Kenya is now in a state of war, and warlords in various places have a large demand for clothing. Even if it is just a civilian market, it has good profits. Combined with Malindi, the cotton planting area, the textile industry can develop completely.

The British industrial revolution began with the textile industry, and the capital turnover of light industry was very fast, which was conducive to the early development of Malindi.

Now that Qingzhu Chemical Group is expanding around the world, Yi Zizhuo cannot use too much resources to operate the base in East Africa, and it is better to make self-reliance the most preferred choice.

"Our clothing export targets are mainly several white regimes in South Africa. Because we produce locally and have cost advantages, we can push the price to a lower level than similar products in Europe and the United States. However, recently, businessmen from Ethiopia and Egypt have also come to us to buy ready-to-wear."

Zhu Haoke took the bill and danced and reported the joy to Yi Zizhuo, the boss behind the scenes.

“Is there any problem with production?”

Liu Changshan handed over the statistics, "Our production capacity is now reaching its limit, the key is that there are too few qualified female workers."

Textile companies generally like to train female workers, mainly because this industry is suitable for women with delicate minds and does not need to do too heavy physical work.

Malindi has so many large-scale infrastructure projects started at the same time, and the strong men have been taken to the construction site, and not many people can go to work in the textile factory.

"There are 300 female workers among the immigrants. If they follow the technical evaluation standards set by the China Federation, only one-fifth of these people can barely pass." Zhu Haoke is responsible for running two textile factories and is clearer about this.

Qualified female textile workers are not that easy to train. They must have sufficiently skilled operating skills. It is difficult to train such people without half a year.

Even woven fabrics must be operated by people, which is the main problem.

"If I replace it with a fully automatic loom, can I spare more people to sew long?" Compared with weaving of cloth, sewing factories rely more on skilled technical workers. If I want to expand production, I had to completely hand over the work of turning cotton into cloth to the machine.

"This is not impossible, but the cost will rise. After all, a fully automatic loom requires special procedures and requires people to be maintained. This is not cost-effective than the local cheap wages of manual workers." Liu Changshan reminded the issue of cost control.

And continued: "The key is that if we want to buy a new loom, we must order from China. It will take about four months from placing an order to completing the finished product. Even if Tianyu Group is willing to work overtime for us, it will take at least three and a half months. This has not included the transportation route."

In total, it may take about half a year, and it also needs assembly and debugging. Yi Zizhuo cannot sit in Malindigan and wait for more than half a year.

"So, let's order a batch of machines first, including a complete set of mechanical production equipment for the wire reel factory." Now that the wire reel factory and the weaving factory are mixed together, the production efficiency is not high, Yi Zizhuo has long wanted to set up two middle and lower-stream factories.

Add to the textile factory that is at the upstream of the textile industry. A complete industrial chain will be born in Malindi. Locally grown cotton and hemp can be sold through high-value-added ready-to-wear, making it a source of wealth.

"We are now using assembly line production methods. We are producing the simplest ready-to-wear clothes, but the production efficiency is not high. On average, each female worker can only produce twelve shirts a day."

Liu Changshan used to work in the textile industry. He also probably knows that some of the production efficiency of the textile industry in China. The production efficiency of ready-made garments is directly related to the processing quantity, processing process, processing quality, and technical level of the processing personnel.

In China, the products produced by about a few dozen people are low-end and medium-end products. Most of these clothing is sold to the low-end market, and are uniformly proofed and cut, and are only responsible for processing. Generally, each person processes about 50 pants and about 40 clothes a day.

There are more processes, less processing, and there are more processes.

In the medium and large textile factories, most of the products produced are sold to mid-to-high-end consumers. These clothing products require high quality requirements and fine workmanship. Each process has a quality inspection.

In today's China, dressing is not only for keeping warm, but also for a spiritual pursuit of enjoyment.

Because clothes are fashionable products, most of the orders are hundreds of pieces. Generally, for a group of hundreds of pieces, there are about twenty people in a group, and it takes at least three days for each person to produce 300 pieces on average.

But for a few thousand pieces in large orders, each person will produce about thirty pieces per day.

However, in Malindi, the female workers here only received less than a month of short-term training, and their skills were not comparable to those of skilled textile workers in China, so they were very inefficient.

Speaking of the development of the textile industry, more than a hundred years ago, the traditional method of making clothes was to make the whole piece of clothing by one person, while the tailor only had to occupy a small room in the home or store to work.

In that era when productivity still relies on handcraft rather than machines, clothes were basically customized and must be manually sewn according to different customer requirements.

In that era, the customer groups who bought clothes mainly included wealthy families, such as landlords, merchants and nobles.

The poorer families, such as farmers and workers, mostly wear old clothes discarded by wealthy families. Sometimes they may gather some materials to sew clothes themselves.

Of course, people who are engaged in household weaving work even weave cloths themselves, which is why most of the working class's clothes were simple and rough at that time.

Some people hired tailorers to sew clothes for themselves and servants. The uniform styles of butlers and coachmen are generally designed according to the owner's preferences, and all of these clothes are made by the tailor alone.

By the early 19th century, machines such as clothing cars, which require human operation, were introduced, and were mainly improved in Europe and the United States, which changed the traditional garment making method and the process of garment making began to divide the labor.

For example, workers operating clothes trucks need special skills, so hiring workers who operate clothes trucks and workers who are responsible for manual labor is more efficient and helps reduce costs.

The early garment factories gradually developed from that era. In that era, ordinary garment factories used the whole piece of work, and the operation method was that most of the processes of a piece of clothing were completed by one person, and the remaining processes that did not require many skills were done by another person, such as apprenticeship.

