Carpet Industry 2020 first quarter Report

The Ministry of Commerce announced the first quarter figures of the Turkish Carpet industry. The report, which includes production and export information related to machinery and hand-made rugs, shows the effect of the recent pandemic process.

The sectoral importance of the carpet, which is traditionally defined by the weaving method and today by weaving or tufting (sewing threads to a flat ground fabric), has resulted in one of the remarkable product groups in the world trade.

The carpet trade in the world is analyzed in three main groups, which are quite different from production techniques, investment trends, costs, consumer profiles, usage purposes, market structures and capital densities: hand-made carpet, machine made carpet and tuff carpet. While hand-made carpet exhibits a production structure based on motifs developed through labor-intensive and historical-cultural heritage; machine made carpet has a production structure that can be handled in the category of capital-intensive and technical textiles.

The difference of the machine made carpet as a result of the pile bonded on a thick floor is that it consists of pile warps in the warp direction. While knot is put on the warp with a separate thread in the hand-made carpet, the pile surface in the machine carpet is formed by the U warp bonding of the warp with wefts. Tufted carpet, on the other hand, is formed by the weaving of tuft threads on a previously woven floor texture.

Foreign Trade of Turkey’s Machine Made

Export

Our machine carpet exports are among our sectors that have been increasing for many years. Machine carpet exports increased from 2011 to 2014. However, in 2015, it decreased by 14.8% in terms of value compared to the previous year and reached around 1.7 billion dollars. In 2016, machinery carpet exports were recorded as 1.6 billion dollars with a decrease of 5%. When Turkey’s machinery exports in 2018 is observed that the carpet valued at $ 1.9 billion increased by 3.7%. Machine carpet exports, which increased by 11.3% in 2019, amounted to $ 2.1 billion.

When our machine carpet exports by products are evaluated; it is observed that the most important export product group is “weaving machine carpets”.

As we can see from the table below, our most important market in machinery carpet exports is the USA with an export amount of 614 million dollars and a 28.9% share. The total share of the top 10 countries in our machine carpet exports is around 86%. When we look at our machine-made carpet export in terms of countries in 2019, Libya stands out as the country in which we export the most. In 2019, machine carpet exports to Libya increased by 73.7% and amounted to approximately 84 million dollars.

World Machine Carpet Trade

World machinery carpet imports started to recover after the relative improvement seen in the world economic data in 2010 and realized as 6.5 billion dollars in 2017 with an increase of 12.1% compared to the previous year.

According to United Nations Trademap statistics, USA, Germany, Japan, England and Iraq are among the leading countries in the import of machine made carpets. It is observed that these 5 countries dominate 44% of world machine carpet imports.

The leading countries in the world export machine carpet are Turkey, China, India, Belgium and Iran. Turkey holds 26.4% of the market alone. Turkey’s immediately followed with a 18.4% market share, while China is located.

Source: Ministry of Commerce, Foreign Trade Information System