“87%, 86%, 85%” This is the recent change in the operating rate of printing and dyeing factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the days after the Qingming Festival, the operating rates of printing and dyeing factories have gradually declined, which also shows to some extent that orders from printing and dyeing factories have also begun to decrease recently.
In more than a month after the Spring Festival, the entire The textile market is undergoing drastic changes. Especially in the first week after the new year, the weaving market sold goods on a large scale, and a large amount of the backlog of inventory before the year was digested to a certain extent. During that time, the door of the printing and dyeing factory was almost blocked by trucks entering the warehouse.
But this wave of craze went as quickly as it came. Textile companies were loading truck after truck the day before, but there were no orders the next day. Of course, this situation is ultimately due to limited terminal demand. Especially after the year, raw material prices rose sharply, causing fabric prices to exceed market expectations. Downstream customers were unable to accept this, and orders were stalemate and canceled.
Especially as overseas epidemics are still recurring, it is understandable that textile orders have decreased, but the printing and dyeing market in the previous stage had the opposite trend.
Weaving orders have dropped sharply, but printing and dyeing are under pressure Card queue
Although March and April are the peak seasons for the textile industry, this year’s peak season is obviously not qualified. Except for a wave of inventory at the beginning of the year, the overall performance of the weaving market was dull. Taking the operating rate of looms in various regions as an example, unlike the rapid rebound after the year, after entering mid-to-late March, the overall operating rate began to stabilize at around 80%, and the upward momentum was obviously insufficient.
According to feedback from the person in charge of a weaving company, They have a lot of orders in the first week after the new year, especially the low-priced fabrics they stocked before the year, many of which have been taken away by big customers. However, there is almost no interest in the fabrics made from high-priced raw materials. Basically, there are only some inquiries, but there are very few actual orders.
Unlike the drastic reduction in weaving orders, printing and dyeing has been in a state of liquidation. There is a dyeing factory on the market with a daily production capacity of 400,000 meters, but the number of orders waiting in line for production exceeds 10 million meters. Queuing up to press cards is almost the daily production status of all dyeing factories. According to a trader, they have some orders for imitation silk to be produced in a dyeing factory, but it takes 10 days to process. Even in the production workshop, there will still be jamming between each link.
Why are weaving orders greatly reduced, but dyeing factories are still crowded and busy?
There are many backlogged orders, and subsequent positions are obvious. Reduce
In fact, the prices of weaving and printing and dyeing are not completely synchronized, and the production cycle of printing and dyeing is relatively longer than that of weaving. Since weaving companies often have a certain amount of inventory, sending this part of fabric to the printing and dyeing factory is a very short process. However, it is a long process for printing and dyeing factories to produce and process these fabrics. It can be said that the weaving market has ended, but the printing and dyeing market has just begun.
According to the person in charge of a foreign trade textile company, they received an order for 1 million meters of four-sided elastic last year, and the delivery date given by the customer was the end of March. I have been nervously rushing to get the goods after the New Year, but after this order, I basically have no orders on hand.
Most of the printing and dyeing orders in March are backlogged from the year before. A large number of gray fabrics will be woven and shipped in the first week after the new year, and these orders will be completed in the dyeing factory. , the dyeing factory began to produce intensively. Once the production of these orders ends, the printing and dyeing factories will face the bleak market situation that the weaving industry already faced last month.
This is why last month, printing and dyeing The factory broke away from the weaving market and was unexpectedly popular. Now the operating rate has taken the lead in the correction. After all, without orders, the weaving factory can still produce inventory, while the printing and dyeing factory can only shut down the machines and reduce the operating rate.
However, the printing and dyeing market is divided according to different types of fabrics. According to a trader, the dyeing factory they are working in produces various cotton fabrics, and there have been no orders in the workshop recently. For another dyeing factory that makes imitation silk, the production card for the gray fabrics that entered the warehouse on March 24 has not yet been issued, and has been on hold for more than ten days. Simulated silk and elastic fabrics are currently in peak season, and the order volume is better than other fabrics, but whether the market outlook can continue remains to be seen.
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