Textile Enterprises Research Articles

The Impact of ESG Practices on Business Performance in Vietnam: A Study of the Textile and Garment Industry

In recent years, there are many textile and garment enterprises in Vietnam who are interested in understanding the relevance of ESG practices to their business performance. The article is researched with the aim of analyzing the relationship between ESG practice and the performance of businesses, especially in the textile and garment industry in Vietnam. The authors used Cronbach's Alpha accreditation, EFA factor analysis, linear regression model, and Bootstrap testing for intermediate variables to analyze "The impact of ESG practices on the performance of textile enterprises in the period 2018 - 2021". The results showed a positive influence between ESG practices and business performance through factors such as customer loyalty, corporate reputation and corporate culture.

TAX CONTROL - WAYS OF USING MODERN METHODS OF STATE FINANCIAL CONTROL

In this article, research was carried out on ways to improve the activity of tax authorities and assess their efficiency in tax control in textile enterprises, and conclusions and proposals were formed within the framework of the research

Impact of Textile Industries on Surface Water Contamination by Sb and Other Potential Toxic Elements: A Case Study in Taihu Lake Basin, China.

Contamination of industry-derived antimony (Sb) is currently of great concern. This study was conducted to identify the source of Sb together with other potential toxic elements (PTEs) in a typical industrial area in China and emphasize the contribution of Sb to ecological risk in the local aquatic environment. By investigating the distribution of nine PTEs in surface water in Wujiang County in dry and wet seasons, this study revealed that textile wastewater was the main source of Sb. The distribution of Sb (0.48~21.4 μg/L) showed the least seasonal variation among the nine elements. Factor analysis revealed that the factor that controlled Sb distribution is unique. In general, Sb was more concentrated in the southeastern part of the study area where there was a large number of textile industries, and was affected by the specific conductivity and total dissolved solids in water (p < 0.01). Sb concentration in 35.71% of samples collected from the drainage outlet exceeded the standard limit of 10 μg/L. Results from three pollution assessment methods suggested that >5% of the sampling sites were slightly too heavily polluted and Sb contributed the most. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the administrative supervision of local textile enterprises and elevate the local standard of textile wastewater emission.

Carbon neutrality and green technology innovation efficiency in Chinese textile industry

The present trend of rapid expansion in the textile industry is highly polluting and energy intensive, and the government intervention is necessitated. This study develops a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model, examines the green technology innovation of listed textile enterprises, and explores its determining factors in order to address the issue of carbon emission reduction in the textile sector. The research sample for this study is obtained from 42 listed textile enterprises from 2017 to 2020. The research demonstrates: (1) the green technology innovation efficiency of domestic listed textile enterprises remains marginal; (2) from 2017 to 2020, the mean value of total factor productivity (TFP) and its decomposition index of listed enterprises in China's textile industry exhibit a downward trend, primarily as a consequence of the slowdown of technological progress; (3) the green technology of the entire industry is in recession from 2017 to 2020; (4) green technology innovation efficiency is inversely correlated with government subsidies, but positively correlated with net profit and asset size of enterprises. In light of the above information, enterprises should boost their ability to innovate with green technologies and implement a research and development (R&D) management development strategy that gives equal consideration to both economic and environmental benefits.

Encouraging Value Innovation by Adopting the Blue Ocean Strategy in a Batak Karo Fabric Business

The tradition of Batak Karo fabric production has been undertaken for a long time, with many businesses in existence for multiple generations, as is the case with the trade business UD Batik Bintang HS (BBHS). Competition in this trade is extremely intense, with many companies degrading and going out of business. Innovation of new value is needed to advance businesses’ efforts to survive and thrive. In addition to the Red Ocean Strategy, in existing business arenas, the Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) can be adopted to support such efforts. This study aimed to boost value innovation at BBHS by introducing the BOS, presenting a novel research contribution by examining a Batak Karo fabric business using a descriptive qualitative method. Interviews were used for data collection, and the credibility of the data was validated through triangulation of the data sources. Respondents included three internal employees, three customers, and three suppliers, totaling nine participants. Data analysis applied stages of reduction, display, and conclusions/verification. The discussions were engaged using the BOS constructs of strategy canvas, 4-action framework, and BOS formulation. The research results revealed two notable strategies in value innovation. First, new value innovation can be inspired by entering the supplier industry through innovation in fabric raw materials by lowering yarn density, resulting in lower consumer price without affecting quality. Second, innovation strategies included new cloth colors and motifs that dare to go beyond common customs without violating traditional standards. Both strategies represent new value innovations to attract new customers and retain existing customers. From a research perspective, this study contributes novel evidence that the BOS can be applied to broaden perspectives and identify new value innovations in traditional Batak Karo fabric businesses, with potential applicability to a broad range of traditional textile enterprises

