Yarn Expo Autumn 2025: Huayou Opens 2026 Colour Planning

Yarn Expo Autumn 2025: Huayou Opens 2026 Colour Planning

The autumn edition of the China International Trade Fair for Fibres and Yarns took place at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai on 24 September 2025. For the yarn trade, the autumn show functions as a planning session rather than a selling event: buyers are finalising colour ranges for the following spring and locking in the stock positions they will draw on through the winter.

Zhejiang Huayou Color Spinning Technology Co., Ltd. used the fair to open its 2026 colour planning with existing and prospective customers, presenting the three areas in which the range will expand.

One: functional nylon, specified rather than sampled

The functional collection drew the most technical traffic. Antibacterial nylon 6 DTY, produced with copper ion, silver ion and graphene masterbatches, was discussed by brands that must make a claim on a hangtag rather than simply offer a feature. The distinction matters: a claim requires a defined test method, a defined dosage and a consistent result across batches, and buyers asked for all three.

Alongside antibacterial qualities, the range covers water-repellent, cooling-sensation, moisture-wicking and quick-drying variants, plus dyed yarn qualities including anti-pilling, deodorising, anti-yellowing and far-infrared heat generation.

For the autumn sock and underwear programmes planned for 2026, the most requested combination was moisture-wicking with antibacterial effect at 70D/24F and 40D/2.

Two: recycled content with documentation

Global Recycled Standard certification carries weight with European and North American brands, and the requests received at the fair were specific: not simply whether recycled yarn exists, but whether the transaction certificate can be issued against the actual shipment and passed down the chain.

The company holds GRS certification alongside OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 and ISO 9001, and discussed recycled-content programmes with four buyers preparing 2026 collections.

Three: the stock card itself

The third topic was the least technical and the most consequential. With more than 1,000 colours held ready for shipment — 300+ colours of dope dyed DTY at 70D/24F, 1,000+ colours of dyed yarn at 70D/24F/2, 335+ colours at 40D/2 and 365+ colours of Special Nylon 2# at 70D/24F/2 — the question buyers asked was which colours would be retained, expanded or retired for the coming year.

The discussion produced a practical outcome: colour additions requested at the fair will be reviewed against knitting demand and added to the masterbatch programme, so that a colour requested by more than one customer moves into the stock card rather than remaining a custom order.

Orders and commitments

A sock manufacturer in Zhejiang confirmed a winter programme of 1.5 tonnes of dope dyed DTY at 70D/24F across twenty colours, drawn from stock in staged deliveries. A knitwear producer placed 400 kilograms of antibacterial nylon 6 DTY at 70D/24F in four colours for a thermal underwear line, subject to confirmation of the test documentation. A trading company serving the Middle East requested a 2026 quotation covering Special Nylon 2# in thirty shades, to be released against a frame agreement.

Closing the 2025 season

The autumn fair closed a year in which the company exhibited at ten international events across Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. The consistent finding across those markets was that buyers are consolidating suppliers and shortening their planning cycles: fewer vendors, wider colour coverage, faster delivery.

A stock position of 1,000 colours, a seven to ten day production cycle for non-stock shades and a complete certification file are the three levers that answer that shift, and they will define the 2026 programme.

Planning meetings for 2026

Buyers planning spring and autumn 2026 ranges are invited to request the current colour card, a specification sheet and sample quantities, or to arrange a factory visit in Zhuji, Zhejiang, where the masterbatch programme and the stock warehouse can be reviewed directly.

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.