The vice chairman of the Japan Textile Finisher's Association, Mr. Yoshiaki Yashiro (President of Tokai Senko), had a press conference at the association in Osaka on November 1 and revealed that manufacturing and supply of 45 dyestuffs including yellow and black disperse dyes have been discontinued as of the end of October, giving the situation that dyestuff manufacturers have moved toward the discontinuation of unprofitable products manufacturing and small lot supply, while price increases of dyestuffs will be fully implemented from December. Further increases in the number of discontinued items are expected from November. With this, the dyeing industry is currently being forced to change recipes caused by switching dyes to alternatives, which takes time and effort as well as incurring higher costs. He expressed a sense of crisis that if the number of discontinued dyestuffs increases more, there is a possibility that it will disenable some recipes.

With the price increases, each dyeing finishing company has requested raises in finishing prices by an average 10% to clients from October. While 7 companies from the association in the staple printing industry said, "80% of requests for price increases were accepted with markups averaging 5%. We will proceed with more requests, which are scheduled to be completed in December," 11 companies in the warp knit industry are in the situation that "only 60% of requests for price increase were currently accepted with markups of 2% since most of the clients are in material and vehicle related industries in which it is difficult to carry out the price increases," and said, "we would like them to accept raises averageing 5 % at least for the present."