Maintains global reputation as leading platform for yarns and fibres
With a record-breaking 543 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions (2018: 501, 14 countries and regions), Yarn Expo Autumn 2019 offered an unparalleled range of quality and product diversity. Exhibitors observed the highly professional nature of trade buyers at the fair, who in turn praised the choice and quality on offer. 19,155 visitors from 93 countries & regions joined the show (2018: 19,003 from 75 countries & regions). The results are clear: Showing continuous growth and delivering genuine business outcomes each year, Yarn Expo has established its global reputation as a leading platform, for all kinds of yarns and fibres.
From the globally renowned to the competitive newcomers, there was innovation to be found around every corner. Exhibitors showcased an array of fancy, speciality and regenerated yarns, as well as high quality cotton, wool, silk and linen. Fancy and speciality yarns, especially those with added functionality, were reported to be high in demand from domestic trade buyers. The new display zone, Fancy Yarn Vision, proved a popular stop for buyers to quickly and efficiently see samples from highlighted fancy yarn exhibitors on offer. Meanwhile, sustainability remains a key trend, particularly in Europe but also in China, and fringe events focused on sustainable products were filled with interested audience members.
Despite some economic uncertainty within the Chinese market, many exhibitors noted their optimism for the future, crediting this to the resilience of China’s dominant purchasing power. At the same time, the fair received good feedback from Southeast Asian exhibitors, who were able to meet new overseas clients, widening their global strategies.
Overseas Yarn Zone
The zone featured 132 suppliers from countries & regions including Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lithuania, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, the US, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. This zone included:
India Pavilion: 55 exhibitors with a huge variety of products, including cotton, fancy synthetic yarn, Lysell linen, Modal linen, Tencel, viscose, polyester and more. Highlighted companies included GTN Patspin Group of Companies, Lahoti Overseas, Premier Cotton Textiles and RSWM Limited.
The India Pavilion remains optimistic about the market, having increased in size by 40 percent last year. At Yarn Expo Autumn 2018, Dr. Siddhartha Rajagopal, Executive Director of TEXPROCIL (organiser of the India Pavilion) commented, “It’s important to be here, the fair reflects market demand and everyone comes here twice a year. Yarn Expo attracts many Chinese buyers but people from all over the world also come here. It’s the only fair in China that we attend as we see a lot of potential here.”
The India Pavilion was organized by The cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL). TEXPROCIL was set up in 1954 with a membership base of around 3,000 companies spread across major textile clusters in India nowadays. Its members are well established manufacturers and exporters of cotton textile products like cotton, yarns, fabrics and home textiles, showcasing a dazzling array of products across the value chain. Some of its exhibitor highlights included:
“Yarn Expo is growing larger and becoming more international each year. Our exhibitors have met visitors from Korea, Egypt and Europe. Some visitors are placing orders onsite – so far, we have recorded 40 onsite orders at the India Pavilion. We have observed buyers with higher demand for regenerated yarns, and buyers pursuing products with higher quality as well as sustainability. It is essential for us to exhibit at both editions each year to maintain our business,” said Ravindranathan Narayanasamy, Director, TEXPROCIL.
Acme International Ltd
Under the parent company Jitendra Kumar Lalbhai (JKL), ACME International Ltd was formed in 1996 to bring about a positive turn-around in the textile sector and to become India’s premier textile buying house. The product focus was yarns which were the group’s core strength and then to move forward to slowly get all textile products from fibre to garments less than one roof to become an end to end supply chain partner for our customers. Their product portfolio has grown to cover raw cotton, cotton yarn, indigo yarn, greige & knitted fabrics, denims, home textiles and garment, fancy yarns, mélange and viscose yarn, cotton poly blend, linen yarn etc., which is manufactured and sourced through the world.
RSWM Limited
RSWM produces and supplies high-quality yarns to some of the most renowned brands in over 76 countries all over the world. For the last 57 years, they have created stories through their high-quality cotton, mélange, synthetic and novelty yarns, along with suiting and denim fabrics that is used to drape populations around the world. While providing customers with the best quality of yarns and fabrics, they are also committed to keeping our environment green and clean through our sustainable model.
Vineet Polyfab Private Limited
Vineet Polyfab Private Limited – a two star export house, present itself as a manufacturer and exporter of top quality polyester yarns. “VINEET” is a renowned brand in the textile industry for more than 3 decades. It has made its presence and created a niche market for its polyester yarns in the textile industries. The company has its yarn manufacturing unit in Surat. Committed to quality, the group is providing an array of yarns for textile, apparel, socks & carpet industries.
Reliance showcases yarns with Radianza
Thai Acrylic Fibre Co Ltd (TAF) from Aditya Birla Group and Reliance Spinning Mills Ltd, Nepal, joined hands to develop sustainable and eco-friendly yarns with Radianza fibre. The two companies displayed these products in the Yarn Expo. Reliance Spinning Mills, Nepal is a joint venture of Golyan and Maliram Shivkumar (MS) Group, a high-tech spinning plant producing polyester/viscose blended yarn, 100 per cent acrylic yarn, polyester/acrylic blended yarn, 100 per cent polyester spun yarn, speciality yarn, slub yarns and industrial yarns.
Radianza is a specialty ready-to-use dyed fibre manufactured using gel dyeing technology, which enables the dyeing process to happen with limited use of water, energy, chemicals and highly efficient consumption of dyestuff, due to which very insignificant amount of unused dye gets discharged into the effluent. TAF has been promoting the product as a dyed fibre available in many shades and able to develop new colours as per customer’s requirements. However, the benefits of Radianza fibre to the environment got evident once TAF conducted an independent third party ‘Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)’ study of Radianza fibre starting from polymerisation to garment disposal. The results were significantly better than other fibres and when compared to conventional dyeing the usage of Radianza fibre showed 20 times less global warming potential, 7 times less blue water consumption and similar results in the 8 other parameters related to environment impact.
Pakistan Zone: 15 leading suppliers, including Abtex International, showcased their new hybrid colour mixing yarns and fancy yarns, Fabcot International with cotton yarns and greige, as well as Hussain Mills Ltd, offered organic cotton
Birla Satellite: 15 exhibitors included in this pavilion, including Birla Cellulose and their environmentally-friendly regenerated cellulose fibres. Birla Cellulose is known worldwide for soft and eco-friendly viscose fibres, including Birla Viscose, Birla Modal, Birla Spunshades and Birla Excel.
“We use Yarn Expo as a marketing platform to tell our own innovative story. We are happy to see that our peers in this hall also have yarn and fibre innovations, which are more relatable to our own brand,” said Manohar Samuel, Senior President of Marketing & Business Development at Grasim Industries Ltd (of the Aditya Birla Group) at Yarn Expo Spring 2019.
Other highlighted exhibitors from different countries & regions include:
• Naturalus Pluostas (Lithuania)
• Reliance Spinning Mills (Nepal)
• Everest Textile (Taiwan)
• Tung Ho Textile (Taiwan)
