In addition to the import problem, there will also be price increases. According to understanding, since this year, the price of solid wood has increased 2 times, the price of sponge 7 times, the price of carton increased 5 times, the price of iron increased 3 times, and the price of accessories increased 2 times. The price of leather rose by more than 70%, and the price of leather followed one after another. In September, another wave of price increases of pvc raw materials was staged.
Nearly 80% of the wood used in the home furnishing industry is imported. Currently, major foreign ports are closed under the influence of the epidemic; coupled with the impact of rising domestic costs, supply gaps, environmental storms, etc., since September, wood prices have been continuously and comprehensively rise.
According to industry analysis, as far as the current global economic situation is concerned, if the inventory is exhausted, it will become more and more difficult to import wood from Thailand, Indonesia, Russia, the United States and other places, and the cost will become higher and higher. With the superimposition of costs, logistics and other costs, it is estimated that wood products will increase by more than 30%, or even double.
In particular, the domestic manufacturing industry is in the status quo of “two ends, large imports and large exports”. The production and processing links with the highest added value are also affected by the epidemic and labor cost growth. According to Sohu Focus Home, many board and flooring companies plant woodland at home and abroad to obtain quality.
Other Pu decorative moulding companies also often go to Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries to set up factories in order to improve the overseas layout, which also increases the test of the company’s operating costs and layout.
Under the dual predicament, how can the floor material companies make efforts?
The import gap is large and the price of raw materials rises frequently. Faced with these two cost mountains, what are the countermeasures for the ground material companies? According to Sohu Focus Home Watch, since the beginning of this year, the domestic demand for healthy consumption has been rising. The home furnishing industry has aimed at the healthy outlet and launched high value-added products, such as products made of aldehyde-free sheets, or younger ones with a sense of design product.
Aldehyde-free is the upgrade demand of consumers for high-quality consumption, and the design is an upgrade in the aesthetic sense and is the most easily perceivable by consumers. Both of these two major upgrade directions have brought new impetus to the improvement of flooring companies.
On the other hand, the country is vigorously advocating the environmental protection and technological advancement of Pu decorative moulding enterprises, especially in view of the current situation of “two ends, large in and large out” in the import of wood raw materials, enterprises cannot abandon the most valuable production and processing links.
Therefore, in-depth research in the manufacturing process and more research and development efforts to produce and process new products are all major companies’ roads to break the situation. According to Sohu Focus Home, the current direction of corporate innovation is mainly concentrated in several aspects:
Post time: Dec-16-2020