Viscose Fibre: Market Size & Forecast 2026

The global viscose fibre market sits at approximately USD 25.6 billion in 2025 (base year), held in a structurally tight balance between Asia-Pacific capacity dominance, EU regulatory pressure on closed-loop chemistry, and a dissolving wood pulp cost curve that has reset upward through 2025-2026. The category carries a Buyer Power Score of -2.6, supplier-favoring. > **Analyst Take.** Our view: the closed-loop chemistry gap is the single most under-priced structural signal in the category. Buyers anchored to the cheapest regular viscose will absorb 8-14% landed cost easing in regulatory-compliant supply by 2030 (method: closed-loop capex amortisation spread across compliant supply versus legacy line run-off), but the gap between compliant and non-compliant fibre is widening rather than closing. The right sequence is to lock indexed structures now, accelerate lyocell qualification, and res

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