The big European picture from Dornbirn

By Haydn Davis
1 October 2018

DORNBIRN – World man-made fibres production in 2017 was 72.1 million tonnes, with China responsible for 68% of all of it, according to Necat Altin, of CIRFS, the European man-made fibres association.

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