The new calendar year 2021 has arrived, and the Spring Festival is approaching. Textile people are still struggling on the front line, bosses are busy collecting accounts, and employees are eager to return home, and they are all concerned about when they can take a holiday.
A Knitting Industrial Co., Ltd. in Chaoyang Printing and Dyeing Park of Shantou City issued the “Notice on the Spring Festival Holiday in 2021” on January 1, 2021. Based on the actual production situation, the holiday time is: February 2021 From February 1st to February 19th, 2021, there will be a total of 19 days of holiday. Officially started working on February 20th (the ninth day of the first lunar month).
A textile company in Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province “Notice on the Spring Festival Holiday in 2021”, the holiday time is: February 5th – February 16th, 2021 (the beginning of the year 5), work officially started on February 17 (the sixth day of the Lunar New Year), with a total of 12 days of holiday.
On December 24, 2020, a dyeing and dyeing company in Jinjiang, Fujian issued a notice that production is expected to be suspended on January 25, 2021 (the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month) and employees will return to the factory. The time is February 22, 2021 (the eleventh day of the first lunar month). At the same time, the company put forward some specific requirements and hoped that employees would stay at the factory for the New Year as much as possible.
Some regions also advise migrant workers not to return to their hometowns unless necessary. In order to be able to go home for the Chinese New Year, many employees are afraid of changes in the future. In particular, migrant workers in remote areas have begun to choose to return home early. Recently, a finishing factory issued a notice: Due to the epidemic, some employees resigned early, and the company’s production was affected. The goods entering the warehouse from now on will not be produced until after the Spring Festival.
Before New Year’s Day, when the editor visited the market, some textile bosses said that some workers had taken leave and returned to their hometowns. However, this phenomenon has not yet become widespread in the market. With the epidemic spreading across the country, many companies are encouraging employees to return home during the off-peak hours this year or stay at the factory to celebrate the New Year. They are afraid that workers who were quarantined in their hometowns last year will not be able to escape. Returning from other provinces must undergo nucleic acid testing and quarantine for 14 days, which may affect the normal New Year. Post-production planning. To a certain extent, should you return home during the off-peak period or stay at the factory for the New Year? Will determine the textile market in the next year!
Affected by the epidemic, logistics may be forced to suspend operations this year!
Although the Spring Festival is on February 11, there are too many uncertainties about the epidemic. Not only logistics companies may have holidays in advance for the New Year, but companies in various industries may also have holidays in advance. annual leave. The logistics situation for textiles and chemical fiber raw materials will be more complex. Since textiles often need to be transported across regions, textile factories cannot fully grasp the traffic control conditions in other places, causing many logistics drivers to “let go” and find it difficult to come back once they are released. Therefore, textile and chemical fiber factories can only meet short-distance distribution needs. For farther places, they can only find solutions from trucks and docks.
Currently, the temperature in most parts of the north, such as Shandong and Henan, is as low as -20°C~-24°C, reaching nearly 70 It is the coldest year in the year, and the temperature has plummeted in the southern region. The most direct impact of weather uncertainty is logistics. Once continuous rain and snow occur, it is expected that logistics time will become longer. At the same time, it is reported that the Ministry of Road Transport has stipulated that all heavy trucks, that is, passenger vehicles, are prohibited from driving on the road on January 15, 2021 (except for epidemic prevention vehicles). According to this calculation, the preparation time this year will be greatly reduced.
The end-of-year weaving stocking situation may become an important driving force for the polyester market
As the Spring Festival approaches, Stocking up has become the focus of everyone’s attention. Since 20 years ago, the epidemic has affected the weak trend of polyester yarn, and downstream weaving companies are also keeping a close eye on the price of polyester yarn. Everyone is curious about how the downstream weaving companies may respond to such a market situation before the holiday. ? What is the current mentality of weaving companies? For weaving enterprises, raw material prices account for the vast majority of product costs and are one of the most important factors affecting gray fabric prices and profits. Therefore, textile workers will be extremely sensitive to changes in raw material prices.
In the past week in January, a sudden wave of production and sales “heat wave”, 200%, 180%, 150%… seems to have injected an injection into the early cold polyester market. “A touch of warmth”! As far as polyester filament is concerned, the editor believes that the main driving force for the recent recovery in the market comes from the increase in raw materials, which has boosted the stocking of weaving factories before the year. As the raw material of polyester products, fluctuations in crude oil can easily cause price changes of various products in the polyester industry chain. Expectations of recent production cuts have boosted international oil prices and given the polyester market a shot in the arm. Of course, it also comes from the urgent need for replenishment from the downstream. Since this year, the market has been operating with low inventory of raw materials. Now it has reached the point of a new round of urgent need for replenishment. According to the weaving market, coupled with the current stabilization of the market and the arrival of the new year, batches continue to Stock-hoarding has begun.
In fact, every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, after the funds are withdrawn, downstream weaving mills will more or less purchase raw materials to replenish their positions, which is what the industry calls “preparing for the New Year.” In addition to being used to produce some actual orders, these stocks also reflect managers’ expectations for the market after the year. Some people also joked that this was a deliberate stockpiling of goods in the factory by the owner of the textile factory to calm people’s hearts and reassure the workers that they would still have work to do next year. Personally, I think this is not unreasonable. After all, for factories now, the biggest headache for bosses is not the high cost of manpower, but the instability of manpower. From a traditional perspective, the textile industry will have a decent stock-up tradition in the early Spring Festival. The price change data of polyester filament from 2015 to now seems to verify this trend. That is to say, after the Chinese New Year every year, the price of polyester yarn will rise.
Especially since this year, the market price of polyester filament has continued to run at a low level. On the one hand, the price of raw materials is indeed at a historical low; on the other hand, in the face of profit losses, polyester manufacturers will inevitably find ways to control inventory to stabilize prices or increase prices, and it is impossible to keep falling. If we take advantage of the low price of raw materials now and boldly buy hundreds of tons of raw materials at the bottom, if the price of raw materials rises in the future, we will not only make money for raw materials; we will also make money for the production of gray fabrics after the new year, which will be used for the production of orders after the price increase. , which is real profit.
However, after experiencing the impact of the extreme polyester market this year, the price of raw materials has plummeted, and the repeated overseas epidemics have caused most mid-stream and downstream manufacturers to be confused about the market in the coming year. mentality. At the same time, logistics outages and printing and dyeing holidays will cause the weaving market to cool down rapidly, which may have a greater impact on the later period. </p
