Guangdong dyed cloth & denim industry

13 Dec '06

4 min read

Guangdong in 2005 produced 3.123 billion meters of dyed cloth, ranking No. 3 in the country, of which: denim production was 1.5 billion meter, accounting for about 40 percent of the national denim output, ranking number one in the country.

Yarn dyed and denim industries integrate many working processes, including weaving and dyeing, it is a deep-processing industry through various equipments. It has played an important role in textile industry, and its products include yarn-dye cloth and denim. In Guangdong's yarn-dyed industry, denim is a leading product.

Guangdang is China's largest production base for denim, with large quantity and wide area, followed by Jiangsu Changzhou region, Shandong Zibo region.

According to incomplete statistics, currently, Guangdomng has over 250 denim starch-dyeing lines, annual production capacity is more than 1.5 billion square meters, accounting for about 40 percent of the country's total output.

Guangdong mainly produces cotton yarn-dyed fabrics, but also makes the production of high count cotton-polyester yarn cloth. Cotton-hemp blended fabrics and texturized yarn-dyed products.

A full range of denim products, ranging from 3.5 0Z--16 0Z weight are also available, here. The total number of new products has kept increasing and technological content and value added products are continuously improved. A number of more competitive brands have been emerged.

In recent years, denim investment has been overheated, which has, to a certain extent, led to the excess capacity at low level and disorderly competition. The expansion of ordinary denim production capacity is unlimited. Several denim industry clusters mostly produce the middle and lower ends products which are identical and less competitive, and profit margins are negligible, so they have to create efficiency basically through massive production.

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