In order to timely understand the commencement of the industrial textile industry in 2022 and provide targeted consulting suggestions to enterprises, industries and government departments, China Industrial Textile Industry Association recently carried out online research in the industry in the spring of 2022.
1、 Basic information of the interviewed Enterprises
Since the questionnaire was distributed on February 14, a total of 312 questionnaires have been recovered as of February 21. Excluding duplicates and other invalid questionnaires, a total of 295 valid questionnaires have been collected. From a regional perspective, the enterprises surveyed are mainly concentrated in Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, accounting for 67.46% of the total. The other enterprises surveyed are mainly distributed in Guangdong, Shanghai, Hebei, Anhui, Fujian, Henan and Hubei, basically covering the main producing areas of industrial textiles in China. From the perspective of industry distribution, the interviewed enterprises are mainly distributed in the fields of safety and protection textiles, medical and health textiles, nonwoven coiled materials, rope nets, filtration and separation textiles, and some enterprises in other fields of industrial textiles and fiber and equipment industries also submitted questionnaires.
In terms of scale, 9.83% of the surveyed enterprises have an annual sales revenue of more than 1 billion yuan, 8.14% have a sales revenue of between 500 million yuan and 1 billion yuan, 34.24% have a sales revenue of between 100 million yuan and 500 million yuan, and another 14.24% belong to enterprises below scale.
2、 Industry operation from January to February 2022
（1） The industry started smoothly
The surveyed enterprises are highly satisfied with the operation status in the first two months. 11.53% of the enterprises think the current operation status is very good, 40.34% of the enterprises think the operation status is relatively good, and 42.37% of the enterprises think the operation status is general, as shown in Figure 1. Compared with the proportion of enterprises in the same period of last year, the proportion of enterprises that think their operation is very good increased by 11.9 percentage points and 87.9 percentage points respectively.
By indexing the operation, the prosperity index of the industry from January to February was 73.1, which decreased significantly compared with the same period last year (81.7), but it is still far higher than the boom and bust line (50). In terms of sub fields, the prosperity of textiles for filtration and separation, wire belts, paper-making textiles, military textiles, equipment and accessories is high, of which the prosperity index of Military Textiles reaches 83.3, while the prosperity index of medical and sanitary textiles and nonwovens is relatively low, but it is still above the boom and bust line
（2） Market demand remained stable
For the current order situation, the surveyed enterprises generally said that the order volume had increased, but the growth rate was small. The domestic order index was 65.7 and the international order index was 57.3, which was basically the same as that in the same period last year (domestic 66 and international 57). When it comes to orders on hand, 34.24% of the respondents said that the company has a relatively stable and continuous source of orders, 8.81% said that orders on hand can support production for more than 3 months, nearly 20% of orders can support production within 3 months, and 24.41% of orders can support production within 1 month, 12.88% of enterprises said that orders on hand could support half a month's production.
（3） The momentum of resumption of work and production is good
Due to the repeated outbreaks during the Spring Festival, the initiative of "Celebrating the new year on the spot" has been mentioned for the second consecutive year. Therefore, the resumption of work and production of enterprises in the past two years is significantly better than that in previous years. As of late February, nearly three-quarters of the enterprises surveyed said that all the workers had arrived, and 15.59% of the enterprises said that about 75% of the workers had arrived. 20.34% of the surveyed enterprises have been in full production, 34.92% of the enterprises' production capacity has been restored by 80%, 60% of the enterprises have reached 27.12%, and about 5% of the enterprises' production capacity has been restored by less than 40%.
（4） Rising business costs
The price of main raw materials in the industrial textile industry has entered an upward channel since 2021 and is still at a high level in early 2022. The price index of raw materials reached 83.7. Nearly 70% of the surveyed enterprises said that the price of raw materials had increased in varying degrees, and nearly 30% of the enterprises said that the increase was more than 10%. The labor cost of enterprises continued the upward trend for many years, and the labor cost index was 83.2, higher than the level of the same period last year (74). The rise of raw material costs and labor costs has led to the rise of product prices of some enterprises in varying degrees, but nearly 60% of the enterprise's product prices remain basically unchanged. The enterprise's product price index is 56.9, lower than the raw material price and labor cost index.