TECNOTEXTIL 2025: Brazilian Knitter Switches to Stock Nylon Yarn

TECNOTEXTIL 2025: Brazilian Knitter Switches to Stock Nylon Yarn

TECNOTEXTIL opened at the FIDAM fairground in Americana, in the interior of São Paulo state, from 22 to 25 April 2025. The show sits at the centre of Brazil's textile cluster, within driving distance of the knitting mills of Americana, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste and Nova Odessa, and its visitors are overwhelmingly production managers rather than trading companies. Zhejiang Huayou Color Spinning Technology Co., Ltd. exhibited with the colour card and a single message: colour from stock, at a construction that matches what the mill already runs.

The hank-dyeing bottleneck

Brazilian sock and knitwear production has long relied on hank-dyed nylon, valued for its soft hand and full cover. The constraint is time. A hank-dyed colour typically requires a minimum batch, a dyeing cycle measured in weeks, and a batch-consistency discipline at the knitting machine that ties up capacity when a brand changes a colour mid-season.

Special Nylon 2# was developed for precisely this substitution. It is a two-ply nylon yarn at 70D/24F/2, held in 365+ colours from stock, and it is positioned as a direct replacement rather than an alternative: same count, same downstream process, same finished hand. For a mill that wants to keep its existing programme and shorten the calendar, the substitution is administrative rather than technical.

What was ordered

A sock knitter based in Americana, previously committed to hank-dyed nylon for its fashion line, placed a trial order of 300 kilograms of Special Nylon 2# in six colours. The lot was prepared from stock and shipped within twelve days of the order confirmation, and the mill knitted the trial across two machines.

On acceptance of the knitting trial the buyer placed a second order for 1.2 tonnes across eighteen colours, covering the balance of its autumn programme, and retained the hank-dyed route only for a small number of shades outside the card.

A second mill, producing circular-knit casualwear, requested samples of dope dyed DTY at 70D/24F in five colours and asked for the specification sheet covering 100D/48F and 100D/36F for a heavier gauge development.

Landed cost, not unit price

Brazilian buyers evaluate a quotation on landed cost, and the conversation at the stand reflected that. Duties, freight and the cost of carrying a large colour inventory all enter the calculation, and a stock position changes the arithmetic in two ways: it removes the working capital tied up in a dye-lot minimum, and it removes the risk of holding unsold colour at the end of a season.

Where a buyer asked about the effect of import measures on nylon filament, the answer given was to compare the fully landed cost per kilogram against the domestic alternative, including the cost of capital during the lead time — the comparison on which the substitution is usually justified.

Documentation and terms

Shipments are made from Shanghai or Ningbo on FOB, CIF or CFR terms, in cardboard boxes with fumigation-free wooden pallets available on request. Payment is by T/T, typically 30 per cent with the order and 70 per cent before shipment. OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100, Global Recycled Standard and ISO 9001 certificates are provided with quotations on request.

Returning to Brazil

The company will exhibit in Brazil again in 2026, with a broader Special Nylon 2# colour range and additional support for mills converting from hank dyeing: trial quantities, knitting recommendations and batch-allocation guidance for large programmes.

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.