“Originally, the company planned to take a rotational holiday after May Day, and took one week off last week, but recently some orders have been placed and a lot of proofing has been done, so we no longer plan to take a rotational holiday,” said a trader.
This year’s May Day holiday is a long holiday for everyone across the country, and it is also an unprecedentedly long holiday for us textile workers. I thought that after the long holiday, there would be sporadic production suspensions and holidays, but judging from recent market performance, the fabric market seems to be slowly improving.
“Recently, there have been obviously more orders in our dyeing factory. There are bucket trucks piled with fabrics everywhere, and the roads are almost impassable. The working hours in the factory have also begun to be adjusted, from the original three shifts It has become two shifts now. And orders have begun to show signs of being stuck,” a dyeing factory staff member said. Of course, there is more than one, and many dyeing factories have stated that recent orders have indeed picked up compared to a while ago.
Dyeing factories are an important part of the textile industry chain. Recently, the order volume has not simply decreased or declined, but has shown a rebound trend. There are even signals from some dyeing factories that they are busy, which seems to indicate that the textile market is gradually recovering.
An increase in orders for imitation silk, customers include cylinder production
Imitation silk has always been the The highlight of the textile market in the first half of the year is that it encountered “Waterloo” this year. Most companies related to artificial silk have not seen substantial orders for artificial silk for several months. However, in May, when the first half of the year was about to end, there were reports in the market that many orders for imitation silk had begun to be placed.
According to a trader, they have recently had a lot of orders for Huayao crepe, with 300,000 meters currently in production. This order volume is remarkable this year. Another textile company has the same feeling. Among their customers are many brand customers. Recently, orders from Uniqlo have been constant. Among them, the imitation silk products such as double-sided satin, island satin, and SPH are being made due to too many orders. , they need to package vats for production in the dyeing factory to meet the delivery date. Currently, the dyeing factory ships more than a dozen vats every day.
The sudden increase in popularity of imitation silk is indeed a bit surprising, but it makes sense if you think about it carefully. At the beginning of the year, COVID-19 was raging in China, which affected clothing consumption and market confidence, disrupting the production season of artificial silk in the first half of the year. But demand won’t disappear completely, it will only be partially delayed. In particular, imitation silk is the best choice for summer women’s clothing. Its status is particularly difficult to shake. As long as there are still summer women’s clothing on sale, imitation silk products are definitely among them.
Especially after the May Day holiday, the weather suddenly turned hotter recently, and the market demand for summer clothing surged, and the demand for imitation silk fabrics began to gradually pick up.
Orders for “market goods” began to appear, and goods continued to be sold at low prices
Dyeing factories have been busy with orders recently, and they cannot do without the help of some “market goods”.
According to a staff member of a dyeing factory, they are currently making a large amount of cotton cloth. There are 12 setting machines in the factory, three of which are specifically responsible for setting cotton cloth. Moreover, the dyeing process of these fabrics is very simple, with only one step of unwinding and then dyeing directly. Of course, these orders are all market goods. Although the quantity is not comparable to the hundreds of thousands or millions of meters in previous years, as long as they appear now, it will stimulate the market to a certain extent.
For market orders, not only the dyeing process is simple, but the price must also be cheap. Recently, a manufacturer of four-sided bombs has been taking advantage of this wave of market conditions to ship large quantities of goods at low prices. The 100D four-sided bullets they are currently producing are shipped half of the trailers every day, and the price is as low as 1.65 yuan/meter. You must know that the normal selling price of this kind of fabric is 3-4 yuan/meter. Prices like theirs, which are less than 2 yuan/meter, can only appear in market orders.
A considerable part of the orders for market goods currently in the market come from the Guangdong Zhongda Market. Because many of Guangdong Zhongda’s staff are from Hubei, the pneumonia epidemic at the beginning of the year caused their overall resumption of work and market to be late this year. It’s time for them to restock. In addition, this time point is very suitable for market order operations. After all, fabric prices and dyeing fees have not been as low as this year for many years.
The orders in the market have indeed improved partially, but at the same time, we must also see the limitations of the current market. It’s just that the orders for market goods are going well, and the order volume of market goods is also quite different from previous years. Moreover, the prices are generally low, and the profits of textile manufacturers are relatively shrinking. Dyeing factories are also underutilizing their production capacity, and not all factories can place orders for market goods. Overall, the market is still in a state of lack of orders. </p
