Euratex has launched a new strategic course to strengthen the voice of the European textile and apparel industry.
This will better reflect its members’ objectives and priorities which in addition to trade and industry policies encompass policy areas such as sustainability, innovation and skills.

Euratex is the European Apparel and Textile Confederation. It interacts with European policy institutions in Brussels as well as governmental bodies and partner organizations around the globe.

Over the last ten years the European textile and clothing industry, representing an annual turnover of over 171 billion euros, some 1,78,000 companies and 1.7 million workers, has been able to modernize and reinvent itself into a forward-looking, innovative and export-oriented sector.

Euratex’s member companies which are overwhelmingly small and medium-sized enterprises cover a broad industry cross-section in terms of product, market segment and geographical spread.

The EU-27 is the largest world market for textile and clothing products. Further, it is the second world exporter in textiles as well as in clothing.

The board of directors of Euratex has decided to undertake a comprehensive strategy review. This process will be concluded at the end of 2018 and will be led by three newly appointed policy directors, Isabelle Weiler (Trade and Industry), Lutz Walter (Innovation and Skills) and Mauro Scalia (Sustainable Businesses).