The topic of “returning home” in advance has been much discussed before. This was due to various reasons. For example, after the autumn and winter seasons in the northern region, many industries were affected by environmental factors, production restrictions, suspensions and other factors. Many migrant workers returned early! Not long ago, there was a “power shortage” in the south, and some units went on holiday early! Now, after New Year’s Day and several cold days, sporadic cases of irregular hairstyles in many places have also made many migrant workers worry about whether they need to return home early. This is also a topic of concern to the industry!
The peak period of returning home will be ushered in around the 15th, and factory production capacity will be limited
China’s Spring Festival is the largest population movement in the world every year. There are already small epidemics in some areas. Unless it is explicitly prohibited, it must be a large-scale movement of people. For most migrant workers, there are only a few days of Spring Festival holidays throughout the year where they can reunite with their families. From the perspective of human relations and family ties, they must go back. On the other hand, everyone has been vigilant enough and done a good job. Personal precautions, at the same time, they are also worried about changes in case more stringent control measures are issued. Therefore, these non-local workers who want to return to their hometowns for the New Year have to advance their return schedule, which may be earlier than the factory holiday.
Once more people return home early, it will also be a test for the production of the textile market. The textile market has been very busy recently, and even some dyeing factories have Due to the shortage of workers, salesmen and merchandisers have to go out and undo the work on their own. Judging from the visits, many factory leaders said that around the 15th, there may be a peak period for workers to return home. Judging from the current situation, there are already signs of a decline in operating rates caused by some workers in the textile industry returning home early.
Recently, DTY’s production and sales data during the week have improved, and the pressure on texturing companies has moderately eased. There is no obvious inventory pressure. The texturing factory said that the Spring Festival maintenance plan is mostly scheduled from the end of January to the beginning of February. . Weaving companies have a high proportion of migrant workers, and they are currently starting to return home. In addition, the recent sharp drop in temperature has caused problems for water-jet looms to a certain extent. Although local companies hope that migrant workers will stay in the local area to avoid problems such as delays in returning to work caused by long-term isolation, at this stage, companies are cautious about the market outlook, and the comprehensive outlook will be after mid-month. Weaving enterprises gradually stopped for holidays. In terms of downstream printing and dyeing, affected by unstable factors such as workers’ holidays and return trips during the Spring Festival, there are many problems with order delivery, quality, payment, etc. after the holiday. We are cautious in accepting orders for large goods. The current orders received can be maintained until the middle and early part of this month. Recently, the comprehensive operating rate of major domestic weaving production bases was 65.80%, a month-on-month decrease of 4.68 percentage points.
Encourage factories to stay for the New Year, and the labor shortage may be alleviated after the holiday next year
Of course, recently, many regions have also suggested that you can choose to stay in the city for the New Year unless necessary! For example, in the Hengshui area of Hebei Province, the local government has also made it clear that some local agencies, enterprises and institutions are not allowed to leave the country unless necessary. They should try not to leave the market. If they really need to leave, they must inform them in advance!
In addition, factory owners in some areas of Zhejiang are full of foreign trade orders, and taking holidays early may cause great losses. Therefore, many factories have adopted incentive measures to encourage employees to stay for the New Year. , this is also a wise move. After all, once the workers go back, it will be more troublesome to return next year. Through some incentive measures to mobilize workers to stay in the construction sites for the New Year as much as possible, the problem of recruitment difficulties next year will also be alleviated.
In Huzhou Lvmeng Textile Technology Co., Ltd. located in Jiapu Town, Dong Peng, a young man from Shandong, is busy: After a rough calculation, based on the Spring Festival holiday of about 20 days in previous years, this year he will stay in Celebrating the New Year in Changxing can increase your income by 10,000 yuan. As the epidemic spreads abroad, textile companies in Southeast Asia and other places have reduced production and suspended work, which has given many textile companies in Changxing new development opportunities. At present, most textile companies are experiencing constant orders and tight manpower. For this reason, Changxing textile companies have launched many heart-warming welfare measures to keep non-local employees here for the New Year.
