Many textile workers should feel deeply about the situation of “less worries, more worries even more”. The end of the year and the beginning of the year have always been an important time node for the development of the textile market, especially before the year, various stock preparations and rushes were filled with factories of all sizes. However, the already busy production season recently was disrupted by the sudden implementation of environmental protection measures. “50% of the setting machine production will be suspended until December 31…” Although the main requirement this time is the setting machine, as the last important link in the printing and dyeing process, its production capacity is limited and will affect the entire industry from bottom to top. Printing and dyeing capacity. The crowded year-end market quickly turned into a “thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge” situation.
Only one setting machine is in operation and is shut down for part of the time
After the environmental protection policy was introduced at the end of the year, the printing and dyeing companies in Wujiang area have actively cooperated, which was rarely seen in the past. It was usual to stop production during the peak season at the end of the year, but it appeared this year. A simulated silk dyeing factory in the Shengze area has recently ushered in the best period of the year for simulated silk. Orders for hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of meters of simulated silk can be seen everywhere in the factory. It’s hard to say when it will be dyed and shipped, but as long as the gray fabric enters the factory, it must be pressed for a week first. Not only large-scale products, but also small tanks in the factory are extremely crowded. Now they basically no longer accept orders for small tanks.
This is definitely the peak season, but when I walked into the dyeing factory, it was very deserted. Although the setting machine was suspended before the morning of the 19th, only one was in operation. However, the situation reversed at the beginning of the day shift and only one was in operation. Of the eight shaping machines in the factory that should be running at high speed, only one is alone digesting the backlog of orders. The dynamic balance between dyeing and styling is broken. If the fabric cannot be shaped in time, problems will easily occur. It is meaningless to restart the dyeing vat, and stopping it completely is the only option.
The boss is anxious and bets on one month’s wages
Due to environmental reasons, printing and dyeing factories in Wujiang are facing production cuts , the suspension of production, coupled with the Spring Festival holiday in early January, there is not much time to leave a printing and dyeing factory. But what is more urgent than the dyeing factories are the cloth bosses who have orders of hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of meters.
A foreign trade company in the Shengze area had orders that must be shipped before the year, including more than 600,000 meters of four-sided stretch dyeing, 160,000 meters of four-sided stretch printing, and more than 20,000 cationic… three orders I don’t go home earlier than 9pm every day, but the suspension of production at the dyeing factory has made the already tight delivery schedule even worse.
It was supposed to be a bumper year at the end of the year, but now everyone in the company is worried and worried. With no hope of restoring the production capacity of the dyeing factory, they had to transfer orders to peripheral areas that had not yet stopped production. A dyeing factory in Jiaxing has transferred nearly 400,000 meters of orders. The boss even announced that as long as the goods are delivered before the end of the year, one month’s salary will be rewarded, otherwise one month’s salary will be deducted. But the actual situation is no longer a question of rewards and punishments. Many cloth bosses have thought of transferring orders away. The dyeing factory in Jiaxing is now so busy that there is no specific pressing time. The production of each vat of fabric in the workshop must be signed and confirmed by the factory director. As for the specific number of days to wait, it is completely up to God. The foreign trade company is currently in the factory, trying every possible means to only ensure that 6 cylinders of fabric are produced every day, with a quantity of less than 10,000 meters. If this rate is maintained, all orders will have to be placed until next spring. Even if the factory designated 6 special cylinders to fulfill their orders, it was too late.
The holiday time of printing and dyeing factories may be delayed
The annual Spring Festival holiday time of printing and dyeing factories seems to be determined by the printing and dyeing factory, but in fact it is It is determined based on the time when the thermal power plant behind them stops steam. The average printing and dyeing factory has limited strength and does not have its own thermal power plant. Instead, several printing and dyeing factories share the steam from one thermal power plant. Most of them can only obey the thermal power plant in terms of steam shutdown time. But there are also powerful companies that have their own thermal power plants, which gives them more room for maneuver in terms of shutdown time. During the Spring Festival holiday in previous years, in order to prevent workers from being unstable and affecting production quality, most printing and dyeing factories would not have much difference in holiday time. But the situation is different this year. Environmental protection policies have disrupted the plans of printing and dyeing factories. All order production has been postponed and delayed. However, the time node for shipments before the year is beyond the reach of most cloth owners. Customers have given printing and dyeing The factory will continue to exert pressure. In order to retain customers and complete the printing and dyeing process, most printing and dyeing factories will have the idea of postponing the holiday. Printing and dyeing factories that share thermal power plants may be helpless, but those printing and dyeing factories with their own thermal power plants will definitely balance production and holiday time to increase output and revenue.
The originally calm textile market at the end of the year suddenly became restless. Mainly because orders were hit by production shutdowns, “supply exceeded demand” rarely occurred this year. On the one hand, textile bosses need a way out to avoid the more crowded printing and dyeing market after environmental protection; on the other hand, they must also actively communicate with customers to win time for delivery. </p
