Chemical Fiber Fabric Market Downturn, Functional New Products Can Stimulate Demand

Recently, the summer knitted fabrics mainly made of polyester filament fell down, opening the market and ensuring the product price.

The development of a number of polyester raw materials, appearance and handle cotton and linen similar super imitation fabric into the market.

"The fabric market is not as hot as summer comes."

Shishi one fabric business owner's business for some time in the future

Not optimistic.

There is little demand for Polyester Filament Knitted Fabrics on the market, and the thin knitted fabrics made of polyester filament are still on the decline, demand is decreasing, and prices and sales are also falling.

Reporters learned from the market that at present, some functional polyester products used for sportswear also have stable sales volume, such as thin swimsuit fabrics, new style fancy fabrics, printed four side elastic fabrics and so on.

However, in terms of foreign trade sales, the phenomenon of intermittent small batch turnover still appears. Buyers have more single batches and smaller demand.

In fact, the decline in the price of polyester fabrics is not only affected by the decrease in downstream demand.

"Recently, as the price of polyester raw materials is still falling, polyester prices and polyester fabric prices have dropped, leading to a fall in the prices of polyester fabrics."

Over the past few days, the upstream raw materials have stopped falling, and the purchasing capacity of the downstream enterprises has increased, but the price of polyester fabrics on the market is still not high.

In this regard, some small and medium-sized businesses said: "many of their peers did not increase their shipments because of the downstream demand, and we still have a wait-and-see mentality, hoping that the fabric price can go further."

"Super imitation" polyester new product extension market

Looking for a way out of the market in terms of functionality, many enterprises have chosen to develop new products with special features, energy saving and environmental protection when the market demand for chemical fiber fabrics is low.

A polytechnician said that the strength of polyester is 30% to 50% higher than that of cotton yarn. The production speed of the circular knitting machine can be increased by 20% to 30% per day, and the dyeing rate of super cotton polyester filament is 10% to 20% higher than that of ordinary polyester yarn. The loss rate of dyeing and finishing is 10% lower than that of pure cotton.

The dyeing cost per ton of cotton is 12000 yuan, while that of polyester is only 6000 yuan per ton, so the functional polyester is still available in the market.

"In fact, there is no shortage of buyers, but the lack of new products that interest buyers."

"In production, energy consumption has been reduced by 40%, and a lot of costs have been saved.

In terms of price, compared with nylon fabrics, the price is nearly 50% lower and more competitive.

Tai Lung's imitation linen fabric is made of 100% polyester, which is made of splash and calender.

There is no difference between fabric and high-end products, but more importantly, the cost and price are much lower.

The same is microfiber. At this year's fabric exhibition at home and abroad, enterprises are also producing new products frequently.

Haixing has introduced a new type of biomass Shiming silk; Sheng Hong fabric has launched a series of imitation fabrics like wool, Imitation cotton, imitation silk and so on; and T/R+ has launched two real silk and T/R+ high woolen fabrics.

Through the blending, interweaving or finishing process of raw materials, many textile enterprises have made the chemical fiber products get the feel and appearance of imitation hemp, cotton imitation and silk like imitation, and the market has been opened.