Speaking of recent popular fabrics, I believe everyone’s first reaction must be imitation silk, four-way elastic, tangled hemp, chiffon, etc. But let’s not forget that there is also a natural fabric that we have worn since childhood, that Just cotton.
As people’s living standards improve and their requirements for clothing change, various polyester and nylon fabrics emerge in endlessly, but from the time you are born, I believe the first thing you come into contact with is pure cotton. As we all know, cotton cloth is a woven fabric made of cotton yarn as raw material; different varieties are derived due to different tissue specifications and different post-processing methods. Cotton cloth has the characteristics of softness, comfort, warmth, moisture absorption, and strong breathability. Due to these natural characteristics, cotton has long been loved by people and has become an indispensable basic product in life.
Recently, many companies involved in cotton products have felt a lot of pressure. The fundamental reason should be that the rise in raw materials has driven the rise in cotton yarn. It is understood that most of the cotton fabrics on the Shengze market are high-end products, and their requirements for cotton yarn It is relatively high, but things are rare and expensive. The high-count yarn currently on the market presents a situation of “price but no market”. It does not mean that high prices exist in vain, but that it is difficult to buy goods even if you have money.
According to a fabric dealer on the market, the company’s cotton shirt cloth is a “star product” and it basically provides fabrics to well-known men’s clothing brands. Because the fabric requires 100-count pure cotton yarn (the higher the yarn count, the higher the cotton yarn count). The finer it is, the better the quality and more refined the fabric is), not to mention the high price of this cotton yarn, spinning 100-count cotton yarn is not something that all spinning mills can do, and the technical requirements are extremely high, so the output is very low.
After talking about the upstream, let’s talk about the downstream. Let’s not talk about the pressure brought by the cost of cotton yarn. For cotton fabrics, the downstream weaving, printing and dyeing are not small costs.
Let’s start with weaving. Cotton gray fabric cannot be made with ordinary water-jet looms. Air-jet looms are required, so the cost of gray fabric weaving is already “slightly higher”.
The second is the dyeing fee. According to the person in charge of Wujiang Hengyu Printing and Dyeing, there are currently not many manufacturers in Shengze that can dye cotton gray fabrics. Due to the complex process and high dyeing fees, smaller manufacturers cannot do it. For example, the dyeing fee for 1 meter of chemical fiber products may be 1-2 yuan, but the dyeing fee for 1 meter of cotton products is nearly 4-6 yuan. The author is also wondering why the dyeing fee is three times different. The person in charge Explain that the dyeing of cotton fabrics is different from ordinary fabrics in terms of dyes and processes. All cotton products use reactive dyes, which will consume a lot of costs in terms of sewage discharge. In addition, the printing and dyeing of cotton products It is a full-scale process with a lot of steps. It takes two or more times to set the shape.
Finally, there is the printing part. The author visited several companies in the Shengze market. A boss who sells cotton fabrics said: “There are only a few printing factories in Shengze that can print cotton fabrics. In this case, , has formed a situation of “one mountain dominates”. The current cotton printing uses ‘cold printing’. Cold transfer dye ink adopts digital printing method, overcoming the limitations of traditional printing and dyeing color registration and flower return. It also simplifies the tedious printing process and provides friends in the printing and dyeing industry with perfect connection with the original production equipment and processes. Therefore, its price is also very high, about 10 yuan/meter. In this way, a piece of ordinary cotton fabric The cost is RMB 17 or RMB 8, and better-quality shirt cloth or wide-width home textiles on the market may cost more than RMB 30 per meter.”
It can be seen that it is reasonable for the price of pure cotton clothing on our market to be higher. After all, you get what you pay for. In the near future, people will have higher and higher requirements for clothing comfort and environmental protection. Pure cotton clothing The proportion of fabrics in the textile market will continue to grow. The author will make a digression: the second-child policy has been liberalized. Are you still worried that there will be no “spring” for cotton products?
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