TO‘QIMACHILIK KORXONALARIDA LIZING MUNOSABATLARINI RIVOJLANTIRISH

Nowadays one of the main tasks of textile enterprises is the production of products with high added value. This, in its turn, raises the question of the introduction of modern and advanced equipment and technologies into production processes as an objective necessity. For this purpose, investments in new fixed assets will be attracted. This problem is deepening due to insufficient financial resources and investments from traditional sources. As a result, there is a need to attract long-term investments based on the introduction of new forms of financing. The conducted research has shown that leasing, which has been widely used in world practice, is one of the most important tools influencing the activation of investment processes in textile enterprises. In the current conditions, when science and technology are developing rapidly, due to the leasing, enterprises are able to replace machinery and equipment quickly and with a minimum level of investment risk

Factor system and framework approach to measuring the environmental potential of textile enterprises

The realization of sustainable development goals is one of the leading trends of scientific research in recent years. There are quite a lot of publications devoted to the environmental component of sustainable development, which cannot be said about the assessment of the environmental potential of business systems. More often we are talking about strategic environmental assessment of projects, the effectiveness of environmental management, environmental sustainability and responsibility. But if an organization does not have the appropriate capacity, it is hardly possible to solve these issues. The environmental potential of an organization is an effective tool for implementing the goals of responsible production and consumption, as it characterizes the opportunities, resources and conditions for the formation of a business ecosystem that meets the needs of both present and future generations. The mechanism of its assessment is an important tool in the environmental management system and requires a systematic approach to its development. The purpose of the study was to analyze the essence of the concept, methods of measurement and factors that determine the environmental potential. As a result of the study, conclusions were drawn about the need to take into account a number of requirements in the formation of a method of measuring the environmental potential of the organization, which is the subject of this article. The proposed approach is of a framework nature, as the list of indicators of environmental potential can always be expanded and refined taking into account the specifics of industry characteristics and the profile of the organization's activities.

Research on the Construction of Sci-tech Innovation Platform System for Textile Enterprises—Taking Textile Industry in Shaoxing as an Example

Research on the Construction of Sci-tech Innovation Platform System for Textile Enterprises—Taking Textile Industry in Shaoxing as an Example

Ivanovo-Voznesensk War Industry Committee in 1915–1917: Problems and Achievements

The article examines the activities of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk military-industrial committee in 1915– 1917. Close attention to the object of study is determined by the fact that Ivanovo-Voznesensk was the center of the largest textile region in Russia, and the local military-industrial committee united enterprises with a total number of more than 30 thousand workers. On the basis of the analysis of the archival documents of the committee, the author comes to the conclusion that the sole direction of its activity was the supply of the army with military equipment: the production of grenade and shell cases, and the production of asphyxiant gas. For this, special enterprises (shell and phosgene plants) were founded, generously financed by the members of the Committee. They regularly carried out deliveries for the military department. On the other hand, the local textile enterprises, which fulfilled large defense orders for the supply of fabrics, found themselves outside the sphere of influence of the military-industrial committee. All factories received orders and reported on them independently. Based on this, the thesis is confirmed that the military-industrial committees were not monopolists in the distribution of military orders. Even the attempts of local manufacturers, with the help of the military-industrial committee, to ensure the allocation of additional labor, raw materials, fuel and equipment were not very successful. As a result, no more than 40 % of the capacities of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk textile industry were mobilized for “defense production”. In addition, there is absolutely no trace of the role of the local military-industrial committee in the political organization of the bourgeoisie in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. This can be attributed to the fact that, on the one hand, the committee solved mainly economic problems, and, on the other hand — that the local bourgeoisie had other economic and political organizations that had operated long before the committee was created.

Complementarity Analysis of Chinese and Indian Textile Enterprises

Complementarity Analysis of Chinese and Indian Textile Enterprises

A study on financial performance analysis of selected listed companies with reference to textile industries

India’s textile sector contributes significantly to the nation’s economy. When it comes to creating jobs and bringing in foreign currency, this is one of India’s largest sectors. The robustness of the Indian textile industry’s finances is the main topic of the paper. And to understand how efficiently the textile industry has utilised its resources so far. Profitability, liquidity and solvency positions of textile enterprises have been investigated for this purpose. The comparative ratio analysis method has been utilised in this article to determine whether textile companies are financially sound. Paul G. Hastings stated that “finance is the management of the affairs of the company.” Determining the costs associated with acquiring the funds on the most favourable terms possible and allocating the available funds to the best uses.

