Yiwu city dominates global seamless innerwear industry
Source: Fibre2fashion News Desk - China Date: 2008-09-08
In 2006, Yiwu city, Zhejiang Province, was honoured with the title of ‘Chinese Seamless Knitting Clothes Center’. Since then, the seamless innerwear industry of Yiwu has beeen developing rapidly.
Today, this city is housing 150 major seamless underwear manufacturers and employs over 20000 workers. In all there are 25,000 sets of production equipments, of which, 9,000 meet the international advanced level.
Yiwu city can produce over 80 million sets of seamless underwear each year, accounting for 80 percent of total output of the industry in China. This also makes up nearly 15 percent of the global seamless underwear production. The sales value reaches over 3 billion yuan.
Yiwu seamless underwear industry caters to both domestic as well as international markets, exporting to over 30 countries.
With the help of advanced equipments and huge number of big manufacturers, Yiwu has successfully produced items of all qualities so as to dominate the global seamless underwear market.
Reportedly, with the support from Chinese Government as well as related departments, the number of local seamless underwear manufacturers in Yiwu is going up steadily.
