Recently, the textile market has shown a booming scene, and it seems that the “Golden Three” is already on its way. In addition to some weaving companies that are already producing at full capacity, and after orders are scheduled for 1-2 months, there is also a warehouse explosion in printing and dyeing!
Printing and dyeing factory delivery time exceeds 1 week
“Production resumed normally after the Lantern Festival. Now there are too many gray fabrics in the factory. Workers are already in place and there is a lot of work, so production is running at full capacity. But even so, it will take more than a week. Shipping.” said a salesperson from a local medium-sized dyeing factory.
A salesperson from another dyeing factory also said that the factory is currently out of stock, especially for four-sided fabrics. The process is complicated and the delivery time was originally longer than that of ordinary fabrics. Now it has been queued up to 10 days and a half. .
It is understood that this year, most trading companies start operations from the eighth to the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. After the start of construction, they begin to arrange for the white blanks to be brought into the printing and dyeing factory. Most of these orders were received years ago, so they are in a hurry to produce them as soon as they start work after the year. Of course, as the entire industry gradually returns to effective order, new orders have begun to be placed. Generally speaking, dyeing factories currently receive mainly orders before the rush to work. Domestic trade orders have increased slightly compared with last year’s post-holiday period, but the increase is limited. Most of them are winter replenishments. New orders in spring only include inquiries. The order has not been placed yet.
The delivery speed of gray cloth is accelerated
Although this year’s textile market is not as hot as in previous years, compared with last year, the market transaction atmosphere has begun to improve. Both the market spot and the volume of domestic and foreign trade orders are gradually increasing. According to the monitoring data of China Silk City Network, the inventory of weaving enterprises in Shengze area is also falling. It is currently around 35 days, 0.6 days lower than before the Spring Festival. It can be seen that the goods have begun to flow smoothly in the near future.
According to the person in charge of a dyeing factory, their factory officially started work on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, which is slightly earlier than in previous years. The advance is indeed very reasonable, because the orders after the new year are far beyond imagination, especially in the past three days, which directly led to the liquidation of positions. This kind of situation has not happened for a long time. Last year and even the year before last, the dyeing factory was always in an unsaturated state. The machine could only maintain 70-80%, sometimes only 50-60%, let alone liquidation. But at the beginning of this year, it is indeed very rare for the warehouse volume to exceed one million meters in just a few days. However, there are currently too many orders in the dyeing factory, which also poses a big problem to the production of the dyeing factory, because the current order volume has far exceeded the digestion capacity of the dyeing factory.
Some dyeing factories have raised their dyeing fees, and the inventory of gray fabrics has decreased.
The long-awaited liquidation of dyeing factories has boosted market confidence. However, it has to be said that the actual number of new orders in the market is not large. Coupled with the recent slight adjustment of dyes and the increase in dyeing fees of a small number of dyeing factories, the purchase of gray fabrics into warehouses has declined.
Just after the Spring Festival holiday, while printing and dyeing companies are waiting to start operations, dye prices have started to rise again, which is undoubtedly “making matters worse” for the printing and dyeing industry. In order to reverse the predicament, some printing and dyeing companies in various places have issued emergency price adjustment notices and begun to “group together to increase prices.” But fortunately, the Wujiang area did not set off this wave of rising dyeing fees, and dyeing fees still remained at the level a year ago.
A salesperson from a dyeing factory revealed: “Although we have a lot of work now, it can only solve the problem of food and clothing. There is still a long way to go before we can truly return to where we were before. Dyeing fees will not rise in the short term unless dyes continue to rise.”
Looking back on the past two years, printing and dyeing companies have occasionally increased dyeing fees. For example, in 2021, in just one month, dyeing fee prices experienced “three consecutive increases.” The rising production costs have become the “trigger” for increasing dyeing fees. In order to ease operational pressure, printing and dyeing companies can only pass on part of the costs through price increases.
Summarize
The possibility of adjusting the dyeing fee cannot be ruled out in the later period. After all, the number of blanks received has increased, the delivery time has been extended, and the traditional peak season of “Gold, Three, Silver and Four” is approaching. First, “urgent orders” may reappear, and then “over-cost colors” will increase. Finally, dyeing fees will increase. This series of disguised price increases will increase cost pressure on fabric trading companies.
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