Recently, the circle of friends of textile people has become lively again. A fabric “high elastic pongee” has begun to frequently hit the screen, and some fabric dealers have even returned. The traditional trading model involves shouting through loudspeakers among merchants in various business districts to buy this fabric. So why is ordinary high-elastic pongee so popular? Is it really selling like hotcakes?
High elastic pongee has been selling well
“110,000 meters of 240T pongee is chartered to the dyeing factory, and the inventory of 75D high-elastic pongee is running out.” This is the status of a weaving company that produces high-elastic pongee fabrics in September 2020. Reading between the lines, it can be clearly seen that the company has quite a lot of pongee orders. It seems that the factory’s daily output of 70,000 meters is only enough to barely sustain it. Moreover, orders for this kind of fabrics that sell well over 10,000 yuan or more than 100,000 yuan do not happen occasionally, but happen every once in a while.
The dyeing factory last year also had the same feeling , according to an employee of a simulated silk dyeing factory, due to the poor market situation of simulated silk in 2020, the factory basically does not have the feeling of having a workshop full of simulated silk fabrics like in previous years. The factory can only process other fabric varieties. Among them, the order volume of high-elastic pongee has been relatively stable. No matter how busy the factory is, you can always see a lot of high-elastic pongee being made.
Compared to other fabric products, which often have inventories of forty or fifty days, the overall inventory level of high-elastic pongee has been at a low level due to its continued hot sales last year. The market recovery this year may cause the supply of high-elastic pongee to exceed demand, leading to some purchasing scenarios.
Why does the seemingly ordinary high-elastic pongee fabric have its own place in 2020 under the epidemic, and even this wave of craze continues to This year?
Superior quality, suitable for lining materials
According to a textile trader, he has been making orders for high-elastic pongee in the past few years, and all of these orders, without exception, are Used as lining. Since last year, there have been no interruptions in orders for thousands or tens of thousands of meters of this kind of high-elastic pongee. And customers’ requirements are getting higher and higher, with various washing, light color fastness, etc. emerging one after another. It can be seen that this type of fabric is most likely to be used in some mid-to-high-end clothing.
High-elastic pongee has the advantages of good color fastness, softness, breathability, and closeness to the skin, as well as no shortcomings such as spandex filament breakage, making this type of fabric an alternative Many traditional lining products have been introduced and have become popular in the market. In addition, the price advantage of high-elastic pongee has become more and more obvious recently.
According to the person in charge of another textile company, a 50D high-elastic pongee he has been making was out of stock on the market a few years ago and needs to be ordered. Weaving will basically cost about 4 yuan per meter. Later, it gradually became available on the market, and the price dropped to about 3 yuan/meter. During the epidemic last year, the price of this fabric dropped to 1.9-2 yuan/meter. Even though the prices of upstream raw materials have risen sharply this year, the price increase of this type of fabric has been limited. The current basic price of 50D high-elastic pongee is about 2.2 yuan/meter.
This price is not only attractive enough in the lining market, but has also begun to show up in the fabric market.
High cost performance, entering the fabric Market
In the face market this year, the price of spandex has soared, causing the price of four-way stretch products to soar. Take 100D four-sided stretch as an example. Last year, the price of this type of fabric basically dropped to about 1.5 yuan/meter, but recently it has risen to 3 yuan/meter. Prices have nearly doubled, and the market is eager to find stretch fabrics that are cheaper and can replace spandex. High-elastic fabrics without spandex have begun to attract market attention. Last year, the price of high-elastic pongee fabrics was higher than that of four-way stretch fabrics, but this year the market reversed, and the price of four-way stretch fabrics began to significantly exceed that of high-elastic pongee fabrics.
Not only the fabric cost, but also the dyeing fee There is also a huge difference between the two. The dyeing fee for four-sided elastic is basically more than 2 yuan/meter. Even if the quantity is one million meters, it is enough to negotiate the dyeing fee, which is usually more than 1.5 yuan/meter. The dyeing fee for 50D high-elastic pongee is normally 1.2 yuan/meter, and there will be discounts for large quantities. When the order quantity is not large, the dyeing fee will be nearly doubled.
Recently, some textile companies in the market have made high-elastic pongee fabrics more suitable for clothing fabrics through lamination, hot stamping and other processes.
The popularity of high-elastic pongee is not only due to the superior performance of the fabric itself and its wide range of uses, but also inseparable from it Lower prices, especially in the context of rising spandex prices, make the low-price attribute of high-elastic pongee more obvious. But we still need to be vigilant. No matter how popular the fabric is, the market is limited. Recently, some weaving factories have also asked us According to feedback, orders for high-elastic fabrics are less than last year. The way of purchasing fabrics in the market is obviously not the normal way, and it even smells like collecting fabrics. Maybe if the fabrics are really taken out, the price given by the purchasing merchant may not even be enough for the cost.
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