Cotton Prices Have Fallen By Half, But Less Pure Cotton Clothes.

Ms. Hong, a member of the public, went to the supermarket to buy the whole family yesterday (November 23rd). Cotton jersey She found that the underwear of all cotton in this supermarket is obviously less than two years ago. Many brands have launched a large number of cotton and chemical fiber blended or known as new fiber materials. Fabric Let her not know what to pick. At the time of picking cotton picking season all over the country, reporters learned yesterday from the Wuxi textile industry association that the average cotton price fell by 53% in the beginning of this year. Cotton prices have plummeted. Why can we buy less pure cotton clothes on the market?

　　 Background: Cotton price A decrease of 53% over the past year.

After the surge last year, cotton prices began to reverse again this year. According to Wuxi Spin According to the latest statistics from the industry association, the price of 328 standard cotton has dropped sharply from the 32000 yuan per ton at the peak to the current 19800 yuan, the average decline has reached 53%. After the introduction of the cotton purchasing policy, the cotton prices began to stabilize gradually.

"If the surge in cotton prices last year is the metal attribute of futures speculation, then this year can be seen as a return of market attributes." Wu Zhiqing, President of Wuxi Textile Industry Association, analyzed that the sharp reduction in price is the combined effect of various factors, which is affected by the European and American economy, and the order quantity of domestic textile enterprises is reduced and the purchasing quotas are reduced. The rise of cotton prices last year has also led to the difficulty of digesting downstream industries and forcing cotton prices to fall. Due to insufficient orders, some small and medium-sized enterprises in Zhejiang, Shandong and other provinces have stopped production or half stop production. In Zhi Qing's view, the demand for the whole cotton spinning industry is even worse than that in 2008. "At that time, it was only a downturn in the international market, but now there is a sharp decline in international and domestic demand."

However, judging from the situation of Wuxi cotton spinning enterprises, only a few small factories have stopped some equipment, and the operation of large factories is relatively stable. According to the analysis of Wuxi Textile Industry Association, this is closely related to the management level and market positioning of cotton spinning enterprises in our city. "Many of our cotton spinning enterprises adjusted the market in time for the financial crisis in 2008, aiming at the domestic high-end market. Now, the market outlook of the professional clothes is good." Wu Zhiqing said.

　　 Visit: comfortable Pure cotton No longer a selling point.

In a fast fashion brand store, Xiao Lin felt a soft Jersey. He thought his hand was not bad. He saw that the price was 99 yuan, which was not expensive, and he bought it at once. But when he came home, he thought cotton jersey was only 30% of cotton, and the other 70% was polyester. "I've bought this brand before, and several bottoming shirts are made of pure cotton. This year's jersey is all made of this kind of fabric. No wonder it feels more slippery than before. It turns out that chemical fiber plays a leading role." Xiao Lin regrets.

Reporters yesterday visited several shopping malls and supermarkets in the center of the city to visit the underwear counters. It is obvious that all kinds of new fabrics are rapidly replacing the traditional pure cotton fabrics. Although most of the garments are marked with cotton, they are only the percentage of cotton, and many of them are made of acrylic, nylon, Lycra and polyester fibers. A brand of cotton sweater is marked with cotton, and about 10% of the spandex ingredients are carefully examined. In addition, there are many new types of underwear, such as bamboo fiber, wood fiber, silk, and so on. They feel more slippery than cotton ones. In the past, it is also very difficult to find a pure cotton in the past winter cotton clothes. More than 80% of them are chemical fibers. For the question of why journalists are wearing less and less clothing, a salesperson said, "now many new fabrics are comfortable to wear than pure cotton, and some high-tech components have a very good sweat absorption function, and they are not as easy to transform as cotton is worn."

Question: why does cotton price fall and cotton is not used?

Cotton prices plummeted. Why do people wear less pure cotton clothes? "It's nothing strange." Wu Zhiqing analysis, first of all compared with cotton prices, although the price of chemical fiber has also risen in recent years, but the overall increase is much smaller than cotton, its current price is only about 2/3 of cotton. Secondly, the world's cotton production also can not meet the market demand. "The international market is 11 million tons of cotton output a year, domestic output is 650 to 7 million tons, the annual import volume is about 2000000 tons, and the domestic market still has about 2 million tons of gap, so we can only use chemical fiber to fill this gap." Thirdly, the history of replacing cotton products with chemical fiber products is still in the 2008 financial crisis. "At that time cotton prices were high and international orders were inadequate. Many cotton spinning enterprises in our city adjusted their structure in time to purchase cheaper chemical fibers to develop blended products to reduce cost pressures." Wu Zhiqing said, from then on, the market speed and the listing of chemical fiber clothing began more and more.

In addition to price factors, the speed of development of chemical fiber has also accelerated its market share in recent years. It turned out that many people think that chemical fiber is simply polyester, acrylic, wearing breathless, has long been eliminated by the market. However, according to the actual situation of the reporters, the chemical fiber products appear in many brands in the new image of hi-tech new materials. Especially on outdoor brands, many fast drying, waterproof and warm chemical fiber fabrics have been welcomed by more and more young people, and the price has gradually surpassed cotton clothing. Reporters saw in a shopping mall, a sports brand nearly style long sleeve T-shirt, pure cotton more than 200 yuan will be able to win, and chemical fiber fabrics sold to more than 500 yuan. Wu Zhiqing told reporters that at present, the weaving process of chemical fiber has reached the international level, but there is still a big gap between the level of finishing technology and the international first-class level. "If our enterprises can improve this process rapidly, chemical fiber can basically replace cotton, and the proportion of chemical fibers will not be higher."