INTEGRITY QUALITY SERVICE - Saha-Union Co., Ltd

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SAHA-UNION
SAHA-UNION PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
TEXTILE BUSINESS
TYPES OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES
Companies in the textile group are engaged in the production
of 4 product categories:
1. Garment accessories such as zippers, threads, and
buttons.
2. Fabric textile production from the process of yarn
spinning to fabric weaving. The products are made
of 100% cotton, cotton blended with polyester and/or
synthetic fabrics with special qualifications for making
work wear and fabrics used in other industries.
3. Garment: fashion apparel and work wear.
4. Clean room garments
SUPPLY OF MATERIALS FOR PRODUCTION
OR SERVICE
The core materials are cotton, mostly imported for the
production process, and synthetic fabric, bought from
domestic suppliers and imported. The production of garments
and clean room garments has fabric and sewing supplies as
core production factors. Fabrics with special qualifications
are partly imported and partly supplied domestically.
PERFORMANCE IN 2011
The production in this group emphasized on technical work
wear as appropriate with the capability of the production
process. In 2011, sales volume increased from the previous
year, due to the price increased in line with the rising costs
of raw materials.
Fabrics’ sales value also increased from the previous year.
63% of all sales was exported, 97.5% of which to EU countries
and the rest to Japan. Domestic sales contributed to 37%
of all sales.
Garment’s sales volume decreased from the previous year,
but sales value increased. 90% of all sales was exported,
88.5% of which to Europe. From such figure, it was inevitable
that the EU economic problem significantly brought down the
orders of textile industry at the end of last year.
As for the market in the first half of the year, since the textile
price continuously increased as from 2010, buyers increased
more orders as they feared of the increasing price. On the
second half, the textile price fell because the economic
recession hit Europe and buyers slowed down their orders
as they waited for the price to fall, resulting in the smaller
demand in the market and severing affecting the competition
in terms of price and delivery period.
In 2011, the fluctuation of raw material prices especially
of cotton was the main problem because cotton was an
imported material; thus, there was limitation of material
supply in terms of quantity and delivery period, resulting in
the loss of opportunity unless it was in sync with the prompt
adjustment of price.