This quarterly report explores in each issue a different aspect of the fibres and textile industry, with insight and data not available from any other source. The format allows for a regular update of broad trends in fibres and textile demand. 
  
The Data behind Textile Pipeline
The numbers underlying Textile Pipeline are from our unparalleled database. Historical mill consumption and final demand data for wool, cotton and manufactured fibres (split at the mill level as the competing MMF fibres) extend back to 1980 for all of the PCI regions (and in some cases back to 1960). The comprehensive database for trade covers fibres, spun yarns, fabrics, finished textiles and apparel for wool, cotton and MMF - perhaps the most complete and consistent measure of global and regional textile trade available to the industry. This detail is the basis for the forecasts published in Textile Pipeline. Using our unique Textile Pipeline Stocks methodology, we estimate fibre demand at both the final consumer and textile mill levels. By concentrating on volume by weight, our analysis avoids the many distortions that can arise in alternative techniques which attempt to forecast volumes using other more generalised economic data.


 

Textile Pipeline Special

In its usual 16-page form the Textile Pipeline (see above) provides clients with a quarterly review of wool, cotton and MMF based on our analysis if Textile Pipeline Stocks. This form of the service is published each year in Q1, Q3 and Q4.

In Q2 each year however we expand the scope of the service to a Textile Pipeline Special which presents a thorough update of the previous Red Book which comes out each autumn.  Thus, the Textile Pipeline Special for Q2 2010 will provide an update by region of our demand analysis in the light of full year data for 2009.  Its format is close to that found in the demand section of the Red Book and comprises some 150 pages of regional analysis. The Textile Pipeline Special also includes a regional update of mill demand and production estimates for acrylic, nylon and polyester. Data years to be shown are 2005-2009 with estimates for 2010 and forecasts for 2011 and 2012. 

The PCI Fibres Red Book (World Synthetic Fibres Supply/Demand Report) provides every year an up-to-date review of the market, noting especially the growing influence of China. Demand prospects at consumer and mill level for thr broad categories of textile fibre (natural and manufactured) are analysed, with production estimates that relate to existing and future capacity for the main synthetics (acrylic, nylon, polyester). The mill demand analysis splits out the various components of nylon and polyester filament; that is, as textile, industrial and carpet filament, with allowance for variants such as filament spunbonded fabrics. The supply side for acrylic, nylon and polyester fibre is presented in the form of country production data and company capacity by plant. In the capacity tables note is also made by country of the different types of industrial filament (HDI, LDI, mono).

The Data behind Textile Pipeline
The numbers underlying Textile Pipeline are from our unparalleled database. Historical mill consumption and final demand data for wool, cotton and manufactured fibres (split at the mill level as the competing MMF fibres) extend back to 1980 for all of the PCI regions (and in some cases back to 1960). The comprehensive database for trade covers fibres, spun yarns, fabrics, finished textiles and apparel for wool, cotton and MMF - perhaps the most complete and consistent measure of global and regional textile trade available to the industry. This detail is the basis for the forecasts published in Textile Pipeline. Using our unique Textile Pipeline Stocks methodology, we estimate fibre demand at both the final consumer and textile mill levels. By concentrating on volume by weight, our analysis avoids the many distortions that can arise in alternative techniques which attempt to forecast volumes using other more generalised economic data.

The report for 2009 was published in November 2009 and contains 430 pages. Data years were from 1990 to 2008, with estimates for 2009 and forecasts from 2010 to 2015. The supply and demand volumes are consolidated into 13 global regions in a series of unique supply/demand graphs which lead to a world overview for the main synthetics.