Publish Date: October 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The 2026 Woven Fabric Mills Market Report covers the $3.6 billion industry which operates with specialized production equipment creating interlaced structures for applications spanning apparel, home furnishings, and industrial uses. Competitive dynamics increasingly reflect specialized technical capabilities rather than purely production scale, with premium segments focused on distinctive constructions and performance attributes. Manufacturers face operational challenges balancing capital-intensive equipment utilization, raw material consistency, energy efficiency requirements, and tariff considerations affecting both yarn imports and international market access. Industry leaders establish advantages through advanced weaving technologies creating specialized structures, material expertise optimizing performance characteristics, quality management systems ensuring consistency, and sustainability initiatives addressing water usage and energy consumption in a sector where technical capabilities, production flexibility, and increasingly environmental credentials determine competitive positioning across diverse woven fabric applications.
Woven Fabric Mills Industry Description
Woven Fabric Mills produce textiles by interlacing warp (lengthwise) and weft (crosswise) yarns on looms to create stable fabric structures. Companies operate weaving equipment that creates fabrics with specific patterns, weights, and performance characteristics through controlled yarn interlacement. Manufacturing processes include warp preparation, sizing, drawing-in, weaving on shuttle or shuttleless looms, inspection, and initial finishing operations that create woven textile materials. These businesses serve apparel, home textile, and industrial fabric markets. The industry continuously improves manufacturing speed, pattern capabilities, and increasingly focuses on technical fabrics with specialized performance characteristics, sustainable fiber utilization, and advanced weaving technologies that create complex structures with enhanced functional properties for both traditional and technical applications.
NAICS Code: 31321
Number of Companies: 251
Number of Plants / Facilities: 273
Total Employees: 15,490
Market Size: $3.6 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 woven fabric mills sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $350 million
Relative Tariff Impact: SEVERE
Woven Fabric Mills Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Woven Fabric 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.
This report covers more than 100 statistical data sets with historical trend data from 2017 to 2025, and 2026 and 2030 forecasts. The report includes revenue & cost trends, detailed breakdown on 26 expenses, dozens of financial metrics, extensive forecasts, plant inventory analysis, 31 balance sheet benchmarks, company segmentation analysis, top 50 companies analysis, material costs benchmarks, profit margin analysis, state benchmarks, plant utilization, employee role analysis, inflation statistics, compensation analysis, employee productivity benchmarks, and numerous other data sets.
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Report Table of Contents
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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 woven 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, 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
Broadwoven fabrics, manmade and natural fibers, including silk (excluding cotton and wool), finished in weaving mills
Broadwoven fabrics, manmade fiber, 85 percent or more filament yarns (excluding rayon, acetate, and lyocell), gray goods
Broadwoven fabrics, manmade fiber, plain weave (excluding pile), 85 percent or more spun yarns (excluding wool blends), gray goods
Broadwoven fabrics, cotton, twill weave (excluding pile), gray goods
Broadwoven fabrics, cotton, finished in weaving mills
Broadwoven fabrics, manmade fiber, twill weave (excluding pile), 85 percent or more spun yarns (excluding wool blends), gray goods
Broadwoven fabric mills, nsk, total
Broadwoven fabrics, manmade and natural fibers, combinations of spun and filament yarns, each less than 85 percent of total fiber content (excluding wool blends), gray goods
Fabricated textile products, made in weaving mills
Broadwoven fabrics, cotton, plain weave (excluding pile), gray goods
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
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Cotton
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Glass and glass products
All basic organic and inorganic chemicals, excluding petrochemicals
Acrylic yarns
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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