Every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, the textile market becomes busier. At this time, the bosses are busy shipping goods and asking for money, and the workers are eager to go home for the New Year. In the face of the sudden COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, the textile market has experienced ups and downs, but this does not prevent downstream customers from rushing to ship before the Spring Festival.
As a downstream link in the industrial chain, the printing and dyeing market has also experienced differentiation recently, with many dyeing and dyeing companies Factories have expressed that the jamming phenomenon continues and delivery times are slow. Some dyeing factories have even seen fewer workers, and salesmen and merchandisers are unwinding their own rolls.
“The order I entered on the 19th of last month has not been completed yet. An order was finalized last night, but there is no movement today. Now there is no one for some jobs. “Hey, it’s all the salesmen and the merchandisers who are unwinding the paper.” A salesman complained to the editor.
Some employees resigned early, affecting order delivery times
After the New Year’s Day holiday, the Spring Festival is about to begin The holidays are getting closer and closer. This year, due to the epidemic, the time to return home is also earlier than in previous years.
Some regions also advise migrant workers not to return to their hometowns unless necessary. In order to be able to go home for the Chinese New Year, many employees are afraid of changes in the future. In particular, migrant workers in remote areas have begun to choose to return home early.
Recently, a finishing factory issued a notice: Due to the epidemic, some employees resigned early, and the company’s production was affected. The goods entering the warehouse from now on will not be produced until after the Spring Festival.
Before New Year’s Day, when the editor visited the market, some textile bosses said that some workers had asked for leave. Returning to my hometown, this phenomenon has not yet broken out on a large scale in the market. Many companies are encouraging employees to return home during the off-peak hours this year or stay at the factory to celebrate the New Year. They are afraid that it will happen again last year when workers were unable to be quarantined in their hometowns, and they have to go through nucleic acid testing when returning from other provinces. Detection and quarantine for 14 days may affect normal production plans after the year.
However, during the festive season, many migrant workers will still choose to return to their hometowns during the Spring Festival, and the problem of labor market will become more and more prominent in the future.
On the 20th? 28th? The holiday time for the dyeing factory has not yet been determined
“Now we are doing some foreign trade orders. Customers are rushing to ship before the Chinese New Year. The dyeing factory is also relatively busy. The goods are very slow,” said Mr. Shen, a trader.
“It’s almost time to enter the warehouse and ship the goods before the holidays. The work in the factory is no less than last month, and there are more orders. Now every department feels that it is short of people. Some workers have returned home early, so their lives are slower,” said a salesperson from a dyeing factory.
In fact, one month before the New Year every year, the dyeing factory will have its busiest time, because the Spring Festival is a day for family reunion, usually in the first half of the New Year. The period from January to the Lantern Festival is a “vacuum period” in the market. Thermal power plants stop gas, factories stop working, and the market as a whole is in a state of shutdown. Therefore, many downstream customers will rush to ship orders before the dyeing factory shuts down, so it is normal for the dyeing factory to experience jamming and liquidation.
At present, there are two kinds of holidays in the market: one is that the dyeing factory will have a holiday on the 20th, and the other is that the holiday will be on the 28th. If it is the former, then this year’s holiday It is about a week earlier than in previous years. If it is the latter, then there is not much difference from the holiday time in previous years.
As early as New Year’s Day, some dyeing factories in Fujian issued holiday notices. It is expected that production will be suspended on January 25, 2021 (the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month). When will employees return to the factory? It is February 22, 2021 (the eleventh day of the first lunar month).
At present, dyeing factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have not yet issued the latest holiday notice, so the specific holiday time Nothing has been determined yet, but many traders are urging customers to place orders early just to be on the safe side.
“At present, we have not received any holiday notice from the dyeing factory. I heard that it will be around the 20th, so we will inform customers that if they have orders, they must place them as soon as possible, otherwise the holiday will be closed next year. It can’t be driven out now,” said Mr. Wu, a trader specializing in clothing fabrics.
Recently, I learned from most dyeing factories that the number of new orders entering warehouses has slowed down slightly after New Year’s Day, but manufacturers have sufficient domestic sales and foreign trade orders. In terms of dyeing varieties, Look, winter clothing fabrics are still the main ones, and summer clothing fabrics are also gradually increasing. Elastic fabrics still perform well, especially four-way elastic, polyester taffeta, polyester polyester, polyester polyester, polyester polyester, etc., and other products are mixed.
At present, the overall operating rate of dye vats in Wujiang is about 80%. Some manufacturers still need to wait for 7-8 days, and the delivery time is about 15 days. Of course, the market is still polarized. The phenomenon appears, and the delivery time of manufacturers with faster shipments is about 7 days.
Encountering shipping difficulties again before the Spring Festival, textile boss: please place your order early!
Textile bosses have actually experienced a lot in 2020. Entering the fourth quarter, market orders have finally begun to pick up, but the prices of bulk raw materials have skyrocketed and the RMB has appreciated crazily. Factors such as the increase in shipping costs and the surge in shipping costs have also disrupted the inherent quotation model of textile companies.
The road to fighting the epidemic throughout the year is not yet over. For companies, it is not easy to receive orders. Recently, delivery issues have been troublesome. In order to beware of late workers, The problems of shortage and long delivery time are once again troubled. Downstream customers place orders as soon as possible to avoid affecting the normal delivery cycle.
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