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1. Technical Textile

2. Books
Handbook of Technical Textiles
Edited by
A R Horrocks and S C Anand
Technical Textiles
by
William C Smith
Specifying Technical Textiles
by
Manchester (GB) Textile Institute
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3. TECHNICAL TEXTILES
The definition of technical textiles adopted by
the authoritative Textile Terms and Definitions,
published by the Textile Institute is ‘textile
materials and products manufactured
primarily for their technical and performance
properties rather than their aesthetic or
decorative characteristic
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4. Hi-tech/Technical/Industrial Textiles

5. • Other name of technical textile
• 1. For many years, the term ‘industrial textiles’ was widely used to
encompass all textile products other than those intended for apparel,
household and furnishing end-uses.
• It is a description still more widely favoured in the USA than in Europe and
elsewhere
• Qther Terms such as performance textiles, functional textiles, engineered
textiles and high-tech textiles are also all used in various contexts,

6. What are Technical Textiles?
Conventional Textiles
• Manufactured primarily for
aesthetic or decorative
purpose
• Fiber (natural or synthetic)
is usually first Spun into
Yarn and then Yarn is
Woven / Knit into Fabric
Technical Textiles
• Manufactured primarily for
performance or function
rather than aesthetics
• May be both woven and
non woven, and is made
out of primarily synthetic
and some natural fibers
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7. Technical Textiles
Why Technical textiles gaining popularity/priority?
Due to one or more following reasons:
Functional requirement
Health and safety
Cost effectiveness
Durability
High strength
Lightweight
Versatility
Customization
User friendly
Eco-friendliness
Logistical conveniences, etc.
hydrophilicity; hydrophobicity; biocompatibility etc
Shamima Akter Smriti,Lecturer

8. Facts
Vehicles and transportation industry is the principal user of technical
textiles (29%), followed by furniture/home furnishing (14%) and construction/
civil engineering (11%).
Within EU, the main producers of TT are Germany (17% of the EU total),
closely followed by UK and France(16%), Belgium (15%) and Italy (14%).
Usually TT are created in a close relationship between the producer and
the consumer so as to ensure tailor-made solution to specific users
purposes
Over all, global growth rates of technical textiles are about 4% per year
greater than the growth of home and apparel textiles
The field of Technical textiles is so big that every where it is found and play
most important role from sports to space development

9. Market Research Reports
• Market Research Reports : Transparency Market Research has released a
new market report titled “Technical Textiles (Mobiltech, Buildtech,
Meditech, Agrotech and Others) Market By Technology (Thermoforming,
3-D Weaving, 3-D Knitting and Others) – Global Industry Analysis, Size,
Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 – 2018″, According to the report
the demand for technical textiles that was worth USD 133.93 billion in
2012 is expected to increase to USD 160.38 billion by the end of
2018. In terms of volumes, the global demand is expected to reach 30.71
million tons by 2018, growing at a moderate CAGR of 3.3% from 2012 to
2018.
• Asia Pacific dominated the global technical textiles market and accounted
for 45% of the total market in 2011. By 2018, Asia Pacific is expected to
generate revenues of about USD 61.26 billion

12. World Composition of Technical Textiles
World composition of Technical Textile (by products)
Quantity in Tones and Value in US $ Million
Product Quantity Growth
% per
annum
Value Growth
% per
annum
2000 2005 2000 2005
Fabrics 2760 4100 1.7 26710 29870 2.2
Non-woven 3333 4300 5.4 14640 19250 5.6
Composite
s
1970 2580 5.5 5960 9160 5.6
Other
Textiles
7687 8703 3.4 12950 14060 3.3
Total 16750 19683 3.9 60260 72340 3.7
Source: David Associates, Techtextil

13. Technical Textiles and Industrial Nonwoven
World consumption of Technical Textiles by Region
Quantity in ‘000’ Tones
Region 1995 2000 2005 2010
North
America
3584 4184 4774 5591
South
America
705 847 1004 1230
West Europe 3002 3614 4107 4760
East Europe 493 584 666 817
Asia-Ex.
China
3895 4449 5220 6348
China 1515 2155 2871 3808
Other
Countries
778 917 1041 1219
Total 13972 16750 19683 23773

