2020, which originally had high hopes, was disrupted by a sudden epidemic that disrupted the rhythm of the entire industry. Now half a year has passed, and the domestic and foreign textile markets are struggling to recover, but it does not seem to be ideal.
According to official statistics, from January to May this year, China’s textile industry’s total economic output, industry investment, exports and corporate profits all showed negative growth year-on-year.
From January to May, the total profit of industrial enterprises above designated size nationwide was 1.84349 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 19.3%. Among them, state-controlled enterprises realized a total profit of 440.42 billion yuan, a decrease of 39.3% year-on-year; joint-stock enterprises realized a total profit of 1.34788 billion yuan, a decrease of 19.2%; foreign-invested and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan-invested enterprises realized a total profit of 465.92 billion yuan, a decrease of 18.4%; private enterprises realized a total profit of 465.92 billion yuan, a decrease of 18.4%; The total profit achieved was 560.73 billion yuan, a decrease of 11.0%.
The reason is that a large number of overseas orders were canceled in the early stage, causing the company to face the risk of default and payment of goods The recovery is slow. In addition, the impact of the epidemic on the industry is greater than expected, and both the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain are affected. Textile bosses who have been in a state of “high inventory, low demand, and low profits” for a long time also began to “be unable to resist” and issued a salary reduction notice:
▲Since July, wages have been reduced by 5% on the original basis
Not only that, according to informed sources According to sources, a texturing company has reduced the wages of workshop operators by 500 yuan a month. This operation has received positive responses from many companies.
As early as March, the textile market resumed production, and companies encountered overseas collective “cancellation of orders” After the operation, we have already seen a “self-rescue” operation in the textile industry to take turns to take vacations and reduce production. Many salesmen and operators were forced to reduce their wages because of their easy work and long vacation time.
An operator of a large factory once cried to the editor: “Since February, the factory has only paid you a basic salary of 1,300 yuan as living expenses. I used to I have a monthly salary of at least 6-7,000, which is really sad.”
▲ In March, a garment company in Guangdong issued a four-month suspension notice, which immediately went viral on WeChat Moments
Today, when we thought that the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic was almost stable, the country was once again affected by the epidemic in some provinces and cities. The new cases tightened the nerves, and the undercurrent of “salary reduction” began to quietly surge in the hearts of textile bosses, so the above-mentioned sad salary reduction notices were issued.
During the epidemic
Textile boss turned “money” into “inventory” “!
For textile bosses, work stoppages and production cuts are nothing but helplessness! Boss Wang, who has more than 500 looms in his factory, said: “If you don’t dare to stop too much, the daily depreciation will be astonishing. If there is no output, you will lose even more.” A textile boss told me before. I have calculated that if there are hundreds of looms in the factory, then its depreciation expenses will be nearly 10,000 yuan every day. Only by replacing the production capacity with gray cloth can the production value be achieved.
On the one hand, we must control the ratio of cost and output, and do not dare to stop the loom at will , on the other hand, textile bosses should also always pay attention to the inventory situation of gray fabrics. But the reality is that downstream demand has not been able to recover well, which has resulted in output and consumption not being proportional, and the inventory in the market has accumulated more and more, which has also caused the inventory of weaving factories to rise more significantly as time goes by, which has also caused The manufacturer loses its say in the product.
According to the sample companies monitored by China Silk City Network, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are currently under inventory pressure. Most manufacturers’ gray fabric inventories have been piled up to one and a half months and two months, which is relatively high. It has been nearly three months. A textile boss said jokingly: “Today’s textile bosses are very miserable. They really have no money. If they want to convert their inventory into money, the selling price is really tiring!”
This has become the voice of many weaving factory owners this year. Low profits have led to their own inventory It has been devalued and the price is hovering at the bottom.
Take conventional gray fabric as an example:
The current quotation of 210T polyester taffeta is around 1.1 yuan/meter, and in 2018 In 2018, it was around 1.65 yuan/meter, a decrease of 33.33%;
240T pongee is currently quoted at about 1.9 yuan/meter, while in 2018 it was around 2.6 yuan/meter, a decrease of 26.92%;
75D24T chiffon The current quotation is around 2.05 yuan/meter, while the price in 2018 was around 3.8 yuan/meter, a decrease of 46.05%;
The current quotation of 75D satin is around 1.80 yuan/meter, while the price in 2018 was around 2.70 yuan/meter, a decrease of 46.05%.�� is 33.33%;
“This price has not been seen for 6 or 7 years!” One person said A trader of imitation silk gray fabrics said, “Now I don’t think about making money, but just sell the gray fabrics in the warehouse at a breakeven. It’s already good!”
A “hardened in the battlefield” “The textile people said that when SARS broke out in 2003, all industries across the country faced similar difficulties, but this year’s epidemic spread to a wider range, and the intensification of overseas epidemics caused the cloud of crisis to hang over the industry. Many textile companies can only “protect themselves” through various methods. However, in the words of this textile boss, if you tighten your belt and survive this level, it will be spring!
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