Chapter 310: Jeans

Qifa Garment Factory is located in Baota Town, Mocheng. It is very remote and there is only one bus to the town in the afternoon every day. There are no buses at other times.

After leaving the station, the two had to take a taxi to Qifa Garment Factory.

Coming down the national highway, there are stretches of reed marshes along the way.

It was still very cold in the first month of the year, and the reeds in the marsh were all withered and yellow.

Swaying back and forth in the cold wind.

"When I first came here, I was scared to death," Cai Ting said to Su Jiaojiao. "If it weren't for Liu Wenji, I would have thought I was abducted."

"It's really remote." Su Jiaojiao felt the same way. There was no village in front and no shop behind, and it was still an unfamiliar place. "I was negligent. Next time, when we do something like this, we should try to go together."

The car drove for half an hour, circling Baota Town, before arriving at the Qifa Garment Factory.

Baota Town is shaped like a river, with a residential area and shopping mall in the middle and factories of all sizes outside. Most of them produce jeans, and Qifa Garment Factory is one of them. Compared with other garment factories, Qifa is larger in scale.

Cai Ting had been here once before and led Su Jiaojiao into the security room with familiarity. The security guard recognized Cai Ting and immediately called his superior to report that a customer had arrived.

After finishing the call, he said to the two of them, "Our Director Xue is here, and she said she'll be down soon."

The workshops of Qifa Garment Factory are all large tiled houses. From the outside, they look like two-story buildings. The sewing machines inside are rumbling, and it sounds like there are forty or fifty sewing machines.

A short while later, a middle-aged woman dressed in modern clothes walked out of the workshop. Upon seeing Cai Ting, she enthusiastically stepped forward and shook hands with the two of them. "Hello, my name is Xue Yuzhen. Welcome, two beautiful ladies."

"Hello, Director Xue. My name is Su Jiaojiao, and this is Cai Ting. You met last year." After introducing themselves, Xue Yuzhen led the two into the workshop. "We just opened today, too. The jeans you ordered last year were made right here in this workshop. How are those sales going?"

"It's OK, but we don't have much stock left." Su Jiaojiao replied, "The quality of our Qifa products is still very good."

"As long as you are satisfied." Xue Yuzhen led the two to visit the workshop. There was a pungent smell in the workshop, jeans were piled everywhere, and the workshop was full of jeans.

There was a pile of semi-finished products in front of each seamstress, which they threw on the ground after finishing one.

Then the worker in the next process will take it and put it on the chopping board in front of him, finish his own process, and throw it on the ground again, and so on.

Everyone's hands are stained with blue pigment. The dye on the jeans is only on the surface of the fiber, and the color is relatively dark. Fading is normal. Later, it needs to be washed, polished and ironed.

Su Jiaojiao picked up a pair of jeans and took a look at them. They were the same style as last year, but now they were semi-finished and felt very thick. Her hands were quickly stained with indigo.

"Our factory doesn't have a washing machine. All the clothes are sent to the washing factory for washing. The masters in the washing factory are very professional and they know exactly what color we need." Xue Yuzhen led the two to the office on the second floor.

The office is just above the workshop, occupying half a floor. Sitting in the office, you can see the production situation of the entire workshop.

The office was empty, with no one in it.

"There's not a single idle person in our office. When they're free, they're all in the workshop cutting threads." Xue Yuzhen is straightforward and doesn't waste words. "If you're taking last year's payment, you'll still get the previous price. Don't worry about the quality. We can run away, but the temple won't. We can only make money if our customers make money."

"We came here just for this inspiration, so we will also place additional orders this year. As for how much, it depends on how much discount Director Xue gives us." Su Jiaojiao did not say 100,000 pieces. Just now, she took a look at the jeans fabric in the workshop and immediately gave up the idea of doing processing on imported materials in their factory.

Because their factory is a clothing factory that specializes in processing jeans and has its own fabric suppliers, she may not be able to get the same price as them.

Even if you get the same price, other auxiliary materials may not be the lowest. Adding the loss, the actual cost is almost the same as the factory price.

