Recently, good news has continued to come out of the downstream woven fabric market. All kinds of gray fabrics have become popular to a certain extent, and domestic and foreign trade orders have gradually increased. However, boosted by the popularity of protective clothing fabrics a while ago, the gray fabrics “after the carnival” were a bit “messy”, and fabric dealers encountered obstacles in accepting orders.
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Protective fabrics are hot , driving up the price of gray fabrics
The price of gray fabrics is still one price per day. It can be said that the popularity of polyester taffeta and pongee has not subsided. In addition, the raw material polyester filament has increased in early May, and the prices of these gray fabrics have shown an upward trend. At the end of April, the price of 210T polyester taffeta gray fabric for protective clothing was 0.92 yuan/meter. After the May Day holiday, it has risen to 0.98 yuan/meter, and there are no discounts for most quantities. Although the difference is only 6 cents, it has a great impact on orders with large quantities and small profits.
Affected by the frenzied rush for low-density protective clothing fabrics, the price of order-quality polyester taffeta and pongee gray fabrics has also increased, which has given ordinary fabric merchants an answer. It has had a certain impact. Taking 210T/88g order-quality gray fabric as an example, the price at the beginning of April was 1.0 yuan/meter, and at the beginning of May it was 1.3 yuan/meter, an increase of 0.3 yuan/meter.
A person in charge of a trading company complained: “Recently, the prices of gray fabrics such as polyester taffeta and pongee have been copied much higher. This requires us to do How do you take orders for clothing fabrics? There are not many orders at first, and you don’t dare to raise prices to customers, so you can only pay the bills silently. The market is too chaotic now, and it is even harder to take orders.”
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Fabric orders are scarce and customers are severely undercutting prices
In addition, life for fabric merchants is not easy. Affected by the epidemic this year, the market conditions have been sluggish, most foreign trade orders have been suspended, and domestic trade orders have plummeted. The price of gray cloth has also fallen to the bottom, and some manufacturers have even sold it at a loss, but this has become a well-known fact. In the situation where there are too many people and too few people, the market has already become a buyer’s market, and clothing manufacturers have absolute dominance. Fabric merchants have silently started a price war. Some companies even accept orders at a loss in order to have orders. However, there are only a few such companies, but it is still obvious that fabric merchants are facing difficulties and orders are scarce.
The person in charge of a fabric company that mainly exports to Japan said that it has been very busy recently and there are very few orders. There are basically no orders, and if there are orders, the quantity is very small, and the price is very low. It is really difficult to do it! Customers in Japan have been on vacation for more than a month since April, and construction is expected to start in early June. Construction will start in June, and I estimate that the real improvement will be at least September.
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Quality determines the price of gray fabrics, but low prices are not suitable
For the strong water-jet gray fabric market in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one specification of gray fabric The prices are endless and the price difference is unbelievable. But it is not unreasonable to say that you get what you pay for. The quality that customers want determines the cost. In today’s market, there are many manufacturers that sell conventional gray fabrics, but the quality does not match. Even if the price is low, you can only look at this very beautiful price. In fact, you can only buy high-quality gray fabrics with high prices. Selling them at low prices seems to have nothing to do with the fabric merchant who placed the order.
A trader said frankly: “A few days ago, I heard that a manufacturer sells 75D chiffon for only 2.0 yuan/meter. I have chiffon all year round. When I placed the order, I was very excited when I heard the price and contacted the manufacturer immediately. I later took a few meters of gray fabric to check the color. After looking at the dyed finished product, I found that the quality was incomparable with the one I bought for 2.5 yuan/meter before. I can’t ruin myself because of being cheap. Our signature is to always provide high-quality products!”
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The market is highly hyped, and the price of gray fabrics is easy to be driven up
In addition, the selling of goods may also drive up the overall price of gray fabrics in the market to a certain extent. The market has improved recently. If someone sells a large amount of gray fabric of a certain specification in the market, someone will stock up and purchase it. After two or three rounds of circulation, the price will have increased when it reaches the fabric merchants. Secondly, middlemen purchased large quantities of fabrics. Once market participants heard the news, they mistakenly thought that a certain specification of gray fabrics was hot, and they were quickly “speculated”, and the price naturally increased for a while.
Although this kind of hype is temporary, the price of gray cloth has been speculated up, and it will be difficult to return to the original position for a while. For example, 210T polyester taffeta, which made a sensation at the end of April, was sold as high as 1.1 yuan/meter. Now that the popularity has dropped, the price is still hovering at 0.98 yuan/meter, which is still a certain distance from the 0.88 yuan/meter in March. In addition, good news about the recovery in the domestic and foreign trade markets continues to come out, and the price of gray fabrics may not be able to drop anymore for a while.
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In fact, the low profits of fabric merchants are not a matter of a day or two, but they appear to be low in the sluggish market. More difficult. I heard that there are even more manufacturers in the market that take orders at a loss in order to keep their factories running. In comparison, low profits are nothing to worry about. In this special period of this year, the biggest gain is to have orders to produce and “extend the life” of the company!
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