The document summarizes trends in the global sewing and garment technology industry presented by VDMA at Texprocess 2017. Key trends include a shift towards individualization and digitization of production through technologies like digital printing and smart textiles. German exports of sewing technology increased in 2015, though China, Japan, and Germany remain the top suppliers globally. Digitization, sustainability concerns, and potential shifts in production locations were also discussed.

1. VDMA |VDMA | Texprocess 2017 - Press Conference Mumbai
Veronika März
VDMA Textile Care, Fabric and Leather Technologies
Texprocess
Frankfurt,
9-12 May 2017
Press Conference, India
March, 2017

2. VDMA |
New name
VDMA Bekleidungs- und Ledertechnik
Garment and Leather Technology
is now
VDMA Textile Care, Fabric
and Leather Technologies
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3. VDMA |
German sewing and garment technology
figures
 Sales revenues in 2016 up 7,8% in real
terms
 Incoming orders in 2016 up 0,1% in real
terms
 Sales revenues up particularly in Euro
partner countries
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4. VDMA |
German sewing and garment
technology
 The three leading supplier countries in 2015:
• China: € 2.065 billion
• Japan: € 615 million
• Germany: € 523 million
 German exports increased by 6% in 2015, highest
figure since 2003
 Most important export markets in 2015:
USA, Poland and Italy
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5. VDMA |
Ranking of countries supplying sewing and garment
technology
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0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
EURmillion
China
Taiwan
Japan
S.Korea
Italy
USA
Germany
Singapore
Source: Federal Statistical Office, VDMA

6. VDMA |
German sewing and garment
technology
 The three leading supplier countries in 2015:
• China: € 2.065 billion
• Japan: € 615 million
• Germany: € 523 million
 German exports increased by 6% in 2015,
highest figure since 2003
 Most important export markets in 2015:
USA, Poland and Italy
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7. VDMA |
Exports of German sewing and garment technology*
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408.4
265.6
197.5
277.2
312.03
340.1
197.4
398.25
426.3
458.1
394.0
274.1
386.4 383.76
406.43
466.28
494.15
523.37
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
EURmillion
* In accordance with VDMA delimitation
Sewing
technology
Sewing and
garment
technology

8. VDMA |
Exports of German sewing and garment technology world-
wide
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Source: Federal Statistical Office, VDMA
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
EURmillion
USA
China
Turkey
India
Poland
Italy
France
Romania

9. VDMA |
German sewing and garment
technology
 The three leading supplier countries in 2015:
• China: € 2.065 billion
• Japan: € 615 million
• Germany: € 523 million
 German exports increased by 6% in 2015, highest
figure since 2003
 Most important export markets in 2015:
USA, Poland and Italy
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10. VDMA |
Exports of European sewing and garment technology
world-wide*
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Source: Federal Statistical Office, VDMA
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
EURmillion
Turkey
Russia
Bangladesh
India
Switzerland
China
Vietnam
UAE
Brazil
Mexico
USA
*EU 28

11. VDMA |
India‘s most important supplier countries of sewing and
garment technology
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0
50
100
150
200
250
300
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
MioEUR
China
Singapore
Switzerland
Japan
Germany
Source: German Federal Statistics Office, VDMA

12. VDMA |
Bangladesh‘s most important supplier countries of sewing
and garment technology
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0
20
40
60
80
100
120
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
MioEUR
China
South Korea
Taiwan
Italy
Singapore
Japan
Germany
Source: German Federal Statistics Office, VDMA

13. VDMA |
Sri Lanka‘s most important supplier countries of sewing
and garment technology
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0
5
10
15
20
25
30
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
MioEUR
China
Taiwan
Italy
Singapore
Japan
Germany
Source: German Federal Statistics Office, VDMA

14. VDMA |
Texprocess 2017 – sector trends:
 Individualization
 Digitization of overall value-added chain
 Digital printing
 Functional textiles and smart textiles – new
challenges in production
 Shift of production
 Sustainable production of sustainable products
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15. VDMA |
Texprocess – Individualization
is the megatrend
 Enormous demand for individual products
 Flexible clothing production for customized
clothing
 Highest quality
 Serial production with batch size 1
 Development of microfactories
Flexibility is a duty
 Traditional production lines will continue to exist
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16. VDMA |
Texprocess – digitization and
Industrie 4.0 along the value-added
chain (1)
 Digital integration of design, processing and
logistics of clothing and technical textiles
• High level of automation
• Shorter reaction times
• Highest flexibility
• Greatest possible efficiency
 Prerequisite: joint data base and data security
 Data maintenance along the whole value-added
chain
• Cloud solutions
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17. VDMA |
Texprocess – digitization and
Industrie 4.0: challenges and
opportunities (2)
 Reshoring of manufacture of high-price
products
 New jobs:
• Networked people and entities will decide
collaboratively in future
• Change to nature of work through digital support
• Basic change to way in which work must be
structured
• Challenges faced by systematic thinking and
multidisciplinary collaboration will increase
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18. VDMA |
Texprocess – sector trend: digital
printing
 Technical progress makes new solutions
possible
 Direct printing of clothing, shoes and
technical textiles
 The future: the two production stages of
digital printing and cutting will be combined
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19. VDMA |
Texprocess – sector trend:
functional textiles, smart textiles
 New fibres every day make permanent
adaptation of production technologies
necessary
 Integration of electronic and sensory functions
in textiles (clothing, technical textiles, home
textiles, medical textiles)
 Clothing and technical textiles of the future will
be able to warm and heat, light, protect,
generate energy, communicate and identify
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20. VDMA |
Texprocess - sector trend:
shift in production
 Possibility of microfactories:
 Local production: shift of production closer to the
consumer
 Increasing automation and digitalisation
 Trend towards individual products
 Shorter reaction times in response to shorter
collection cycles
 Shift due to uncertainty about geopolitical risk
factors
 Trend towards regionalization, e.g.
 Brexit
 Announcement for US trade barriers
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21. VDMA |
Texprocess - sector trend:
sustainability
Growing requirements for and consciousness of:
 Saving resources
 Raising efficiency
 Corporate social responsibility
Technology as key to sustainability
Growing demand for:
 Recyclable “designs”
 Products made of recycled materials
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22. VDMA |
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Individualization
Sustainability
Functional
Textiles and
Smart
Textiles
Digitization
Shift of
Production
Digital
Printing
See you at
Texprocess 2017

23. VDMA |
Veronika März
Director Marketing
VDMA Textile Care, Fabric and Leather Technologies
Denninger Straße 84
81925 Munich
Telephone: +49 89 27828751
e-mail: veronika.maerz@vdma.org
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