“The market is still not doing well recently. Although some anti-epidemic fabrics are being produced, ordinary fabric orders have not seen any improvement, especially the imitation silk products we usually make in the past are almost extinct,” said an employee of a foreign trade company.
The fabric orders in the past six months have shown that the textile market this year is no longer optimistic, and all categories of textiles are not having a good time. This is especially true for imitation silk products. In the past, the price of imitation silk gray fabrics, which had experienced one or two price increases in the first half of the year, has dropped again and again this year. Even so, few people are interested.
The dilemma of imitation silk is not only reflected in the sales volume of its own gray fabrics, but also reflected in printing factories that mainly produce imitation silk products.
Three days on and three days off, it is rare for the machine to be fully turned on
Printing has always been an important process for all types of fabrics, especially imitation silk products that require printing to match the quality of the fabric. In previous years, printing factories were basically busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, but this year the printing factories encountered an unprecedented off-season.
“Recently, all employees in our printing factory have started to have three days on and three days off. Even during work, some machines and equipment cannot be guaranteed to be running,” said a staff member of the water printing factory. said. Relatively speaking, the dyeing factory is having a tough time due to lack of orders. Workers are also on rotation and machines and equipment are limited in production, but the normal operation of the factory can basically be guaranteed every day. However, the printing factory’s orders can no longer guarantee normal operation.
“In the past two days, we have had more than 4,000 meters of orders in the printing factory. This amount is now considered a large order in the water printing factory. The positive attitude of the printing factory is also a bit surprising, I just delivered the fabric to the factory the afternoon before, and I called at 8 a.m. the next day, saying that it was already on the machine and was being made. This speed could not be achieved by asking someone to find connections before,” said a trader. !
Although there is not much work in the printing factory now, the production speed is not necessarily fast, because the machinery and equipment in the factory are often out of production, and the production process can only be interrupted.
The printing industry is suffering not only from the sharp decrease in the number of orders, but also from the price problem, which is more persistent and more difficult to solve.
The prices of different printing tend to be unified
As we all know, the common types of printing on the market are mainly water printing, transfer printing and digital printing. And the price gap between these three categories is clear. Generally speaking, the cheapest is water printing, the printing price is generally around 2.5 yuan/meter, and the printing fee is 300-500 yuan/color; the slightly more expensive one is transfer printing, the printing cost is 1.7 yuan/meter, but The printing fee is as high as 1,700 yuan/color; the most expensive and simplest is digital printing, and the printing cost is generally more than 5.5 yuan/meter.
But in the current textile market, the price gap between various types of printing is rapidly shrinking. Taking an order of 5,000 meters with five colors as an example, in the past, the cost per meter of water printing was around 2.9 yuan/meter, transfer printing was 3.4 yuan/meter, and digital printing was 5.5 yuan/meter. There is a clear price gap, but now the price of water printing has soared to about 3 yuan/meter, and the price of digital printing has plummeted to more than 4-5 yuan/meter.
According to the current price for an order of 5,000 meters and 5 colors, the cost per meter of water printing is 3.4 yuan/meter, the cost per meter of transfer printing is 3.5 yuan/meter, and the cost of digital printing is 4.5 yuan/meter. The boundaries between prices are becoming more blurred, and even the high, middle and low grades that have been fixed for many years are showing a tendency to shift positions.
Normally, without special requirements, all The printing price determines the type of printing, but now the price limit of printing has been broken, and the price advantage has also been broken, exposing the shortcomings of each type of printing. At the same price, customers will inevitably choose printing types that are faster and more effective. However, some printing types are likely to be hit hard by the market after losing price protection
There are many reasons why printing prices tend to be consistent. Among them, water printing has strict environmental protection requirements and requires more labor, which has pushed up its cost. Its price can only go up. However, due to the low threshold of digital printing, the number of entrants in the industry is increasing year by year, and homogeneous competition has intensified, eventually evolving into a price war. When one rises and the other falls, the two prices must gradually approach each other.
The plight of printing has been fully exposed during this year’s epidemic, but the plight of printing is obviously not just caused by the epidemic. Its own characteristics and the development status of the industry are posing a series of difficult problems. After the epidemic is over, the printing market may usher in an ongoing reshuffle.
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