Viscose Staple Fiber: Market Size & Forecast 2026

The global viscose staple fiber (VSF) market sits at approximately USD 11.5 billion in 2025 (base year), growing at a 5.1% CAGR through 2032 on the back of woven and knit apparel replacement demand, hygiene nonwoven adoption, and a modest circular-content premium that buyers are only beginning to price in. Dissolving wood pulp at 50% of finished cost is the single dominant feedstock lever, with Asian spot benchmarks clustering around USD 1,950/MT and EU landed pricing running EUR 2,100/MT in 2026-Q2. Supply remains concentrated in a handful of integrated Chinese, Indonesian, Indian, and Austrian producers; capacity utilisation sits in the high-80s on a nameplate basis, with utilisation tighter for high-wet-modulus and specialty grades. The category is structurally supplier-favouring today. > **Analyst Take.** Our view: the consensus 5.1% CAGR looks defensible but the composition is wrong

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