The World Viscose Fibre - Trends in Demand and Supply is the Fifth compendium covering the trends in global demand and supply of textile fibre/filament industry. The compilation covers all major fibre producing countries accounting for 85% of global production and consumption. Time series on trends from 1990 to 2008 on production, imports, exports and apparent consumption is presented countrywise for 13 countries including all major Asian countries, USA and West Europe.

In this Report we have assesses the impact of the Global Slowdown on textile fibre/filament industry including natural fibres, particularly cotton, and how each country performed in this scenario. The analysis assesses the positions of fibres/filaments industry as events unfolded. The evolution of Global Slowdown and its spread across the world has been critically documented in perspective of textile industry. The demand crunch began in mid-2008 and continued into 2009. Also documented are the approaches of developed countries and the stimulus packages announced by various governments.

Highlights:

The viscose fiber/filament market, producing at an average annual growth rate of 4.1% over the last seven years, suffered from a decline in output by 13% at 2.4 million tons. Staple fibers dropped by 13% to 2.1 million tons while filament yarns declined by 9% to 340,000 tons.

The filament business continued its long-term decline. The situation was aggravated by a fire at Glanzstoff Austria in January 2008. The company produces 10,500 tons of industrial yarns and 1,000 tons of textile yarns. Due to technical and unfeasible economic situation, Glanzstoff Group decided to cease production at its St. Plten factory in end-2008. The ongoing flat demand also forced India's Century Textiles & Industries Ltd. to suspend operations of viscose yarn by end of February 2009. Enka Group has also plans to close its textile viscose yarn production at Elsterberg in Germany, which was established in 1909, in end-June 2009 as orders dropped more than 20%.

Although demand for viscose staple fibers in nonwovens, textile applications and flame retardant products has been promising, the fiber has been negatively affected by excess capacity and, since September 2006, an increasingly unfavorable price differential be-tween viscose and polyester staple fiber.

Viscose staple and filament production declined 13% in 2008. During the year 86,000 tons of capacity was added, comprising mostly of staple fibre. Filament capacity addition was only 30,000 tons during the year. Production of staple fibre declined 13% while that of filament was down 9%.

VSF production in China was down 13% while that of VFY declined 6%. However, consumption declined at a much faster pace of 14% in case of VSF and 23% in case of VFY. During the year, China exported 154,000 tons of VSF accounting for almost 30% of global trade.

Key Topics Covered:

THE 2008 GLOBAL SLOWDOWN

• The Causes
• The impact on developing countries
• Impact on Economic growth
• Impact on Textile and Clothing

FIBER WORLD

• Fibre Consumption Slumps Hard
• Supply and Demand in 2008
• World Statistics

VISCOSE

• From Minor to Fast Growing
• Viscose in 2008
• Viscose Filament Yarn Statistics
• Viscose Staple Fibre Statistics

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