Although the "Millennium-Cool" argument has attracted controversy, the high price of textiles is an indisputable fact. From underwear and Socks to autumn and winter clothing, from bedding sheets to sofa curtains, a “crazy disease” has begun to spread in all areas related to the word “textile”. Gradually, the roots of the source traced to the cotton producing areas, and it seems that the culprit of this “group price syndrome” is hidden there.

Indeed, the purchase price of seed cotton has risen from less than 2 yuan per kilogram last year to 6.2 yuan per catty, or even higher, and the price of lint cotton has changed from a bargain of 10,000 yuan per ton last year. Twenty-five thousand yuan of tight supplies, but when reporters visited several major cotton producing areas in the province after several days, they found that the real source of the current price increase seems to be hidden deeper.

Although the "Haolitian" halo has long been gloomy, the textile industry is undoubtedly an important part of Qingdao's industrial structure. Nearly 800 textile enterprises above the designated size, together with countless small and medium-sized textile companies, create an industry worth 10 billion yuan each year. value. However, this year's cold wind blew ahead on the textile industry in Qingdao. The first major adverse reactions were small and medium-sized enterprises, followed by large-scale cotton mills.

"Bottom goods" sold better than the new fire. On October 19th, when the reporter entered the Aichi Plaza in Shinan district, it was already a "chiller." Compared with the same period of last year, this year's new autumn and winter clothing appeared collective. Prices have risen, and the rate of increase has been staggering.

“October was the best time for autumn sales. This year's sales were significantly lower than last year.” Cui Yan, a love-purchaser of casual clothes, told reporters that several of her clothing brands, including Qianyi and Shilin, are represented by her. There has been a rise in prices, and the increase has been close to 20%. Such a huge increase is not only unacceptable to consumers, but even to herself, it is very difficult to accept. “Prices have been going up, and if they have risen less, everyone Still can not think of anything, can rise so much, consumers do not buy it.” In fact, Cui Yan is also a bitter, this price increase is not an accidental act of agents or individual brands, but caused by raw materials The industry's price adjustment, its magnitude and scale can be said to be unprecedented in the apparel industry. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of Ai Buy Square told reporters that this year's autumn and winter clothing prices are mainly factory price increases, merchants will follow the rise, and the scale is not limited to individual brands or types, "Now many businesses even come up with Some old autumn and winter clothes were sold, and the sales were good. This is because this year's autumn and winter loading price is too high, even if it is to sell, retailers have to dilute their profits."

The impact of this "Millennium Chill" is far more than that. The apparel industry is not the most affected area. The situation of the home textile industry that is more closely linked with cotton is even more worrying. In a bedding processing shop in Shuiqinggou, a single red bedsheet with a width of 1.5 meters and a length of 2 meters, the processing price of the material has risen to 150 yuan. “If you think you are expensive, you will buy materials for yourself. I guarantee that my manual fees will not increase at all compared to last year.” Mr. Deng, the owner of the store, told reporters that the fabric used in this red bed sheet has been sold this year. Achieved 35 yuan per meter, and last year exactly the same fabric as long as 16 yuan per meter. It is precisely because of the fabric's double price increase that makes Deng’s boss’s business difficult to do a lot. “I don’t normally accept the package work. On the one hand, the price is too high to make people think I'm dark. On the other hand, I don’t want to The stocks at hand have run out.” The owner of Deng said that now the fabric is no longer a price for one day, and even if it changes last night, he does not want to feed at this time, for fear of entering your hands.

Small and medium-sized garment factories suffer from "bridging cold"

It is precisely because of the rise in fabric prices that Cui Xianzhe of Qingdao Senshan Clothing Company had to reduce production. As a small-scale garment processing factory located in Chengyang District, Cui Xianzhe has just transformed from a purely foreign-trade processing company into a domestic-selling garment company in the past few years, and also has his own clothing brand. For this year's fabric price increase, Cui Xianzhe said that compared to the economic crisis in 2008 also made him feel horrified. "Although the economic crisis in 2008 was sluggish, my factory did not stop production. There were fewer foreign orders received, but when we did a single one, we earned a single amount of money. This year, I was doing a single loss." Cui Xianzhe told reporters that the small and medium-sized garment processing companies in the Qingdao area rely mainly on the support of southern fabrics. The impact of locally produced finished fabrics is basically negligible. Therefore, the pricing of raw materials has no say whatsoever and can only be accepted. "This year's fabric prices have risen too scary. Many processing plants have not developed new ones. Instead, they use the stock fabrics to continue production of last year's old garments. Some simply allow workers to work in shifts, and even more seriously stop production." Cui Xianzhe said that for the raw material price increase, the garment processing factory took on the role of a buffer zone, and therefore the price pressure was far greater than the retail terminal. The days were even worse.

Qingdao has a large number of large-scale cotton mills that can produce large quantities of grey fabrics, but the finished cloth processing capacity is dwarfed. For this industry chain breakpoint, the manager of a medium-sized garment processing plant in Chengyang District felt deeply touched because the finished fabric The excessive price increase, his factory currently only accepts scattered orders, and for large orders that require hundreds of tons of finished fabrics, he can only be powerless now. “A long time ago, the Qingdao textile industry took the path of the overall development of textile printing and dyeing, but now printing and dyeing has become a weakness in the textile industry in Qingdao.” The manager said that the gray fabrics produced by several large cotton spinning mills in Qingdao are basically all After exporting or exporting to other places, the processed finished fabrics are sold back to Qingdao at a price several times that of the grey fabrics, which also generates a huge internal consumption of the logistics. It is a short board for the development of the textile industry in Qingdao. “Now my finished fabrics mainly come from In the South, cities like Jiangsu Nantong basically have mastered the distribution of cloth throughout China."

