile are leading companies in the textile industry and will continue to utilize the latest technological equipment to increase production capacity and develop new plans and projects and investment targets. They are honored to be associated with Saurer and look forward to a continued good relationship.

The Vice Chancellor of Amikabir University of Technology (AUT) delivered a speech and introduced the R&D structure, existing achievements and other relevant information of AUT. It is a largely state-funded public institution founded in 1958 and has become one of the country's premier engineering colleges, spanning four campuses with about 14,000 square meters of green space. The school's areas of expertise include robotics, advanced textile materials and technology research, energy research, transportation, renewable energy, optics, nanotechnology, and environmental studies, and it has links with universities around the world, as well as offering online courses.

Mr. Pan Xueping, Chairman of Saurer, and Mr. Xu Hailin, CEO of Saurer, delivered a speech and keynote address. Saurer firmly believes that Xinjiang has important resource advantages, regional advantages, and policy advantages. With the advent of the Internet, big data and AI era, its technological advancement superimposed on Xinjiang's resource, regional and policy advantages will establish Xinjiang's future position in China and even the world's textile industry. In the next decade, Xinjiang will definitely be the most central representative of high-end development, intelligent development, green development and digital development globally, and will grow into the largest spinning and textile center in China and even in the world. He further emphasized the importance of having a unique product or cost advantage to enhance competitiveness in a competitive market environment; and elaborated on the different profit models corresponding to licenses, brands, products and technologies. Saurer’s model is precisely based on a global brand to sell products globally through the manufacturing advantage driven by factor costs.

After the opening speeches, spinning enterprises from Turkey, Indonesia and other countries signed cooperation agreements and project contracts with Saurer, with a total signing amount of more than 500 million RMB.

II. Theme Report

Mr. Sivakumar, President Sales of the Ring Spinning BU of Saurer, gave a presentation on "Zinser 51 Ring Spinning Machine with More Flexibility", introducing the performance and features of the Zinser 51. He mentioned that the new Zinser 51 ring spinning machine can be equipped with a reliable compact spinning unit of the Impact or Compact type. Particular attention was paid during the development of the machine to a robust machine design, increased productivity, improved energy efficiency and increased production flexibility. The new NSD-i fully electronic drafting system monitors the operating status of the entire drafting system, allowing for quick adjustments and quick batch changes. The machine length of up to 2056 spindles enables the customer to reach the highest production capacity. Equipped with a new suction system, energy-saving drives and a self-cleaning negative pressure bellows, energy consumption is reduced significantly by up to 10%.

Mr. Jia Kaifei from Saurer Open-End Spinning BU presented the OE product range and introduced in detail the three leading products of Saurer OE Spinning, the Autocoro 11 fully automatic rotor spinning machine with a 10% increase in energy savings compared to its predecessor, the Autocoro 10, and a maximum spinning speed of 250 m/min, with the spinning cup speed soaring to 180,000 rpm.The BD 8 semi-automatic rotor spinning machine is a leader in regenerative spinning. The new Twinsuction system saves up to 10% of energy compared to the previous model. The unique digitalized JSI collective head technology allows for quick automatic start-up after a power failure even on machines up to 600 spindles long and resumes production in just 10 minutes, greatly improving productivity and convenience. Autoairo Vortex Spinning machine's significant advantages of high speed and compact footprint make Vortex Spinning a highly efficient and cost-effective alternative to current spinning methods. It is not only suitable for processing carded and combed cotton and its blends, but is also widely used for processing viscose and polyester blends.

Mr. Huang Yuqiang from Saurer Pre-spinning BU made a presentation on "Saurer Carding and Roving Products", which elaborated on Saurer’s newly launched pre-spinning and roving series products. The new generation of clearing and carding machines are characterized by higher productivity, higher efficiency, higher quality, networking and intelligence, as well as a new appearance breakthrough. He highlighted Saurer's latest gantry gripper Autopluck with a working width of 3,500 mm, which has successfully achieved a breakthrough in reducing the footprint by more than 25%, while at the same time increasing the mixing efficiency by 30% to 50%. In addition, he highlighted the Autocard SC 8 card with the industry's first selvage design, which features a selvage width of 1.38 m, a selvage diameter of 1.46 m, and a further raised selvage position in relation to the spine rolls and doffers, which has increased the effective carding area from 4.2 m2 to 4.8 m2, making the SC 8 the largest intelligent card in the industry today. The SC 8 is now the industry's largest intelligent card with the largest carding area.

Mr. Li Weijie from Saurer Automation and Digitalization BU gave a presentation on "SensesMill Digital Management System - Spinning a Better Future", explaining the features and highlights of Saurer's SensesMill system under different platform modules such as smart kanban board, mobile APP, etc. The system is designed for the textile industry. The system is a digital solution designed specifically for the textile industry, aiming to help customers achieve digital and intelligent transformation of their processes and customize them according to each company's unique vision.The successful implementation of the DIW project is the latest important milestone in Saurer's software business. With the introduction of the SensesMill system, users are able to efficiently collect, summarize and deeply analyze all relevant data in the textile production process, providing strong support for decision-making.

Mr. Xu Ensong from Saurer Automation & Digitalization BU presented the latest achievements of Saurer's logistics robot products in the field of automation, sharing the objectives of developing this automation robot, as well as the functional features of this industrial robot. Saurer's current AGV/AMR product deliveries are focused on the North American market, and in 2025, Saurer will focus on developing the Asia Pacific market and listening to the voice of the customer to expand a new era of robotic handling scenarios in the spinning production field. Saurer's upgraded AMR products are tailored to support special needs.

