The editor recently chatted with a friend and learned from him that a bank employee, Xiao Zhang, resigned to work in the textile industry! After hearing this, the editor felt very sorry to give up the “iron rice bowl” that everyone envied! Xiao Zhang was originally a loan officer in a bank. His business ability was outstanding, his performance was outstanding, his annual income was over RMB 100,000, and he was appreciated by his leadership. But in July this year, he resigned and went to the textile company run by his parents. When you first enter the textile industry, you need to learn everything from scratch and do everything yourself. One hot day in August, the editor met Xiao Zhang who was looking for samples in the market. He was sweating profusely and his fair skin was red from the sun. Xiao Zhang told the editor that when he first entered the textile industry, many people didn’t understand it. They didn’t know sample fabrics and weren’t familiar with the sales department, so it was very difficult to find samples.
Talk about this matter, the editor once again feels sorry for Xiao Zhang, who lost his “iron rice bowl” and entered the very hard textile industry Working hard in your career also requires great courage. Many textile bosses have ridiculed the editor, enviing civil servants who don’t have to work as hard as textiles but receive similar salaries.
Thinking about it from another perspective, if Xiao Zhang can give up the “iron rice bowl” and engage in the textile industry, he must think that the textile industry has a better future for him. This year the textile industry is in a sluggish environment, and most companies are not performing well. There are even rumors that the textile industry is a sunset industry. But this case of Xiao Zhang once again reminds us, is the textile industry really a sunset industry?
01 The orders received by textile companies are polarized Xiao Zhang’s own company is a trading company mainly engaged in rayon and rayon, and its performance has been steadily increasing. Especially this year when the overall performance was poor, Xiao Zhang’s company received a lot of orders and had no time to produce. There were not enough manpower, so he resigned and joined the company to help. This year, conventional fabric varieties are generally unsaleable, but differentiated products are selling better. The rayon and rayon fabrics produced by Xiao Zhang’s company are one of the best-selling varieties this year. The total number of orders has increased by 30% compared with last year, and most of them are printed fabrics. Therefore, a digital printing factory was purchased this year. In addition, T400, T800, recycled fabrics, etc. are also best-selling fabrics this year. Companies producing these fabrics are more profitable than companies producing conventional varieties, and most of them can maintain last year’s order volume.
However, the order volume of conventional product companies has not all declined compared with last year, but has also increased. of enterprises. A trading company that produces imitation silk orders said that this year’s order volume increased by 30% compared with last year, orders continued to be placed, and profits increased by 8% compared with last year. The person in charge of another company that produces peach skin velvet also revealed that there are orders for production throughout the year, and recently it received an order for 300,000 meters of recycled peach skin velvet. The total orders are not affected and are the same as last year.
02 The initial stage of new fibers and new fabrics Although the sales of conventional varieties in the textile industry have plummeted this year, this is a process in which old things are eliminated and new things are created. New fiber materials and new fabrics are constantly being developed and released. In the field of fiber materials, new varieties are constantly being applied, which is dazzling. For example, graphene fiber, which is very popular recently, has been used in many fabrics to produce new fabrics with strong functionality.
It can also be drawn from this year’s hot-selling differentiated products, In the future, new fabrics will be the mainstream trend, and the textile industry is developing in this direction. It can be said that the technology in the textile industry is changing with each passing day. Intelligence and integration with Internet technology have just begun, and are still in the start-up and growth stages. Therefore, the textile industry is not a sunset industry.
03 Fast fashion brands lead the trend In the past few years, China is in a stage of major consumption upgrade, and is even considered by the world to be the next important engine of global economic growth. Not long ago, the founder of the Spanish clothing giant Zara surpassed Bill Gates and became the new richest man in the world; the founder of the clothing giant Uniqlo, Tadashi Yanai, is also the richest man in Japan. These two major brands have conquered the city and opened one store after another in China.
This example of the founders of two major clothing brands becoming the richest man tells us that fast fashion brands in the clothing industry have become mainstream brands in the clothing industry. They are also clothing brands with greater fabric purchasing capabilities. Therefore, many fabric merchants are rushing to become fast fashion brands. The brand’s designated supplier takes the lead.
The editor believes that the textile industry is not a sunset industry, but a sunrise industry. Although many companies have suffered setbacks this year and their performance is at a bottleneck, it is also a normal cyclical phenomenon. There are also many companies with good performance that are motivating us to innovate products and keep up with the pace of the industry. The pain is only temporary and is the only way to go in the development process. I believe that the future of the textile industry will move towards a bright road.
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