Search Blog

Sunday 28 March 2010

Application Of Technical Textiles

1. Introduction

The Textile Institute defines technical textiles as the 'textile materials and products manufactured primarily for their technical and performance properties rather than their aesthetic or decorative characteristics '.


An exceptional feature of technical textiles is the use of innumerable varities of raw materials, processes, product and application for their production. Some of the materials used for making technical textile such as Metal, like steel; Minerals, like asbestos and glass; Synthetic fibre polymers, like PES, PA, PAN, PP etc. Regenerated fibres like rayon fibre and acetate fibre. Natural fibres like cotton fibre, like cotton fibre, wool fibre etc.

2. Technical Textiles

Technical textiles are textile materials manufactured mainly for their technical performance and functional properties. Technical textiles in various contexts are often referred to as performance textiles or functional textiles or engineered textiles or high-tech textiles.

2.1 Other terms used:

1. Industrial textile

2. Functional textile

3. Performance textile

4. Engineering textile

5. Invisible textile

6. high-tech textile

2.2 Technical textiles are usually applied in the following 12 main areas

  • Agrotech comprises of agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture and forestry
  • Buildtech comprises of building and construction
  • Clothtech comprises of technical components of footwear and clothing.
  • Geotech comprises of technical components of geotextiles and civil engineering
  • Hometech comprises of technical components of furniture, household textiles and floor coverings.
  • Indutech comprises of filtration, conveying, cleaning and other industrial uses
  • Medtech comprises of medical field and hygiene
  • Mobiltech comprises of automobiles, shipping, railways and aerospace
  • Oekotech comprises of environmental protection
  • Packtech comprises of packaging
  • Protech comprises of personal and property protection
  • Sporttech comprises of sports and leisure









Some fields of application for technical textiles

SECTOR

EXAMPLES

MARKETS

Earthworks

Linings, netting, insulation, artificial grass ("geotextiles")

Construction companies for roads, water engineering, soil stabilisation, tunnels and other earthworks

Construction

Insulation and roofing materials ("building textiles")

Building firms, architects

Agriculture

Sun protection for greenhouses, fishing nets ("agrotextiles")

Farming, horticulture and fishing

Transport

Car mats and lining, airbags, fire resistant seat covers and carpets, safety belts

Producers of cars, aeroplanes, boats

Medical and healthcare

Bandages, medical corsetry
("medical textiles")

Hospitals, nursing homes, households

Protection

Safety nets, ribbons and tapes, fire resistant clothing
("protecting textiles")

Industry, public procurement, households

Packaging

Twine and cordage, sacks and bags, tarpaulins ("packing textiles")

Industry, distribution, households

Military and public services

Fire service equipment, bullet-proof jackets, army tents, parachutes, extinguishing blankets, tubes

Military/security, forestry, offshore oil industry

Specialised clothing

Sports, skiing and leisure

Active sports, mountaineering, households

Communications

Optical fibres, image conductor cables

Communication sector

Industry

Filters, drive and conveyer belts, abrasive belts

Engineering, machinery, chemicals, plastics, mining, energy, etc.

Furnishing

Interlaid scrims, braiding, shower curtains, umbrellas, parasols, deck chairs, textile wall papers

Decoration firms, households


1. Technical Textile products:

Within the composites industry, woven, knitted braided, non woven(link) and wound reinforcements produced from glass, carbon fiber and organic polymer materials like aramids are presently accepted as technical textile products.

2. Technical Textile fiber:

Almost 90 % of the fibers(link to textile fabric) utilized to make technical textiles belong to the category of conventional fibers and the fibers specially developed to specifically use in technical textiles are not only expensive but often have limited applications.

3. Conclusion:

Technical textile is more importance to developed our export economy. Bangladesh is leg behind in technical textiles precuts as neither the government nor the textile industry has made any serious efforts towards synchronizing textile products with emerging needs of our world markets by developing high value added products. our government and the textile industry keep their focus on conventional textiles ,ignoring technical textile and knowledge –based products.

4. Reference:

www.wipedia.org

www.fiber2fahsion.com

www.technicaltextile.com