Shenzhen Yarn Fair 2025: Nylon Yarn for Jacquard and Melange

Shenzhen Yarn Fair 2025: Nylon Yarn for Jacquard and Melange

The Greater Bay Area International Trade Fair for Fibres and Yarns took place at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center in Futian from 11 to 13 June 2025. The show serves the manufacturing belt around the Pearl River Delta — weaving, jacquard, narrow fabric, circular knit and garment production within a few hours' drive — and the buyers who attended were sourcing for fabric development rather than for a commodity yarn programme.

Zhejiang Huayou Color Spinning Technology Co., Ltd. exhibited with a stand built around two categories that matter to that audience: filament-controlled yarn for weaving, and melange yarn for knitwear.

Filament count decides the surface

For a jacquard or a fine woven fabric, the visual character comes largely from the filament count. A 70D/68F yarn gives a denser, softer surface than a 70D/24F of the same linear density, and for dobby and jacquard work the difference is visible on the loom.

The company's dope dyed DTY range covers 100D/48F, 100D/36F, 100D/24F, 70D/48F, 70D/68F and 70D/24F, each in single and two-ply where applicable, with the stock position concentrated at 70D/24F. Weavers visiting the stand compared 70D/68F against their current supply on a hand-feel basis, and several asked for warp preparation guidance before committing to a trial.

Melange for knitwear differentiation

The second cluster of visitors came from sweater and circular-knit production. Nylon melange yarn, produced from a controlled blend of coloured fibre, gives a heather surface that reads as a premium knit. Because the effect is generated in the fibre rather than in the finishing, it repeats from stock, and the sampling cycle that usually precedes a fancy-yarn order disappears.

Three weavers and knitters in the region took melange sample sets in different colourways, mostly to develop a small capsule rather than a full programme — the pattern typical of a market where a brand tests a fabric with 200 to 500 pieces before committing.

Orders and development work

A jacquard weaver in Dongguan placed a trial order of 350 kilograms of dope dyed DTY at 70D/68F in four colours for a furnishing and apparel crossover fabric. A narrow-fabric producer in Foshan ordered 200 kilograms of 100D/48F in six colours for elastic band and webbing production, drawn from stock. A knitwear manufacturer in Huizhou requested 70D/24F/2 Special Nylon 2# samples in eight colours to evaluate as a hank-dyed replacement for its sweater line.

Speed is the differentiator in this region

Buyers here work to short development windows, and the practical question at the stand was rarely about unit price. It was about whether a 200-kilogram lot of a specific filament count and shade could be delivered within the week, and whether the same shade would still be available when the programme returned.

The stock card — more than 1,000 colours across dope dyed and dyed nylon, no minimum order quantity on stock items — answers both. Colours outside the card run on a seven to ten day production cycle.

Certification as a sales tool

Garment producers in the region increasingly ship to brands that audit the full material chain. OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100, Global Recycled Standard and ISO 9001 documentation was requested at the stand by three buyers preparing supplier files, and copies were issued with the quotations.

Next edition

The company will exhibit in Shenzhen again in 2026, with an expanded 70D/68F stock position and additional melange colourways. Mills developing jacquard or knitwear programmes are invited to request a colour card and trial quantity, or to arrange a factory visit in Zhuji, Zhejiang.

Zhejiang Huayou Color Spinning Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise specialising in coloured nylon, holding more than 30 patents. Its predecessor, Yuxin Group, was one of the drafting units for China's national industry standard for coloured nylon.