Rising Prices Of Silk: Xiamen'S Clothing Industry Is Forced To Reduce Its Consumption.

From April onwards, the frenzy of silk in Suzhou and Hangzhou is not inferior to the rising cotton: from 180 thousand yuan / ton to 250 thousand yuan / ton, and even to 300 thousand yuan per ton recently.

It is understood that the rising tide of silk has spread to the clothing enterprises and silk market in Xiamen.

Affected by this, the price of silk fabrics has been quietly increased, and many enterprises have to greatly reduce the use of pure silk fabrics.

Silk is up 10%.

"The boss is buying in Hangzhou, and telephoned to say that the price there has been rising, and told us that the price should be controlled, even the old customers could not reduce the price."

Yesterday, a salesperson at a silk store in Hexi West said with no ambiguity.

Reporters noted that recently, in the main producing area of Jiangsu and Hangzhou, the price of silk products is performing extremely frenzied: the price of silk has been rising at a rate of one thousand or two thousand yuan per ton, which has risen from 180 thousand yuan per ton in April to 250 thousand yuan / ton, and there is no sign of stopping.

Moreover, the whole silk industry chain has discovered the phenomenon that "flour is more expensive than bread" - cocoons are 20 thousand yuan / ton more than silk.

Silk prices rise rapidly to Xiamen market.

The salesperson told reporters that the price of their new products had already increased since last month, so the price of the store has also been adjusted accordingly: the clothing discount has been pferred from the original half off to forty percent off, and the ten percent off sold silk has no longer been discounted.

Miss Li, another silk clothing store, said that the average price of silk clothing has increased by twenty or thirty yuan per year since the beginning of this year.

However, because the sales season of silk is now very high, they dare not rush to raise their prices. "If the price goes up again, we will follow suit."

Reduce clothing and silk materials

"We now use more silk and cotton, hemp and other mixed fabrics, and only a few garments made of pure silk fabrics."

Zhang Aimin, chairman of Santa Fe, said that although they also use silk, they have less consumption and little impact.

According to industry sources, most of the mid-range clothing brands have minimized the use of pure silk fabrics in addition to high-end clothing brands that are not sensitive to raw material prices.

The news from a garment factory specializing in the production of silk fashion in Xiamen confirms this statement.

According to them, their current silk fashion production is decreasing year by year, and now only accounts for 30% of the total output, and it has reached 90% before.

"Besides the adjustment of the company's development strategy, price is an important reason."

The person in charge of the plant said.

But in Zhang Aimin's view, the use of silk fabrics is not only a price factor, but also an important reason for dressing habits.

"Pure silk clothing is easy to wrinkle, not good care and maintenance, and does not conform to the modern urban fast-paced life."