Capabilities · the chain

Five stages inside one company

Nothing on this page is subcontracted. Yarn is spun, fabric is knitted, colour is applied, hand is set and the container is loaded on assets RyderTex owns and staff RyderTex employs, inside a 55,000 sqm footprint in Changshu.

01SpinningCompact Siro + Vortex 02Knitting300+ machines 03Dyeing100+ tonnes/day 04Finishing13 structures 05Export11 markets

Spinning

Strategic raw material supply, upstream of the knit

Yarn is the first variable in a knit programme and the one most mills hand to a broker. RyderTex runs its own compact Siro and Vortex spinning in both greige and dyed states, which means a heather, a slub or a space-dye is a specification rather than a search.

Yarn programme

Compact Siro · greigeCotton, polyester, rayon, acrylic, cellulosic, blends, differentiated series

Compact Siro · dyedPolyester, cotton, modal, rayon, acrylic, heather, slub, space-dye

Vortex · greigeCotton, polyester, rayon, blends

Vortex · dyedCotton, polyester, rayon, blends — dark and light series

Knitting

Three hundred circular machines on one floor

Gauge and width decide what a mill can physically make. Six machine classes cover 18 to 40 gauge at 30 to 38 inch, so a 40-gauge open-width yoga fabric and an 18-gauge rib trim come off the same site. Single knit lines absorb five-times order spikes; double knit scales to 20,000 kg a day.

Floor capacity

Machines300+ advanced circular knitting machines

Gauge18–40 GG

Width30" / 34" / 38"

Double knit ceiling20,000 kg per day

Spike absorption5× on single knit

Dye house finishing line in Changshu with trolleys of greige knit along a central aisle.

Dyeing

Three dye houses, each built for one fabric class

Colour is where most supply chains lose a week. Rather than one general-purpose plant, RyderTex runs three specialised houses, so an activewear lot and a nylon lot never queue behind each other. Combined capacity is over 100 tonnes a day.

The three houses

Capacity100+ tonnes per day

Unit 1 · ShuangchenActivewear, sportswear, outerwear

Unit 2 · HuicaiNylon, nylon/spandex, synthetics

Unit 3Outerwear fleece, sherpa, sweater fleece, printing

Finishing

Hand is decided on the stenter

Two fabrics with an identical construction can feel nothing alike. Mechanical and chemical routes here set the surface: sand-wash, ultra carbon peach, sueding, raising and brushing, with fleece and sherpa printing handled in Unit 3.

Finishing routes

MechanicalSueding, raising, brushing, sand-wash

ChemicalUltra carbon peach, plus other chemical finishes

PrintingFleece and sherpa printing, Unit 3

Structures finished13, from seersucker crinkle to embossed jacquard

Export

Inspected, rolled, container-loaded in Changshu

Finished fabric is inspected, rolled and loaded on site, 90 km from the Port of Shanghai. Because no stage was subcontracted, there is no window where a delay is somebody else's to explain.

Export performance

Markets11 — USA, China, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Europe

On-time95%

Cycle~15% faster than fragmented sourcing

Cost15–20% saving vs. sourcing the chain separately

Knitting capability matrix

Six machine classes, 18 to 40 gauge

MachineGaugeWidth

1824283440 gg

Open Width

28–40 GG

34" / 38"

High-speed open-width knits · bulk active, sports, yoga

Single Knit

24–34 GG

30" / 34" / 38"

Lightweight modal · absorbs 5× order spikes

Double Knit

18–38 GG

30" / 34" / 38"

Dense interlock and rib · leisurewear · to 20,000 kg/day

French Terry

18–24 GG

30" / 34"

Looped textures for activewear

Jacquard

18–24 GG

34"

Patterned knits · body-mapping · custom branded structures

Rib

18 GG

34" / 38"

Variegated designs · elastic bottoms, cuffs, trims