Overview:

The “World Fibre & Turkey – Trends in Demand and Supply” is the Fifth compendium from YarnsandFibers covering the trends in global demand and supply of textile fi-bre/filament industry.
In this Report we have assesses the impact of the Global Slowdown on textile fi-bre/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 ap-proaches of developed countries and the stimulus packages announced by various gov-ernments.
The Report is divided into two sections: Fibre-wise View and Region/Country wise View.

Summary

Turkey was the ninth largest producer of fibre/filament in the world during 2008 with cotton, acrylic and polyester as the major segments. It was the world’s second largest im-porter of fibre/filament thus becoming the fifth largest market in the world. In 2008, it accounted for 1.7% of world’s fibre/filament with production volume of 1.04 million tons. During the year, it imported 1.26 million tons of fibre/filament.

During 2008, Turkey was the second largest producer and importer of acrylic fibre, thus becoming the second largest consumer of the fibre. In polyester, it was the tenth largest producer of staple fibre and filament yarn and the fifth largest consumer of filament. In viscose, it was the fifth largest consumer of staple fibre and seventh in filament yarn. With an area of 340 million hectares under cotton, Turkey was the seventh largest producer of cotton fibre, the third largest importer of cotton and thus the fourth largest of its consumption.

PREFACE 4
LIST OF TABLES 5
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 6
THE 2008 GLOBAL SLOWDOWN 7
THE CAUSES 7
THE IMPACT ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 7
IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH 8
IMPACT ON TEXTILE AND CLOTHING 9
FIBER WORLD 10
FIBRE CONSUMPTION SLUMPS HARD 10
SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN 2008 11
WORLD STATISTICS 14
GLOBAL 20
TURKEY 22
TURKEY STATISTICS 23
ABOUT YNFX.COM 24

List of Tables

Table 1.1. Growth and Share of All Fibres Production 10
Table 1.2. Growth and Share of Natural Fibres' Production 11
Table 1.3. Growth in Manmade Fibre / Filament wise Production 11
Table 1.4. World Supplies of Fibres and Filaments in Primary Form in 2008 13
Table 1.5. Trends in Fibre / Filament Production 14
Table 1.6. Trends in Fibre / Filament Exports 14
Table 1.7. Trends in Fibre / Filament Imports 15
Table 1.8. Trends in Fibre / Filament Apparent Consumption 15
Table 1.9. Trends in Manmade Fibre / Filament wise Capacty 16
Table 1.10. Trends in Manmade Fibre / Filament wise Production 16
Table 1.11. Trends in Manmade Fibre / Filament wise Export 17
Table 1.12. Trends in Manmade Fibre / Filament wise Import 17
Table 1.13. Trends in Manmade Fibre / Filament wise Apparent Consumption 18
Table 1.14. Trends in Natural Fibre wise Production 18
Table 1.15. Trends in Natural Fibre wise Exports 19
Table 1.17. Trends in Natural Fibre wise Apparent Consumption 19
Table 1.16. Trends in Natural Fibre wise Imports 19
Table 10.1. Global Fibre/Filament Supply and Demand 20
Table 10.35. Turkey's Growth and Share in World 22
Table 10.36. Major Fibre/Filament Supply and Demand Trends in Turkey 23