Global fibre output exceeded 70 million MT in 2009

摘要

The tenth edition of The Fiber Year which the Oerlikon Textile published this month says that global consumption of fibre has reached 70.5 million metric tons last year or 10.4 kg per head of the world population.rnThe global fibre consumption went up by 4.2% to 70.5 million metric tones last year-manmade fibre con sumption up 4% to 44.1 million metric tons and natural fibres up 4.5% to 26.4 million metric tons. That translates as an average per capita consumption of 10.4 kg for a world population of 6.8 billion.