As "The European Yarn Show", EXPOFIL, wishes to provide for the first time an economic overview of its sector at European Union level. This study, performed exclusively for EXPOFIL by the Research and Consulting Department of the French Fashion Institute (Institut Français de la Mode), started with the 1997 data. It has just been updated with the 1998 statistics.

     To obtain sets of statistics that are as comprehensive and uniform as possible, and above all are comparable from one country to another, the approach adopted is that of yarn-types based on the following MFA categories :

• 1 : cotton yarns

• 22 : yarns from discontinuous synthetic fibres

• 23 : yarns from discontinuous artificial fibres

• 41 : + 125A : synthetic yarns

• 42 : +127A : cellulosic yarns

• 47 : woolen yarns

• 48 : worsted yarns

• 49 : +56 : hand-knitting yarns (included yarns package for retails sale)

• 115 : linen yarns

The sources used for the study are :

• CITH (Brussels), as the main source

• CIRFS (Brussels), for certain categories of synthetic and artificial yarns;

• CTCOE (Paris), for estimates based on the figures supplied by CITH;

• ITMF (Zurich), for investments

• OETH (Brussels), for the number of companies and employees.

© TEXMONDO - 2000 - Published with the kind agreement of Expofil