Recently, a cloth boss said: "Our company has received orders in June next year. They are all recycled fabrics. A total of 1.4 million meters have been laid before and after. The production time span is relatively large because of custom weaving."

It seems that recycled fabrics that have been lonely for more than half a year have started to catch on again. Indeed, it is understood that the sales of manufacturers producing recycled fabrics on the market are beginning to rise. A manufacturer of recycled fabrics reported: "From August of the second half of the year, the sales of recycled fabrics have been very good. So far, the inventory is almost clear. Some specifications may have to wait a few days to get the goods."

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In the first half of the year, recycled fabrics were affected by the epidemic and no one cares.

Recycled fabrics have always been a very popular type of fabrics in recent years. In particular, the EU government has issued orders to ban textile waste and requires member states to start special textile recycling from 2025 to increase the recycling rate of textile fabrics. This paper ban has pushed recycled fabrics to a peak, and recycled fabrics in the domestic market are rapidly blooming. But in the first half of this year, recycled fabrics were once desolate, and some weaving factories even stopped the production of recycled fabrics and switched to other products.

Orders for recycled fabrics were bleak in the first half of the year, mainly due to the epidemic. Although all fabric orders in the first half of the year were affected by the epidemic, the impact of recycled fabrics was even greater. We all know that the demand for recycled fabrics is mainly in the export market, especially in Europe and the United States. The domestic market is relatively small, but it is gradually increasing. However, the European and American markets, which account for the largest demand for recycled fabrics, are also the most severely affected areas. The entire apparel consumer market is shrinking. Not only that, but the consumption trend is shifting to the middle and low end. Therefore, the demand for recycled fabrics that are more expensive than ordinary fabrics is sharp decline.

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In the second half of the year, orders for recycled fabrics began to resume with clothing sales.

It started to improve again in the second half of the year, and the important thing is naturally the improvement of foreign trade orders. Although the overseas epidemic has deteriorated again recently, the overall foreign trade exports have recovered more than half, and the number of orders for foreign trade fabrics is acceptable. With the recovery of foreign trade orders, orders for recycled fabrics are also recovering. After all, many foreign clothing brands have set a flag to use 100% recycled fabrics in the future. The recovery of sales of these brands means that the demand for recycled fabrics is recovering.

Adidas: announced the full use of recycled polyester fiber in 2024! Reached a cooperation with the sustainable brand Allbirds to explore the development of renewable materials;

ZARA: Before 2025, 100% of the products of all brands of the group, including Zara, Pull & Bear, and Massimo Dutti, will be made of sustainable fabrics;

H&M: By 2030, 100% of materials from renewable or other sustainable sources will be used...

The editor also learned that most of the orders for recycled fabrics received in the second half of the year were for the production of winter clothing, and rarely received orders for recycled fabrics for the production of spring and summer clothing. Not long ago, the owner of Youbu received an order for 1.5 million meters of recycled chiffon, and it was cancelled by 30% the next day. Although the amount of orders after the cancellation was still large, it illustrates the clothing business’s expectations for spring and summer clothing. Poor, so reduce the number. At the beginning of the editor, the 1.4 million meters of recycled fabrics received by the cloth boss are also used for winter clothing in 2021, of which recycled nylon ultra-fine denier fabrics are mostly.

Spring and summer clothing inventory will be sold again next year

Judging from the number of orders, the clothing business's forecast for next year's clothing sales is biased towards autumn and winter clothing, and sales expectations for spring and summer clothing are not optimistic. On the one hand, due to the epidemic, the spring and summer clothing in the first half of this year has almost no sales, and there are still many stocks. Therefore, next spring and summer will mainly digest this year's stock and reduce the development of new products. Originally it should be the peak season for spring and summer orders, but from the current market situation, the number of spring and summer orders is not large, and autumn and winter clothing are still the main ones. Therefore, the actual order situation also reflects the bias of spring and summer clothing. less.

Next year's autumn and winter clothing sales or will return to the same period in previous years

On the other hand, according to the latest news of recent vaccines, production will be put into production at the end of this year. The most optimistic expectation is that the overseas epidemic in the second half of next year will be controlled on a large scale. Once the epidemic is under control, sales in the apparel industry will soon recover. In the first half of next year, it may be in the early stage of economic recovery and epidemic control. Sales of spring and summer clothing will not pick up anytime soon, so clothing companies are more cautious in stocking. In the second half of next year, there is a high probability that the epidemic can be controlled, the economy is recovering well, and the demand for autumn and winter clothing will also increase, so the stocking volume is greater than that of spring and summer clothing.

With the recovery of clothing sales, whether at home or abroad, sustainable development will be the theme of the future, and recycled fabrics will become many