Has the four-sided fabric fallen out of favor? Who will be the new favorite in the elastic fabric market?
Four-sided fabrics fall out of favor
As the name suggests, the four - sided elastic fabric is a kind of elastic fabric that is stretched from top to bottom. Because Spandex Elastic Wire Was Added in the Fabric, It can adapt to the activity of human Body , Along with stretch with contraction, Cloth Wear-Resisting and Not Easy to Leave Drape, There is a wide Range of application on women'S clothing, casual Outfit.
Especially in recent years, more and more women have fallen in love with yoga. With the rise of the "yoga economy", the demand for four-sided fabric is in short supply.
"The total production of our elastic fabric workshop is 100,000 meters per day, which is close to 40 percent of our total production. In 2020, the delivery time of other fabrics is only half a month, while the delivery time of the four-sided fabric is basically more than one month." Zhejiang Kangfa Weaving Co., LTD. Sales manager Duan Zhicong said.
"Four-sided fabric has been very hot in the past few years, the production season is mainly concentrated in March, April and September, October every year, when the factory will generally adjust the production ratio. The more special situation appeared in the year before last, the first half of that year's orders were not much, but the second half of the order was far more than expected, directly placed orders of 100,000 meters, 200,000 meters of customers are not a minority." Joe Martin said.
Now and then.
Since this year, the four - sided fabric sales and previous years have been different. Be in current tradition off-season especially, the market is lull.
China textile City released on July 15 market monitoring shows that all round fabric hanging sample listed varieties local insufficient, spot listed style is insufficient, spot market volume is relatively limited, the price is basically stable, local stable small and medium fall, daily turnover compared with the previous decline.
Among them, 250D (DTY+FDY) composite wire embrace 40D spandex tetrahedron, 250D DTY embrace 40D spandex tetrahedron, 200D (DTY+FDY) composite wire embrace 40D spandex tetrahedron, 200D DTY embrace 40D spandex tetrahedron, 150D DTY+150D (DTY+FDY) composite wire embrace 40D spandex Sibao, 150DDTY +150DDTY embrace 40D spandex Sibao, 300D DTY embrace 40D spandex Sibao and other elastic cloth in part of the scale of business outlets are still sold, but some small and medium-sized business transactions decreased significantly, the sales trend is obviously differentiated.
According to China textile City market information officer Jiang Jianren, in the interview, most enterprises said that if there are no new orders in the near future, local production will be reduced. In order to stabilize the staff, some enterprises have implemented the system of employee rotation.
"The four-sided fabric is already the 'general' of 'El Chapo', but it's not as tight as it used to be." Duan Zhicong admitted that the company's four-sided fabric orders are not bad now, and the orders can basically be arranged from October to November. But in July last year, orders were already booked until the end of the year.
Dragged down by the spandex market
Why did the four-sided fabric fall out of favor?
"About 70 percent of the businesses around here are not doing as well." Qiao Yan revealed that this year, the most obvious change is that foreign trade long single, large single gradually reduced, more customers order is some short single, small single. "In fact, almost all categories of fabric orders more or less have some impact, four shell fabric a few years ago too hot, so the relative performance is more obvious."
Zeng Yingjia, head of the business department of Lanxi Tongyi Textile Co., LTD., said that this year, it is clear that the market's consumer demand has decreased. "Four shell fabric sales have maintained rapid growth for many years, to a large extent, in advance of the overdraft market demand."
In addition, since this year, the domestic spandex market continues to decline. According to the business agency price monitoring shows that the current domestic spandex market prices are falling trend. As of July 21, the average market price of 40D specification spandex was 38,000 yuan/ton, down 9.95 percent from the beginning of the month and 51.41 percent year-on-year.
As the spokesman of spandex in the fabric market, the four - sided fabric is also deeply disturbed. "Now the spandex price is down, four shell fabric from the surface of the profit has improved, but shipments have been negatively affected." Qiao Yan admitted, "Everyone predicts that spandex prices will continue to fall in the second half of the year, so clothing brands and buyers are now more cautious about purchasing."
