Although the pneumonia epidemic is not over yet, the entire textile industry has gradually entered a state of operation. How is the construction going? This is an issue that the entire textile market has been concerned about for the past week. Nowadays, various work resumption situations can be heard in the market. Some factories have opened more than 50% of the capacity, or even reached 100%; some factories are still hovering around 30%, or even suspended.
However, after visiting the market, we found that the current textile market is relatively better. Trucks transporting gray fabrics are constantly coming and going on the road, and there are often reports of gray fabric warehouse explosions in dyeing factories. But why is the operating rate of the entire textile market still “uneven”? Aren’t all links in the textile industry chain highly connected? How can we allow high and low operating rates?
If you carefully observe the operating situation, you can easily find that the operating rate is closely related to the nature of the factory. Factories with higher operating rates are basically printing and dyeing factories, while the corresponding weaving factories have very different operating conditions.
Dyeing factory: The machine can be opened as much as possible
According to An employee of a simulated silk dyeing factory said that the factory currently has a lot of orders, especially for simulated silk. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, many non-local workers are not optimistic about their return to work, and there is an acute shortage of workers in the factory. Currently, the two key steps of unwinding and steaming are extremely short of people.
Unwinding is almost the first step in workshop production. This link is restricted and directly affects the production capacity below. But fortunately, the unwinder is easy to operate, and customers will usually operate it themselves when they are in a hurry. However, the steamer is not something that ordinary people can handle, and a considerable number of imitation silk products need to go through the steamer process. There are few people in this process, which will affect the production of many varieties.
Although the factory is short of people, there is no shortage of orders, and the factory is trying every means to increase production capacity. At present, the operating rate of some dyeing factories has gradually returned to more than 70%.
Weaving factories: open as late as possible
Contrary to the situation where dyeing factories are doing their best to increase operations, weaving factories are not interested in resuming operations. Not very positive. At present, the operating rate of weaving enterprises is almost dragging down the entire textile industry. However, the low start-up of weaving is not due to a lack of orders. On the contrary, they have a lot of orders. The gray fabrics sent to the dyeing factory all come from the weaving factory. In other words, there are as many weaving factories as there are orders from the dyeing factory.
However, the weaving operation situation is still not optimistic. At present, the operating rate is generally less than 50%, and many companies are even still in a state of suspension of production. This has also further affected the upstream polyester market. Over the past week, the overall production and sales have been only 20-30%.
The operating rates of dyeing factories and weaving factories are different
The number of dyeing factories and weaving factories is not equal
A large number of gray fabrics in dyeing factories recently come from weaving factories. Logically speaking, dyeing factories are busy and weaving factories should also follow suit, but in reality Not so. Because the number of dyeing factories and weaving factories is not equal.
Take the Shengze area as an example. There are less than 30 dyeing factories in total. Due to the impact of environmental protection, this number will only be less in the future. The number of weaving mills is overwhelming, with more than 300 large and small, and gray fabrics from a large number of weaving mills in surrounding areas can also flow in.
The supply of gray fabrics is greater than the current capacity of dyeing factories, so dyeing factories are naturally busy. At the same time, the gray fabrics from the dyeing factory are distributed to a large number of weaving factories, so the quantity appears to be limited, and the number of orders from the weaving factories is not as large as expected.
Weaving mills are shut down to reduce costs and reduce inventory
Weaving companies can “unscrupulously” maintain low operating rates. An important reason is that the shutdown does not affect sales and can reduce costs.
According to the person in charge of a weaving factory, they are preparing to officially start the factory in early March. The reason for starting so late is not because of a lack of workers. On the contrary, the vast majority of his workers are locals and can start work immediately if needed. The main reason for delaying the start of construction is to take advantage of this opportunity to destock. Their sales of gray fabrics last year were not ideal, and there was almost no peak season throughout the year. The inventory of dozens of varieties in production exceeded 300,000 meters each.
Although the factory cannot produce now, fabric sales have already been carried out. At this time, not only can the inventory be digested, but more importantly, a lot of labor costs can be saved. According to the person in charge of the company, the current salary of ordinary workers in their factory is more than 8,000 yuan per month. Workers in the weaving factory do not need to be paid during the production shutdown and holidays. Because of the epidemic, their factory was shut down for almost one month longer than in previous years, saving about 500,000 yuan in workers’ wages alone. It is no wonder that many weaving companies are not in a hurry to resume production.
Weaving factories and dyeing factories are closely connected, but there have been serious differences in operating rates. Dyeing factories are working hard to operate at 100% capacity, but weaving factories are struggling to operate at 50% capacity. Of course, in the final analysis, it is all based on self-interest considerations. The dyeing factory will have no production capacity if there is no operating rate, but the weaving factory will not suffer from insufficient operating capacity.�Excessively affecting sales will significantly reduce operating costs.
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