After the Spring Festival, the attention of all textile workers has been attracted by the sharp increase in the prices of raw materials and fabrics. However, the market seems to have ignored that dyeing fees will also usher in a price increase after the new year. Especially in early March, the entire textile market experienced a general increase in dyeing fees, with the increase generally ranging from 0.02 to 0.2 yuan/meter. Of course, these are just increases on the surface. The increase in dyeing fees caused by expediting and excessive cost behind the dyeing factory basically starts at 0.2 yuan/meter. However, the market has been indifferent to the increase in dyeing fees. It may be that textile workers have long been accustomed to dyeing fee increases several times a year. In addition, almost every time dyeing factories publicly raise dyeing fees, they will mention the increase in dye costs. So what is the recent dye price situation?
Dye cannot rise, the price is correcting
As for when dye prices were at their lowest, there is no doubt that it was during the epidemic last year. Taking the reactive dye black WNN as an example, the price has continued to decline since March last year, from an average price of 22,000-23,000 yuan/ton to an average price of 18,000-18,500 yuan/ton in July, a decrease of 18.2%-19.6 %.
However, as the textile market partially improved in the second half of last year, dye prices began to fall back one after another. Especially in February this year, the overall market situation in the printing and dyeing market was better due to a large number of orders rushing to ship before the year, and dye prices also took the opportunity to rise. On February 1, the quotations of disperse dyes from leading enterprises in Jiangsu and Zhejiang increased by 2,000 yuan/ton, among which the market price of reactive black WNN reached 21,000 yuan/ton. This rising trend became even crazier after the year. In early March, the price of dispersed black ECT 300% was 30,000 yuan/ton, and the price of active black WNN was 23,500 yuan/ton, an increase of 1,000 yuan/ton from the previous week.
However, the recent growth in printing and dyeing seems to have been completely overdrawn, and prices are showing a correction trend. As of April 15, the market transaction price of reactive black WNN has dropped to 21,000-22,000 yuan/ton. Some dyes have returned to their prices a year ago, and some are even lower than last March. So does the drop in dye prices mean that dyeing costs are a supportive trend for rising dyeing costs, and dyeing costs should also drop back to the price of a year ago?
The market is not as good as in previous years, but short-term orders are better
The change in dyeing fees is obviously not only affected by the price of dyes, although every year When secondary dyeing factories raise dyeing fees, they will mention that the cost of dyes is increasing, but in the final analysis, the reason why dyeing factories increase prices comes from the improvement of the market.
There is still a certain gap between this year’s printing and dyeing market and previous years. Mainly because European and American countries are still under repeated lockdowns due to the epidemic, and it is difficult for the economy to substantially improve. At the same time, textile production in Southeast Asia and other countries is gradually recovering, and some domestic and foreign trade orders have been transferred. The overall printing and dyeing market can be seen from the changes in printing and dyeing start-up rates.
In March and April 2019, the operating rate of the printing and dyeing market was basically They are all around 90%-100%, but this year’s operation rate has never exceeded 90%. It has been hovering around 85% for a long time, which is not even as good as the printing and dyeing operation rate in October last year. It can be seen that the current printing and dyeing market is slightly lower than in previous years, but because the market is on the eve of the May Day holiday, many downstream customers have placed orders in advance, and the overall order volume is relatively increasing. The recent changes in the operating rate of dyeing plants have also been reflected. Although the overall increase in the operating rate has stabilized, it has still shown an upward trend recently and has reached the highest level this year of 88%. Many printing and dyeing factories said that the recent warehouse entry volume has increased relatively, and the dyeing factory production can basically meet the demand.
Although the overall volume of printing and dyeing orders this year is not as good as in previous years, due to the May Day The holidays are approaching, and there is still a wave of concentrated orders. Although the price of dyes has been adjusted back in the short term, it does not have a big impact on dyeing costs. After all, the market is still there, and the dye stocks of printing and dyeing factories often have three or four months. Now the dyes with reduced prices cannot be flowed to the market immediately. market. However, as the summer off-season is approaching, the order volume of printing and dyeing factories may gradually decrease, and perhaps all kinds of expedited and over-cost fees may be completely cancelled. However, it is difficult to adjust the prices that have gone up before. After all, during the epidemic last year, no dyeing factory made it clear that dyeing fees would be reduced. At most, they would give some discounts.
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