Zeng Yingjia also pointed out that spandex prices are now a correction, the mentality of clothing brands also changed, buyers on the four shell fabric more to just need to follow up mainly, stock enthusiasm decreased significantly. "There are some brands are digesting a large number of four-sided fabric bought in the early stage, which leads to poor market liquidity, four-sided fabric delivery is slow."
She added: "In the past two years, as the prices of textile raw materials often fluctuate greatly, resulting in conventional fabrics, including the four-sided fabric, have been affected to varying degrees. However, stretch fabric as the market evergreen tree, the market demand is still very large. Many fabric enterprises also take this opportunity to develop new elastic fabrics, upgrade to technology functionalization and green environmental protection direction, improve the added value of products, hoping to continue the market heat at the same time, to obtain higher profits."
Market needs Resilient 'New stars'
Although the market heat of the four-sided elastic fabric is gradually fading in the short term, the elastic fabric market still contains unlimited business opportunities.
Zeng Yingjia said that non-spandex elastic fabric T800 is the company's main push in the past two years. This fabric is made of T800 elastic fiber with 50D matte and 50D weft as raw material. It is favored by customers because of its good dimensional stability, high resilience and color fastness. "Compared with four-sided elastic fabric, T800 avoids the shortcomings of easy aging and unstable price of spandex, and the product has unique luster and full feel into the hand, which ensures elasticity and avoids wrinkling at the same time."
As a high-tech enterprise specializing in outdoor sports and urban sports fabrics, Jiangsu Sanfeng Special Materials Technology Co., Ltd. has always been guided by scientific and technological innovation. It is understood that the company launched this year ice sense dimension he fabric has been widely recognized by the market.
According to Wu Wanyu, manager of the company, the fabric is made of nylon covered with spandex and has a cooling gene. It is light, silky and feels good. It also has ultra-high elasticity and can recover effectively after stretching, which improves the stretching ability during sports. This fabric also combines the titanium bubble bionic technology independently developed by Sanfeng, so that the moisture can be directly eliminated through the spiral channel in the process of human movement, so that the movement "breathable", can be used for skin clothes, jackets, light down jackets, etc., to achieve comfortable and sustainable movement.
Jinan Fuhrer Knitting Co., Ltd. is actively grasp the trend of knitting fabrics, accelerate towards functional, fashionable, innovative direction of development. This year, the company introduced graphene-Modale silver coated spandex sweatcloth. This fabric is not only good elasticity, and fine texture, feel smooth, comfortable and skin-friendly, moisture absorption and moisture permeability is high, can be antibacterial antibacterial, anti-bacterial, anti-ultraviolet, anti-static. "High value-added fabrics can not only meet the higher demand of clothing brands, but also help us get higher returns," said an official from the company.
Shaoxing Ruicai Textile Co., Ltd. focuses on plain color, interwoven, high quality, high density fabrics for shirts, windbreakers, dresses. The company has a professional fabric development team, and close cooperation with Donghua University and textile institutions at home and abroad, continue to launch fashion fabrics. This season, the company's first product is cotton brocade stretch satin fabric. This fabric is made of 80 combed long staple cotton and satin interwoven with nylon. The surface of the fabric has a light and elegant gloss sense, soft touch and fine texture. The addition of spandex brings good elasticity, suitable for elegant urban style of senior shirts, dresses and so on.
"In the current market, fabric enterprises should focus on solving the pain points of consumers in product development, reflect the care of consumers from the details, focus on the segmentation of the field, and enhance competitiveness." Yang Jingxiang, general manager of the company, believes that the elastic fabric market is still promising, and fabric enterprises need to continue to innovate and design the color, material, style and function of fabrics according to scene applications to better meet the personalized needs of consumers.
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