Capabilities · the chain

Four stages inside one company

Every metre is dyed and finished on our own floor, and every container is loaded here in Changshu. For volume spikes, we extend knitting to qualified partner mills under RyderTex QC — colour and hand never leave our building.

Four views of circular knitting machines on the RyderTex floor.
01

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 80-100 tonnes a day. For volume beyond our own 300+ machines, we extend knitting to qualified partner mills under RyderTex QC — every metre still comes back to our own floor for dyeing and finishing.

Floor capacity
Machines300+ advanced circular knitting machines
Gauge18–40 GG
Width30" / 34" / 38"
Double knit ceiling80-100 tonnes / day
Spike absorption5× on single knit
Row of dyeing machines in the RyderTex dye house, Changshu.
02

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 · ShuangchenActive, sport, yoga wear — poly / poly-spandex base
Unit 2 · HuicaiActive, sport, yoga wear — poly, poly/spandex, nylon, nylon/spandex, modal/poly/cotton
Unit 3Outerwear fleece, sherpa, sweater fleece, printing
Stenter finishing machine at RyderTex with a loop of knitted fabric feeding through the frame.
03

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, ultra carbon peach
ChemicalAll kinds of performance finishes as required by brands
PrintingFleece and sherpa printing, Unit 3
Structures finished13, from seersucker crinkle to embossed jacquard
Warehouse racking stacked with bagged finished fabric inventory, ready for export.
04

Export

Inspected, rolled, container-loaded in Changshu

Finished fabric is inspected, rolled and loaded on site, 90 km from the Port of Shanghai. Dyeing, finishing and export never leave our floor, under one QC standard — so there's no window where a delay is somebody else's to explain.

Export performance
MarketsUSA, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Europe
On-time95%
StructureFewer handoffs, one QC standard, one commercial contact
Raw material · sourcing, not spinning

Quality starts at the yarn source, before it reaches our floor

RyderTex specifies and sources yarn to a written programme — greige and dyed, standard and recycled — rather than spinning it in-house.

Racked yarn inventory in the RyderTex warehouse, bagged cones ready for the knitting floor. Aisle of racked yarn inventory in the RyderTex warehouse, one-point perspective down the row.
Compact Siro spinning
GreigeCotton, polyester, rayon, acrylic, cellulose fibre, blended & differentiated series
DyedPolyester, cotton, modal, rayon, acrylic — heather, slub, space-dye
Vortex spinning
GreigeCotton, modal, polyester, rayon, blended series
DyedCotton, modal, polyester, rayon, blended — dark & light series
Textured & recycled yarns
Recycled DTY polyRecycled FDY polyACY polyUNIFI recycled polyBiodegradable poly
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 80-100 tonnes/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
Structures
Single knitDouble knitRibbingFrench terryWarp knitJacquardFleeceSherpaVelourChenilleSeersucker / crinkleEmbossed jacquardStripe yarn-dye
Fibres & blends
PolyesterPoly / spandexNylonNylon / spandexCottonCotton / polyModalModal / poly / spandexPoly-spandex-cellulosicTencelViscose
Finishes
Sand-washUltra carbon peachSuedingRaising / brushingFleece & sherpa printingOther chemical & mechanical

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