The Technological Empire Begins with Polymer Materials
Chapter 17

Task 3: Bloodbath the Global Chemical Fiber Market!

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After returning from Nanjing, Gao Yuan immediately headed to Guangzhou and Shenzhen to discuss cooperation with other fast fashion companies, such as Global E-commerce Group, which owns the Zaful brand.

As expected, these companies were also **shocked by the powerful performance of the fiber.

Especially after learning that Xiyin Group had already signed a cooperation agreement with Gao Yuan, they immediately signed without hesitation, and solemnly promised to strictly abide by the slightly strange terms in the contract.

Perhaps this is the cruel pressure that technology brings to business.

When smartphones appeared, feature phones were destined to be eliminated.

When cars were invented, horse-drawn carriages lost their soil for survival, becoming mere tools for carrying tourists.

As August arrived, the global fast fashion sector was in turmoil, unbeknownst to many.

Across the vast land of Huaxia, tens of thousands of clothing factories began to receive a brand-new fabric.

This fabric had a special molecular structure, and its water permeability was incredibly powerful, unheard of. It was nearly three times stronger than the best quick-drying fabric in the world, DuPont Company's top fiber, COOLMAX.

Although the Huaxia garment industry has suffered significant losses in recent years, it still accounts for half of the global market, a true behemoth.

Now, this behemoth was rapidly mobilizing. Batch after batch of containers filled with finished clothing were being shipped to every corner of the world via land, sea, air, and rail, displayed in shop windows and on shelves.

"Dad, Mom, look what I brought you."

In the evening, Gao Yuan returned home, dragging a giant woven bag with great effort, and shouted to his mother, who was cooking, and his father, who was watching TV.

Having been busy with work recently, Gao Yuan hadn't been home for a full week. His mother was naturally very happy to see him, and the woven bag, almost as tall as he was, also filled her with curiosity.

"What's in the bag?" his mother asked.

"Clothes," Gao Yuan replied.

His mother was taken aback. "You, child, why did you buy so many clothes? When will you ever wear them all?"

"Such pretty skirts."

"And shirts too."

"They're all brand-new, good clothes. Why did you put them in a woven bag? That's too casual."

Gao Yuan paid no mind to his mother's nagging. In his eyes, the main point wasn't the clothes themselves, but that all these clothes used the fabric he produced!

Inside all these garments was a mountain-shaped logo, with the Chinese characters "Kunlun" below it, plus the fiber model, X1.

"Cool, right? From now on, this will be our family's unique mark. All textiles using X Fiber must bear our brand trademark," Gao Yuan explained excitedly to his parents.

In fact, this was also a common practice in the textile and apparel industry.

Suppose you are an outdoor sports enthusiast, you might be familiar with the GORE-TEX brand. It is the logo of North America's Gore-Tex fabric, symbolizing the world's strongest windproof and waterproof performance.

Additionally, there's the bright yellow VIBRAM logo on the soles of hiking boots. This logo from the famous Italian rubber company represents the world's best wear-resistant sole technology.

And if your T-shirt has the COOLMAX logo, it means the T-shirt uses the world's best quick-drying fabric, proudly produced by North America's DuPont Group.

In short, clothing fabric actually has brands. A jacket made with Gore-Tex technology often costs twice as much as a regular jacket because of the top-tier technology it incorporates.

Now, Gao's small factory finally had its own brand, and it was being adopted by so many manufacturers. Gao Yuan's father's eyes welled up with tears as he excitedly held two shirts in his hands, stroking them.

"It feels so comfortable, soft, light, and gentle. It's a bit like long-staple cotton, but much more breathable. What's even better is that it's not sheer. Even white fabric offers excellent coverage in the sun, so its UV protection must be very strong too."

Although Gao Yuan's mother wasn't in the fabric business, she knew good fabric when she felt it.

Before X Fiber, very lightweight fabrics often had the drawback of being sheer. It wasn't just girls; even a grown man walking down the street would have his nipples clearly visible, which was quite indecent.

However, X Fiber didn't have this drawback. Its lightness and quick-drying properties weren't achieved by reducing the number of fibers, but through a chemical process that created a dense honeycomb structure within the fibers.

To put it simply, due to its unique internal honeycomb structure, even a heavy wool coat woven with X Fiber could be easily lifted with a single pinky finger.

Of course, the current X1 Fiber is geared towards breathability and quick-drying, making it suitable for summer. If it were woven into a wool coat, the slightest winter breeze would let in so much cold air that one would freeze like an ice pop.

Xu Qingzhou's team is currently working on modifying and reconstructing the X1 Fiber to develop the X2 thermal fiber. Once the X2 Fiber is launched, it can target the autumn and winter markets.

In addition, the sports X3 type, waterproof X4 type, and many other improved fiber versions are also under intense development.

In essence, X Fiber is like a solid foundation. With this foundation, various buildings of different styles, functions, and forms can be constructed upon it.

X Fiber finally left the factory and appeared as merchandise in shop windows, marking a huge success. Gao Yuan suggested the family go out for dinner that night to celebrate with a few drinks.

His parents readily agreed, but Gao Yuan's father was resolute in following the doctor's orders: no alcohol, no greasy food. Even when eating meat, it was light dishes like steamed mandarin fish or boiled shrimp.

Gao Yuan couldn't help but marvel at his father's strong willpower, able to resist the temptation of delicious food. The man who used to love braised pork so much now wouldn't even look at it. He truly was a man trained in the army.

In addition to his diet, Gao Xiangnan also exercised twice a day, took his medication on time according to his alarm, and so on.

Such strict self-discipline completely reassured Gao Yuan and his mother. As everyone knows, cerebral infarction is a disease that is prone to recurrence. If the blood vessel gets blocked a second time, whether it can be cleared becomes a matter of luck.

After dinner, Gao Yuan watched TV with his parents for a while and helped his mother pack. These clothes were gifts from business partners, and many styles were too trendy for his parents' age.

However, on the principle of not wasting anything, Gao Yuan's mother planned to pack these clothes and give them to relatives and friends, while also seizing the opportunity to show off how capable her son was, how he had developed a new fabric, how many downstream manufacturers were purchasing it, and how the business was booming.

Gao Yuan had no choice but to let his mother have her way.

Having lived in the factory for too long, Gao Yuan felt a sense of familiarity and warmth upon returning to his own room. The single bed with its latex mattress was incredibly comfortable to sleep on.

In the middle of the night, a light rain began to fall outside. Just as Gao Yuan was drifting between sleep and wakefulness, the System suddenly emitted a beeping notification.

"Could it be that the mission is complete?"

Gao Yuan hurriedly closed his eyes and brought up the system panel.

The text on the giant screen immediately left him dumbfounded, his heartbeat rapidly amplifying in the darkness.

Task 2: Complete.

Task 3: Bloodbath the global chemical fiber market!

"Holy crap!" Upon seeing the task content, Gao Yuan couldn't help but blurt out.

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