PERSONNEL OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF THE VOLGA REGION IN THE POST–WAR PERIOD OF 1945–1955. (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE ULYANOVSK REGION)

Justification. The post–war period is the period of restoration of the national economy of the USSR, destroyed by the war. Most industries during the war were transferred to the production of military products. After the Great Patriotic War, the industry was transferred to the production of civilian products. Consumer goods, especially textile products that were not produced during the war years, have become particularly popular. For the rapid post-war recovery of the textile industry, it was necessary to establish an effective personnel policy. The article analyzes the personnel, numerical, gender and age composition in the textile industry of the Ulyanovsk region in 1945-1955. The main personnel problems in the industry and ways to solve them are identified.&#x0D; The purpose of the study is to study the personnel in the textile industry of the Volga region in the post–war period.&#x0D; Materials and methods. The materials for the study were archival sources, periodicals of the Volga region, works of regional historians. Historical-typological and historical-comparative methods were used in the analysis of sources.&#x0D; The results of the work. By 1955, the main personnel problems in the textile industry of the Volga region were identified, and ways to solve them were outlined. The article reveals the effectiveness of the measures taken to solve personnel problems. The ongoing personnel policy in the Ulyanovsk textile industry has led to an increase in the number of employees at textile enterprises, effective training and advanced training of textile workers. The data obtained allow us to draw conclusions about the personnel situation in the Ulyanovsk textile industry during the period under review. The characteristics of the personnel potential of the Ulyanovsk region are given, which allow us to assess the level of development of the textile industry in 1945 – 1955.&#x0D; The scope of the results. The materials obtained in the course of the research can be used by historians studying the light industry of the Volga region, personnel policy at industrial enterprises of the Volga region, as well as in the educational process (in the form of textbooks, lectures) on the history of the Volga region.

Assessing the Impact of Franchising Clothing and Textile Enterprises in Benue State, Nigeria

The study assessed the impact of franchising clothing/textile enterprise in Benue State. Objectives were to assess the awareness of franchising, examine the impact of clothing/textile franchising enterprise on employment generation, identify the challenges of franchising in Benue State, and the way forward. Sixty-five clothing stores across Benue were assessed. Questionnaire was used for data collection. The findings of the study are inadequate media publicity, lack of franchise general regulation, and ignorance about franchising leads to low level of awareness. Franchising contributes to public policy initiatives of employment creation and poverty reduction, revenue generation, and sustainability. Also, lack of start-up capital, difficulties in accessing finances, and inadequate infrastructure are some of the challenges of franchising in the State. The way forward includes that government policies towards franchising should be favorable, and banks and other money lenders should make cash available to people who may want to engage in franchising, among others. In conclusion, since franchising does generate employment for Benue State, it should be made known to the people to invest in it. The study therefore recommended that, government and other sectors should create adequate awareness through media, seminars and workshops on franchising.

Innovative Approach for Assessing Management System Flexibility for Determining Mechanism Functioning Mode for Ensuring Economic Security of Organizations

The article develops and tests a new approach to assessing the management system flexibility of a textile enterprise and its economic security. A questionnaire with a list of statements characterizing the flexibility of the enterprise economic security system as a whole and its individual components is provided. Determining the flexibility of an enterprise economic security system depends on two types of parameters: 1) parameters characterizing flexibility of an economic security system as a whole; 2) parameters characterizing the flexibility of components of an economic security system. This approach is based on the interpretation of the results of an expert assessment and using the tools of economic and mathematical modeling allows to determine the level of flexibility of an economic security system in the range from 0 to 1. The definition of flexibility itself is not an end in itself, since the ability of an enterprise to react to threats of various levels depends on their intensity level. That is, it is expedient for the management of enterprises to take into account the actual level of flexibility, which allows to determine the most probable mechanism operation mode for enterprise ensuring economic security (forced, of increased activity, rational, reserve) in accordance with the level of flexibility of the economic security system.

Calculation Model and Case Study of Water-Saving Quantity in Typical Industrial Enterprises

Water-saving quantity is an important index to measure the effect of water saving. Scientific calculation of water-saving quantity is a basic content of water saving work, and is also an important means to carry out water saving evaluation and guide industrial enterprises to use water reasonably. This paper puts forward that the connotation of water saving is the improvement of water efficiency. Based on this, the calculation model of water saving in typical industrial enterprises is constructed. The water-saving quantity of textile enterprises and beverage production enterprises before and after water-saving technological transformation is calculated, which provides a reference for the calculation of water saving in typical industrial enterprises.

Çalışanların Karanlık Liderlik ve Kayırmacılık Algılarının Presenteizm (İşte Var Olamama) Üzerine Etkisi: Tekstil Çalışanları Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Bu çalışma, çalışanların karanlık liderlik ve kayırmacılık algılarının presenteizm üzerine etkisini tespit etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Araştırma verisi, Malatya ilindeki tekstil işletmelerinde çalışan 513 çalışandan anket tekniği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Bu kapsamda doğrulayıcı faktör analizi, güvenilirlik analizi, korelasyon ve regresyon analizleri yapılmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre karanlık liderlik ve kayırmacılık ile presenteizm arasındaki ilişkinin orta düzeyde ve pozitif yönlü olduğu saptanmıştır. Diğer yandan karanlık liderlik ile kayırmacılık arasında saptanan ilişki ise yüksek düzeydedir. Ayrıca çalışanların karanlık liderlik ve kayırmacılık algılarının presenteizm üzerindeki etkisinin de anlamlı olduğu saptanmıştır. Presenteizmin zararları düşünüldüğünde, örgütlerin karanlık liderlik ve kayırmacılık ile mücadelelerinin kaçınılmaz olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır. Bu çalışma, işletme yöneticilerine sorunlarının çözümünde yardımcı olmakta, alan yazına da özgün teorik bilgiler sunmaktadır.

