On January 17, Yao Xiaoman, chairman of the China Down Industry Association, revealed in an interview that since the winter of 2017, the industry has found a new way of fraud, "glue velvet".

"Glue velvet" is an image that is more secretive than the previous method of blending smashed wool and chicken velvet.

According to Yao Xiaoman, the Down Industry Association learned in the investigation that some down-selling enterprises glued the velvet into a flower through a glue velvet, and then blended into the normal velvet to create the illusion of high loft. The purpose of refilling.

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▲ glue velvet

Although his raw materials are still down, but there are no feathers or velvets that have no warmth effect, they only grow on the goose, and the warmth can only rely on velvet! They glued them into a pile of velvet and mixed them in the down.

It can be seen from the comparison of the upper and lower two figures that there is a small white spot in the middle of the normal cashmere called the pile core, and a lot of fluffy silk is coming out from the pile core, like a pile of pompons; while the glue velvet seems to be in a group. But there is no velvet core, one by one; such a down can not be called a duvet.

▲ authentic down

Since 2017, domestic down raw material prices have risen all the way, further igniting the "enthusiasm" of counterfeiters. The reporter inquired about the price of down raw materials and found that from February 2017, the prices of all down raw materials with a cashmere content of 50% to 90% have risen sharply.

Taking white duck down as an example, the price of raw materials containing 50% of cashmere has risen to 150 yuan/kg or more, and the price of raw materials containing 90% of cashmere has exceeded 300 yuan/kg mark.

The amount of cashmere is an important indicator for judging the quality of down, and "glue" is the "hand and foot" for the amount of cashmere. According to the national standard GB/T 14272-2011 "down apparel", the finished product should not contain less than 50%. At the same time, the higher the amount of cashmere, the better the quality of the down, and the higher the warmth of the down garment.

However, the "velvet" in the amount of cashmere has the distinction of pile and pile. The small size of the pile is not only poor in warmth, but also easy to velvet.

In the past, many unscrupulous traders have played a "word game" based on this, adding a lot of cheaper fleece to the filling of the down jacket.

In order to put an end to this phenomenon, the National Garment Standardization Technical Committee and the National Garment Standardization Technical Committee's Down Clothing Sub-Technical Committee also revised the "down apparel" national standard, and also specified the content of the pile, requiring the finished pile to account for the total pile of piles. The ratio should be greater than 90%.

▲A down jacket label on the market

The National Garment Standardization Technical Committee's Down Clothing Sub-Technical Committee pointed out in the explanation of the national standard of "down clothing" that this move is to avoid the phenomenon that merchants replace small velvet with small velvet. Therefore, sometimes the amount of cashmere of the down products is up to standard, but because the content of the pile is not up to standard, it does not meet the standard requirements.

However, the road is one foot high and one foot high. After standardizing the content of velvet in the national standard, it is no longer feasible to mix the velvet with the amount of velvet. Therefore, some merchants have come up with the "lower policy" and "glue velvet" appears.

Some fake workshops, in the process of washing and drying, glue the low-quality shredded hair and the falling fluff into a flower by glue glue, and turn the "fleece" into "velvet" to make the cashmere The lower down material is transformed into a high-quality down with a high cashmere content.

▲ After mixing, "glue velvet" sticks to the stick

The price of "glue velvet" is relatively low. However, the purchase of inferior down feathers seems to save costs, but the resulting after-sales problems are more, the impurities lead to a large smell, and the flying silk leads to serious running velvet. The brand image has a huge impact.

The China Down Industry Association is in the United Nations related testing agencies to jointly explore the detection method for "glue velvet", hoping to jointly resist the "glue velvet" fraud.

Source: Netease News

Editor: Wang Junya