How To Make Consumers No Longer "Shrink"?

Not long ago, a sudden "shrinkage rate" storm let the whole.

Lack of logo, many consumers suffer from "shrinking"

The "shrinkage rate" is officially called the rate of change in the size of commercial washing. It refers to the percentage of shrinkage of textiles after washing or soaking.

Under normal circumstances, the minimum shrinkage rate is synthetic fiber and blended fabric, followed by

Then, how much impact has been ignored on the quality of textiles and how much loss it has brought to consumers? Who is quietly shrinking the products in the textile industry?

Experts said that the raw materials, density, thickness and production process of textiles are one of the main factors that affect the shrinkage of products.

However, judging from the current domestic textile market, there is hardly any textile with "shrinkage".

This has led to many consumers in the purchase of products formed a "blind people feel" situation, often buy home products after washing, there will be such a problem.

According to data from the business sector.

Since the fourth quarter of 2009, the shrinkage of sheets and garments has become a hot issue for consumers.

And such complaints also show a rising trend.

Before the Spring Festival in 2010, Ms. Du, who lives in Guiyang, bought several sets of pure cotton thermal underwear for his family in a shopping mall.

When buying, she was very worried about the shrinkage of clothes after washing, so she specifically asked the salesmen of the store.

But the answer of the salesperson is only ambiguous.

After examining the other brands of thermal underwear, she found that the shrinkage rate was not marked.

So they paid for it and paid for it.

What she could not have imagined was that the proportion of a famous brand of thermal underwear was greatly reduced after washing, which made her and his family unable to wear this kind of thermal underwear again.

Subsequently, Ms. Du found the theory of shopping mall and planned to negotiate return.

But the mall rejected her request on the grounds that the clothes had been cleaned.

This makes Ms. Du feel very helpless: do not wash will not know this kind of clothing "shrinkage rate" so high.

But after washing, the merchants disagreed with the reasons.

This is a real dilemma.

Finally, Ms. Tu, who really couldn't figure out, found the consumer association to make a complaint.

In fact, according to the national textile industry standard formally implemented in January 2004, the rate of washing size change of textile products should not exceed "2%-3%", the first grade product should not exceed "2%-4%", and the qualified product should not exceed the "2%-5%" standard.

To increase costs, textile enterprises will cover up their promises.

Taking a look at the whole textile industry, the domestic textile market, whether it is an illegal small workshop or a regular brand enterprise, basically has not marked "shrinkage rate" on the product packaging.

Is this an omission of collective negligence or ulterior motives?

As we all know, there is a pre shrinking process in the production of textile fabrics.

Aiming at this process, the textile industry has specially designed and produced a kind of fabric shrinking machine. The machine includes a series of pretreatment processes, such as cloth delivering device, humidifying device, vibration beating device, heating and drying device, wet cooling device, cloth inspection code device, cloth rolling and trimming device.

After shrinking, the fabric feels good and the color is strong.

But the equipment is expensive and requires a skilled worker to operate.

It is understood that the cost of the pre shrinking process will account for about 7% of the textile cost, which will naturally lead to a larger difference compared with the fabric price without pre shrinking process.

Insiders pointed out that this is the fundamental reason why many textile production enterprises ignore the "shrinkage rate" of products, and do not mark products and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Many consumers, who suffer from the "shrinkage rate" problem, have to choose to "walk away quietly" in view of the high cost of safeguarding their rights.

Testing standards to be improved

I have to admit that the problem of shrinkage has always been a big problem in China's textile industry and even fiber inspection department.

For a long time, no practical and effective solution has been found.

"Shrinkage rate" is not up to standard, which is a very common problem in the textile industry, whether in the home textile industry or in the clothing industry.

With the "shrinkage rate" problem being investigated and dealt with, some people in the industry pointed out the problem. "Shrinkage rate" is not up to standard. Besides the conscious cost consideration of enterprises, it is also related to some enterprises' lack of strictest enforcement procedures.

For example, some enterprises did not strictly check the specifications according to the specifications specified in the fabric when they were sent to the inspection. If the interception of the 3 meter sample was only 2 meters, it was very arbitrary.

This causes the test degree of the fabric to be tested to be greater than the specified degree, and the result is naturally missing the least bit.

In addition, some textile manufacturers have suggested that the relevant departments should formulate a set of shrinkage standards according to different grades, fabrics and products of different uses, because the consumption groups are different and the actual uses are different, so they should be treated differently.

At the same time, according to the eighth provision of the law on the protection of consumer rights and interests, "consumers have the right to know the goods purchased or used, or to accept the true situation of services."

Consumers shall have the right to require operators to provide prices, origin, producers, purposes, performance, specifications, grades, main components, production dates, validity dates, inspection certificates, usage instructions, after-sale service contents, etc. according to different situations of commodities or services, so that consumers who encounter "shrinkage" problems will no longer be "shrunk".