“Cool! The dyeing factory can be considered good if it can only open half of the operation!” This is what a friend of the editor who is a dyeing factory salesperson learned during a chat.
Printing and dyeing factories have always been the “wind vane” of the textile market. Whether market orders are good or not can be known by looking at the dyeing factories. This year’s textile market can be said to be deserted like never before in recent years. It is not difficult to see between the lines of chatting with friends that the market has really hit the floor!
Printing and dyeing start-up is low
A picture shows the current start-up of printing and dyeing factories. According to the data monitoring of Silkdu.com, the current start-up rate of printing and dyeing in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is 55%. This data is not scary at this time. After all, it is understandable that it is entering the off-season. What is scary is that , has been maintained around this value in the first half of this year. As can be seen from this chart, the red line is the trend of the operating rate this year, and the green line is the trend of the operating rate last year. As you can see, the green line is much longer than this year. Nowadays, many dyeing factories have entered a one-stop-one mode. In this situation, it is not difficult to see that there are really no orders. Because of this, the delivery time of dyeing factories is generally around 4-5 days. Many manufacturers even have empty cylinders.
Let’s look at 2020 again. This year was the year most severely affected by the epidemic. However, when the early orders were insufficient, in the off-season of July, orders that had not been released in the early stage were placed early, allowing everyone to pass the off-season in July. It was a busy summer, so the printing and dyeing operation rate at that time returned to normal levels in previous years, but there seems to be no sign of improvement this year.
The amount of blanks entering the warehouse is low
It can be found from last week’s printing and dyeing weekly report on Silkdu.com that the number of gray fabrics entering the warehouse of printing and dyeing factories has dropped slightly compared with last week. Printing and dyeing enterprises reported that the overall number of orders received was average. As the off-season approaches, domestic sales orders are placed sporadically, and orders from traders are relatively lacking. There are often empty vats in downstream dyeing plants. Orders in both the domestic and foreign trade markets are showing a downward trend, with only a few scattered small orders for rigid needs being placed, and new orders received by dyeing factories are limited. Moreover, the dyeing factory salesperson also reported that there are not many blanks entering the warehouse now, and even the situation that would occur in previous years has not occurred.
However, it is understood that the inventory of gray fabrics in textile enterprises is still at a very high level. Many bosses said that the gray fabrics produced during the gold, three and silver seasons could not be sold, and now they can only keep inventory. These fabrics have not even been circulated to trade. In the hands of merchants, let alone entering the warehouse into the printing and dyeing factory. However, unlike gray fabrics, the characteristic of printing and dyeing is that it is finalized after dyeing and must be sold quickly, so the risk is greater in the middle end of the industrial chain. This is different from the more basic white fabric products. The white fabric is still in the raw material stage, just like a piece of white paper. It doesn’t matter if it is sold earlier or later, and it has a wider application range.
However, this also depends on the situation of the printing and dyeing factories in some areas. There are too many printing and dyeing factories gathered there, and they are basically medium and large scale. As long as the order volume is not too large, it is impossible to feed such a behemoth, and like In addition, the printing and dyeing factories in some areas are relatively small and medium-sized. Once orders are placed in a centralized manner, it is easy for “liquidation” to occur, which is more sensitive. However, we have not seen a very hot scene this year.
Nowadays, the problem faced by all sectors of the textile industry is “more monks and less rice”. Without a significant boost in domestic and foreign trade demand, some dyeing factories will be forced to reduce production and suspend production due to lack of orders. Especially in July, there is a fear of putting money aside early. “High temperature holiday” is expected, so the market may experience a “cooling” experience in the high temperature!
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