The year 2005 shows two major trends in the world market for textile machinery: First, a jump in shipments of circular knitting machinery, mainly driven by shipments to Asia in general and to China in particular; second, significant reductions of investments in the area of weaving, texturing and flat knitting machinery.
In the spinning sector the picture was mixed. While the shipments of short-staple spindles rose, those of longstaple spindles and rotors fell. These are the main results of the annual textile machinery shipment survey just released by the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF).
The report covers 6 types of textile machinery, namely spinning, texturing, weaving, large circular knitting, flat knitting and, for the first time, also finishing machinery. The 2005 survey has been compiled in cooperation with some 120 textile machinery manufacturers, representing a comprehensive measure of world output.
Spinning Machinery
The year 2005 marked a new record of global short-staple spindles shipments totalling 11,198,644, a 7 percent increase from 2004 on a comparable basis. Responsible for this development was the continuous expansion of Chinese domestic shipments.
With 7.2 million short-staple spindles China was by far the biggest investor, followed by India with 1.4 million, Pakistan with 1.0 million, Bangladesh with 540,000 and Turkey with 300,000. The global shipment of long-staple (wool-) spindles fell in 2005 to 182,836, a minus of 5 percent compared to the previous year.
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