The Fabric Year 2024

The updated issue for the fabric making stage bridges the upstream service The Fiber Year 2024 and the downstream series about market sizes in demand of textiles and apparel.

The entire processing business has witnessed a moderate increase in dynamics that clearly remained below the long-term average. Knitting operations, covering more than 50% market share since Global Financial Crisis, advanced less than 1% whereas manufacturing of woven fabrics succeeded to expand at a more than 2% rate. Nonwovens saw gains in fiber-based types while spunlaids kept on declining in their third consecutive year.

From the group of 20 analyzed industries, responsible for about 94% of global fiber and yarn processing, above-average growth occurred in PR China, India, Mexico and Sri Lanka. The remaining businesses suffered from losses with double-digit contractions in Germany and Taiwan.