III. Visiting and Exchanging

After the meeting, the participants in the Saurer chief operating officer, general manager of Xinjiang plant Pei Guoqing accompanied by the explanation, to visit Saurer Urumqi factory workshop, in-depth field line, close experience of intelligent production management, in the exchange of discussions to find the source of progress.

Saurer partners then conducted a report sharing:

Cai Wenchao, General Manager of D-TSING INTEL, made a report on "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision Technology Brings Higher Quality and Efficiency". D-TSING INTEL has a rich product line and cutting-edge technology in the field of textile automation. Key features of its product Qingyun-VI Anisotropic Fiber Sorter include double-sided detection, 1.6-meter pipe width, vortex design, A+ C combination option, flow rate feedback, enhanced film detection, and fluorescence detection. In addition, the Automatic Cone Yarn Packaging Machine is used to replace traditional manual packaging work, automating the processing of weight balancing, tube identification, yarn detection, film covering, bagging, sewing, sealing and palletizing, significantly reducing labor intensity and the number of workers. The fully intelligent tube yarn conveying and packaging system monitors and selects the weight of all the tubes on the conveyor belt, ensuring the exact weight of each individual package. Tubes are inspected by air and ground vision inspection modules to quickly and accurately identify and prevent “wrong type”. The automated bagging module uses woven rolls as the material and combines bag making, filling and stitching functions for “zero operator”.

Mr. Liu Kun, Regional Director of Foreign Trade of White Shark, made a report on the topic of "Status quo and breakthrough of high-efficiency carding process", pointing out that the traditional carding process is facing a lot of challenges, such as outdated equipments, process limitations, adjustment limitations, and blindness in equipment selection, which lead to low carding efficiency, poor quality, and high energy consumption. The current situation and future trend of high efficiency carding were also analyzed, pointing out that the development trend of high efficiency carding is high speed, high quality, high production, high efficiency, wide spinning range and low consumption, and the five advantages of high efficiency carding are multi-species, high quality, high production, high efficiency and low energy consumption. The design of flexible carding system is proposed to realize the goals of high output, high quality, high efficiency and low energy consumption, and to bring significant product quality improvement for spinning enterprises.

Mr. Chen Zhiquan, Manager of GERON International Business Department, made a report, introducing its enterprise development, needle cloth series products, and the development of overseas customers. GERON, as a leading company in the field of Chinese textile carding specialties, has always been focusing on the needs of the industry, and constantly innovating, and is determined to lead the development of carding specialties and help the progress of the global textile industry, and has different series of products ranging from low-end to high-end to meet the needs of different customers, such as the Wolverine Series, the Pioneer Series, the Diamond Series, the Blue Diamond Series, and the Tarek Series. They have different series of products ranging from low-end to high-end to meet the needs of different customers. In recent years, the company has increased the layout of overseas markets, and has set up GERON technical service stations in Vietnam, India, Turkey and Indonesia, as well as agents in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Brazil and other countries and regions. In the future, GERON will also continue to further expand our strength to better serve the market.

Mr. Zhang Kedi, Marketing Manager of HAOCHANG COMBING, introduced "HAOCHANG COMBING" brand complete sets of combing machinery. As a scientific and technological innovative enterprise specializing in the production of complete sets of combing equipments, they have hired several domestic experts in combing machinery and combing technology to develop the international leading level of HC185 combing machine and HC650 series of cotton combing machine, chemical fiber combing machine and linen combing machine with international leading level, which have 46 patents by the end of 2023. Their products are of superior quality, characterized by low consumption, high quality and high output, which are popular and well-known at home and abroad.

Mr. Lu Bin, Foreign Trade Sales Manager of JINGYA GROUP, made a report, sharing the company's cultural philosophy and the characteristics of its textile air-conditioning products. Its axial fan adopts a highly efficient and unique design, has China's first class energy license, saves more than 20 % of electricity, runs stably and reliably, and is easy to maintain. As a national key high-tech enterprise with air engineering as its main business, JINGYA GROUP, through years of leapfrog development, has taken a leading position in the industry in terms of its comprehensive strength and business performance, and has developed into the largest textile air-conditioning and dust removal industrial base in Asia. In recent years, it has increased its efforts to develop overseas markets and made continuous efforts for further globalization.

The core venue of this forum is located in Saurer's Xinjiang factory, as one of Saurer's four global manufacturing bases, is also one of the four major R & D centers. The Xinjiang factory covers an area of 126 mu, with a building area of about 80,000 square meters, of which 62,000 square meters are occupied by the modern intelligent factory building and 22,000 square meters by the innovation center.

IV. Benchmark Customer Visit

On January 6 and 8, the participating customers and guests went to DIW Ruihong factory in batches to visit Saurer's spinning equipments for a close-up experience in the production line. Ruihong textile factory as DIW in Xinjiang Turpan carefully laid out a major project, is struggling to rise as a benchmark factory in the field of digital intelligence, the project covers a total area of 536 acres, with a total planning capacity of more than 500,000 spindles, basically the whole line using Saurer host equipment.

The successful holding of the Summit Forum not only showed the charm of the beautiful Xinjiang, but also shared the latest developments in the spinning industry, laying a solid foundation for building a prosperous spinning trade and promoting the stable development of the spinning industry. In the future, Saurer will uphold the original intention, hand in hand with industry partners to write more spinning industry and high-end intelligent green deep integration, innovation and development of a new chapter.