On March 2, the National Development and Reform Commission announced that China’s daily mask production capacity and daily output have continued to grow rapidly, both exceeding 100 million pieces.
The domestic mask panic is gradually being alleviated. The price of masks, which have increased dozens of times, is slowly falling, and the domestic epidemic has been effectively controlled.
But on the contrary, the overseas epidemic is becoming more and more serious. According to public statistics, except for China, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the world has exceeded one million, which has made many people see A different kind of business opportunity.
Queue up to pick up the goods, but there is no way Can’t get the goods! Textile companies are crazy about switching to producing melt-blown fabrics and non-woven fabrics
Recently, in the circle of friends of textile people, some people are selling large quantities of mask machines, some are switching to large-scale production of non-woven fabrics, and some are selling melt-blown fabrics. The popularity of these products has exceeded all textile people’s expectations.
“We are engaged in textile foreign trade, but recently all foreign trade customers have no regular fabric orders and have all switched to other industries. Anti-epidemic fabrics. Recently, several customers have been asking us to make non-woven fabrics, and they are very urgent. One of the customers has an order volume of 1.5 million meters. At first, the payment was said to be monthly, but recently the customer has given in and said that he can “pick up the goods with payment” “It’s still rare for customers to take the initiative to make concessions on payment methods, but non-woven fabrics are so popular recently. You have to queue up everywhere and you can’t get the goods at all,” said a foreign trade businessman.
According to our understanding, many overseas textile customers have temporarily given up purchasing conventional fabrics and turned to Non-woven fabrics and other anti-epidemic fabrics. In the entire textile market, there are only orders for this type of fabric that are “outstanding”. The large order volume, good payment methods, and high profits exceed the traditional impression of textile people on fabric orders.
And in the entire textile market, there is a tendency to “swarm” and seize the epidemic prevention market. A follower in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang markets quit working after many years and started running mask factories everywhere, switching to the epidemic prevention fabric business. Even a freight forwarder who has never come into contact with fabrics is asking everywhere where non-woven fabrics with a weight of 30 or 50g/㎡ can be found.
Don’t be dazzled by hot money, you will take over if you are not careful!
To be honest, the editor felt very confused when I first heard this. Faced with this crazy phenomenon, any investment project that requires money will retain the due instinctive vigilance.
Mask hype was popular 2 months ago, and now mask machines and non-woven fabrics are popular. After all, everyone is still a little afraid of the lack of epidemic prevention supplies, and now seeing the situation around the world, not only are they worried about the follow-up Enter, and at the same time, I am also itching to think about whether it is an opportunity to make foreign exchange.
Especially some time ago, those who entered the market early have indeed made a lot of money. With shining examples in front of them, are they still human if they don’t rush?
But wake up friends, the ruthless editor is going to use the toilet spatula to break your dreams again.
Mask machines, melt-blown fabrics, and non-woven fabrics are currently an absolute bottomless pit for laymen in mask production and foreign trade. You may want to buy them back to make money, but if you are not careful, this When you buy something, you just receive it.
First of all, based on the fact that the final source of this industry chain is the production of masks and other protective products, let’s take a look at the current situation of masks?
1. One price a day, factories everywhere take it all, and earn 100,000 by reselling the spot
Having been in the cross-border e-commerce business for more than ten years Chen Guohua said that he had never come into contact with masks before. After the overseas epidemic broke out, a large number of customers came to ask us if we could sell masks, and that’s when we started the mask export business. Because I am in the clothing business, I quickly found out that most of the clothing factories I cooperated with before have purchased mask machines and started the mask business, so I quickly found the source of supplies.
Although domestic mask production is now on the rise, overseas markets do not need disposable masks. What is needed are relatively high-end masks such as KN95 and N95. However, the mask export business is not that easy to do. The constantly improving mask standards have made us very passive.
