No matter what business you do, one unavoidable focus is price. Our textile industry is no exception. Raw materials, gray cloth prices, dyeing fees and even logistics freight all affect the nerves of textile people. When it goes down, people run wild with joy and tell each other; when it goes up, they frown and complain. Generally speaking, price increases are a general trend, and price decreases are rare. However, recent changes in the textile market have caused various prices to change in different trends.
Price changes bring joy and sorrow
Since this year, the textile market has been tepid, the raw material market has performed significantly, the operating rate has dropped, and production and sales have been sluggish. The price of raw materials has given the most direct feedback – price reduction. The price of 50D polyester filament has dropped from 14,100 yuan per ton in September last year to 9,350 yuan per ton now, a decrease of 33.7%. PTA’s response is that it has dropped from 9,320 yuan per ton in September last year to the current 5,430 yuan per ton, a drop of 41.7%, almost halving. It stands to reason that these price cuts will be beneficial to downstream weaving, but the actual situation is not at all. The continuous decline in raw material prices has caused the raw materials purchased in the early stage to continue to depreciate, and the price of gray fabrics can only be reduced accordingly. Weaving factories are already in disarray and do not dare to buy raw materials at the so-called “low price”. Most of them are only buying on demand.
Dyeing factories have also restrained themselves in the traditional price increase season. In the past, notices for price increases of 5 cents and 1 wool did not arrive as scheduled. As long as there are orders, appropriate price concessions are completely negotiable, allowing the textile market to There was some comfort. But even so, the production capacity is still completely unable to increase. The dyeing factory is operating at 60-70% capacity, and some links have already stopped half of the production capacity. Workers can only take turns, and their wages have definitely been reduced, but they dare not leave because they are recruiting workers outside at this time. There are really not many factories left. Chemical plants exploded, dye prices skyrocketed, and printing and dyeing costs surged. Dyeing factories still dared not act rashly, and just balanced costs by charging excess costs. However, the impact on the textile market was huge. For a piece of blue four-sided stretch muslin fabric, the excess cost actually reached 9.3 yuan per meter, which is 9.3 yuan per meter, not 93 cents. It is almost more expensive than the fabric.
The finished gray cloth is full of worries
Some similar to polyester Low-end fabrics such as taffeta and pongee enjoyed a wave of dividends in the first two years due to production capacity adjustments, but then were brought back to their original shape by external production capacity. 190T polyester taffeta has dropped from the highest price of 1.6 yuan per meter to about 1 yuan now. Even with such a large price reduction, it is still rare for customers to come to the door. A weaving factory focusing on high-end customers, they also produce 190T polyester taffeta, and the price once reached 2.05 yuan per meter. Since the raw materials are up to standard and the weight is guaranteed, they can even make fabrics, so even so, there is no shortage of customers, but the recent inventory The pressure is also gradually increasing, and I can only take the initiative to offer 1-2 cents to seek orders.
There is a company on the market that has been engaged in color matching of finished satin products for many years. It is relatively well-known in the industry. They have a complete range of varieties and many colors, so satin Most of the time, the color of the finished products is chosen by him. They will also adjust fabric prices according to cost changes, basically once every two months, but this year they have not changed for more than half a year, and they are still using the prices from December last year.
In the past, the biggest concern in the market was price, but this year it is obviously no longer necessary. The weakness of the terminal market leaves you with nowhere to start a “price war”. What’s more important is that the prices of various factories and traders are already “impossibly low”, and they almost all follow the cost. They were sold directly at a loss in order to ship the goods.
No matter which industry, there is a law that if it rises for a long time, it will fall, and if it falls for a long time, it will rise. Anyone who has been working in the textile industry for a long time knows that the textile industry also turned cold and demand shrank in 2012, but in the following years the textile industry has been recovering and prospering. This textile winter will obviously be replaced by prosperity again. </p
