Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The 2026 Fabric & Textile Mills Market Report covers the $25.7 billion industry which represents primary textile manufacturing converting fibers into yarns and fabrics, with competitive dynamics shaped by advanced manufacturing technology, material innovation capabilities, and increasingly specialized applications beyond traditional apparel. Market demands increasingly emphasize performance characteristics, sustainable material composition, and specialized technical properties serving diverse industrial applications. Manufacturers face significant challenges balancing capital-intensive operations, energy efficiency requirements, raw material volatility, and tariff considerations affecting both material imports and competitive positioning in global markets. Successful companies differentiate through advanced manufacturing technologies enabling precise specifications, material science expertise developing proprietary performance fabrics, vertical integration ensuring quality control, and sustainability initiatives addressing growing environmental concerns in a sector where both technical capabilities and increasingly environmental credentials determine competitive positioning across diverse textile applications.
Fabric & Textile Mills Industry Description
Fabric & Textile Mills transform natural and synthetic fibers into yarns and fabrics through spinning, weaving, knitting, and finishing processes. Companies convert raw fibers into textile materials with specific performance and aesthetic characteristics for various applications. Manufacturing processes include fiber preparation, spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing, finishing, and quality control operations that create textile materials with specific properties. These businesses serve apparel, home textile, and industrial fabric markets. The industry continuously improves manufacturing efficiency, product quality, and increasingly focuses on technical textiles with enhanced performance properties, sustainable production methods, and specialized fabrication techniques that provide value-added characteristics beyond basic commodity textiles.
NAICS Code: 313
Number of Companies: 1,611
Number of Plants / Facilities: 1,806
Total Employees: 87,721
Market Size: $25.7 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 & textile mills sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $2 billion
Relative Tariff Impact: SEVERE
Fabric & Textile Mills Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Fabric & Textile Mills Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. You can use this market report to develop a comprehensive fact base on the industry 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 sales & expense trends, in-depth OPEX analysis on 26 categories, dozens of financial metrics, extensive forecasts, plant inventory analysis, 31 balance sheet benchmarks, numerous industry segmentations, industry concentration analysis, material costs benchmarks, profitability analysis, state metrics analysis, plant capacity analysis, employee role analysis, inflation statistics, employee pay analysis, employee productivity benchmarks, 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.
The data source for the report is extensive annual expense, revenue, wage, operational, and economic surveys administered by federal and private institutions and filled out by a majority of companies in the fabric & textile 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, Industry Definition & Market Commentary
4 – Market Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Market Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH ANALYSIS
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies & Facilities
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company & Plant
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
– Percentage of Revenue from Product Lines
10 – BCG Matrix – Net Income vs. Revenue Growth
– Subsectors vs. Industry
11 – Total Sales by Month & Year
– 2021-2025 Sales per Month
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year
– Inventory Value per Month for 2021-2025
13 – Months of Inventory
– Months of Inventory per Month for 2021-2025
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Concentration Segments by Top Companies
– Business Size Segments
– Business Structure Segments
15 – Market Size by State
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
– Revenue per Company
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
– Business Size, Concentration, & Structure
28 – Subsector Growth
– Sales and 5-Year Growth
29 – Subsector Statistics
– Sales per Company & Facility, and 5-Year Growth
30 – Consolidation Analysis
– 5-Year Growth of Companies & Locations
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
– 5-Year Growth of Employee Statistics
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
– 5-Year Growth
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities per Company
– Employees per Company
– 5-Year Growth
SECTION TWO
COST, CAPITAL & PROFIT BENCHMARKS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
– Percent of Companies that are Profitable
– Average Net Income as a Percent of Revenue
– 10 of the Top Financial Ratios
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– Current & Non-Current Assets: 14 Categories
– Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth: 13 Categories
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX
– Revenue vs. OPEX Growth
– OPEX as a Percent of Revenue
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Facility
– Revenue vs. Expenses Growth per Plant
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– Employee Expenses: payroll, insurance, pension, defined contribution plans, fringe benefits, temps
– Cost of Materials: materials, parts, containers, packaging, cost of resale, electricity and fuels, contract work
– Buildings and Equipment: capex for equipment, rental or lease for equipment, capex for buildings and structures, rental or leases, repair and maintenance
– Other Operating Expenses: professional and technical services, IT software and hardware, data processing and communications, advertising, refuse removal, taxes and license fees, other
-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
– Annual PPI – Indexed to 2006
– Trend Analysis & 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 Employees
– Employees per Company
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
– Business Size, Concentration, & Structure
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
– Absolute & 5-Year Growth
48 – Payroll Analysis
– Payroll per Employee, Company & Plant
– Trend Analysis & 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 – Organizational Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
– Management & Finance
– Sales & Marketing
– Technology, Engineering, Science
– Service, Support & Training
– Operations
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Management & Finance
– Sales, Service & Marketing
– Operations
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
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
Fabric mills
Fiber, yarn, and thread mills
Textile and fabric finishing and fabric coating mills
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Yarns, excluding acrylic
Artificial and synthetic fibers and filaments, including nylon, polyolefin, polyester, acrylic, and other noncellulosic fibers
Woven textile fabrics, including broadwoven and narrow fabrics
Cotton
Thermoplastic and thermosetting resins and plastics materials
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Nonwoven textile fabrics, including knits, felts, etc.
All basic organic and inorganic chemicals, excluding petrochemicals
Adhesives and glues
Acrylic yarns
Paper and paperboard products
Plastics products (including packaging, foam products, film, sheet, rod, tube, fabricated shapes, bottles, etc.)
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
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Sewing Machine Operators
Customer Service Representatives
General and Operations Managers
Painting Workers
Industrial Production Managers
Crushing, Grinding, Polishing, Mixing, and Blending Workers
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
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