Japan's industrial fibre plants at 50 percent capacity

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Dublin, Ireland -- Textiles Intelligence has published a new report titled, Statistics: Fibre Consumption for Technical Textiles in Japan, 2010 Edition . The 10-page report was first published in May 2010 and is available for a price of around Euro 275, depending on delivery options.

The publishers say, "Man-made fibre output in Japan fell in 2009 for the ninth consecutive year. Furthermore, the decline, at 22.0 percent, was more than twice as fast as any previous fall during the nine-year period. Output of filament yarn plunged by 29.9 percent while that of staple fibres decreased by a substantial 15.1 percent. The fall in filament yarn output reflected double digit declines in all the main fibre types. In the case of staple fibres, output of all the main synthetic fibre types fell at double digit rates but the drop in cellulosic staple fibres was confined to 4.3 percent. "

They continue, "Japan's man-made fibre plants are being poorly utilised. In synthetics, capacity utilisation plunged to less than 50 percent in 2009 as output declined by as much as 24.3 percent. In cellulosics, capacity utilisation was a more sustainable 75.6 percent. Nonetheless, this was its lowest rate since 2000-due to a 10.1 percent drop in output."

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