14. World end-use consumption of technical textiles, 1995-2010, in
volume and value terms
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16. Regional Market Size in Volume Terms by 2010
Source: DRA
Americas,
6,821,000 , 29%
Europe,
5,577,000 , 23%
Asia,
10,645,000 ,
45%
ROW, 730,000 ,
3%
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17. Regional Market Size in Value Terms by 2010
AMERICAS
$36.83 billion,
29%
EUROPE
$29.21 billion,
23%
ASIA
$57.15 billion ,
45%
ROW
$3.81 billion, 3%
Source: DRA
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18. Technical Textiles
Fibre Type Consumption Forecast 2010
Natural
4,447,000
tons;
19%
Manmade/
inorganic
19,327,000
tons;
81%
Source: DRA
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19. Technical Textiles
Fibre Form Consumption Forecast 2010
Polymer /
fiber
12,027,000
tons;
51%
Spun yarn
4,039,000
tons;
17%
Filament /
tape yarn
7,708,000
tons;
32%
Source: DRA
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20. Technical Textiles
End-product Form Consumption Forecast 2010
Unspun
fibre
5,763,000
tons;
24%
Yarn-type
products
2,079,000
tons;
9%
Fabrics
(woven/
non-woven)
15,932,000
tons;
67%
Source: DRA
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21. What is Bangladesh doing?...
• Creating awareness about technical textiles and
nonwoven among the entrepreneurs
• Developing human resource
– Courses on technical textiles
• Doing capacity building of the nonwoven and
technical textile industry base and the related
machinery industry base
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22. What should be done?
• Set-up of an expert committee on technical textiles
to formulate a comprehensive strategy for growth
and development of technical textiles.
• Arrangement of a series of awareness seminars
about different areas of technical textile and non-
woven industry.
• Immediate launch of government-sponsored
Graduate programs in selected universities focusing
on technical textiles and non-wovens to cater for
the human resource requirement.
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23. What should be done?
• Short listing of a couple of dozen high-
priority product groups among a total of 150
technical textile product groups to focus on.
• Preparation of project profiles/pre-feasibility
studies to facilitate the entrepreneurial
activity in the technical textile projects.
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24. What should be done?
• Setting-up of a technical textiles steering
committee to coordinate, monitor and
review the growth of the technical textile
industry and also the activities of the centers
of excellence.
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25. Challenges for Bangladesh
• Limited synthetic fibre availability for technical textiles
• Lack of know-how and skilled workforce
• No R n D facilities
• Non-availability of production & market database
• Lack of encouragement to entrepreneurs for going into
technical textiles like import duty, interest rates etc.
• Lack of investment by the industry
• Low importance given to the long term benefits and life cycle
cost of the products vis-à-vis traditional products
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(DMA)

26. End-use wise segments of Technical Textile
Agrotech
Horticulture, landscape, gardening,
agriculture, forestry, animal keeping
Abrar A Apu, B.Sc. & M.Sc. Enggr. Textile
and Clothing
Meditech
Hygienic, Medicine
Okotech
Environmental protection, recycling,
waste disposal
Clothtech
Garments, shoes
Buildtech
Membrane, Massive Construction,
engineering & industrial building
Mobiltech
Cars, ships, aircrafts, trains, space
travel
Geotech
Road, railway, irrigation, hydraulic
structures, waste landfills, dams
Hometech
Furniture, upholstery, interior
furnising, rugs, floor covering
Packtech
Packaging, protective-cover, sacks,
big bags, container systems
Indutech
Filtration, cleaning, mechanical
engg, chemical industry
Protech
Person and property protection
Sporttech
Sport &leisure, active wear, outdoor,
sport articles

27. World end-use consumption of technical textiles in 2000 by
Application
Area (volume terms)
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28. 1.Agrotech : Textile products used in the growth and
harvesting of live products – gardening and
landscaping, agriculture and forestry, fishing firming
and fences. Products:
• •Greenhouse cover
• •Matts (Irrigation, Dairy firm)
• •Nets (Birds, Plants,Fish)
• •Textile drainage and irrigation system

