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US textile supply chain employs 565,000 people: NCTO

24/03/2017

The US National Council of Textile Organisations (NCTO) held its annual meeting on March 23 in Washington. In his 2017 state of the industry address, outgoing NCTO chairman Robert Chapman, revealed that the textile supply chain in the US employed 565,000 people in 2016. Nearly 114,000 of these were in yarn and fabric production, with a further...

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