Recently, the editor saw a sales message about Lianbai 300T pongee in the WeChat group.
Seeing this price can be described as shocking! Back then, 300T pongee was also an “Internet celebrity” product, and the price of gray fabric reached about 2.9 yuan/meter in 2018! Nowadays, the price of finished products is only 2.5-2.6 yuan/meter. Why is this gap so big?
The market soared in 2018, and 300T pongee was sold well!
Due to its high density, 300T pongee is difficult to weave, so it takes more time than 190T, 230T, and 240T. Go knit. Although it is a conventional variety, its yield was not high from 2017 to 2018.
In the first half of 2018, the textile market reached its peak. At that time, due to environmental protection regulations, the production capacity of looms was limited and there were insufficient starts. , resulting in a tight supply of gray fabrics. In this case, weaving mills will obviously choose specifications for quick production and quick sales.
At that time, the looms in other places had just been put into production, and the production capacity had not been fully released. At the beginning, most of them were low-end fabrics such as 190T, 210T polyester taffeta, and pongee, such as 300T and 400T. Higher density products are not mass produced. It is understood that at that time, very few of the cloths brought from outside had the specifications of 300T. This also led to the fact that there was not much 300T pongee production capacity at that time. Even if the manufacturer had inventory before, it had all been sold during the “Gold, Three, Silver and Four” period.
Conventional fabrics fell off the altar in 2019, and 300T pongee is no exception!
By 2019, all the looms transferred to the periphery have been put into production, and the number of looms has increased by hundreds. Suddenly, the volume of polyester taffeta and pongee in various specifications has increased. It is already saturated, and of course 300T pongee is no exception. Moreover, the price of fabrics from other places is lower than that of local gray fabrics, which has also caused the prices of gray fabrics such as pongee and polyester taffeta to drop again and again! Boss Bu has less and less money in his pocket.
Conventional fabrics have fallen off the charts this year. The reason is simply insufficient demand and overcapacity. Many manufacturers said: “This year, the overall sales of pongee and polyester taffeta have dropped by half, and the profits are only a few cents. Now there are no orders left. The key is that no one wants them even if we cut prices and sell goods!”
In addition to the above two points, many cloth bosses believe that the current price of raw materials has been falling, which has also driven the price of gray cloth to follow suit. “Raw materials have been falling, but our gray fabrics are all made of high-priced raw materials in the early stage. This has also caused the cloth in our warehouse to depreciate, so now we don’t dare to stock up on raw materials rashly. We buy and use them as we go. .”
The two-level differentiation of the textile market has become more and more obvious this year, but the most difficult thing is obviously the manufacturers of conventional fabrics. , “No orders, full inventory” is their truest portrayal. If you ask them how their situation is this year, I think 8 out of 10 bosses will complain to you with a sad face, and many of them have the idea of taking a holiday in advance. “Business is too difficult this year. The gray fabrics in our warehouse are almost overflowing. Raw materials are bought and sold in cash, but the gray fabrics are all in arrears. Funds are very tight. Under such circumstances, it is estimated that a number of small factories will collapse again next year. .” A weaving factory owner in Shengze area said helplessly.
Today is different from the past: no fabric is “evergreen”!
For this year’s textile market, no fabric is continuously hot-selling. Even this year’s “Internet celebrity” products T400 and T800 gradually disappeared in November. light. This may be proof of the principle that “a flower never blooms in a hundred days”. What Boss Bu needs to do now is to adjust his mentality. It is no longer realistic to go back to the days of making money every day in 2017 and 2018. In the future, if you want to survive, you can only change the extensive production model and move towards high value-added and high-profit products. </p
