Shanghai International Hosiery Purchasing Expo 2027

How it compares

Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics Spring is the broader Shanghai choice for teams sourcing fabrics and trims across an apparel collection. Its knitted and functional fabrics, lace, yarns, and accessories suit product development that extends beyond legwear. It attracted more than 3,000 exhibitors in 2026. CHPE narrows that search to socks and tights, with the production machines and specialized materials used to make them.

The co-located Shanghai International Hats, Scarves, Gloves Expo serves buyers building a wider accessories assortment, including headwear and sun protection products. It complements a hosiery sourcing trip when the same business also buys scarves or gloves. CHPE is the more concentrated setting for discussions about sock construction, functional yarns, and finished legwear ranges.

The distinction is the buying brief: apparel fabrics across many garment types favor Intertextile; a coordinated accessories assortment makes the neighboring fairs relevant; a focused hosiery order or manufacturing investment gives CHPE its clearest purpose.

CHPE suits hosiery buyers and manufacturers who want Chinese sock production clusters, finished legwear, specialized yarns, and knitting machinery in the same sourcing trip.

Who exhibits

The exhibitor mix combines finished hosiery with the materials and machines behind it. Recent exhibitors include finished-hosiery producer 华宜针织 and machinery supplier 伟焕机械; earlier presentations also included Northern Socks Group and Türkiye and Taiwan pavilions. Sports socks, children's styles, sheer stockings, compression tights, covered yarn, and computerized knitting equipment sit within the same product scope. The useful comparison is between a supplier selling a finished range and one offering the yarn, construction, or machinery needed to develop your own.

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Shanghai International Hosiery Purchasing Expo 2027

CHPE 2027 puts functional and occasion-specific hosiery alongside its core cotton socks and fashion tights. The announced program includes the China Hosiery Fashion Trend Show, China Chic Hosiery Design Competition, a technical forum on functional knitting materials, and New Accessories Growth Forum. Co-location with the hats, scarves, gloves, jewelry, and home apparel fairs extends the sourcing mix into coordinated accessories and homewear ranges.

• For performance hosiery, compare the finished sports or compression sock with the functional yarn suppliers in CHPE's raw materials range; the fair covers both ends of that development decision.
• Use Shanghai International Hats, Scarves, Gloves Expo to extend a hosiery assortment into matching headwear, scarves, gloves, or sun protection products.