Pingyi County, Shandong Province Bureau of Quality Supervision to promote the development of the glove industry health standards

Small gloves weave the big industry

“Alliance standards have changed the past situation in our glove sales, which is downgrading prices and vicious competition. This has enabled us to have the right to speak and take the initiative in market competition. Since the implementation of the Union Standard, the company’s gloves have produced an average In the past, it sold 0.2 yuan more.” Kang Deyun, general manager of Linyi Fuyuan Labor Protection Products Co., Ltd., said with joy.

In recent years, Shandong Pingyi County Bureau of Quality Supervision has improved the product quality and market competitiveness of the glove industry. It has developed and implemented the "Union Alliance Standard for Yarn Knitting Gloves" as the entry point, giving full play to its functional role and adopting effective measures. With regard to the supervision and service of the glove industry, the development of the cotton yarn processing industry has been driven by the development of the glove industry on the track of healthy development. This has formed an industry structure in which cotton yarn production and glove processing are mutually beneficial and mutually driven, and they are mutually driven. The county's characteristic industries have received social and economic benefits.

Dilemma

Pingyi County's glove industry originated in the early 1980s and was mainly concentrated in the two towns of Tongshi and Zhongcun. The main technical force is to use some of the original county knitwear workers and some skilled people who have skills in glove processing to use some of the most primitive glove machines to work at home to produce labor gloves. Since the market demand for gloves has increased dramatically, Did not expect to receive better economic benefits. Some people saw their production and processing of dry gloves made a fortune. They followed suit and produced gloves. Production of 10 gloves and 20 gloves was a phenomenon that produced a glove factory. As of 2009, the county's glove production and processing enterprises have reached more than 500. Despite the rapid expansion of the glove processing industry, because they are all self-contained, single-family business models, the glove industry has only "quantity" changes, there is no "quality" leap, far from meeting the market requirements for the quality of gloves. In the rapid development and growth of the glove industry, the vicious cycle of disorderly competition has also been exposed. In order to produce benefits at low prices, some manufacturers will cut corners and shoddy products, which will seriously affect the reputation of Pingyi Glove Industry. With the reduction of the market's credibility, the sales volume of gloves has fallen again and again, which has caused the development of the entire glove industry into a predicament. How to improve the quality of gloves and market competitiveness, and further enlarge and strengthen the gloves industry, this topic was placed in front of the People's Quality Supervision Bureau of Pingyi County.

Finding the source

In order to effectively find the main reasons for low-level defects in glove products, the bureau set up an investigation team composed of the deputy director of the deputy director and the staff of the Integrated Services Division. Through a large number of visits and investigations, the status of the Pingyi Glove Industry was established. The special research report of “cause analysis” pointed out clearly that the main reason for the vicious cycle of glove industry falling into disorderly competition is product quality. The direct cause of uneven quality is that there is no national standard and industry for yarn knitting gloves. standard. After submitting the special report to the county party committee, the county government and relevant functional departments, in order to further regulate the production and processing enterprises of gloves, the County Party Committee and County Government promulgated the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Cotton Spinning Glove Industrial Clusters". Under the coordination and suggestion of the Bureau, the glove-processing enterprises and self-employed people established the Pingyi County Labor Gloves Industry Association in line with the principle of “voluntary combination, quality improvement, total risk prevention, mutual benefit, and win-win development, and seeking common development”. The Association promotes product quality laws and regulations under the guidance of the Bureau of Quality Supervision, and implements unified requirements and management of product quality in accordance with national standards and relevant industry requirements. In addition, the company has formulated relevant penalties for enterprises that have failed to meet the requirements of the national standards and have been adversely affected by the consumer complaints and other factors. The County Bureau of Quality Supervision, on the basis of regular supervision and inspection of production companies, has increased the intensity and frequency of daily inspections and played a good role in ensuring the quality of gloves. However, these two measures alone are not enough to change the status of the entire glove industry.

Initial results

How to do? After consulting the relevant experts of the provincial and municipal governments, the bureau suggested that the county party committee and the county government should fundamentally improve the product quality and market competitiveness of the glove industry. That is to develop a coalition standard and use it to regulate all glove production and processing enterprises. In order to promote the county's glove industry to achieve standardized production and large-scale production, to improve the quality of the entire industry product. In early 2009, the Bureau relied on local governments and joint industry associations to actively initiate the active participation of enterprises. The "Union Yarn Standard for Yarn Knitting Labor Insurance Gloves" began to be developed. After many discussions and repeated revisions. On December 24, 2009, the first coalition standard in Shandong Province, "Yarn Knitting Labor Gloves," passed the examination and acceptance of experts and was formally introduced and implemented. After the implementation of the alliance standards, the glove manufacturers quickly saw the benefits. Describe the quality of products is no longer subjective comments, but let the standard speak, the market's initiative has returned to the hands of enterprises. At this point, market standards based on low quality, suppressed prices, etc. have become history.

Up to now, the county's steam spinning cotton yarn factory has reached 28, the glove processing enterprises nearly 600, annual processing gloves 2.6 billion, the output accounts for 60% of the country, the products are sold throughout the country and Singapore, South Korea, etc. more than 10 Countries and regions. The rapid development and growth of the cotton spinning glove industry has led to the development of related industries such as cotton spinning and logistics distribution and intermediary services in the town. The town has reached more than 80 enterprises supporting cotton gloves and the entire industrial cluster employs nearly 30,000 people.

(Gan Xinjun)