Faced with rising costs brands are under more pressure to develop products that can stand out in the market – and command higher retail prices.
Nan Yang Textile Group has been investing in technology and design innovation to drive greater efficiency and support product development.
“We operate two innovation centers in Thailand called NIC and NIC Lab. They are focused on fabric development as well as how we create garments. We’re focusing a lot on 3D innovation, where we are on a platform that customers are using.
“We’ve been utilizing this capability to service different customers’ needs in terms of product creation, reducing the lead time of developments, or even cost and time cutting in regards to how we make prototypes. Some customers have been able to eliminate three stages of prototypes by using our 3D platform,” said Chotik Chavapokin, President of the garment business unit at Nan Yang Textile Group.
“We operate two innovation centers called NIC and NIC Lab. They are focused on fabric development and how we create garments. We’re focusing a lot on 3D innovation.”
NIC Lab has its own in-house designers and a mini factory where it experiments with new sewing machines to explore new techniques before putting this into Nan Yang’s mass production.
A State-of-the-Art Leader in ASEAN Manufacturing
Nan Yang consists of 14 companies including spinning, knitting & dyeing and garment operations in Thailand, a garment factory in Laos and in Vietnam. It is running at 122,000 spindles and produces about 2000 tons of fabric each month, including circular knits, fleece, computerized jacquards and others. The company’s printing facility can do about a million yards per month of reactive prints or discharge prints, pigment prints.
“We’re able to get good productivity and consistency at our facilities because we invest in good management and we train our people well,” he explained.
The garment operations have been so successful that Nan Yang plans to expand its Laos operation by 140 percent, Thailand by 30 percent and Vietnam by 45 percent.
Pioneering Fabric Development
Nan Yang continues to work on performance textiles through its moisture management, thermal regulation, comfort and wellness platforms. In fact, Nan Yang originally developed the highly popular moisture management technology with a leading U.S. sportswear brand over 30 years ago.
Nan Yang’s commitment to innovation is backed by investment in high quality materials. “About 67 percent of our cotton is from the U.S. The U.S. cotton grading system has been very well established. We can rest assured that we get what we buy. Quality and consistency has been the key. The supply itself is quite open, unlike some other countries, which from time to time, they will keep for their domestic usage. And then there’s the fact that the U.S. contractors are very reliable,” said Mr. Chavapokin.
Supporting Sustainable Supply Chains
One of the biggest challenges for both importers and exports is meeting new criteria for more transparent supply chains.
“Even though we are a vertical operation and have very good traceability within our supply chain, we still face the risk of having our goods held by border inspection officers. I’m hoping that by being a member of the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol® can help us avoid these kinds of issues in the longer term,” said Mr. Chavapokin.
“Many brands are facing these same concerns. With the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol® we can support them in meeting the demand for greater transparency.”
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Certified Sustainable
The Trust Protocol is aligned with existing sustainability programs including the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. It brings quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement to sustainable cotton production, and drives continuous improvement in six key sustainability metrics – land use, soil carbon, water management, soil loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy efficiency. The Trust Protocol is designed from the ground up to address the unique regulatory and larger farm growing environment in the United States.
How the Trust Protocol Works
The Protocol Consumption Management Solution (PCMS) starts at the gin when the participating producer’s cotton is ginned and each unique Permanent Bale Identification number (PBI) is attached. At this point we know the exact gin weight and can create an exact amount of Protocol Cotton Consumption Units, where one Protocol Cotton Consumption Unit is created for each kilogram of Protocol Verified Cotton. This important step provides absolute authentication of U.S. cotton origin, verifying against the USDA database.
Supply Chain Transparency
The PCMS harnesses blockchain technology through a powerful combination of the Trust Protocol platform and TextileGenesis™ system to deliver full supply chain transparency by recording and verifying the movement of U.S. cotton along the entire supply chain. This creates article-specific transparency for finished products that was not previously accessible to brands and retailers.
Trusted Third Party Certification
The Trust Protocol incorporates a comprehensive program of verification against Trust Protocol benchmarks, in the form of both second-party and independent third-party audits of grower performance through Control Union Certifications—the latter through allocated on-site visits.
Control Union Certifications has certified over 150 industry standards programs worldwide, including working as a key partner in the early development and piloting phases of Impact Claim Verification Protocol.
Learn More https://trustuscotton.org
The COTTON USA Advantage
- Family growers who are committed to working their fields sustainably and leaving them better for future generations.
- A long history of innovative harvesting and ginning technologies resulting in higher-quality cotton.
- One of the highest rates of adoption in the world for Precision Agriculture, which minimizes water and pesticide usage.
- U.S. farmers operate under voluminous, stringent, and enforceable regulations.
- A commitment to transparent partnership that is unmatched anywhere.
- One of the most comprehensive systems for monitoring and measuring all the key metrics involved in sustainability.
U.S. Cotton Facts
- 2/3 of U.S. cotton land uses only rain water
- U.S. cotton water use efficiency has improved by 79% over the past 35 years
- Cotton is carbon footprint neutral, meaning the plants remove more greenhouse gasses than production produces.
Sustainability Goals
The U.S. cotton industry is building upon the strong environmental gains already achieved over the past 35 years. The aim is to help members meet their current needs while making the world a better place for future generations.
Specific goals include:
- Reducing by 13 percent the amount of land needed to produce a pound of cotton fiber
- Reducing soil loss by 50 percent, in balance with new soil formation
- Increasing water use efficiency (more fiber per gallon) by 18 percent
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent
- Increasing soil carbon in fields by 30 percent
- Reducing energy to produce seed cotton and ginned lint by 15 percent
Learn More www.cotton.org
