Component
Polyester fabric
PET fiber, yarn, and cloth. Unifi (REPREVE yarn), Milliken, and Glen Raven still make industrial and performance polyester in the US. Commodity apparel cloth is mostly imported; polyester in finished garments is the clothing node.
Criticality
Medium
Unit cost
$2.8K
Quality
50 / 100
US saturation
46.9
Made in US
700,000 tonnes
Current demand
1,500,000 tonnes
US exports
16,000 tonnes
Opportunity score
51.7
Domestic vs international supply
Planned US investment, next 5 years
$400M
Expected extra output: 200,000 tonnes per year