Yuan Shoufu, Production Director of Huzhou Lvmeng Textile Technology Co., Ltd.: This year is mainly foreign trade orders, and the orders in January are fully booked. If the employees go back and work starts after the Spring Festival, some It may be affected by the epidemic and we are temporarily unable to come out, which will also affect production here.
In Changxing, like Lvmeng Textile, many companies encourage foreign employees to stay and spend the New Year with peace of mind by issuing subsidies and red envelopes. At present, Huzhou Puxin Home Textile Co., Ltd.’s foreign trade orders have been scheduled until May, and production is being stepped up. Faced with the pressure of the epidemic in winter and spring, companies encourage employees to stay at the factory for the New Year. First, to avoid delays in production due to employees traveling back and forth; second, to reduce the flow of personnel and ease the pressure of epidemic prevention and control. Wang Liyong, Chairman of Huzhou Puxin Home Textiles Co., Ltd.: In response to the government’s call to reduce the flow of people during the Spring Festival and reduce the pressure of epidemic prevention and control, about 230 employees of the company voluntarily stayed in the factory and gave up family reunions. The company also gave employees a total of 1 million yuan Wage subsidies around.
Vacation in advance�Allowing weaving manufacturers to relieve inventory pressure and reduce expenditures
For manufacturers with abundant orders, workers returning home early may cause production disruptions and delivery dates will be affected. However, for some For weaving manufacturers with high inventories and missing orders, it is not necessarily a bad thing for workers to take leave early.
The manager of a factory with 60 machines said: “The factory officially had a holiday in January. On the one hand, because of the epidemic, many non-local employees wanted to return to their hometowns early for New Year reunions. On the other hand, our inventory is too high, now close to 1.6 million meters, and the raw materials have also increased a lot, but the price of fabrics has not increased much. If you calculate that using the current high raw material prices, production will be a loss. Originally, it was We just wanted to take an early holiday this year to relieve the pressure on inventory and funds. So we took an early holiday on the grounds of preventing the uncontrollable epidemic situation. Now we only have 1-2 local employees left behind. In case there is a customer who wants to arrange, we will also Can be shipped at any time.”
At present, the high inventory in the weaving market has not been significantly alleviated. Compared with the busy dyeing factories, the situation in the weaving factories is relatively deserted. Many weaving factories are still in the stage of accumulated inventory. An early holiday may allow these weaving manufacturers to breathe a sigh of relief. It can not only alleviate the excessive inventory, but also save a lot of labor costs. Generally, factories do not need to pay wages during the production shutdown and holidays. Therefore, textile mills are not very reluctant to take early holidays.
At the end of the year, we need to pay close attention to the Spring Festival factory reduction and shutdown plan
Looking at the textile and chemical fiber market since last year, It has obvious characteristics that the peak season is slow and delayed, and the off-season is not weak. The latest polyester maintenance plan shows that from January to February (the part that starts stopping in January and restarting in February), the polyester production loss involved is approximately 307,200 tons, corresponding to 266,000 tons of PTA demand and 110,000 tons of MEG. need. The polyester production capacity involved in this part of the overhaul accounts for 7%. Currently, the polyester production capacity is 91.7%. That is to say, the polyester production capacity has basically reached 84.7% by the end of January. By mid-January, it has dropped by almost 3.3%. The polyester production capacity has basically started at 88.4% in the middle of January. Year-on-year It was higher than the same period last year.
The editor predicts that with the decline in domestic weaving operations, including the gradual stocking up of early raw material procurement, although the contradiction between supply and demand has eased compared with previous years, including polyester Prices of the entire industry chain including esters are still likely to be suppressed in the later period. At the end of the year, we should focus on the implementation of the plan to reduce factory shutdowns during the Spring Festival. </p
