The most “crazy” raw material after the Lantern Festival is nylon. If it used to ride on the rising prices of bulk raw materials, it seems that this is no longer the case. After all, other raw materials have recently It has stopped, but it is still growing wildly!
As downstream weaving companies gradually resume production, the current operating rate of weaving and warp knitting covered yarn factories is around 50-70% and is gradually rising. In addition, catering to the rising trend, the “crazy” nylon has no intention of “cooling down” .
As shown in the figure above, the price of nylon chips, the direct raw material of nylon yarn, has increased by 800 yuan/ton in just one week. Currently, the price of conventional spun glossy chips is 20,100-21,400 yuan/ton, and the price of high-speed spun semi-gloss chips is 20,600 yuan/ton. -21,600 yuan/ton. The price of nylon filament has also increased by 500~900 yuan/ton compared with last week. In addition, the inventory pressure of nylon companies is only about 18 days, which is at a low level, which has once again pushed up the price of nylon.
I originally thought that nylon manufacturers would be proud of this, but after the author’s inquiry, I learned that they are actually under great pressure. As a salesperson of Kaibang Nylon Technology Company, which has a production capacity of 110,000 tons, he also told the author that the quality of raw materials The price increase forces them to raise prices to reduce the shrinkage of profits, which is really stressful.
Let’s first talk about the raw material cost of nylon yarn
According to statistics, my country’s total caprolactam production capacity in 2016 was 2.63 million tons, with an additional production capacity of 300,000 tons. In 2017, the new production capacity was around 600,000 tons. Although the supply is more abundant than last year, due to the influence of industry supply and demand, Whether these new production capacities can lower the costs of nylon yarn companies will have a limited impact for the time being! The increase in the price of caprolactam will inevitably lead to an increase in the price of nylon chips. With the price of chips rising by 800 yuan/ton in just one week, it is no wonder that someone recently joked: “The nylon chips are the culprit of the skyrocketing price of nylon filaments!”
With the skyrocketing price of nylon yarn, what kind of pressure are downstream weaving companies facing?
The author asked about a weaving company in Shengze that uses nylon yarn as its main raw material. The person in charge of the company said: “The so-called ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’. The surge in nylon will inevitably drive the rise in nylon and cotton gray fabrics. Depending on the variety, the increase will be different, probably all.” More than fifty cents.” The person in charge also told the author that he had better prepare enough raw materials when receiving orders a year ago. Otherwise, if the current raw materials were used to produce the orders with prices signed years ago, let alone no profit at all, he might have lost money! Therefore, in this era of uncertain raw material prices, “to stockpile or not to stockpile” is really a question worth pondering more than “survival or destruction”.
To sum up, the author believes that with the arrival of the textile peak season in March and April, there will be a wave of market conditions in the nylon market. Are you ready?
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