Before getting into the topic, let us first look at a joke:
My classmates and I both have very busy fathers. My classmates: Dad, how much money do you make in a day? Father: More than 6,000, what’s wrong with my daughter… Classmate: It’s okay, I’ll just ask. After I heard this, I went back and asked my father. Me: Dad, how much do you earn from a hard day’s work? Father: About 700 yuan. What’s wrong, daughter? Me: Dad, this is 700 yuan that I have saved for a long time. Can you stay with me today? The father’s eyes were red, and the father and daughter embraced each other, regaining their family happiness. Forgot to mention, my dad is a textile worker!
Although this is just a joke, it makes me smile and it also makes me think: Is it really so hard and tiring to make textiles, open 365 days a year, but with such low profits?
Rising raw materials, shrinking profits
Everyone who makes textiles knows this August of this year was a magical month. Polyester prices continued to rise sharply, and there were even two consecutive increases in one day, which frightened many fabric manufacturers. Raw materials have increased, but fabrics have not kept pace with the increase in raw materials. Fortunately, in October, polyester prices began to fall. But overall, the price of polyester yarn is still high.
Manager Zhang of Suzhou Fengju Textile Co., Ltd. told the editor that starting from September, we have had more orders than before, but the profit is less. Now We can only adopt the strategy of small profits but quick turnover. Hope to be able to run a lot!
Environmental inspection has become increasingly severe
Since the beginning of environmental inspection, it is a time for environmental protection On the cusp of the increasingly fierce regulatory storm, words such as rectification and closure are not enough to describe the current environmental protection situation. Especially textile printing and dyeing companies that are on the cusp of the storm. If you are not careful, you may be shut down for rectification. Once closed for rectification, there is a hidden risk of losing customers.
As a weaving cluster, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have experienced a large number of spraying since 2017. Water looms were eliminated. According to statistics, Wujiang District of Suzhou alone plans to eliminate 100,000 water-jet looms in three years.
Not long ago, in order to consolidate and expand the results of the special rectification of “scattered and polluting” enterprises, Keqiao adopted the form of gathering into the park, shutting down and eliminating, and improving standards. The rectification completion rate reached 67.1%, and the closure rate reached 67.1%. 233…
In addition to the rectification of water-jet looms, the downstream children’s clothing market is also facing environmental rectification. Take the children’s clothing industry as an example. The children’s clothing industry is one of Huzhou’s traditional massive industries. After years of development, it has now formed a nationally renowned industrial brand. Since the end of last year, Wuxing District has organized forces to go deep into the rural areas of the High-tech Zone and Zhili Town to carry out special rectification of children’s clothing processing points, speed up the elimination of backward enterprises, and improve the level of industrial transformation. Up to now, the district has completed rectification of 6,154 children’s clothing enterprises and eliminated 5,033 children’s clothing enterprises. The completion rate of rectification and elimination has exceeded 100%.
Labor, rent, water and electricity are constantly rising
Difficulty in employment, labor shortage, and high labor cost have always been long-standing problems in the textile industry. Labor costs have been rising in the past few years. The current salary of security workers has reached nearly 8,000/month, and the salary of stop workers is about 7,000/month. This average wage level is already on par with South Korea and Taiwan. At present, domestic wage competitiveness and abundant labor force advantages are almost non-existent. There is always pressure on water and electricity, especially for industrial electricity. The rent is also rising year by year. Invisibly, these costs are giving my friends a headache.
Afterword
Although weaving is so hard and the profit is small,�There are still a large number of textile people struggling on the front line. After all, “clothing, food, clothing, housing and transportation” comes first. The textile industry is an industry that will never go out of style! Textile people, cheer yourself up!
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