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Chinese textile-equipment maker ships full carbon-fibre production line to South Korea
A company in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, has shipped a complete carbon-fibre production line to South Korea.
The equipment turns fine polymer threads into carbon fibre, a material that is lighter than steel and more than seven times as strong.
The company developed the line after relying on foreign suppliers for equipment and repairs.
It began its own development work in 2013, building carbonisation equipment first and later adding machinery to make the starting threads.
The work draws on the region’s long experience with textile machinery and nearby universities and suppliers.
The new line gives the company the ability to deliver both key stages of production.
Carbon-fibre materials are used in fields including aerospace, medical equipment and nuclear energy, while the wider textile cluster is a major manufacturing centre in China.
Local officials say they want to strengthen links from research through industrial production, as China aims to improve advanced manufacturing and reduce dependence on foreign technology.
A Chinese textile-equipment maker has shipped a complete carbon-fibre production line to South Korea.
The line’s core equipment was packed in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and is due to travel through Ningbo port.
The company developed equipment for both carbonisation and precursor production, making delivery of a complete line possible.
The company said the line’s cost-performance exceeded that of comparable Japanese carbonisation lines at the time of its first export.
The shipment reflects the use of textile-industry expertise and local research and manufacturing networks to develop advanced equipment.
- Who
- Zhejiang Jinggong Integration Technology Co., Ltd. shipped the line to South Korea.
- What
- It shipped a complete carbon-fibre production line, including core equipment.
- When
- The article was published on October 22, 2026. The shipment date is not stated.
- Where
- The equipment was packed in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, for shipment through Ningbo port to South Korea.
- Why
- The company developed the equipment and said its cost-performance exceeded that of comparable Japanese carbonisation lines at the time of its first export.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The company began developing carbon-fibre equipment independently, starting with carbonisation lines and later adding precursor equipment.
The modern textile and apparel cluster around Hangzhou Bay, led by Shaoxing and linked with Hangzhou, Ningbo and Jiaxing, was selected as a national advanced manufacturing cluster.
China News Service reported that the company was packing core carbon-fibre line equipment in Shaoxing for shipment through Ningbo port to South Korea.
- Destination
- South Korea
- Packing location
- Shaoxing, Zhejiang
- Shipping port
- Ningbo
- Development began
- 2013
- Foreign-import delivery time
- 15 months, according to the company
- Current delivery time
- 3 months, according to the company
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What people are saying
Because our cost-performance completely surpassed that of comparable Japanese carbonisation lines at the time.
In a furnace chamber this large, temperature uniformity must reach plus or minus 2.5 degrees Celsius, and wind-speed uniformity must reach 3 metres per second.
By eliminating most of the impossible options, we shortened the commissioning period from two months to one month or even half a month.