Quanzhou City, Fujian: Breakout Of The Textile Industry "Trio"

"Polyester fiber with a price increase of 30% is still in short supply, but if the garments exported are up to 20%, there will be no market."

Mr. Sun, the head of a sportswear company in Quanzhou, is more worried. The rise in cotton prices has made clothing companies turn their attention to alternative chemical fibers.

Increase chemical fiber content

"Recently, the chemical fiber products headed by PET staple have risen from 9600 yuan per ton to 13000 yuan per ton, or up to 30%."

Mr. Sun said that the fabrics including acrylic fiber and spandex were also rising, but most of the export clothing prices could only rise by one or two.

It is understood that the clothing industry in our city mainly produces sports, outdoor clothing and casual wear. Among them, sports and outdoor clothing materials and materials are almost 100% of chemical fiber and casual clothing.

Except for all cotton and woolen fabrics, most of our fabrics are made of synthetic fabrics, and nylon, polyester and other synthetic fabrics are extracted from petroleum and petrochemical products.

"Before the price adjustment of chemical fiber products, most of them are affected by the fluctuation of oil prices, and the price of chemical fiber is following the cotton price."

Zhang Qingshan, general manager of Shishi clothing enterprise, said that the increase of chemical fiber is still acceptable to the enterprise.

"Now there are fewer pure cotton products in the market, and even the Fujian style casual wear with high cotton content generally has about 20% of the chemical fiber components.

It is reported that due to the influence of cotton price rising too fast, many fabric enterprises have increased the use of chemical fiber at the same time. On the one hand, they can effectively alleviate the cost pressure. On the other hand, adding some chemical fiber products can also make the fabrics produced with wear-resistant, elastic function, and are not easily moldy, easy to wash and fast dry.

Profit upstream

"Next year, the profits of the chemical fiber industry will also increase significantly."

The industry expects that due to the limited natural resources such as cotton and silk, next year, countries with low fiber consumption in China and Eastern Europe will gradually increase the demand for chemical fiber.

It is understood that based on the competition for upstream chemical fiber high profit considerations, our fabric weaving enterprise has planned to set up a chemical fiber factory, to the upstream industry, "profit."

"Many weaving enterprises in our city have large demand for chemical fiber, but local chemical fiber is a" scarce product ", and most enterprises must buy it from the outside.

Chen Xiangping, the head of weaving enterprises, thinks that the chemical fiber industry in Jiangsu is not developed compared with the chemical fiber industry in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Fujian's output accounts for less than 10% of the country's total output.

"Opening a chemical fiber plant in our city has a broad market, but this year's" textile industry adjustment and revitalization plan "put forward a concrete target for eliminating the backward production capacity of the chemical fiber industry, which means that the environmental auditing requirements of the industry have been upgraded to a level of 2 million 300 thousand.

Compared with the opening of chemical fiber factory, the company invested in upstream chemical fiber enterprises in the form of "capital contribution", and the cost of diluted raw materials is a safer way for weaving enterprises.

Chen Xiangping believes that before taking part in the chemical fiber industry, weaving enterprises should first evaluate their own technology, and do not have a grasp of technology for ten.

"Live contract"

Anticipate price hikes

In addition to bear the brunt of the affected fabric weaving enterprises, the price of raw materials of chemical fiber also affects the profits of our garment trading company.

"One yard cloth has gone up by 4 yuan, and a casual pants will increase by at least 10 yuan to ensure the company's profits."

Zhang Qingshan told reporters that on the one hand, in the period when cotton prices and raw materials of chemical fiber remained high, garment enterprises could hardly pass the cost pressure by increasing the ratio of some cheap raw materials, and on the other hand, at the end of the hard demand of garment export at the end of the year, many garment enterprises and their trading companies would still choose to make a reluctant purchase and keep old customers.

"Because the price of raw materials is difficult to estimate in the future, the company can only sign 25% floating" live contracts "with foreign investors.

After repeated consultations with foreign customers, Zhang Qingshan finally settled the "living contract" system.

According to its introduction, when the company signs the "live contract" period to the delivery period, if the price of the clothing material is increased by 10%, the contract price of the foreign merchant due to pay will also increase by 10%.

"Now I do not want the price of raw materials to return or fall."

Mr. Zhang, who has signed a "living contract", is quite relieved. According to the introduction, the enterprise signed by the "live contract" can evade the risk of some raw materials rising, but during the delivery period, if the raw material of clothing is down, foreign customers will probably ask for a reduction in the contract price.

But Mr. Huang, a securities analyst in our city, believes that in the short term, the possibility of chemical fiber callbacks is not large.

"Generally speaking, the price difference between polyester staple and cotton is about 4000 yuan per ton, and now the price difference is more than 10000 yuan per ton, which is bound to raise the price of polyester fiber and other chemical fiber products."

According to its analysis, because the supply and demand gap of cotton still exists, the "substitution effect" of chemical fiber will continue to appear at the end of the year, and polyester fiber and other chemical fiber products are expected to enter the "super boom cycle".

In addition, the price stabilization of polyester and other chemical fiber raw materials has also promoted the steady rise of polyester prices to a certain extent.