When I was walking around the market recently, I found that the situation has changed greatly from the time before the Chinese New Year: battery cars and large trucks loaded with gray fabrics were speeding on the road, and the market was full of people. Busy figures of textile workers.
When passing by the dyeing factory, the editor found that although the dyeing factory has not officially started operation, the cloth at the door is already piled up. It is foreseeable that after the dyeing factory officially starts operation, Maybe it will be fast forward to “liquidation” soon.
Why does this happen? What about the phenomenon?
Not all workers are in place yet
Different from a weaving factory where one worker can look after several machines , dyeing factories often have one to several workers responsible for one process, and dyeing a piece of cloth completely requires people from all processes to be in place. Considering that some workers return from their hometowns late, in previous years, large-scale operations in dyeing factories often required It’s after the Lantern Festival.
Raw material prices have risen sharply
The hottest topic in the market recently should be the rise in raw material prices, polyester filament Sometimes the price goes up by 100 per day, and sometimes it goes up to 300 to 500 per day. Sometimes it even ends in the morning and continues to go up in the afternoon, which is not “moral” at all. From the end of the Spring Festival holiday to the start of production, in just about a week, the price of polyester filament has increased by nearly 1,000 yuan/ton, making cloth bosses unable to bear it.
Fabrics have not moved, gray fabrics go first
Raw materials have risen so much, and the price of gray fabrics will naturally also move. According to the editor, from the beginning of the year to now, the price of T400 gray cloth has increased by more than 0.4 yuan/meter, and the price of conventional imitation silk gray cloth has also increased by more than 0.3 yuan/meter, and the price is one per day.
However, since the dyeing factory has not yet started operation, fabric orders have not yet begun to be placed on a large scale, but the gray fabric trade has become popular in the market.
But in the face of the hot market, many textile people have also expressed their worries. Mr. Yang, the head of the weaving company, said: “The price of raw materials is so crazy now that I don’t dare to stock up on it. The sharp drop in raw materials at the beginning of last year left a deep shadow, and then the prices of raw materials continued to rise and fall throughout the year. It has fallen, so now I basically dare to cover my position only after receiving orders.”
Mr. Yang does represent the thoughts of some textile people. The raw materials are now so high that it makes people feel numb. Next, the raw materials will still be Will it continue to rise?
In the short term, there is still room for raw material prices to continue to rise
After the beginning of the new year, as raw material prices soar , weaving companies began to ship large quantities of goods, and it looked like a peak season. Mr. Zhang is the person in charge of an imitation silk company. He said that last year, the market for imitation silk was not good, and there were nearly two months of inventory piled up in the warehouse. As a result, just a few days into the new year, there was an endless stream of people getting goods, and the inventory was Already nearly halfway there.
Weaving companies have sold their fabrics and have sufficient funds on hand, so they will purchase raw materials again, and the prices of raw materials will once again be supported by higher and higher prices, resulting in a cycle.
In the short term, this cycle will not be easily broken, and there is room for raw material prices to continue to rise.
In the long run, market demand is the main factor
But in any case, rising raw material prices will ultimately require terminal demand of support. Although at this stage, with the help of vaccines, the number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world has begun to slow down, we still cannot be careless about this.
According to Indian media reports on February 21, Guleriya, an expert from India’s authoritative medical research and clinical institution, said that as many as 240 new variants of the new coronavirus strain have been discovered across India. , some of these new variants may have immune “evasion mechanisms”, and some people who already have antibodies or have been vaccinated may be infected again.
Such news casts a shadow over the recovery of the textile market in 2021.
Postscript
For textile enterprises He said that in the face of the “irrespective” surge in raw material prices, many times one can only passively accept the increase in gray fabric prices.
In the short term, raw material prices seem to have not yet reached the “ceiling”, and there is still upward momentum; in the long term, raw materials and gray fabrics must also be prepared according to our ability to ensure our own Normal business is the most important. </p
