Do you still remember the explosion at a chemical company in Jiangsu Xiangshui Ecological Chemical Park on March 21? For a time, the dye market was in chaos and prices skyrocketed. The ex-factory price of the dye intermediate m-phenylenediamine also rose from 47,000 yuan/ton to 100,000 yuan/ton. Dispersed black ECT300% quickly rose to 70 yuan/KG! Including other dyes of the same type will also increase simultaneously!
After about 4 months, the price of dyes has finally dropped. The current average price of dispersed black ECT 300% is below 33.0 yuan/kg .
Disperse dye trends
Reactive dye trends
As can be seen from the above two figures, both disperse dyes and reactive dyes have declined to a certain extent. At present, the price of dyes is at a low level, which is a good time for dyeing factories to stock up. After experiencing the surge in dye prices in the first half of the year, dyeing factories do not seem to be very enthusiastic about stocking up on dyes. Judging from the current transactions, actual orders are still mainly small orders. What is the situation in the dyeing factory now?
High costs, few orders, heavy asset operations
July and August are the off-season for the textile market. This year’s off-season comes earlier than before. For dyeing factories, , this year’s off-season has also experienced an unprecedented desertion, and even holiday notices from dyeing factories have circulated on the market. Some dyeing factories are still half-open and half-stop, and have stopped a small number of vats to reduce financial pressure. We all know that dyeing factories are generally asset-heavy operations. Compared with weaving factories, they have greater financial pressure. Especially after the surge in dye prices in the first half of the year, many dyeing factories were forced to reduce their profits.
Large-scale dyeing factories have sufficient funds and sufficient stocks. Relatively speaking, the pressure is not very great, but for small-scale dyeing factories, As for the factory, they don’t have much stock, so they can only buy high-priced dyes. When the order comes, they can only bite the bullet and follow it. However, they don’t have the confidence to increase the dyeing fee, so the extra cost can only be He ate it himself.
The operating rate of dyeing factories has rebounded slightly
Since May this year, Sino-US trade relations have been tense, and the orders on hand of traders have been shrinking. Naturally, the business of dyeing factories is also not as good as before, and most of them are in a state of “nothing to eat”. Now it is August. Although the business of printing and dyeing factories is still not improving much, the operating rate is slowly picking up. The operating rate is now about 80%, which also shows that the market is slowly recovering.
“Although orders from dyeing factories have not improved on a large scale, some fabrics The amount of goods entering the warehouse is still acceptable, such as elastic products, 75D high elasticity, T400, and T800. This week there are obviously more fabrics. Mainly autumn and winter fabrics.” A follower from a dyeing factory in Shengze area said. It is unrealistic to expect the market to improve all of a sudden. After all, you cannot become fat in one bite. A slight improvement is worth celebrating.
Afterword
This year’s market economic growth has slowed down, terminal consumer demand has been poor, and the textile industry is also showing signs of fatigue. Weaving manufacturers have high inventories, and printing and dyeing and upstream dyes Demand is also hard to find good support. Dyeing factories are not very enthusiastic about production, and they mainly take small orders. This may be difficult to change in a short period of time. Some people say that the textile market is affected by cyclical trends, with three ups and three downs. , now that the peak has passed, it has begun to show a downward trend. In this pessimistic environment, it may become more and more difficult to do business in the future. The editor can only say: Bosses, hold on! </p
