Towards a European Textile Strategy: Part 1 – Defining Textile Market Segments

‎Regularly, our Secretary General Lutz Walter shares his insights and knowledge through his blogposts, covering a wide range of topics related to textile sustainability and innovation. Follow his blog to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges that the textile industry is facing today.

"The European textile industry is not a dying relic of the 19th century; it is a critical, high-tech ecosystem essential to the continent's autonomy and economic resilience. By categorising the sector through the lens of Value Add and Strategic Necessity, we see that while the battle for basic apparel and other textile commodities may be lost, the war for the high-performance materials that underpin our defence, healthcare, and mobility is just beginning."

In his latest blog post, our Secretary General Lutz Walter challenges the idea of textiles as a declining “sunset industry” and argues for a more strategic view of Europe’s textile sector. He shows that textiles are not a single market but a complex ecosystem ranging from low-value fashion to high-performance materials essential for healthcare, defence, construction and mobility.