EATP – the European Association for Textile Polyolefins – has released its annual market study (Polyolefin Textiles in the Greater European Area) to its member companies.
This study is a unique analysis of the situation and the evolution of polyolefin fibres and textiles in Europe. It covers market developments in all kinds of polyolefin textile products in Western and Central Europe and Turkey.
These cover a huge range of technologies and end-uses: fibres, yarns, fabrics, nonwovens, ropes and twine, carpets and rugs, FIBCs, agrotextiles, geotextiles, other technical textiles and much else.
The main trends and conclusions of the Report include: • The leading share of polyolefins – polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) - in the total European textiles market is still increasing. In 2006, they accounted for 43% of all man-made materials used for textiles. • Consumption of polyolefin textiles was almost 2.5 million tonnes. • Tapes and slit film are the largest sector product, followed closely by staple fibres, spunbond nonwovens and filament yarn. Spunbond and meltblown technologies are growing rapidly (up by 6% in 2006) • The largest end-use market is technical textiles, consuming 950.000 tonnes of polyolefins, in articles such as agrotextiles, geotextiles, strapping, packaging, construction and a wide range of other technical applications • Carpet markets, the second largest end-use, recovered in 2006, with PP usage rising by 1% to 635.000 tonnes
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