90% of the flax long fibers in the world are produced in Western Europe (France, Belgium and the Netherlands) – those fibers are mostly geared towards the TEXTILE market and exported to very large spinning mills in ASIA (China, India and Japan) or bought by the last three large European flax weaving companies (LINIFICIO in Italy, LIBECO in Belgium, SAFILIN in France). SAFILIN and LIBECO having “daughter- companies” for spinning in Poland are particularly interested in receiving their raw material from Ukraine.

The traditional market for flax fabrics has traditionally always been 50% in the USA, 25% in South America and 25% in Southern Europe – where are living approximately 300 000 people looking for flax fabrics. But in the last 10 years, new markets appeared in Asia (China and India mostly) doubling the volume of this traditional demand for comfortable, elegant and “breathing” clothes. With temperatures climbing always higher, the demand for flax garments is increasing permanently, and nowadays more than 200 000 tons of flax long fibers are consumed every year in the world.