Technical textiles: Growth sector with optimistic future

摘要

TECHNICAL textiles are 'advanced materials' for which the technical performance and physical properties are more important than features such as appearance, feel and price. Technical textiles growth and evolution is driven by the amalgamation of customers demand and increasing awareness about safety. India is the second largest textile economy in the world after China but its contribution in the global technical textile industry is only 9% to the total consumption. Technical textiles are an important part of the textile industry and its potential is still largely untapped in India. Technical textiles represents a multi-disciplinary field with numerous end use applications. The wide range of applications, lack of competition and growing consumer and industrial demands make Technical textiles a big opportunity area and an attractive option to invest in. Technical textiles are growing at twice rate of textiles for clothing applications and now providing more than half of total textile production. The production of different items of technical textile industry has been slowly but steadily increasing in the country. Textile industry is not only experiencing resurgence in conventional clothing application but also continuing a major outlook towards non-clothing application of textiles known as Technical textiles.