The industrialization and implementation of green technologies rely on the resource integration and capital empowerment provided by professional platforms. Recently, the Asia-Pacific ESG Strategy Research Institute (APESG) successfully facilitated a strategic investment partnership between Zhejiang Huanyu Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Huanyu Technology”) and Hong Kong-listed company High Fashion Group (stock code: 00608.HK). This collaboration not only injected crucial industrial capital into the commercialization of Huanyu Technology’s core technologies but also leveraged High Fashion Group’s global network to establish an international pathway for its original green dyeing technologies. This achievement has also garnered attention and coverage from CCTV’s Industrial Spirit program.
Responding to Industry Pain Points with Technological Revolution: TDSD®️ Reshapes the Printing and Dyeing Ecosystem
As the global textile manufacturing hub, China accounts for over 60% of the world’s production capacity. However, the traditional printing and dyeing industry has long grappled with significant challenges, including high water consumption, severe pollution, and substantial energy usage. Data shows that the global textile industry consumes approximately 79 trillion liters of water annually, contributing to about 20% of global industrial wastewater discharge. On average, dyeing one meter of fabric requires around 30 liters of water. Environmental pressures, demands for flexible production, and gaps in digitalization have become the “three major obstacles” constraining the industry’s development.
Recognizing these industry challenges, Dr. Tao Andi from the University of Cambridge led a team to establish Huanyu Technology, focusing on the research and development of green digital intelligent dyeing technologies. Leveraging core technological innovation and comprehensive R&D capabilities, the company was certified as a National High-Tech Enterprise in Zhejiang Province.After years of dedicated efforts, Huanyu Technology independently developed the TDSD® (Technical Digital Smart Dyeing) green digital intelligent textile dyeing process. By breaking through three core technological barriers—inkjet printheads, ink materials, and color digitalization control—the company established a complete technological system covering equipment, consumables, and processes. This solution, built on fully independent innovation across the entire chain, has resulted in over 80 intellectual property applications, including 12 invention patents.
This non-contact continuous production technology enables an on-demand, flexible “spray-and-dye” mode, completely eliminating the extensive logic of traditional dyeing vats that require batch-by-batch dyeing and repeated heating and cleaning. It also adapts flexibly to the fragmented order demands driven by fast fashion.More notably, the TDSD®️ technology allows for precise carbon footprint tracing for every piece of fabric, aligning perfectly with the global trend toward carbon labeling systems and providing brands with quantifiable sustainability credentials.Verified by the internationally authoritative organization SGS, the TDSD®️ technology can reduce water consumption by approximately 99%, energy consumption by 84%, and chemical usage by 21%, addressing the pollution issues of traditional dyeing at their source.This technology not only fills a gap in national technological capabilities but also breaks the long-standing monopoly of Europe, America, and Japan in core inkjet dyeing technologies, providing a practical and feasible pathway for the green transformation of the textile industry.
Precision Capital Alignment: APESG Builds a Green Investment and Financing Bridge
The large-scale adoption of high-quality green technologies relies not only on capital that combines industry insight with a sustainability mindset but also on professional platforms to facilitate efficient connections.
As a leading enterprise with decades of deep-rooted expertise in the textile industry, High Fashion Group has always embedded sustainability into its corporate DNA. The company has long focused on the research and development of eco-friendly fabrics, emission reduction in production processes, and carbon footprint management. It is committed to driving the industry toward low-carbon and circular transformation through technological innovation and industrial chain collaboration. This vision aligns closely with Huanyu Technology’s development philosophy of “solving industry environmental challenges through original technology.”
After recognizing the technological value of Huanyu Technology, APESG quickly identified its collaboration potential with High Fashion Group. Leveraging its resource advantages in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and international capital markets, APESG precisely connected Huanyu Technology with Hong Kong-based High Fashion Group. Through APESG’s end-to-end facilitation and empowerment, the two parties successfully reached a strategic investment partnership. High Fashion Group not only injected critical industrial capital but also opened up its extensive industry resources and global network, paving the way for the commercialization and international expansion of Huanyu Technology’s technology.
Mr. LAM Din Yu, Director of High Fashion Group and General Manager of High Fashion Group (China), first learned about Dr. Tao Andi and TDSD® technology through APESG’s introduction and immediately sensed a strong “alignment of vision” between the two parties. He stated, “This is a groundbreaking technology that fills a national gap—it truly restructures the dyeing process and aligns perfectly with our green transformation goals. Moreover, the technology offers long-term cost competitiveness, and market demand is clear. This represents a novel business opportunity.”
“The textile industry is the world’s second-largest source of carbon emissions. Huanyu Technology’s TDSD® technology holds leading value in green innovation, while High Fashion Group possesses a mature industrial ecosystem and a global network. The collaboration we facilitated aims precisely to connect great technology with the right partner, leveraging capital as a bridge to accelerate the adoption of new technologies and thereby drive the green transformation of the entire industry.”
Empowering Technology’s Global Expansion: Co-building a Sustainable Ecosystem for the Global Dyeing and Printing Industry
This collaboration is not merely a convergence of capital and technology but also a significant practice in bringing China’s green innovation achievements to the global stage. Empowered by High Fashion Group’s global resources, Huanyu Technology’s TDSD®️ technology has begun its international market expansion. The two parties are jointly developing a production line for “eco-friendly high-end fabrics,” aiming to reduce High Fashion Group’s carbon footprint by an additional 20% through technological integration.
Today, Huanyu Technology’s TDSD®️ technology has gained broad market recognition. International cross-border e-commerce giants are applying it to flexible “small-batch, quick-response” production, and leading domestic textile enterprises are also rallying around this innovative technology.From the technical vision born in a Cambridge laboratory, to stable mass production on industrial production lines, and now to full-scale international expansion, Huanyu Technology’s development journey is a vivid reflection of APESG’s mission to “build green investment and financing bridges and promote the global expansion of sustainable technologies.”
In the future, APESG will continue to leverage its strengths in resource integration and platform capabilities, focusing on the precise alignment of green technologies and capital. It will connect more high-quality green innovation enterprises with global resources, support the international expansion of China’s original green technologies, and provide practical “Chinese solutions” for the low-carbon transformation of global industries.