Labor cost advantage is no longer raw textile enterprises face competition
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2013-05-24 12:40:38
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Go to work every day, Guoxin Zhong first thing is to open the computer to see the trend of global oil futures. Every change in oil prices are likely to affect his next step in the management of enterprises.
While watching the price of oil changes, but Guoxin Zhong was not doing oil business, he is not the boss of logistics enterprises, his identity is Silk, Textile Co., Ltd.. This business is located in Weifang City, the textile enterprises in our province, the flagship product for cotton yarn, special thread yarn, high-density fabrics, apparel fabrics, the comprehensive competitiveness of the cotton textile industry into the national top 20 and the national textile and garment enterprises competitiveness 500 Strong.
Guoxin Zhong reason for concern in oil prices, because he resides textile industry is closely related with the oil. Since the cotton price advantage is no longer, the silk square has greatly reduced the use of cotton, cotton products currently account for only 50% of the raw material, the other 50% is a variety of fibers. The fibers, such as polyester, nylon, spandex, etc. are derived from the petrochemical industry. Generally, when oil prices rise, various chemical products offer will follow higher.
Textile and garment enterprises and international market linkages than most people imagine to be much closer. Although the domestic market is huge, but the province‘s textile and garment enterprises, from the outset is the face of the globalization of big market, the cost advantage was once the biggest advantage of the entire industry.
Since 2012, the international cotton prices generally showed a downward trend, while the domestic cotton prices in the country under the support of temporary storage remain high, the domestic price of one ton of cotton than foreign high 5000 yuan, for a long time even up to 6000 yuan. 2012, Silk, cotton, 16,000 tons were used, all require quotas imported cotton. In front of a huge spread of cotton import quotas has also become a tool for rent-seeking, one ton quota a hands often can earn more than 3,000 yuan.
Cotton as raw material uncompetitive, Silk, select the increasing use of other fibers, fiber is one of them. In recent years, Silk, developed a modal fiber, bamboo fiber, flame retardant fiber and other products, including biomass functions hemp fiber yarn, cotton yarn series of new super imitation and others also entered the provincial technological innovation projects.
Biomass hemp, the original color is not good, the production of fabrics in gray, yellow mostly through technical improvements can now any color. These new fibers as silk square this year‘s flagship product.
Plagued the entire textile and garment industry and labor costs have risen sharply. For a long period of time, low labor costs gave its response to multiple challenges to the industry, but this advantage has gone. 2011, 2012 for two years, Silk, annual growth in wages for workers in more than 20%, the current front-line workers the average wage of 3,000 yuan.
Even more worrying is that recruitment difficulties. In recent years, although the garment and textile industry, wages are not low, but because of the noise, labor-intensive and other issues, many young people are no longer willing to do textiles. Guoxin Zhong clearly remember, 1985 years ago, the staff is to bring money into the mill come, to pay 15,000 yuan per person training costs. Now, let alone pay, late-onset day there is wage worker knocks on your door; workers eat free meals at 5 yuan per person per meal standards, silk square meals a month spending would twenty eighty-nine ten thousand yuan .
Rising costs, labor problems forced Silk, difficult to accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading. "At present, the Vietnamese labor costs in the 80 to 100 U.S. dollars a month, at $ 60 in India, China, and they can not be compared, have lost their advantages, we must avoid weaknesses, we must adjust the structure." Guoxin Zhong said.
As in the low end of the industry chain, lowering costs to become one of the priorities silk square. compressed to 3,800 people.
2012, silk party machine material consumption reduced by 20% year on year, 11.6 per cent reduction in packing materials, pulp decreased by 11%, electricity consumption decreased by 5.9%, water consumption decreased by 7.82%. Do not underestimate consumption reduced by 5.9% a year down to save $ 3.5 million. As a boss, Guoxin Zhong clear about the cost of the enterprise, he opened his mouth to say the major changes in tariff period: During the day, 8:00 to 10:00, 1.09 yuan per kilowatt; 11:00 to 17:00, 0.8 per kWh Yuan; 23:00 to 7:00 the next morning, 0.25 yuan per kilowatt. To reduce costs, Silk, is only open during the daytime host, ancillary equipment not open.
Although there have been progress on new fabrics, silk party products but less and less space for excess profits, because other companies to catch up faster and faster pace. In modal fiber, for example, the fiber used to be relatively high margin products, but the whole industry enterprises currently in production Modal, "profit on the go."
2012, Silk, achieved sales income of 1.05 billion yuan, up 14.64 percent; exports $ 21,290,000, an increase of 25.94%. This situation is much better than the industry average.
- Industry Background International orders partial flows in Southeast Asia
The province is the clothing textile province, there are currently garment and textile enterprises above designated size more than 4200. 2012, by the weak external demand, domestic demand has slowed down, domestic cotton spreads widening, prices and other factors of production factors, garment and textile industry in our province showed significant growth deceleration trend.
Province Textile Industry Association statistics show that in 2012, the province‘s total exports of garment and textile enterprises 19.759 billion U.S. dollars, down 3.08 percent. Among them, textile exports 9.166 billion U.S. dollars, down 5.1%; apparel exports 10.593 billion U.S. dollars, down 1.3%. By raising the cost of integrated elements, neighboring countries and other effects to enhance the competitiveness of textile, part of the order flow of international markets Southeast Asian countries, China‘s textile and apparel products in the major developed market share declined.
Currently, the province‘s garment and textile enterprises labor shortages exist to varying degrees, some enterprises employment gap of more than 40%. Recruitment difficulties, unable to retain and improve the living conditions of workers, etc., are so rigid labor costs showed an upward trend.
- Reporter‘s notes
Manufacturers to work for the channel when?
China from the world‘s factory into the world market, the domestic garment and textile enterprises rely on low-cost competitive advantage has been depleted. For reborn again become competitive industries, the industry still has a long way to go.
Learn, the more that the domestic textile and apparel market is so deformed. On the one hand, the mall‘s high-priced clothing shouted too much for the average consumer, on the other hand, the textile and garment enterprises shouting wronged. What wrong? Producers say, the mall price is at least divided by three ex-works price of 1,000 yuan a garment, and its ex-factory price but $ 300. The remaining 700 yuan whom took? Most of the mall into the pockets. The producers for the channel currently working hard to break the pattern, even big garment and textile enterprises also said that they are working for the mall.
Recent interviews with three medium-scale textile and garment enterprises, without exception, have a real estate business, including silk square. 2012, Silk, profits realized from the real estate accounted for the vast majority of corporate profits. When rely enter the real estate to cover losses when the main industry, transformation and upgrading of garment and textile enterprises is not the things they say goes. |
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