Textiles are no more limited for use as apparels clothing. With the rapid changes in the social economic structure of our society, textiles enhancing the quality of human life trough protection against various hazards as well as adverse environment. Technical textiles are the fastest growing area of textile consumption in the world. As per the market survey, it has projected an average growth rate of 4% for technical textiles during the period 1995-2005.
In most of the developed countries, technical
textiles already account for 4% of the total textile production. Even in many
developing countries, the proportion is well above 10%. At present, India's
contribution in this area is negligible at about 0.2%. However, due to
competition from neighboring countries ad emerging economic power, India has
tremendous potential for production, consumption and export of technical
textile. In the circumstances, textiles are playing major role through its
diversified applications and undoubtedly, the future of this technical textiles
appears to be bright. Key categories of technical textiles are medical
textiles, protective textiles, agricultural textiles, geo textiles, automotive
textiles, smart textiles and industrial textiles.
Technical textiles are the textiles in which more technicalities are involved. It has lot of advantageous in numerous aspects. Among these aspects agrotextiles, automotive textiles, geo textiles, medical textiles, protective textiles, smart textiles. To read more,