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China - Mass culling due to H7N9 results in feather and down prices doubling

sharon sanders

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Avian influenza caused by duck down jacket escape a price doubled up
2013-06-05 10:44:31 Hangzhou Network
Day hot things like cold weather, after a few months, maybe you have to buy a new jacket, duvet pay an extra lot of money.

That although the sudden outbreak of bird flu was gone, but it blew the price down, "fly" together, a month doubling of prices, ranking the highest bit.

With the shortage of raw wool signal, all aspects of the industry chain are affected by the price change. Xiaoshan, the "feather are" a lot of down products within the enterprise on pins and needles; moment when the feather industry production season, shortage of raw materials to bring down production costs rose sharply, so that European and American businessmen also felt bursts


Coolness. Many consumers are heart silently called a question mark: this winter down jacket, down comforters will price it?
Crazy hair down a hard to find

"Search Mao squad" live toured

Xiaoshan Xintang streets, gathered hundreds of feather and related products business, the basic export-oriented. Now is the feather products production season, we are looking for companies "hair" to worry about.

For 20 years down, Hangzhou Samsung Down Products Co., Ltd. Deputy General Manager Duda Sheng was the first time this year, this market encounter: more than a month down the price doubled.

The gains from mid-April after the outbreak of avian influenza in poultry have been culled mass begins.

Currently, the amount of cashmere 100% white duck down (raw wool) from early March to 300,000 yuan / ton rose now 60 yuan / ton, in mid-May was ascribed to 700,000 yuan / ton.

"In the past duck is a price, the two sides signed a purchase agreement, duck than the actual selling price agreement only low prices, not higher than it, but this year broke the law." Duda Sheng said that from mid-April, one day down the price a change, or even early, middle and late quotations are not the same.

Samsung's main business is exporting feather duvet bedding, annual consumption of 1,500 tons this down, but it is also a lot of enterprises outside the province down raw material suppliers, down throughout the year add up to the total demand for 2,000 tons. "Now is the sell out (down), buy does not come in (raw material)."

Down to the acquisition of raw wool mainly domestic origin, there are also a few from France, Canada, Thailand, but the proportion is very small. In China, the main raw material for the manufacture of feather has two sources, one to retail acquisitions, two from large farms, slaughterhouses purchase.

"The market is fragmented feather unstable quality, quantity is not much, we mostly bulk purchase from a number of areas." Duda Sheng said different origin, raw texture is different, such as Shandong in white duck mainly in Northeast Goose-based, gray duck main origin of Guangxi, Sichuan and Chongqing.

April 27, China Feather & Down Industrial Association, in its official website posted a letter to dealers down the industry open letter. Stating that, by the spread of avian influenza, strand breaks down the industry raw material supply, production enterprises down into "the most difficult period." This letter, so many anxious peers down, and let the industry ushered in the most severe test.

Many enterprises in Xiaoshan down to the acquisition of raw wool mainly in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi, are epidemic occurred, many companies had to travel to non-infected acquisition of raw wool, such as the northeast, Shandong and Guangdong provinces, the avian flu epidemic, the long- Triangle almost no consumers eat chicken duck feather supply plummeted.

"In fact, prices are now robbed out." Duda Sheng said, now grab the goods in the country, even the "popular" Northeast regions have become "hot", no matter how much money duck down, all acquisitions.

A "hair" hard to find, but also led down various companies adopted piecemeal - "Search Mao team" attack, the months of purchasing the scene.

"You're not looking at the side, it will be bought by others." Samsung's six members of this team, recently active in all areas. "Now it is to sell you face, the final say by the other conditions that must be ready money."

Breeding period takes 40 to 50 days

Recovery can not keep down production orders will trip

Down products in major shopping centers in Hangzhou counter is down the end of the industrial chain.

Every summer, down jacket sales business will be in three Sizhe efforts, promotion last year or years longer jacket style. But this anti-quarter sales this year are not very to the force.

"Now the raw materials are expensive, and this year is certainly going to go up a down jacket." The teller said bluntly.

