At that time the firm found that it was unable to compete with mainland China's high-volume low-cost yarn formation, so they moved all the equipment in an entire yarn plant to Vietnam, while the parent firm kept the upstream chemical fiber plant as well as other yarn production facilities in Taiwan.
當年因為紡紗不敵大陸以量制價優勢，台南紡織被迫將一整個紡紗廠的設備移到越南，台灣總公司則保留上游的化纖廠和部分紡紗廠。