After experiencing the raging epidemic, the textile industry has begun to gradually recover. Printing and dyeing factories of various sizes are basically in the process of rushing and shipping goods. Crowding and busyness seem to be back again.
“Now we have to wait two days for color samples to be sent to the samplers. This is something we have never seen before”, “We In the factory, the steam cylinder has been stuck for at least 10 days now.” “Customers are in a hurry to deliver goods, so I ran to the dyeing factory in the middle of the night to pick up the goods.”… Various signs indicate that the current printing and dyeing market has become popular, and the textile market has become popular. It also became lively. But can these indicate that the textile peak season has really arrived? Apparently not enough!
Due to lack of workers, dyeing vats are stuck
The textile industry in various places has entered the state of resumption of work. It has been ten days in less than half a month. The labor shortage problem that plagued various places at the beginning of the resumption of work seems to have been rarely mentioned recently, but this does not mean that the labor problem has been completely solved.
According to a staff member in Wujiang area who received workers returning from other places, most of the workers who returned a while ago were workers from Anhui, Henan and other places near Jiangsu, while most of the workers who returned recently were from Sichuan, Yunnan and other places. Workers who travel relatively long distances. In other words, the return journey of workers is still in progress, and a considerable number of non-local workers have not returned. Even if they return, they will still be quarantined for a certain period of time.
The lack of workers and returning to quarantine will affect the factory’s operating rate. One of the dyeing factories mentioned above has been stuck for 10 days in the dye vat. You must know that at the end of last year, due to various pre-announcement rushes, the warehouse was liquidated, and the dye vat was stuck for only 7 days. But recently, it’s not because the orders are better than a year ago, but because there are really no people on the dye vat.
Most of the employees in their factory come from provinces that are far away. Compared with other dyeing factories, it takes longer for employees to return to work. Moreover, because there are certain technical requirements for operating the dye vat, it is difficult to replenish personnel immediately, and there will naturally be queues. . However, other dyeing factories with workers mainly from nearby areas did not experience excessive crowding or queuing.
Single varieties, low profits
The textile peak season should not only see an increase in quantity, but also see huge profits. But now there are almost no high-profit products in the textile market during this period.
It is not surprising that imitation silk is the protagonist of the current textile market. If there is no improvement in this category in the first half of the year, then there will be even less hope in the second half of the year. However, the proportion of imitation silk on the market is too large, and it is unreasonable to have too few other varieties. After all, the current price of imitation silk gray fabrics is generally less than 5 yuan/meter, and many large-volume chiffons and tangled fabrics on the market are only 2-4 yuan/meter. They are processed into finished products in the dyeing factory, and the market price is 10%. In terms of profit, we only get a few cents per meter.
At present, most of the orders from dyeing factories are mainly composed of imitation silk products. Although the quantity is large, the profit is not enough. The star products in the textile market in the past two years: four-way elastic, T400 and other fabrics are almost extinct in current dyeing factories. In the usual peak textile season, they always have both quantity and profit.
Without some high value-added products, the textile market still requires some discounts even in the peak season.
Proofing is busy before production, peak season or behind the scenes
Not everyone in the dyeing factory workshop has the phenomenon of pressing cards and waiting in line, but The proofing room of every dyeing factory is extremely busy. Normally, the corresponding proofer can be arranged to proof the customer’s color sample on the same day, but now it actually needs to wait 2-3 days to arrange it. It may take about a week to complete the color sample. The production workshop has not yet been liquidated, but the proofing room has already been liquidated.
Most of the orders on the market now are left over from the year before and the backlog of production discontinuation after the year. The real textile peak season in the first half of the year has not yet arrived, but the busy proofing room indicates that there will be a wave of orders arriving in the future. Maybe then Real peak season.
Today’s busy textile market is mostly temporary and short-lived. After all, it is mainly caused by the shortage of workers and the backlog of orders, and some dyeing factory orders have begun to fall. However, the need to queue up for color samples shows that the demand from end customers is still there, but there is a delay. Once the customer’s color is confirmed, a large number of orders will be placed. It may not only be the proofing room that will be busy, but also the production workshops of each dyeing factory. </p