The current market: content at 100% white duck down raw material price 600,000 yuan / ton, equivalent to 300 yuan / kg, while early March only 150 ~ 160 yuan / kg, producing a down jacket normally takes about 200 grams down, and Compared to last year, a down jacket down costs used up at least $ 60.

Passed to the hands of the end consumer, this effect is magnified. "Simply put, the cost rose by 60 million, to be sold to consumers at least expensive 180 yuan." Down a production company official said, the industry is more agreeable to the price increases of 20%, if the high point of brand awareness This price increase will be greater.

Duvet was affected by the greater because the amount of more. "In general, a down duvet jacket is 10 times the amount." Asi Textile Co., Ltd., chairman of the Kingdom of said down-filled duvet costs accounted for about 70%, the rest of fabrics, accessories, labor, packaging costs accounted for 30%.

"Each duck down very small body, the abdomen is authentic cashmere wool." Kingdom reached that point in popular parlance, more than 100 ducks can do duvet.

Asi's flagship product is the textile duvet specifications about 1.25 to 1.5 kg a year requires a lot of raw materials down. Soon usher in the production season, facing down the high prices, they are also very anxious.

"Theoretically projected doubling of prices down, the second half of the production cost at least double duvet, but the actual price has not yet finally determined." Kingdom of saying, on the one hand, part of last year's inventory of raw materials can absorb some down costs while , also taking into account consumer acceptance, or not too much.

The June and July last year, is the peak of ordering jackets, but this year the atmosphere a little bit special. A jacket Agents Wei told reporters last month, he took part in the Hangzhou ordering a brand down jacket, which is a "very special" orders will showcase a variety of jacket 300 no price, agents can only evidently under orders.

Then down production will not rebound? Down insiders view is cashmere need cycle breeding cycle generally takes 40 to 50 days, as to whether to return to the number before the outbreak of bird flu, is still unknown.

High prices forcing foreign change orders

Duvets, fiber quilt, nearly ten times the price difference

These two days, Samsung feather trade manager was busy customers to confirm orders with the United States to modify things. The other is a major U.S. department store chain, the annual light duvet had 150,000 orders.

An outlet duvet (down content 75%) of the ex-factory price is around $ 80, this year, had to face the fact: down raw material prices nearly doubled, duvet prices rise by at least 60%.

Because it is old passenger, the two sides to communicate back and forth several times, either the price or change orders, price increases in the range of 20% to 30%, even so, have to bear the other half of their own costs. "Several times to communicate, they choose to be part of duvet into fiber." Said the sales manager, and 20 yuan / kg compared to the cost of fiber, feather price is too expensive, and America's terminal can not be so casual price increases.

"This year's foreign trade was hard to live down products, can do less loss or no loss on the good." Fan Xiaoming, general manager of Zhejiang Hengdi bedding had similar problems. The company was established in 2006 when the flagship duvets, when sales of 150 million yuan, and now, this proportion had shrunk to less than 5%, and the momentum is fiber being caught up in this economic downturn in Europe and America there is a certain relationship between consumption.

"Now the list duvet too late to escape, dare more then ah." Fan Xiaoming said that several large hand list is long before the appearance of bird flu signed, did not take into account the prices of raw materials so fast. "Now we are in active discussion with the customers, reducing orders or change orders, or chemical change is, nearly ten times the price difference between the two."

"Thanks to do, and still find a way through this difficult period. Feather industry is really getting harder and harder." Fan Xiaoming more than once lamented.

Xiaoshan gathered more than 120 export enterprises down products, down and down products exports more than three percent nationwide, many companies feel chill.

Animal and Plant Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Zhejiang Xiaoshan Director Tong Lanying, said the past three years, down products exports have consecutive batches, the amount of double-drop, in which the international market downturn, gradually narrowing the scale poultry farming, plush feather raw materials continued to rise as the main reason, the occurrence of avian influenza so greatly increase the cost of down products, the export will be worse. January to May, 2946 batch Xiaoshan export feather bedding, down 4.3%. This effect will continue: There are some companies order is signed before the appearance of bird flu, the price and quantity of well established, raw material shortages and rising prices may cause the contract can not perform, even if the raw material procurement, it is likely loss situation.

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