As for the home textile industry once involved, the manager said that he is not afraid to contact him now. “Compared with the price increase of cotton, the price increase of finished fabrics is even less of an issue.”

Small home textiles only have the "card"

On October 19th, only 1.2 tons of cotton were left in the warehouse of a spinning factory in Qingdao. They were the last “cards” for this small home textile factory. “Now I am basically afraid to start work. If I use the cotton at the last point, I will come to the end.” Mr. Wang, the person in charge of the plant, told reporters that he had dealt with cotton for a lifetime and he did not expect that cotton would go up. To this point today.

Mr. Wang, who had previously worked as a leader in a cotton factory in Qingdao, was well aware of the development of textile industry in Qingdao. "In the past, cotton was purchased for cotton, but it is now upside down." Mr. Wang recalled that until the 1980s, Shandong was one of the country's major cotton production areas, from Jiaozhou, Pingdu to Gaomi, and Zibo. From Binzhou to Dongying and Heze, white cotton fields can be seen everywhere. With the changes in the industrial structure of rural areas, the price of cotton continues to be weak. The area of ​​cotton planted in various areas in Shandong is affected by economic crops, industrial parks, and residential buildings. The development zone eroded little by little, and the cotton producing counties of Pingdu and Gaomi were not seen in a cotton field today. In spite of this, the textile industry has never seen this phenomenon of “cotton shortage” this year, and the price of cotton has remained relatively stable.

The initial price of the earthquake occurred in 2008. Affected by the global economic crisis, the cotton price experienced a major decline. The purchase price of seed cotton fell to 1 yuan per catty, which seriously dampened the enthusiasm of cotton farmers. The "cotton shortage" after the year buried the root cause. "Last year, I fixed a price with a few fixed cotton suppliers once a month. Later it became a weekly price. Now it's just a phone call in the morning and a phone call in the afternoon." Mr. Wang told reporters, thanks to him. With years of sensation in the sensitive industry, when this year's cotton price has not yet risen, 100 tons of cotton have been purchased in advance. It is a spinning factory that can maintain it until now. However, this "home base" has been gradually exhausted. " If the cotton price does not fall again, I have to go out of the last resort.” Mr. Wang told reporters that unlike the clothing industry, the home textile industry is more directly affected by cotton, so the price pressure is greater, and large-scale factories can also top. Live, the small factory's anti-risk ability is too weak to last for long.

Most large-scale cotton mills use "outer cotton"

As Mr. Wang said, the situation of individual large-scale cotton spinning mills in the island city is not as bleak as the outside world has imagined, but it is also facing the test of striking hardships.

On October 19th, the reporter went to an interview with a large cotton mill in Qingdao. He heard a loud rumble of the spinning wheel from the workshop. Into the factory's front spinning workshop, there is a busy scene where a bundle of cotton is first combed into a cotton quilt, and then woven into cotton yarn, and then repeat two shares and a magic, the final product is a shaft White fabric.

“This year's cotton price increase has an impact on us, but we believe it can be topped.” Gu Director of the trade department of the plant told reporters that the cotton stock in the factory is indeed tight, but it can maintain normal operation for a while. However, the Director of the specific inventory amount said that it was inconvenient for disclosure of trade secrets. However, from the traces of production, we can still see the serious impact of the "cotton shortage" on this large-scale cotton mill. In a workshop on the former spinning mill, the reporter saw that two large machines were breaking up a pile of lint and proceeding with preliminary processing, but the other two machines in the same workshop were in shutdown. In the spinning workshop, the reporter saw The same phenomenon, nearly half of the automatic spinning machine did not start.

In a hut handling waste cotton, the reporter saw a pile of cottonseed and impurities combed out of the lint. A worker here told the reporter that such waste cotton was previously used by farmers to get fertilizer. Now there are many The small factory scrambled to collect the waste cotton, pulled it back and processed it again to fill in the pillow. In every workshop, the reporters saw that women workers were responsible for cleaning the surface of the batting, and then stored them in a centralized manner. In addition, in a processing workshop, the reporter also saw an assessment form that clearly lists the conservation standards for each process and strictly controls the waste of cotton throughout the process.

Light "throttle" is not enough. More importantly, it is open source. A Cuixing engineer of the plant told the reporter that nowadays, more than half of the cotton used in the factory is imported, mainly from the “outside cotton” of the United States and Canada, while the cotton in the province is very small. The statistics of Qingdao Customs also confirmed the importance of outer cotton for these large-scale cotton mills. According to statistics, in the first 7 months of this year alone, Shandong Port imported 739,000 tons of cotton, an increase of 65.1% over the same period of last year; the average import price was 1776 US dollars per ton, up 39%. To a certain extent, if we do not have the advantage of being located in a port city, the lack of "foreign aid" large-scale cotton spinning mills will also face the predicament of falling without a meter.

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