Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The 2026 Fabric Mills Market Report covers the $13 billion industry which encompasses diverse weaving, knitting, and nonwoven technologies creating textile structures for applications spanning apparel, home furnishings, and technical products. Competitive structure features both specialized manufacturers focused on particular fabric technologies and vertically integrated operations controlling multiple production stages. Market demands increasingly emphasize performance characteristics, sustainable composition, and specialized technical properties beyond traditional aesthetics. Manufacturers face significant challenges balancing capital-intensive operations, production flexibility requirements, energy efficiency concerns, and tariff implications affecting both fiber/yarn imports and finished fabric exports. Successful companies differentiate through advanced manufacturing technologies creating specialized structures, material development expertise addressing emerging applications, quality management systems ensuring consistency, and sustainability initiatives incorporating recycled materials in a sector where both technical capabilities and increasingly environmental credentials determine competitive positioning.
Fabric Mills Industry Description
Fabric Mills transform yarns and threads into textile materials through weaving, knitting, or non-woven manufacturing processes. Companies operate specialized equipment that interlaces, loops, or bonds fibers and yarns into flat textile materials with specific structural characteristics. Manufacturing processes include yarn preparation, weaving on various loom types, knitting on circular or flat machines, nonwoven web formation, bonding, and finishing operations that create specific fabric structures. These businesses serve apparel, home textile, and industrial markets. The industry continuously improves manufacturing efficiency, quality control, and increasingly focuses on technical textiles with enhanced performance properties, sustainable manufacturing methods, and specialized fabrics for emerging applications beyond traditional apparel and home textiles.
NAICS Code: 3132
Number of Companies: 718
Number of Plants / Facilities: 766
Total Employees: 42,861
Market Size: $13 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the fabric mills sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $1 billion
Relative Tariff Impact: SEVERE
Fabric Mills Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Fabric Mills Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. This market report is utilized by professionals to gain a in-depth understanding of the sector for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
The report has over 100 industry statistical data sets with historicals (2017-2025), trend analysis, and forecasts for 2026 and the next 5 years. The report includes market size & growth, 26 expense categories, extensive financial analysis, extensive forecasts, inventory statistics, composition of balance sheets, segmentation by business size and structure, top 50 companies analysis, production material costs, profitability metrics, state metrics analysis, plant productivity benchmarks, workforce composition, inflation statistics, compensation analysis, in-depth productivity analysis, and numerous other data sets.
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Report Table of Contents
Explore the below table of contents to understand the extensive statistical data sets in this report and why thousands of executives, consultants, bankers, accountants, and other professionals trust Kentley Insights for their market research needs.
For this report, the core data is sourced from comprehensive business, operational, and economic surveys conducted by government and private institutions and filled out by a statistically significant number of companies in the fabric mills sector. Our analysts develop the forecasts utilizing econometric models based on historical statistical analysis, industry trends and dynamics, macroeconomic analysis & forecasts.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources & Methodology
– Sector Definition & Examples
– Market Commentary
4 – Report Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Report Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies, & Facilities
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company and Plant
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
10 – BCG Matrix – Income vs. Revenue Growth
11 – Total Industry Sales by Month & Year (2021-2025)
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year (2021-2025)
13 – Months of Inventory (2021-2025)
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Business Concentration, Size, & Structure
15 – Market Size by State
– Market Size and Rankings
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
28 – Subsector Market Size & Growth
29 – Subsector Sales per Company & Plant
30 – 5-Year Consolidation Analysis
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities & Employees per Company
COST, CAPITAL & FINANCIALS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
Page 36 – Balance Sheet Metrics
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– 16 Current & Non-Current Assets Categories
– 15 Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX Analysis
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– 6 Employee Expense Categories
– 8 Cost of Material Categories
– 6 Buildings and Equipment Categories
– 8 Other Operating Expense Categories
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Number of Employees
– Employees per Company
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
48 – Payroll
– Payroll per Employee, Company, & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Employee Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
– Pay Bands
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Nonwoven fabric mills
Broadwoven fabric mills
Knit fabric mills
Narrow fabric mills and schiffli machine embroidery
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Artificial and synthetic fibers and filaments, including nylon, polyolefin, polyester, acrylic, and other noncellulosic fibers
Yarns, excluding acrylic
Thermoplastic and thermosetting resins and plastics materials
Woven textile fabrics, including broadwoven and narrow fabrics
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Adhesives and glues
Nonwoven textile fabrics, including knits, felts, etc.
All basic organic and inorganic chemicals, excluding petrochemicals
Paper and paperboard products
Cotton
Acrylic yarns
Glass and glass products
Fabricated rubber products, excluding tires, hose, belting, and gaskets
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Textile Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Miscellaneous Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers
Industrial Machinery Installation, Repair, and Maintenance Workers
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Laborers and Material Movers, Hand
Miscellaneous Production Workers
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Sewing Machine Operators
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
General and Operations Managers
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Industrial Production Managers
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
Office Clerks, General
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Customer Service Representatives
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
Stock Clerks and Order Fillers
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