Shantou is focusing on building a new high-quality fabric manufacturing base!

2025-10-09 10:23:55

In the recent years, with the popularization of outdoor sport and the pursuit of high-quality life of normal consumers, the nylon-spandex fabric has rapidly become the first choices of global costumers, and it has been widely applied in fields such as Underwear, outdoor sports clothing, yoga appeals and other kinds of clothing.  

China's Elastic Fabric City: Shantou

Nylon fabric, as one of the essential raw materials for clothing, boasts excellent properties such as abrasion resistance, cold resistance, moth resistance, corrosion resistance, and moisture absorption. Nylon textiles are favored by the market for their lightweight, superior wrinkle resistance, and good breathability.

Shantou is the main manufacturing base of Nylon-Spandex Fabrics, which now posses 6 Nylon manufacturing enterprises, more than a thousands fabric production enterprises, more than 3.5k looming machines, and two Nationally Advanced Green and Eco-friendly Printing and Dyeing Park, witch built a complete industrial chain covering spinning, weaving and dyeing. As the market demands changes, The demand for nylon filament products in Shantou has been increasing year after year.Over 1.3 million tons of nylon are consumed annually, with nylon fabric weaving and dyeing production ranking first in the country.

Industrial Synergy

Shantou's nylon fabric enterprises are mainly concentrated in renowned textile towns such as Gurao Town, Tongyu Town, and Guiyu Town in Chaoyang District, as well as Liangying Town in Chaonan District. They have established close collaborative relationships with thousands of garment enterprises specializing in underwear, loungewear, and other clothing items, achieving coordinated development across the upstream and downstream supply chains. Together, they develop fabric products that meet market demands and lead industry trends.

The new demands and new ideas of Downstream garment enterprises can quickly provide feedback to the fabric company for development and sampling. Witch achieved a rapid cycle of "fabric development - fashion design - market feedback".

Technological innovation

With the intensity market competition and young generations prefer textiles that are fashionable, comfortable, healthy, and environmentally friendly, the local fabric manufacturers of Shantou has already allocate more resources to the innovative research and development of nylon fabrics.

Warp knitting processing workshop

To fulfill the product differentiation of downstream brands, these fabric manufacturers places great emphasis on the research and development of functional properties of fabrics, The company places great emphasis on functional research and development, such as antibacterial, deodorizing, moisture-absorbing, heat-generating, cooling, UV-resistant, and scented nylon fabrics with special functions.At the same time, manufacturers are upgrading our equipment to ensure product quality and enhance the competitiveness of our products in the international market. Leveraging our industrial technological advantages, we have released the group standards "Testing and Evaluation of Sustained Cooling Performance in Textile Contact" and "Testing and Evaluation of Odor Retention Performance in Textiles After Washing."

Green production Agenda

In the fabric dyeing part, these two nationally leading eco-friendly technology dyeing and printing park has already succeed the target of unified governance and centralized pollution discharge. According to relevant data, the discharge of industrial wastewater has decreased by 52.11% compared to before entering the industrial park.Water, electricity, and steam consumption decreased by approximately 27%, 36%, and 30% respectively compared to before entering the park.

Chaonan Textile Technology Industrial Park

Chaoyang Textile Technology Industrial Park

The eco-friendly innovative fabric weaving process, combined with green production technologies such as digital printing and reclaimed water reuse, creates a healthy, comfortable, low-carbon, and renewable textile product matrix, certified by authoritative standards like GRS and OEKO-TEX. The underwear, swimwear, sportswear, and yoga apparel made from these fabrics are not only popular domestically but also exported to high-end markets in Europe and America.

Shantou is not only a manufacturing base of basic fabric processing, it is also a fabric innovative development center. In the future, the Shantou fabric Industries will continue to move towards "innovation" and "green development". developing high-performance nylon fiber and other kinds of high quality fabrics types, striving to build a cutting-edge fabric manufacturing hub.