Coir | Market Size, Share & Growth Report 2025-2033

Measured by share of the global market, India contributes about 70 percent of world coir production and 80 percent of world trade in coir products, with India and Sri Lanka together accounting for roughly 90 percent of output. India's coir export revenue rose from INR 3,388 crore in the financial year reported in January 2025 to approximately INR 4,340 crore in 2024-25, a gain of about 28 percent. The Coir Board has set an INR 5,000 crore export target. Sri Lanka's fibre-product export revenue reached USD 239.83 million in 2024. Processing is concentrated in Kerala and Tamil Nadu in India and in the Coconut Triangle in Sri Lanka, where Hayleys Fibre commissioned its Kadigawa plant in September 2025.

North America is an import market rather than a producing one, since the region grows little coconut at commercial scale. United States coco coir imports ran at 658 shipments in the twelve months to May 2025, from 131 foreign exporters to 105 domestic buyers. That was a decline of about 3 percent against the preceding twelve months, so regional market demand did not grow over that period. United States growers take more than 200,000 tonnes of coco peat products annually, mainly into greenhouse lettuce, herb and tomato production. Sun Gro Horticulture acquired Pelemix's Americas operations, which placed a coir range inside a North American peat supplier rather than leaving it with the Israeli parent.

Brazil is the region's coconut production base, with plantings concentrated in the north-eastern states, and Mexico follows it. That husk supply makes regional coir processing physically possible without imports, which separates Latin America from North America and Europe. No coir-specific regional revenue is published by a government statistical agency for this region, and the available estimates come from commercial research vendors rather than from trade or production returns. The regional position therefore rests on documented coconut production capacity and on the absence of an established export trade in processed coir, not on measured market value.

European buyers import more than 350,000 tonnes of coco peat annually, the largest regional intake, and the driver is substitution rather than new demand. United Kingdom horticultural peat consumption more than halved between 2020 and 2022, and peat now accounts for under half of British growing-media volume. The substitution happened through voluntary reformulation, because the 2024 retail peat ban announced in 2022 was never enacted. Klasmann-Deilmann in Germany and Legro in the Netherlands hold upstream coir positions, Legro through a 50 percent stake in Botanicoir, so European substrate producers own supply rather than buying it on the spot market.

Gulf greenhouse horticulture is the region's identifiable coir demand, since soilless production is the practical route to vegetable output where soil and water quality constrain field growing. Pelemix runs its global sales and marketing from Spain and holds the Middle East and Africa in its November 2025 distribution territory with Sun Gro, which indicates the region is served through a single supplier channel rather than by local processing. No government agency in the region publishes coir import or consumption data at a level that would support a regional market figure, so the position described here rests on supplier territory and on greenhouse construction rather than on measured value.