Assessing baseline water footprints of natural fiber textile products in China

Water resources play an indispensable role in the textile and apparel industry. The setting of baseline water footprint for textile products is crucial in water management activities. In this study, we propose a novel method to calculate and evaluate the baseline water footprints for natural fiber textiles based on the ISO 14046 methodology. The baseline water footprints here refer to the maximum values of the water footprints that satisfy the required regulations managed by the government or the industry. It means that, the lower the baseline water footprint of the product, the lower the environmental impact of the product on water resources. The indicators including the water scarcity footprint, the water eutrophication footprint, and the water ecotoxicity footprint are considered in the water management assessment. The original data of 25 typical textile products from different enterprises were obtained from the series water withdrawal and pollutant discharge standards issued by the Chinese government. The baseline water footprints for three enterprises in different management levels (namely existing enterprises, new and expanding enterprises, and advanced enterprises) were calculated and assessed. To verify the validity of the obtained baseline values of the different categories of textile products, six typical textile enterprises were investigated. The results show that the established baselines allow for a clear classification of enterprises into reasonable levels according to the water footprint results of their representative products. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that water footprint baselines for textiles have been developed. The development of these baselines can help textile manufacturers, textile industry and government to recognize the similarities and differences in water quantity and quality among different products, and to effectively enabling the transformation and upgrading of products within the industry. It also informs the further development of regulatory and management-related measures and policies, as well as provides a reference for water management and research in the future.

Environmental assessment of fabric wet processing from gate-to-gate perspective: Comparative study of weaving and materials

Textile industry has yet to be developed beyond low efficiency, high resources consumption, and toxic emissions, with wet processing process a dominant contributor to resources consumption and pollution emissions. Recognition of the environmental impact of the representative wet processing is essential to achieve eco-friendly development of textile industry. Using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), this study addressed the environmental impacts of wet processing of woven/knitted cotton and polyester fabrics from 4 textile enterprises in China by deploying gate to gate system boundary. One ton of grey cloth was chosen as the functional unit. Eighteen midpoint impact categories and three endpoint impact categories were assessed via ReCiPe 2016 v1.1 (H) method. The results indicated “dyeing unit” as the dominant unit for all the impact categories at the midpoint, which was mainly derived from electricity consumed by cotton wet processing and detergents used in polyester wet processing. Among 4 different fabric wet processing, woven polyester wet processing exhibited the highest impact, while the least impact was assigned to knitted cotton. In the midpoint categories of water use, dyeing unit was also the major contributor in wet processing of knitted cotton (41.20 m3) and knitted polyester (44.70 m3). Pretreatment accounted for an overwhelming percentage of water use in woven cotton (48.00 %) and woven polyester (56.00 %). Woven polyester wet processing was also the most energy-intensive and resource-consuming industry among all scenarios, with a 3.37-fold higher fossil resource scarcity per ton of fabric compared with woven cotton. The results recommend measures for cleaner production in the wet processing.

The Overall Design of the Comber Drive Control System

Objective: The cotton textile industry, as a competitive industry in China's international competition, is confronting new opportunities and challenges brought by the growing process of mechatronics. To further improve the traditional drive control of combing machines made in China and the automatic level of machines as a whole, some of our cotton textile enterprises have undertaken necessary technical transformations on the combing machines so as to raise the operational efficiency and production technology of domestic textile equipments. Methods: This paper focuses on the basic status and dynamic characteristics of the drive part of the domestic new comber, and analyzes the operation process of the comber and the prominent problems from the production practice. Results: The technically improved drive control system uses an industrial control computer (IPC) as the core of the system, which effectively improves the overall working efficiency of the comber, and improves the production accuracy and production efficiency. Conclusion: The combers that are textile machinery equipments with comprehensive application of machines, electricity, gases and instruments, play a vital role in enhancing product quality and production efficiency. Highly intelligent and integrated process control, real-time monitoring and accurate data acquisition and data analysis have become the mainstreams in the development of auto-control. Therefore, the commitment of high technology to transform the traditional production mode has also been an important research.

Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm Based on Segmented Search and Resource Allo-cation to Textile Enterprise

Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm Based on Segmented Search and Resource Allo-cation to Textile Enterprise