Two days ago, a salesperson and an editor from a certain dyeing factory revealed that the factory has actually started arranging holiday breaks with more than a month left before the Chinese New Year.
This reminds the editor that as early as early November, a dyeing factory stopped more than a dozen dyeing vats due to insufficient orders, and fell into the dilemma of having no shifts to schedule.
Since the beginning of this year, affected by unexpected factors such as the turbulent international situation, the slowdown in world economic growth, and the frequent occurrence of domestic epidemics, the operating efficiency of the printing and dyeing industry has been significantly under pressure. From the perspective of supply and demand, printing and dyeing enterprises should be the “hot meat and potatoes” in the industrial chain, and are in a state of short supply. But the actual situation of printing and dyeing enterprises today is exactly the opposite.
The dyeing factory cannot make ends meet and takes “rotational breaks” and “holidays” together
Looking back on previous years, the overall performance of dyeing factories at the same time point was very busy, with “big orders” and “delivery extensions” happening from time to time. At this time, if anyone tells you that the dyeing factory is short of orders, you will think it is a big joke, let alone talk about “rotational holidays” and “early holidays”.
According to common sense, the holiday time of most dyeing factories is determined by the thermal power plant. Once the thermal power plant determines the steam shutdown time, it means that many dyeing factories will stop production and have holidays at the same time.
But now, this common sense has been ruthlessly broken by reality. Against the background of high costs and the vagaries of the epidemic, dyeing factories are struggling and unsustainable. Many dyeing factories have implemented early holidays. Reading between the lines of these notices, one can not only understand how helpless the decision-makers were when making this decision, but also how powerless these companies were in the face of the current situation.
I learned from the salesperson of the dyeing factory that the current orders in the factory are mainly market goods, mostly scattered tail orders and replenishment orders from domestic brands. There are a very small number of small vats for brand clothing spring and summer orders, but the actual order can be placed as expected limited. These orders are far from enough to support the company’s production operations, and it is a helpless move for the factory to have rotating rest arrangements.
Affected by many uncertain factors, dyeing factory orders continue to shrink, and the printing and dyeing market with insufficient stamina may not be able to escape the downward fate. In this regard, industry insiders have said that the printing and dyeing industry may usher in the “longest holiday.”
The operating rate hit a new low in the same period, and printing and dyeing companies had no choice but to “lay flat”
Printing and dyeing is at the downstream of the textile industry chain and is a necessary stage for the transmission of fabrics to clothing. This time, some dyeing factories went on holiday earlier than other links in the industrial chain, which directly blocked the transmission path of textile production and indirectly reflected how bleak the current textile market is.
According to monitoring data from Silkdu.com, as of December 5, the printing and dyeing operation rate in Shengze area dropped to 54.3%. Because the overall market conditions are still weak and there is insufficient follow-up on orders, the number of gray fabrics entering warehouses at this stage shows a slight downward trend compared with last week. Compared with previous years, this opening rate has become a record low for the same period in history!
As can be seen from the picture above, in the past, dyeing factories would have the busiest time before holidays. During that time, all dyeing factories would work overtime to maximize their time to seize production. But this year, the dyeing factories have been uncharacteristically uncharacteristic. The bustling scene they should have has not appeared for a long time. Instead, negative information such as “rotational holidays” and “early holidays” have been received, and there is a strong tendency to “lie down”.
Relevant personnel of a dyeing factory said that the dyeing factory has been having a hard time since this year. In the first half of the year, the dye vat operating rate in the factory once fell below 50%. The shortage of production orders and the rising costs (labor expenses and steam expenses) have led to dyeing. The factory operation once faced losses. I thought that after surviving the first half of the year, the situation would get better with the arrival of the “Golden Nine and Silver Ten”, but contrary to expectations, this year’s traditional peak season was “inadequate”. After entering November, the operating rate went downhill again, and the slightly improved orders simply cannot allow companies to feed so many people.
Postscript:
As we all know, a dyeing factory will not take rotational holidays unless it is forced to do so. However, in the sprint period at the end of the year, some dyeing factories finally couldn’t carry on anymore and had no choice but to suspend production and take holidays, which can’t help but sigh! From this point of view, printing and dyeing enterprises’ production-based sales and continuous and large-scale production models are no longer enough to meet the needs of enterprises for future survival and development, and transformation and upgrading are imminent!
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