Overview:

The “World Fibre & Taiwan – Trends in Demand and Supply” is the Fifth compendium from Yarnsand-Fibers covering the trends in global demand and supply of textile fibre/filament industry.

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 in-dustry. 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.

The Report is divided into two sections: Fibre-wise View and Region/Country wise View.

Summary

Taiwan is the fifth largest producer manmade fibre/filament in the world accounting for 3.3% of world produce. During 2008, it produced 2.04 million tons of manmade fibres as against 2.49 million tons it produced in 2007. This implies a massive drop of 18%. It was the fifth largest producers of acrylic staple fibre, third in nylon and polyester filament, fourth in polyester staple fibre and fifth largest viscose staple fibre producer in 2008. However, its share has been steadily declining since 1990 as China was ramped up faster than any global economies.

About 6% of World’s polyester filament yarn and 4% of polyester staple is produced in Taiwan. In 2008, their production declined 14% much faster than the declines recorded between 2000 and 2007. In case of nylon, though it accounted for 9% of global supplies, recorded decline in 2008. Nylon pro-duction was down 26% as against -0.5% annual decline recorded in 2000-07 period. In 1990s, produc-tion had expanded 8% per annum.

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
TAIWAN 22
TAIWAN 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 10.6. Taiwan's Growth and Share in World 22
Table 10.7. Major Fibre/Filament Supply and Demand Trends in Taiwan 23