Yamamoto Chameleon Fabric Aurora

Based on what we know, some more information about Yamamoto and its material is shared with you here.

 

Does your factory use the Yamamoto material? As the wetsuit manufacturer,  this question is often asked by some of our customers. Yes, we also import & use the Yamamoto material, except the domestic material. Based on what we know, some more information about Yamamoto and its material is shared with you here.

 

What is Yamamoto?

Yamamoto Corporation is a well-known material company in Japan, its environmentally friendly high-end limestone neoprene is very popular all over the world, the neoprene codes include 38#, 39#, 40#, 45#, 50#, 88#, etc. Yamamoto 39# is the most popular and occupies most of the market share of high-end wetsuits. But now the Yamamoto 40# is becoming more and more popular because it has better flexibility than the Yamamoto 39# and is more suitable for high-end thin bikini wetsuits.

 

What is Yamamoto Aurora?

Recently, Yamamoto has launched an innovative fabric called Aurora, whose color can change according to a variety of conditions, and won the ISPO Textrends Award for the 2025/2026 Fall/Winter season.

 

Aurora is a high-performance material that utilizes the company’s proprietary SCS coating technology to produce a smooth-skin wetsuit that changes color both above and below the water. 

 

SCS is coated on closed-cell polychloroprene and provides multiple functions, including abrasion resistance, chlorine resistance, salt water resistance, and UV resistance, as well as quick drying and thermal insulation properties.

 

 

Aurora is hydrophobic in air and hydrophilic in water. The micellar structure molecules on its surface repel water when in contact with air and reduce surface drag when in contact with water. The material is lined with Green Wave, a plant-based polyamide fabric, which via SCS coating, makes putting the wetsuits on and taking them off extremely easy. Green wave is also quick drying, with low thermal conductivity and improved heat retention when in use. Since this is the new Chameleon fabric material, to make it perform better, right now this fabric is made of Yamamoto 45# smooth skin neoprene and knitted fabric with a variety of replaceable colors, but more options should be available in the near future.

 

Based on its parameters, this replaceable fabric will be loved by children and women, and it will be a good choice if you want to customize a women's wetsuit or a children's wetsuit. You can imagine how special the Chameleon wetsuit is. If the wetsuit is used for special underwater situations, maybe this material can also be considered. This means that in the near future, we will see related products in the wetsuit market, such as surfing wetsuits, free diving suits...etc., especially women's series, children's series.

 

As the wetsuit manufacturer, we will pay attention to and know more about the material development in our industry, then we can serve well all of our customers and offer all kinds of material or product proposals to them, helping our customers to develop good products & win their market share. No matter you are an expert or a novice, it will be our honor if we can work together to develop & run the wetsuit business together.