Cha Technologies Group plc
St. James Building
79 Oxford Street
Manchester
M1 6FQ UK
Tel: +44(0)161 242 7988
Fax: +44(0)161 2427980

Cha Group was founded in 1949 by Dr. Cha Chi Ming in Hong Kong by establishing China Dyeing Works Limited and it soon developed into one of the world leaders in the textile industry. Originally, the group principally engaged in traditional textile manufacturing covering spinning, weaving, wax-print and dyeing.

Today, the Cha Group is a global conglomerate with diversified businesses in textiles, property development, technology, financial services and healthcare. Its worldwide operation employs over 25,000 people and a number of its member companies are listed on international stock exchanges.

To keep abreast with the latest technology in textile manufacturing, a separate division of the Cha Group was devised. This facilitated the operation of Cha Technologies Group (CTG), concentrated on the expansion into technical nonwoven textiles, specialty synthetic staple fiber and yarn production with specialist industrial filtration segment.

CTG now has manufacturing operations in Asia, the U.S. and Europe with sales and warehousing resources across every continent. The diversity and flexibility in production capabilities amassed among the sites gives CTG and its global sales team a wide range of material solutions for the textile related industry.

CTG’s plant in the Zhejiang province of China is one of the largest producers of stitchbond nonwoven textiles globally. A well-established name with major markets within the home furnishing related sector, commitment to product development continues to identify new applications utilizing woven like strength properties combined with fibrous nonwoven construction. Downstream to the nonwoven production, the site also has capacity for heat setting, printing, coating and impregnation. A growing activity in needle-punch production at this site has led to recent investment targeting high conformance product areas such as filtration, composites and healthcare.

In Europe, production of nonwoven textiles is located within an area of rich textile heritage of the UK. Pioneers of needlepunch technology into the UK market, a unique set of technical skills and knowledge resources have been accumulated. Thermal bonding via oven and heated calender rolls add further variation to CTG’s product mix, ranging from voluminous wadding structures to low weight tensile fabrics. Experience of varied fields has enabled common characteristics such as the flow of liquids and movement of air, to be linked with a variety of end applications. Activity in the industrial sector is typically high conformance, including automotive, composites, filtration and geotextile markets.

Building upon the market exposure and expertise of personnel at the firm’s UK nonwovens production site, the geotextile product area has been identified as a key area of growth. Having experienced steady growth in recent years, investment was made to establish this business unit as a sub-division allowing more resources to be dedicated. PRO-VEN brand of geotextile products will be launched in October 2014 to raise awareness of CTG’s standard product range. The company says this initiative is to run alongside active collaboration with academic and industrial partners to identify new product development opportunities.

At CTG’s U.S. site in Tennessee, a proud history in the manufacture and development of technical nonwoven textiles has led to specialist recognition in the nonwoven filter media market. Investment on industry setting high-speed carded/thermal bond processing lines has further enhanced the ability to compete in the performance driven market of filtration. The company says its straight laid carding offers flexible design properties over mass market spunlaid technologies, and is able to achieve preferential touch and feel for a wide range of applications such as home furnishing and high value packaging solutions.

In close proximity to the U.S. nonwovens production site is CTG’s specialty synthetic fiber plant. A highly versatile pilot line facilitates the development of innovative staple fiber products with competence of intricate profiles and bi-component construction in addition to complex polymer chemistry. Full-scale commercial manufacturing to take product conception to reality is available both at the company’s U.S. site and more recently at its fiber plant in China, which has mirrored the success of the U.S. operation with high volume capacity.

Complementing CTG’s expertise in staple fiber is its activity in specialist filament yarn and meltspun spandex. Occupied at its large manufacturing facility in China, significant capital expenditure has sustained industry leading performance requirements. The site is now equipped to deal with the most demanding stretch and tear resistant spandex material and filament yarn capabilities reflecting sophisticated features of CTG’s staple fiber manufacturing process.