29. 1. Agrotech
Sunscreens, bird protection nets, plant nets, harvesting nets, root ball nets and packing
material for agriculture products.
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30. 2.Buildtech: All textile and composite materials used in
the construction of buildings, sport arenas and halls
Products:
•Membranes (insulation)
•Lightweight construction materials
•Bill board (Advertisement

31. 2. Buildtech
Strength
Resilience
Resistance to degradation by chemicals and
pollutants in the air
Concrete reinforcement
Interior construction, partitions
Insulations
Roofing materials
Awnings
Canopies
Billboards
Complete textile structures
Wind turbines
Applications
Functional Properties
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32. 3.Clothtech:
Functional textile products in clothing and footwear (e.g. interlining, sewing
threads, insulating fibrefill and wadding
Products:
•Smart Textiles (Smarttech)
•Out door clothing
•Wind and weather protecting clothing
•Components of shoe and clothings

33. 4.Hometech: Hometech presents innovative
developments in the manufacture of furniture,
upholstery, floor coverings and carpets
Products:
•Furniture
• upholstery
•floor coverings and carpets

34. 5. Geotech/Geotextilien:
Textile materials used in civil engineering like roads, bridges,
tunnels and dams to provide support, stability, separation,
filtration and drainage at or below ground level.
Products:
•Drainage
•Disposal construction
•River erosion control

35. 6.Indutech: INDUTECH is the name given to textiles that are
used for diverse industrial applications like filtration,
conveying, cleaning etc. This arena of technical textiles
contains solutions and products for mechanical engineering
and for varieties of industries, e.g. conductive textiles and 3-
D textile products.
Widely used in woven, non-woven and knitted form,
INDUTECH are increasingly being used in almost all the
major industries, like paper, carbon, metal, ceramic, glass
fiber, plastic etc, across the globe.
Products: Power transmitting
equipment, chemical filtration,
Industrial Oven or vassal

36. 6. Indutech
•Dry and Wet filtration applications
•Polishing cloths
•Needle punched felt
•Open-weave fabric
•Drive belts Conveyor belts (for paper making
and food processing)
•Loop and eye fastenings
•Basic fabrics for coating
•Edging tape for coated fabrics
•Coated / laminated fabrics
•Fusing threads and rods
•Fabrics of fire-retardant yarns
•Heat resistant yarns / fibers
•Coated and extruded yarns
•Yarns for composites
•High tenacity yarns
Applications
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37. 7.Medtech: Medtech contains the complete range of
innovations in the manufacture, processing and application of
medical and hygiene products
Products: Target of manufacturing of
medical and research equipments, OP-
Textiles

38. 8.Mobiltech: Ship and aircraft construction, as
well as in all aspects of automobile, railway
and space travel.
Products: seat covers, belts, tires
and airbags, structural components

39. 8. Mobiltech
Seat covers, seat belts, car carpets, air bags, tyre cord,
composite panels
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40. Oekotech
9.Oekotech: Oekotech stands for new ideas and interesting
concepts in environmental protection, waste disposal and
recycling
Products: environmental
protection engineering, safety
engineering, Recycling products

41. Protech
10.Protech: Under this sign you'll find the latest
developments in personal and property protection
Products: safety equipments,
manufacturers of protective
clothing

42. 10. Protech
• Clothing against heat and flame
• Clothing against mechanical impacts
• Fire men’s protective clothing
• Clothing against cold
• Clothing against foul weather
• Clothing against chemical substances
(gas liquids, particles)
• Clothing against radio active
contamination
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43. 11. Packtech
 Bags
 Sacks
 Flexible Intermediate Bulk
Carriers (FIBCs)
 wrappings for textile bales
and carpets
 Tea bags and other food
and industrial product
wrappings.
Applications
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44. 12. Sporttech
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45. End-use consumption of technical textiles by region and
application area, 2000, (000 tons)
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