This presentation is about evolution of Textile Industry from animan skin to most modern performance clothing. It gives overview of past, present & future innovations in Textile Industry.

1. By Suvin Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

2. What is Innovation?
What is
desirable to
users?
What is
viable in the
marketplace
What is
possible with
technology
Innovation

4. Clothing
basic fibre(for
cover &
Protection)
Modern
Clothing
Synthetic
Fibres &
Yarns
Smart
textiles:
Technical
textiles
Textile Industry: Evolution

5. Only Clothing
 Textile as high end fashion statement

6. Technical Textiles

7. Agrotech

8. Meditech

9. Buildtech

10. Mobiltech

11. Clothtech

12. Oekotech

13. Geotech

14. Packtech

15. Hometech

16. Protech

17. Indutech

18. Sporttech

19. Innovation
Textile Industry
Textile Machinery

20. Remarkable innovations in Textiles

21. Aerospace Textile
 Covers special finished products to highly engineered textile materials
 Includes Textile for
 Aircraft
 space suits
 space shuttles
 space transportations
 lunar & mars mission
 Stitching combined with resin film infusion that showed the greatest
potential for overcoming the cost & damage tolerance barriers in wing
structure.
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

22. Spacesuits
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

23. Aero plane
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

24. Medical Textiles
 Provides bio receptive and biocompatible material
 Remarkable Application
 “Artificial Heart Valve”:
 Made from pyrolytic carbon, used for over 30 years
 Bi-leaflet designs, meaning that they employ two carbon “leaflets” to
regulate flow to a single direction
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

25. Sport Textiles
 Provides light weight material with safety features that are
 Tougher than wood
 Breathes like skin
 Waterproof like rubber
 Eco-friendly & highly economical
 Advantages
 Moisture management
 Good perspiration fastness
 Flexibility
 Good heat conductivity
 Immense comfort
 Superior strength and durability.
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

26. Digital Printing
 Digital textile printing is described as any ink jet based method of printing
colorants onto fabric
 Digital textile printing started in the late 1980s as a possible replacement for
analog screen printing
 With the use of easily accessible files, much more complex wide format
printers: a vast amount of subtle effects and detail can be achieved
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

27. Latest innovations in Textiles

28.  Nano polymer coatings imparts amazing new properties to materials
 Increasing effectiveness
 Decreasing maintenance time and cost
 Applications
 Amni Soul Eco: launched in mid-2014
 Helps textile decompose in merely three years after having been
discarded
 Yarn is 100% recyclable & safe for use in adult, child, and baby
apparel
Nano Polymer technology
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

29. Nano Coating: Stainless material
 Provides superhydrophobic textiles
 Completely water and oil repellent textiles
 Easy cleaning
 Invisibility
 Universal
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

30. Sensing T-shirts
 Used for teenagers suffering from scoliosis
 T-shirt with textile pressure sensors to increase the comfort and
effectiveness of spinal braces
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

31. Edema Stocking
 Developed by Ohmatex in Denmark
 Electronic smart textile device that monitors and measures changes in leg
volume for patients suffering from edema (fluid accumulation or swelling)
of the lower limbs
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

32. EQ-Top Seismic Wallpaper
 Product is a composite of strong and stiff glass fibers, interwoven to create
durable, elastic panels.
 Crisscross fibers in various directions so that they are strong and pliable,
thus distributing energy evenly when the walls shake during an earthquake
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

33. Newlife Polyester Yarn
 Made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles
 It is processed by mechanical rather than chemical means
 Made in Italy, the fabric is used in fashion, sportswear, underwear, medical
garments and other clothes and furnishings
 Georgio Armani used it to create a fashionable, eco-friendly gown for LIvia
Firth at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards.
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

34. Mushroom Material
 New class of home-compostable bio-plastics
 Based on mycelium: a living organism analogous to the root structure of
mushrooms.
 The biomaterials are high-performance and an environmentally responsible
alternative to traditional polystyrene plastic
 performs like foam, but is renewable, natural, home-compostable, and
environmentally responsible
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

35. Future innovations in Textiles

36.  Sports and military industries
 Fabrics that help regulate body temperature, reduce wind resistance and
control muscle vibration
 Health & Beauty Industry
 Drug-releasing medical textiles
 Drug delivery through skin gel
 Illuminated textiles for the photodynamic
treatment of tumours
 Fabrics with moisturizer, perfume, & anti-aging
properties
Future of Textile Industry
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

37.  Self-Repairing Textile
 Researchers at SINTEF added microcapsules containing a glue-like
substance to the plastic polyurethane
 If garment snags, the capsules release a sealant that fills in the gaps and
hardens with contact to air and water
Future of Textile Industry
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

38.  Aesthetic Smart textile
 Fabrics that light up to fabrics that can change color
 Fabrics gather energy from environment by harnessing vibrations, sound
or heat & reacts to input
Future of Textile Industry
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

