The Fiber Year

Andreas W. Engelhardt, former senior manager at Oerlikon Textile International Business, is the founder and president of The Fiber Year GmbH. The company’s target is to provide international expertise, analyses, strategy consulting and customized solutions. The company’s strategic advantage after broadening its scope is to offer a holistic approach from fibers to fabrics following the general idea to bridge fiber and filament manufacturing with subsequent processing activities in knitting, weaving and nonwovens fabric production.

News

18. August 2023

The Fabric Year 2023

Preface:Initial idea for this report was to structure market forces of the entire fabric industry in the absence of official data. Target is to present long-term […]
23. May 2023

TFY 2023: Executive Summary

World supply got into the red in 2022 with the entire fiber segment increasing, filaments declining and spunlaids unsurprisingly softening. The expansion in the staple fiber […]

Fiber Outlook 2022/23

Upcoming Events

  • September 202362nd Dornbirn Manmade Fibers Congress

    Dornbirn, Austria
  • September 202329th China International Manmade Fiber Conference

    PR China
  • November 2023ITMF 2023

    Keqiao, PR China