Each piece of clothing is sewn according to the individual requirements of the customer and is in the place where the tailor works. There is usually a 1.2-meter by 0.6-meter car platform, where all sewing tools are placed in a mess, but there are no special purpose car accessories.

Textile workers who rely on manual labor sit cross-legged on the ground or on the table, with their knees as workbenches. Most small garment workshops have poor working environments, and the main problem is insufficient lighting.

After 1830, France and Britain successively opened garment factories with machinery and equipment, and the machines were operated by specialized technicians. The processes that required manual work were also completed in the factory or sent to others at home.

The capitalists of the above-mentioned factory soon learned that the production process can be divided into special processes such as machine sewing, hand sewing and ironing, button doors and manual work.

From then on, the production of the textile industry entered the era of standardized industrial processes, completely getting rid of the inefficient production methods of the past.

After the establishment of a new production model, after each special process in the textile industry is completed, the clothes will be handed back to the hands of the main sewinger. This method is suitable for sewing customized clothes and clothes samples, which are sanctioned according to individual requirements.

The above method is still the basic method of making garments, and has evolved from the previous practices of garments and cars.

Today, the more basic method is to divide the sewing process into fine processes. After more rigorous production arrangements, it is appropriately allocated to each sewing worker.

Each sewing worker is generally only responsible for a single special process, thereby improving production efficiency.

The garment factory opened by Yizizhuo in Malindi adopts this production model originating from Western Europe. Only large-scale standardized production is what current economic development is needed.

From a profit perspective, of course, it is more cost-effective to develop the high-end clothing industry, and Yi Zizhuo also knows fashion designers in related fields.

But in the current economic environment in Africa, there are not many people who can afford the beautiful clothes of Huazhang. This is not conducive to the early construction of urban development.

Therefore, Yi Zizhuo established a standardized garment factory. You should know that different garment factories have different organizational structures and goals.

Yizizhuo cleared out an abandoned warehouse in the city of Malindi and became a factory building for a garment factory. This place was originally a warehouse for stacking cotton. It covers an area of ​​1,000 square meters and the roof is five meters high from the store.

The main structure is cement and bricks, and twenty large square woods are used as pillars to support the roof.

Before the rebels captured Malindi, the owner of the warehouse fled with money because of bankruptcy. The warehouse was abolished and the previous things had long been taken away.

After Yi Zizhuo arrested all the local gangs occupied here, the warehouse was justified and classified as the reclamation group.

Qingzhu Chemical itself does not operate in the textile industry, but because the production and sales of many chemical dyes involve the chemical industry, the Yijia also knows many related people, and it is not difficult to get some experience from them.

The main focus of operating a garment factory is to focus on two points: one is production work, that is, to make raw materials into clothes needed by customers; the other is administrative and logistics work, providing all the required raw materials and services to ensure the smooth production of clothes.

The production work of garment factories includes design and production. With the emergence of computers, clothing design ushered in a low-cost spring, and clothing designers no longer have to consume a lot of fabrics to study new clothes styles.

As the so-called design, generally speaking, most medium-sized and large-scale garment factories will hire designers to create clothing series. Of course, Yizizhuo does not have this plan yet, and the African market does not have high requirements for styles.

However, truly well-known garment factories have to think about how to best meet the needs of customers, and therefore divide design work into two different categories.

The first point is to create design, that is, designers design and sketch various clothes based on fashion trends and market trends.

The second point is technical design. The designer tries to make his own design clothing, and also knows what materials to choose, as well as the equipment and employee technology of the garment factory.

In terms of design work, computer applications are becoming increasingly widespread, which greatly facilitates the work of fashion designers. In the past, in order to display samples, new clothes had to be made.

But once you are not satisfied with it, it will become very troublesome and waste fabrics. With a computer, it is different. Clothing designers can adjust colors and patterns at will, and they can also verify the visual effects of the new style without having to make ready-to-wear.

This is the first-hand production. After the preliminary design is established, the next step is to draw the paper patterns required according to the design drawings.

The first paper pattern drawn from the original design is generally called the head sample or the original in the ready-to-wear industry. The head sample is usually a standard size or a middle size. The technical requirements required to draw the head sample are relatively high, and it is generally respected as a master in the industry.

After completing the preliminary first sample, the next step is to prepare the sample based on the first sample.

This procedure is generally arranged to be completed in the factory for housekeeping, and can be divided into processes such as laying and sewing samples. Sample production is usually only made of one or several pieces, so the staff in the garment factory generally chooses more skilled workers. For example, the sewing workers in the housekeeping system can generally complete the sewing process of the whole sample.

When the sample is completed, if some places cannot meet the customer's requirements, or the customer has some places or styles that need to be changed, the usual process requires starting from the initial sample and changing the paper sample and then making a new sample.

It may take several times until the customer is completely satisfied, and the sample production will be considered. The production and sales of clothes must be considered local customs, otherwise it may be disappointed.

When designing the clothing sample, Zhu Haoke had already consulted several local businessmen. Only after they accepted it would carry out the next step and draw paper samples of different sizes.

In terms of paper sample placing, computers are most widely used in the production of ready-to-wear.

After the customer accepted the sample, the garment factory needed to order fabrics and auxiliary materials according to the required amount for production. Therefore, in order to establish a cotton textile industry chain, Yizizhuo had to set up the upstream, middle and downstream of the entire industry together.

However, Yi Zizhuo has not found a suitable fashion designer yet. He has arranged for people to find the right person in China. After all, if you have the opportunity in the future, you still want to enter the international clothing market, which is truly high profit.

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