Su Jiaojiao took out the written production process and sample drawings to show Xue Yuzhen. Her styles were similar to the jeans currently produced by Qifa Garment Factory, except that they were modified into skinny pants, wide-leg pants and straight-leg pants.

She didn't make high-elastic pants this time. High-elastic pants will shrink after washing, so they need to be enlarged in size for testing in advance. Other types of pants will also shrink, but they are all in normal proportions.

In addition, high-elastic pants are not made of the same fabric as ordinary jeans, and the prices are also different.

Xue Yuzhen said that the price depends on the quantity and asked Su Jiaojiao how much she planned to order.

Su Jiaojiao said that there are 50,000 pieces of each style, but the three styles need to be shipped at the same time, and divided into three batches to the Wudaokou Clothing Wholesale Market in the capital, and payment is made on delivery.

The two talked for more than half an hour before they negotiated the price down to eight dollars.

Xue Yuzhen said that this price was the lowest and it was impossible to get such a price anywhere else because the fabrics for their factory were all sourced from her sister-in-law, whose price was the lowest in the market, so Su Jiaojiao had to bear the delivery costs herself.

Su Jiaojiao knew that if the quantity was not large, she would not be able to get this price, so she agreed to let her bear the shipping costs herself.

Xue Yuzhen said that their factory produces jeans all year round, mainly relying on sales volume. They only make a little over one yuan per pair of pants, and they also have to send them to a washing factory for washing, which also costs money.

Su Jiaojiao was very satisfied with the price. The wholesale price of such jeans in Wudaokou is 12 yuan. They are common goods and are sold in large quantities.

Although you can save some money by making orders yourself, it is not much. You also have to worry about it. Someone has to come and check it from time to time, plus the labor costs. It is better to use their fabrics.

Cai Ting sat on the side, silently calculating. The cost price of 150,000 pairs of jeans was 8 yuan, and they sold them wholesale for 12 yuan, which means they could make 600,000 yuan from this batch of jeans!

Six hundred thousand!!

You don't know until you calculate it. Once you calculate it, you will be shocked. She calculated it carefully again and found that it was 600,000 yuan. After deducting all miscellaneous expenses, the minimum amount she would get was 500,000 yuan.

Five hundred thousand is an astronomical figure for her!

Looking at Su Jiaojiao again, she didn't seem to be happy at all. She was still chatting with Xue Yuzhen about the details of the craftsmanship. Price is price, quality is quality, and they are two different things.

The two agreed to make the samples first, wash them and determine the color and size, and then go into mass production.

Xue Yuzhen took the two of them to the washing factory.

Jeans are different from other clothes. They have an additional washing process. Because washing will produce wastewater pollution, environmental protection must be properly handled.

For manufacturers like Qin Shuang that do not specialize in producing jeans, they do not need to report it specifically if they occasionally wash their jeans in a small washing machine.

However, a base like Baota Town, which specializes in making jeans, needs a dedicated washing plant to wash the jeans and treat the wastewater in a unified manner.

The washing plant is nearby, about ten minutes' walk away.

Generally, the washing factory is not too far away from the garment factory. They need to communicate about the washing results at any time, and they also need to deliver goods back and forth.

The master of the washing factory was very familiar with Xue Yuzhen and enthusiastically led them into the washing machine workshop.

Rows of large washing machines are arranged in sequence, and many washed jeans are hanging on the steel ropes above.

The master at the washing factory was very talkative. He said that this kind of common jeans are mainly stone washed, which means putting a certain proportion of stones in the washing machine to achieve the desired effect through wear and collision.

The color that Su Jiaojiao wants is relatively uniform, and stone washing cannot achieve that effect, so enzyme washing is needed. Enzyme washing is not complicated. The washing factory has a fixed formula, and the expected color can be washed out by adding washing time and temperature.

For example, they are familiar with the fabrics used by Qifa Garment Factory, so there is no need to worry about the size or color.

It would take at least a day to make the samples and wash them, so there was no need to run back and forth. Su Jiaojiao took Cai Ting to a hotel in town to stay.

It was not until the next day after seeing the samples and the washing results that Su Jiaojiao felt at ease and took Cai Ting home.

Everyone has their own expertise, so she just focuses on the results.