Fabric Enterprises Are Facing New Challenges After The "Post Epidemic Era". The Production Of Epidemic Prevention Materials Is Difficult.

The epidemic that has swept the globe has caused heavy losses to some enterprises in China. The market turmoil has made many small and medium-sized enterprises worry about their livelihood. In order to enhance the viability and create new profit points in the post epidemic era, some enterprises have chosen the production of epidemic prevention materials, hoping to develop a broader market.

Among them, what is the situation of the production and protection of textile and dyeing enterprises?

Rapid increase in mask productivity

The conversion rate of dyeing enterprises is not high.

Authoritative data show that in February 2nd, China's mask production capacity was about 20 million per day, but in just over 3 months, now China has more than 1 billion export masks per day.

Behind the rapid growth of this figure, it is inseparable from the support of many enterprises. ? Data from the sky eye show that, with the change of industrial and commercial registration information as the standard, from February 1st to April 15th, more than 8 enterprises in the country have added "mask, protective clothing, medical devices" and other related businesses.

For a large number of enterprises to switch production, Jiang Han, special researcher of Suning Financial Research Institute "At the end of January and early February, a large number of Chinese enterprises began to cross border production of masks and other anti epidemic products. At that time, many people were worried that when the mask was actually produced, there would be a situation of oversupply. But the actual result is surprising.

He said, From the perspective of the overall market demand, masks will become a necessity for the global consumer life in the future. It will be a trend for people to go out wearing masks. Under such circumstances, the demand for mask production will be much smaller than before. 。 Jiang Han predicted: "this trend will exist not only in China, but also in foreign countries. This is undoubtedly a good thing for China's mask manufacturers. "

However, the survey shows that the proportion of the fabric companies that are closely related to mask production is not as high as that of the production and protection products.

Recently, the China printing and dyeing industry association carried out a special investigation on the situation of the production and protection of more than 150 member enterprises. Only 13 enterprises involved in the survey said that the enterprises or affiliated enterprises had transferred production and epidemic prevention materials. Among them, Shenzhou International Group Holdings Limited and other 4 enterprises have the mask processing capacity, but the production of the civil respirator is only for internal use, not in the market circulation.

The price of raw materials has skyrocketed.

Difficulties in export examination and approval

Although the global epidemic prevention materials are scarce and the potential market is bigger, the fabric enterprises maintain a relatively cautious attitude towards investment in production. In the previous interview, a number of enterprises responsible person also told the China textile daily reporter that the company will not blindly switch to production, the current work is still stable and normal production.

China's printing and dyeing industry association shows that the reason why most fabric companies are deterred is concentrated on the shortage of raw materials. Insiders told reporters: "before the outbreak, the price of melted cloth is less than 20 thousand yuan / ton. During the epidemic situation, the demand for respirators was soaring, the demand for melted cloth was in short supply, the price was soaring, and the quotation was updated for half a day, even to 700 thousand yuan / ton. Despite such high prices, melted cloth will be instantly robbed. "

The enterprises pointed out that the raw materials such as spunbonded fabrics and composite membrane fabrics for producing disposable medical protective clothing are also very tight. "The clothing enterprises of friends" have changed their production, but because of the lack of raw materials, some of their production lines have been in a semi shutdown state. If we can't buy the raw materials, we can only stop the whole plant. The industry revealed.

The price of the mask machine has also risen sharply. The price has changed one day, and there has been a 5 day price increase of 300 thousand yuan. More importantly, because of the large number of machines needed to debug, the mask masks are very popular. The industry revealed that some enterprises have everything ready, but that the machine is always debugging problems, and even some enterprises have not started for more than 1 months. Moreover, many manufacturers have bought the "soil machine" to start production, and the quality of products is basically out of the question.

In addition, qualification approval is also one of the reasons for some enterprises to hesitate. According to the China textile daily reporter, if Chinese enterprises want to export masks, they must submit bills of lading, boxes, invoices, import and export business rights, and cooperate with the third party testing and certification service agencies. They will send their products to the inspection institutions, prepare declaration materials, and submit the declared materials to the certification authority. Only after certification, can export masks be sold in overseas countries. The most popular among them is the CE certification of the European Union and the FDA certification of the United States.

Zhang Mo, technical director of consumer goods division, Hangzhou Rui Technology Co., Ltd. The CE certification of aseptic masks is very difficult: on the one hand, the EU has implemented the new version of the medical device regulations (MDR), and the material requirements are higher than before. On the other hand, the manufacturers of aseptic mask need to complete the ISO13485 system certification, so the domestic enterprises that choose to carry out the CE certification of sterile medical mouthpieces are few.

As for FDA certification in the US, Zhang said that enterprises exporting medical masks should get 510k approval from FDA according to the 510k application process. Personal protective masks (such as N95) need to be accredited by NIOSH (National Institute of occupational safety and health). Enterprises must send samples to NIOSH labs for testing and submit technical information. NIOSH will issue certification after both document examination and product testing are approved.

"At present, small and medium-sized certification bodies in China are not very willing to undertake the masks certification service in the United States. On the one hand, the related processes are longer. According to the complete product information of enterprises, the time ranges from 2 months to 10 months. On the other hand, the result is also uncertain. The certification service of FDA medical masks on the market is quoted at 80 thousand ~10 yuan or even higher. Zhang Mo explained.

Looking forward to support policies

Insisting on the main business is still king

A difficult problem lies in the transformation of enterprises. Even on the top of the draught, it is difficult for the "gold digger" to realize the dream of "taking off". Behind the extreme imbalance of supply and demand, only some large companies can maintain rapid coordination in the use of funds and human resources. Most small businesses are struggling, but once they press the "play" button, it will be difficult for them to retreat.

A person in charge of a Fujian enterprise roughly calculated a "transfer account": "the equipment spent about 500000 yuan, the workshop spent 300 thousand yuan ~50 million yuan rectification, raw material spent about 1000000 yuan. At present, the company has invested 2 million yuan, and we need another 2 million yuan raw materials. "

China's printing and dyeing industry association shows that, in view of the practical problems existing in the current production, such as shortage of raw materials, difficulty in examination and approval, tight funds, etc., the textile printing and dyeing enterprises that have already converted their products hope that the relevant departments can coordinate the supply and price problems of raw materials market, and help manufacturers of melted spray cloth and non-woven fabrics. In view of the problems of capital chain tension, enterprises hope that the government can introduce relevant fiscal and taxation policies, such as obtaining financial support from the government and increasing liquidity loans so as to help the real enterprises tide over the difficulties.

Risk and opportunity coexist. During the interview, some enterprises also disclosed that the profit of the production mask was higher than that of the previous fabric business. "Thanks to the profit of the mask business, we can independently arrange enterprise production management while maintaining the operation of the enterprise, and seek more initiative for the enterprises in the next production activities." A Zhejiang fabric enterprise official said.

"Whether mask production will become a normal business of the company, we are still in the observation stage. In my opinion, it is more important for enterprises to insist on the main business, and respirators are only an additional supplementary business for enterprises. " The person in charge suggests that peers should change their production or, according to their own actual conditions, on the basis of the cost of retrofit, enterprises can make full use of their original resources to give full play to their own advantages, expand their production capacity and achieve the optimal conversion.