T400 From Great Heat To Cool! How Do Fabric Enterprises Unlock New Ways?

In recent years, T400 fabric In the textile market overall situation is not good, conventional product backlog serious or even be thrown out of the situation, stand out.   Until September and October this year, T400 also occupied the mainstream of the market. "Now is the T400 special. A small scale dyeing factory doesn't produce a T400 of more than 100 cylinders a night. You are embarrassed to say hello to your colleagues. Some people in the industry have been joking. The printing and dyeing factory with four bombs as its main business, from entering warehouse receipt to dyeing plan, is just like a T400 plan. It is hard to see other fabric products.

But this is the fabric of fire. Now the heat is turning rapidly.

T400 turns from heat to cool.

No bombs, no materials. In recent years, elastic fabrics are almost everywhere, from underwear to outdoor wear, and even the upper surface of sports shoes, you can see the traces of elastic fabrics everywhere. Elasticity not only makes underwear more close fitting, but also makes the fabric comfortable in autumn and winter. And T400 fabric has unique deformation memory function and good elasticity. It also solves the problems of spandex's uneasy dyeing, excessive elasticity, complex weaving, unstable fabric size and so on, so it is selling well in the fabric market.

"Before the market is really good, the market is hot, everyone is launching T400 products, which is one of the reasons for the decline in the current market. Speaking of T400 fabrics, Yu Cunping, the chief officer of Jin Lun (Suzhou) Weaving Co., Ltd. To China textile daily reporter frankly: "Now the T400 sales in the market are decreasing obviously, which is due to the uneven quality of products, the high elasticity of elastic fabric, the high price and so on. "

Yu Cunping added: "Including T400's improved version of T800, there are also some problems in sales. Although the elasticity of this fabric is better than that of T400, the price of grey fabric is lower than that of T400, but the dyeing of elastic products is more difficult than other products, and this new research and development of fabric dyeing is a test for dyeing factories. Therefore, at present, there are not many dyeing plants with mature T800 dyeing technology in Shengze. "

Another T400 printing and dyeing company in Shengze is not optimistic about the future of the T400. The company official said that the company could produce about 700 thousand meters of grey cloth every day. A few months ago, the number of T400 silos per day in the factory was more than 1 million meters. "At that time, the production capacity in the factory was not able to keep up with the quantity of orders per day. But recently, the number of T400 class fabrics has dropped significantly, which is more than 60 million meters. According to this trend, I believe that the dye vat in the factory will not be fully opened before long. "

It is worth noting that the China textile daily reporter also found that in the recent friends circle, textile group released information in the delivery, T400 fabrics also contain, for example, T400 pearl dot fabric. At present, the price of this fabric is 3.80 yuan / m, and in early September, its average price in the market was 4.50 yuan / m, compared to the same period last year, its price could reach 5.50 yuan / meter.

"Fabric enterprises should treat any hot products rationally. The market is limited, and we must not rush to the fast track and the horse race. This unprofessional behavior can only be an injury to the product market. Industry experts said this.

New ways to cope with the new normal

The T400, which once used to "love a thousand things", is now turning thin, and the reason is worth thinking. How can we make our fabrics more popular in the market? Going to the old way, wanting small profits but quick turnover seems to be impossible now.

In this regard, Yu Cunping suggested that enterprises should pay more attention to the needs of downstream clothing brands, and analyze the trend of fabric selection from European and American garment enterprises and the upgrading of the leading products of the domestic garment industry. 。   He believes that the potential market for fabric enterprises in the future is still in the high-end products, eco-friendly fabrics will lead the trend.

It is understood that Inditex Group Announced at this year's shareholders' meeting, before 2025, including Zara, Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti 100% of all brands in the group will be made of sustainable fabrics. Adidas also followed closely, announcing the full use of recycled polyester fiber in 2024.

Yu Cunping said: Environmental protection is a hot topic at present. Especially in the textile and garment industry, environmental protection is closely related to them. Nowadays, environmentally friendly fabrics are becoming more and more popular among people, especially some famous clothing brands. In this regard, we will also environmentally friendly recycled fabric as the focus of future work. "

In addition, Yu Cunping also talked about a phenomenon: "Although the fabric market is not ideal in 2019, the number of orders on the market is not much less than in previous years. Only tens of thousands of meters or even hundreds of thousands of meters have become extremely rare, and hundreds of thousands of small ones have become more numerous. "He said. In addition to the huge inventory pressure faced by the fabric enterprises, the pressure on the inventory of clothing enterprises is also very large. The number of large orders in the future will only be less than before. The "small and multiple" list will become a new normal.

"Now that online stores are booming, customers have higher requirements for delivery time. Upgrading and upgrading of equipment is particularly important. Now, under the circumstance that the environment is not optimistic, our company has introduced a large number of imported equipment this year to achieve double improvements in productivity and efficiency. Yu Cunping believes that whoever can adapt himself to this new normal will be able to take the lead in the future textile market.

In order to achieve rapid response, there are still a lot of hard work on hardware. Glacier Fabric Co., Ltd. Xu Bingzhong, chairman of the company Proud to say, Half of the company's current production equipment is customized, and it is "tailor-made" for the production of industrial cloth. It has strong pertinence. The other half of the equipment is independently developed by the company, including continuous cooking and refining machine, electric heating setting machine, ultrasonic edge trimming machine and other automation equipment, which can effectively ensure controllable production and technical stability.

"After more than ten years of service, I still firmly believe that the textile industry is a sunrise industry. Xu Bingzhong said that he is promoting the intelligent production and management of industrial IOT within the company, making the production environment cleaner, less consumption of resources and higher technology content.