CIRFS is the trade association representing the interests of the chemical fibres industry in wider Europe. It currently has about 28 full members representing ca. 80% of the European production and includes members in the EU, Switzerland, Turkey and Belarus. It defends members’ interests in fighting for fair trade, attacks trade barriers and distortions of competition, encourages innovation, promotes objective standards and test methods and demonstrates advantages and sustainability of man-made fibres, and works for scientific approach to regulation on health and safety and environment and provides its members with market information and analysis.