Currently, as long as overseas countries announce which type of mask meets the standards, this mask will definitely sell like hotcakes, and the prices of other types of masks will immediately drop. Basically, the export mask standards change once a week, and the price of masks also changes every day. High-standard masks are getting more and more expensive, and disposable masks are getting lower and lower. There is now a backlog of orders for tens of thousands of N95 masks, and several customers have not yet delivered all their goods, and customers have been urging them. And now for every 5 orders received, 2 will be returned because we can’t find the source of goods and can’t supply the goods, so we can only refund the customers.
The current domestic mask market has really refreshed the professional ethics of the entire industry, especially the mask factories, which have been unable to deliver goods. It is like squeezing out toothpaste. We are often delayed in delivering goods. Most mask factories have no credit at all. I pay to buy spot goods, but they will give you futures. Some even cannot get futures. If you want to get the goods after a period of time, you must…There is no integrity at all in accepting the price increase.
Now the spot masks are like stocks. The price changes every minute. No one may buy it one minute, but more people buy and sell it the next minute, and the price rises.
We will also encounter customer refunds, because the standards of overseas countries are changing at any time. If the masks produced before do not meet the current standards, customers will cancel the orders, and we have to refund them. After all, we will have to cooperate with other businesses in the future.
However, sometimes you can earn more by returning an order. Once, Chen Guohua just got the returned masks. In the afternoon, other customers wanted the masks, and the price increased by 1.3 yuan. He made a profit by flipping the mask. Almost 100,000.
2. All parties are pouring in to make money, and the “money printing machine” has become a “money crushing machine”
In the mask export business, overseas distributors are the most profitable. Now The prices of domestic distributors are kept very low. The last time Chen Guohua made the least money, he only made 10 cents per mask. However, when overseas distributors switched to foreign countries, he made at least one US dollar per mask, a difference of 70 times. But even if we don’t make much money, we can only go through traditional foreign trade channels, because selling masks on overseas e-commerce platforms is strictly controlled and we are not qualified to sell them. On the other hand, if we sell them through overseas e-commerce platforms, the price will be limited. .
Selling a mask on Amazon can only earn 0.5 US dollars, which does not include warehousing, freight, labor and other expenses, so there is no money at all. Chen Guohua and others simply gave up on overseas e-commerce platforms.
Now the masks we get are all sent to foreign trade companies and some logistics companies. Many logistics companies have overseas customers, so they can earn both masks and shipping costs, so they can eat both ends.
The daily logistics price is also changing. It was initially charged 40 yuan per kilogram, but now it has increased to 100 yuan per kilogram.
At the same time, Chen Guohua feels that the mask factories on the market are too chaotic. 60% of the factories have no so-called sterile workshops at all. Most of them just buy a mask machine and start working. He said that he had been to a mask production workshop once and could not see at all. It was full of dust. Workers in the workshop neither wore masks nor gloves and simply arranged the masks with their hands. Who dares to use the masks produced in this way, and who dares to wear them on their face? Nowadays, factory qualification certificates are purchased with money, and some do not even need to be purchased. Mask factories are affiliated with each other. For example, if factory A has various licenses, but factory B does not have any, then the masks produced by factory B can be linked to factory A and shipped through factory A.
This situation occurs because there is a shortage of high-standard masks such as N95, and mask factories with production capacity cannot make them. Many orders are obtained by large mask factories and then distributed to them. The large and small mask factories below are equivalent to putting together the orders together.
Many small mask factories in China are temporarily modified from clothing factories and mechanical and electrical factories, and the relevant equipment and technology are not up to standard. At the craziest time, Chen Guohua knew that a factory spent 1 million to buy a mask machine, and received orders of 1 million that day, directly recouping the cost. Everyone said before that all operating mask machines are money printing machines.
However, I have recently seen someone selling mask machines in WeChat Moments.
Now that foreign mask standards have become higher, mask machines that fail to keep up with the standards can only be eliminated. Domestic disposable masks are in overcapacity. People who come in later will not make any money, but may also lose money to buy the machine. If they don’t get rid of it quickly, the “money printing machine” will really become a “money crushing machine”.
Although exporting masks can make money, Chen Guohua has let other people in the company return to normal work. It’s enough to make quick money and withdraw. We still have to do long-term business, and I have a feeling that the mask business will not last long. </p