39.  Fibres of the future: Embedding electronics
 Electronics, such as LEDs, sensors and micro-controllers are directly
embedded into yarns, which can then be made into any number of
products, from clothes to car seats
 Currently yarns which are 0.9 mm in diameter are produced, but further
reduction in size is expected (0.2 mm)
 Reduction in size will allow more complex circuits to be embedded in
yarns which would improve the variety of functions the fibres can
perform
Future of Textile Industry
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

40. Innovation in Fibers
 Ingeo: Fabric from fermented corn starches
 Can be spun into fibers for apparel and
home textiles, and also used for bio-plastics
 Silk-Like Fiber Derived from Spoiled Milk
 A company called Qmilch makes fabric from protein found in soured
‘secondary milk’
 This zero-waste fabric requires no harmful chemicals to make, and uses
less water in the production process than other milk-based fabrics
Past Innovation Latest Innovation
Future
Innovations

41. Innovations in Textile Machineries

42. Innovation
Textile industry
Textile Machinery

43. Textile Machinery
SPINNING
WEAVING
PROCESSING

44. Spinning
Ring Spinning
Compact Spinning
Rotor Spinning
Jet Spinning / Vortex
Spinning

45. Potential maximum speed of ring spinning: raised from 15,000 to 25,000 rpm
with following advances:
 Longer Frame: reduce the relative costs of
automatic doffing
 Combination of spinning frame and winding
enhanced the adoption of automation
 Automatic doffing: reduced doffing time thus package
(and ring) size was less critical
 Splicing on the winder: yarn joins became less obtrusive — again offering
the potential of smaller package
 Smaller rings: for limiting traveler velocity (40 m/s), higher rotational
speeds (and hence twisting rates) could be achieved.
 Longer Machines: increasing number of spindles per machine up to 1,800
Ring Spinning

46.  Innovation in Drafting System – High drafts in range of 70 -100
 Developments in Ring Design
 Orbit ring
 Ceramic Ring
 Rotating Ring
 Spindle Identification
 Tracking of spindles from the ring frame: helps for
 Process quality control
 Identification of spindles on the ring frame responsible for producing
defective yarns
 Increasing yarn quality as well as efficiency, by more readily indicating
faulty positions on the spinning frame
Ring Spinning

47. Compact Spinning
 Create yarns that are less hairy and stronger by use of additional drafting
components and pneumatics
 Provides either a stronger yarn or spin at higher production speeds with
lower twist

48. Rotor Spinning
 Present state-of-the-art machines have significant integrated automation
such as
• Doffing
• Piecing
• Cleaning
• Process/Product monitoring
 Additionally, the machine can be part of a material handling system from
sliver through to packaged yarn

49. Jet Spinning / Vortex Spinning
 Murata Jet Spinning (MJS)
• It offers high speed production of finer-count yarns
• Several variants have been introduced, including Murata Twin Spin
(MTS) and Roller Jet Spinning (RJS)
• Different jets were offered to accommodate different yarn styles
• To extend the use of jet spinning, with particular respect to fiber type and
yarn count
 Murata Vortex Spinning (MVS)
• Capable of spinning uncombed cotton slivers into acceptable yarns at
speeds that were significantly higher than with any other system

50. Weaving
 Major developments in weaving machinery primarily geared up with
objective of:
 Higher productivity
 Better quality
 Reduction in number of operations through automation
 Reduce cost of production
 In recent years, beside above flexibility & improvement in machine
utilization are receiving more attention by machinery manufacturers

51. Remarkable Developments in Weaving
 Past developments in weft insertion systems:
 Shuttle looms
 Projectile looms
 Rapier looms
 Airjet looms
 Waterjet looms
 Multiphase looms
 Other Developments like higher production system, microprocessor
application, information technology, quick style change system, energy
conservation, safety measures

52. Weaving
Rapier looms
Shuttle looms Projectile looms
Airjet looms Waterjet looms Multiphase looms

53. Textile Wet Processing
 Major Issues
 Textile processing industry is one of the largest industrial users of process
water and huge quantities of complex chemicals
 So, Wet processing industry of the future should be
 Cost effective
 Environmental-friendly
 Gentle to the textile materials
 Solution
 Supercritical carbon dioxide has been tried in different areas of textile
treatments
 Has very high potential because this dyeing medium completely avoids
water pollution and use of conventional auxiliaries in dyeing as well as
after treatments
 The drying after dyeing is also not required
 The CO dyeing technology is on its way to become an industrial
application in coming future
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54. Need of Innovations

55. Eco friendly Textile Processing

56. Apparels
 Apparels are still being produced as fashion textiles or as cheapest costumes
 Ideas correlating human beings needs with properties of textiles are yet to
be explored
 Examples
 Problem:
Denim Jeans: longer life becomes imperative to replace it by new pair
of jeans
 Solution needed: research for successfully reducing life of jeans
thereby facilitating overall reduction in the cost of jeans

57. Summary
 Innovation is a continuous process
 Need to eliminate lengthy textile processes
 Costumes of Consumer choice, design and colour will directly be formed
from granules or fibres
 Need to have point of view on use of disposable textiles and apparels for
events like drama, uniforms, sports activities, picnics etc

58. Thank You