Recently received price increase notification letters from your China suppliers? Listen to their grievances or treat them as lame excuses and turn to other suppliers?
Pay attention to China market, you will get the trend of raw material prices from a variety of information channels.
It is the year of 2016 and China's raw materials price fall in crazy increasing. In this year, Chinese government has taken strong actions to close down backward production facilities and many companies were eliminated. Further more, production capacity of the whole industry is on the decline, existing manufacturers can’t provide enough raw materials. Raw materials manufacturers such as steel mills and paper mills make windfall profits along with intermediate traders, while the downstream factories fall in to the operational difficulties. They not only have to bear the pressure of rising prices of raw materials, but also the rising wages and logistics costs.
To mention some samples, PVC price rose by 60%, plastic price rose by 30%, iron price rose by 30%, glass price rose by 40%, sponge price rose by 30% and carton price rose by 30% in the last 3 months.
You can see that even most of Chinese factory are affected by the increasing price.
Although the raw materials price all on the way up, but many companies didn’t raise their products price immediately because of the risk of losing their customers, many companies have to make cutbacks after complete the placed orders to reduce losses.
It’s unavoidable that our company affected by the increasing prices of raw materials as a pet toys factory. Our products are made up of many kinds of materials such as sponge, plastic, corrugated paper and so on. Both of material prices and wages for workmen are all increased. We have chosen to stand alone over the past few month, we don’t want to lose our customers.
But now, there’s no sign that the price of materials will be a decline until the following spring. We remind our customers to place orders if you have a procurement plan because we will raise the price of our products in the near future. Last, we will cut the price when the materials price is decreasing.
Winter is coming to the Northern Hemisphere and it is time to be careful with your pet. This cold weather is very easy to exacerbate the breeding of bacteria. Let’s learn some ways to prevent pet diseases.
1. Viral enteritis and distemper
Viral enteritis, minute virus and distemper are mainly transmitted from other dogs, especially from sick dogs. A few weeks after suffering from these diseases, your dog will only cough, loss of appetite, secrete yellow liquid from their eyes and nose. Some will be suffering severe diarrhea and vomiting. The most effective way to prevent is accept vaccination and stay far away from other sick dogs.
2. General gastroenteritis
You should criticize yourself first if you find your pet is suffering from general gastroenteritis because it is always caused by your excessive doting. Pet parents often fed their pets with chocolate, biscuits, crisps and some other foods. Generally speaking, kittens and puppies under six months should be feed four times to six times a day. After six month, they should be feed two times to three times a day. It’s very important to keep a healthy diet no matter in which season.
3. Cystitis
There is a high possibility that your cat will catch cystitis in cold winter. A cat toilet should be prepared for your cat to create a clean environment. At the same time, let it stay in the warm house and avoid your cat from running around outside. You can give it some interesting pet toys to kill the boring time. Moreover, interactive cat toys such as cat teasers would warm you and your cat.
4. Influenza virus
Your pets will be easier to catch Influenza virus when the weather becomes cold. Cold virus will spread with the air. So, open your windows and keep fresh air.
5. Skin diseases
Pet skin problems are always caused by four factors: ticks, food, air and disinfectant liquid. Tick is a common skin disease, can make the skin fester. Safe disinfection products should be used to instead of bad disinfection to destroy the dog tick. Remember not always give your pet a bath because they need grease to protect their skin.
At last, ask for help from your veterinarian if your pet get sick.
