Application in Trends
The trend in the various sectors of the textile industry indicates that the use of conventional textiles has reached a static level and its manufacture has become highly competitive. Many companies are switching over to value-added technical textiles with capability to meet functional demands for precision applications. There is a steady growth of both consumption and production of technical textiles throughout the world. Technical textiles represent a multi-disciplinary field with numerous end use applications.
Technical textiles are used extensively during the production of food. It also used in the fishing industry as nets, ropes and lines. Technical textiles are used in agriculture and horticulture for a variety of covering, protection and containment applications.
During the construction of buildings, both temporary and permanent bridges, tunnels and roads, textiles are employed in so many ways. It is a closely related but distinct area of use is in geotextiles by the civil engineering sector.
In textile and apparel industry, clothing components includes fiber, yarn and textiles which are used as technical components during apparel manufacturing.
Hollow fibers with excellent insulating characteristics are vastly used in bedding and sleeping bags. The other types of fiber are increasingly being used to replace foams in furniture.
Medical and hygiene textiles used as babies’ diapers (nappies), wipes, and adult sanitary and incontinence products. With the possible exception of the last of these, all are relatively mature markets whose volume growth has peaked.
There are some key uses of technical textiles as packaging and containment such as manufacturing of sacks and bags, traditionally from cotton, flax and jute but increasingly from polypropylene.
