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ROICA

About ROICA

About ROICA

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ROICA,the premium stretch ingredient for the Modern Wardrobe.

ROICA™ is the secret stretch ingredient inside everything in your Modern Wardrobe. ROICA™ improves and refines your clothes, giving pleasure, quality and confidence everyday, bringing new value and real values to the demanding contemporary consumer, where stretch performance from standard fiber now becomes a speciality!

ROICA transforms the way clothes work…
  • From Basic to Special
  • From Ordinary to Clever
  • From Standard to Smart
 

Activating ROICA Premium Stretch Market Leadership

Choosing ROICA™ means you can enjoy the style, fit and finish designed for new levels of comfort and better control.
ROICA™ activates your personal performance and energizes materials with an advanced and adaptive, responsible fit.ROICA™ is an agile, multi-faceted and sustainable stretch that redefines the new circularity, delivering the style, support and finish, trusted to match the performance demands and ambitions of the new generation contemporary consumer.ROICA™ customizes its unique hi-tech smarts to deliver real leadership in comfort and control with value and real values.
True innovation springs from a mix of dedicated research, smarter technologies, a respect for individual talents and a focus on the environment. A circular business model benefits all, creating value with values for society, nature and for our future.

 

Celebrating ROICA50th anniversary

Since 1971, premium stretch fiber ROICA™ is renowned for
raising the bar in the fashion and textile business with smart innovation.

Founded in 1971, ROICA™ the premium stretch fiber by Asahi Kasei, the global leader in development and manufacturing of innovative materials, has been bringing together high-tech performance and certified sustainability. Constant investments in R&D, people and technology allowed the company to engineer agile, multi-faceted and sustainable stretch yarns which redefine the new circularity, delivering the style, support and finish, trusted to match the performance demands and ambitions of the new generation contemporary consumer.

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ROICA history timeline

Center for Advanced Technology of Fibers and Textiles

A laboratory that proposes advanced solutions far beyond the framework of fiber and textile manufacturer.

Asahi Kasei has been engaged in a wide range of fiber and textile R&D activities for many years. These efforts have allowed us to create diverse materials and technologies that serve people in their everyday life.
At the Center for Advanced Technology of Fibers and Textiles, we create new value by consolidating those technologies and knowledge.The subject fields are as diverse as healthcare and industrial products, as well as the fashion that is most familiar to people.
Our fiber and textile professionals with high level of expertise work daily on development of advanced materials, reserch on innovative technologies, advancement of evaluation technologies, and other activities.

ROICA Global Locations

The ROICA™ brand has driven a continuous research and development program, opening new facilities since 2000 in Tiwan, expanding to China and Thailand, growing the availability of the next generation of designed, smart speciality stretch yarns.

Asahi Kasei Corp. Fibers & Textile Formosa Asahi Spandex Co.,Ltd. Thai Asahi Kasei Spandex Co.,Ltd. Hangzhou Asahikasei Spandex Co.,Ltd. ASAHI KASEI FIBERS(H.K) LIMITED Asahi Kasei Europe GmbH​

Plant

Sales office

Asahi Kasei Corp.
3-23 Nakanoshima,3-chome,Kita-ku,Osaka,Japan
Tel:+81-(0)6-7636-3551

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Sales office

Formosa Asahi Spandex Co.,Ltd.
8F., .390., Section 6, Nanjing East Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel:+886-2-27122211 EXT.6791~6795

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Sales office

Thai Asahi Kasei Spandex Co.,Ltd.
919 Moon 11, Tambol Nongkhaam, Amphur Sriracha, Chonburi 20230, Thailand
Tel: +66-38-48-3005

Plant

Sales office

Hangzhou Asahikasei Spandex Co.,Ltd.
M18-5-7,Hangzhou Economic & Technological Development Zone Zhejiang 310018,China
Tel:+86-571-8672-1888

Sales office

ASAHI KASEI FIBERS(H.K) LIMITED
Unit 2604, 26/F, Mira Place Tower A,
132 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2522-7875

Sales office

Asahi Kasei Europe GmbH​
Fringsstraße 17, 40221, Düsseldorf​, Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 211 3399 2024