The USTER STATISTICS are first and foremost a practical guide to “good textile practices” in the field of cotton producing and yarn manufacturing.
They have been made for quality benchmarking on the corporate level and they regularly serve as a platform for yarn contracts and product speci-fications in the framework of commercial transactions.
As a result of the globalization of the textile industry, weavers, knitters, raw material dealers and retailers increasingly rely on comparative figures in order to specify the most important quality characteristics of the raw material and the yarn with their suppliers in writing.
Buyers and salesmen involved in the traditional commodity type trade or in direct purchasing and sales are certainly among the most enthusiastic users of the USTER STATISTICS. Thanks to USTER, data on the quality levels achieved by the top manu-facturers in the textile industry are public domain and easily accessible.