Medical Textiles

• Medical textiles and bio-materials for healthcare
• Bio-polymers and Bio-technology
• Technologies involved in textile biotechnology
• Smart textiles and bio-materials containing enzymes or enzyme substrates
• Enzymatic treatment versus conventional chemical processing of fibres

Technical Textiles

• New materials for fibres and extrusion (Functional fibres)
• Geotextiles, civil engineering, building and construction
• Sports and leisure
• Electrospinning and Nanotechnology in technical textiles
• Filtration, packaging and other related field textiles
• Automotive and other transportation media

Smart and Interactive Textiles

• Intelligent textiles and clothing
• Wearable electronics and photonics
• Formation of electrical circuits in textile structures
• Conductive textile materials
• Clothing bio-sensory engineering including piezoelectric smart materials
• Solar textiles: production and distribution of electricity coming from solar radiation
• Engineering textile and clothing aesthetics using shape changing materials
• Shape memory polymer films for breathable textiles
• Development of shape memory alloy fabrics for composite structures
• Textile micro system technology

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Technical Textiles are the high performance fabrics specially manufactured for various industrial specialized individual applications. These products are primarily preferred for their functional attributes. They are manufactured for 12 broad categories viz. agriculture and horticulture; architecture, building and construction; clothing technology; geotextiles; functional home textiles; industrial textiles; medical and hygiene; transportation; environmental friendly; packaging; safety and protection; and sports and leisure.

Traditional v/s Technical Textile Markets

The market trends for traditional textiles is heavily inclined towards countries with cheap labor. In such an environment, technical textiles give an opportunity to the companies in the industrialized countries to survive the competition and to achieve sustainable growth due to their specialized skills, materials, processes and equipments.

There are certain basic differences between technical textiles and traditional textiles industries:

• Technical textiles are preferred for their highly specific performance quality and as such they are more expensive than the traditional textiles.
• Technical textile manufacturers have to use accepted testing methods in order to gain customers’ faith regarding standard specifications.
• Technical textiles are for a distinct segment of a market as opposed to mass market. This target market needs more flexible and smaller production spells. Thus the technical textile manufacturers too have to be flexible in their production schedules.
• Technical Textiles survive on innovations. Thus, technical textile manufacturers must be ready to invest in research and development and newer equipments too.
• In certain categories of technical textiles, the legal necessities have to be followed by the manufacturers.

Technical Textiles Industry- Market Trends

The global market for technical textiles is rising as never before. Although US and EU continue to be major manufacturers and consumers of technical textiles, the Asian countries like China and India have recently emerged as chief production centers of technical textiles. Russia is also an important market where the consumption of technical textiles is growing at a fast speed. Turkey’s technical textiles market has also started to develop in the recent years. Some of the facts related to world technical textile markets will throw some more light on the issue:

• The total global sale of technical textiles is expected to touch US$126 billion by 2010.
• Asia is fast emerging as the chief producer and consumer of technical textiles.
• The Texas Tech University has predicted the growth of nonwovens and technical textiles markets in India by 13.3% per annum during 2005-50.
• The demand for filters in China is forecast to rise by 14.4% a year up to 2011 due to developments in motor vehicle production, manufacturing output, construction activities, and urbanization of the population.
• Turkey is developing as an important center for technical textiles production and is exporting technical textile raw material and end products to the world.

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A Technical Textiles Designer manages the product development of technical textiles and is sometimes involved in their manufacture. They may work with research and development teams or to a customer specification.

A Technical Textiles Designer devises products to meet performance specifications and develops prototypes. They use specialist Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to produce a range of designs.

They test new fibres and fabrics and record the results. An important part of their job is to research new processes, techniques and technologies. They also write reports and cost estimates.

A Technical Textiles Designer carries out office-based work as well as designing and testing new textiles structures in a laboratory or production facility.

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Technical textiles company announced a JV with German German-headquartered PD Fibre Glass Group to foray into glass fabrics in India. We will see 51:49 equity paticipation and cater to the requirements of energy, automotive and infrastructure sectors.

We aspires its technical textiles to be a $1 bn business in a decade. This project is expected to spearhead Arvind’s technical textiles story. Technical textiles contributes Rs 100 crore to business. Arvind has been manufacturing fabrics for fire retardants, filtration, personal protection since two-and-half-years.

The new facility to come up at Santej, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, will see an investment of Rs 80 crore and will manufacture 30,000 tonnes of fabric after five years. The JV is expected to give Rs 250 crore business in the first three years and eventually be a Rs 500 crore by the fifth year, said Punit Lalbhai, executive director, new initiatives.

Majority of the production will be exported initially and as India gets bullish on green energy and creates wind energy farms, the production will be diverted to the domestic market. The marketsize of glass composite industry in India stands at Rs 500 crore. “We will supply fabric to wind blade makers and see great potential in the sector.

Further, as metals get replaced with glass owing to lightweight, glass composites find more takers in infrastructure and automotive applications,” adds Milind Hardikar, group president-strategic initiatives at Arvind of the new project.

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Specialty Manufacturer manufactures custom-engineered technical textiles for a variety of industrial markets including automotive (hoses, airbags, interlinings, tires), building and infrastructure products (concrete cloth, geomembranes, and fabric innerduct), reinforcements, industrial products (duct fabrics), and filtration products.​​​​

Automotive Cap Ply

Cap Ply: A Win-Win for Tire Makers, Automobile Owners, and the Planet

Traditional calendered cap ply increases tire weight and rolling resistance. It also adds cost, complexity, and lead time in the tire plant’s preparation department. We created the tire industry’s first ready to use cap ply strips,– delivered tackified and slit, ready to use at the tire building machine. It eliminates several processing steps, reduces the amount of rubber needed for tire production, can reduce the tire’s rolling resistance, and ultimately helps increase the fuel efficiency of the vehicle.

Cap Ply Family of Products

Cap Ply — High modulus Nylon 6,6 cap ply strips addressing a wide range of high-performance radial tires. Available in multiple constructions and custom widths.

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New developments in PPE

According to Mary-Lynn Langraf, senior international trade specialist for the US Department of Commerce/OTEXA, the market for PPE is expanding beyond military, first responders, and oil/gas/electrical workers to now include general industrial workwear and apparel for recreation and sports. Comfort is a major issue, driving demand for light weight layers and better styling.

Advancements in sustainable options

The necessity to produce product in a more sustainable way is driving innovation in all aspects of textile manufacturing, and there was a range of sustainable options presented at the show for industrial technical textiles as well as in the apparel segment.

Some 85% of the colourful nonwoven insulations and bedding materials at Carolina Nonwovens, a division of National Spinning, were created from recycled textile materials. Leigh Fibers, a 100-year-old textile recycler in South Carolina, utilises everything from denim shoddy and spinning waste to Kevlar. “Nonwovens is the biggest aspect of technical textiles in the US,” confirmed Uwe Deligne, Leigh senior account executive.

Poole Fibers’ EcoSure® BioBlast™, a biodegradable polyester fibre made from 100% recycled PET bottles, targeted the nonwoven wipes industry. The soft, durable fibres were shown to biodegrade twelve times faster in landfill conditions, over a year, compared with traditional petroleum-based fibres.

The controversy regarding durable water repellent (DWR) finishes containing perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) is one of the biggest challenges for manufacturers of performance and protective apparel. While the chemical suppliers were mostly absent from the show, Massachusetts-based Bolger & O’Hearn took a stand to promote their F3 fluorine-free finish, said to outperform many C6 DWR chemistries.

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