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Technical textiles, market by market
Thirteen markets cover the industries that use technical and industrial textiles – from medical, automotive and construction to protective, sport, geo and home textiles.
Each market brings together the latest news, case studies and newsletter editions, and the field experts who answer your questions.
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Case study: Heijmans’ Journey Towards a New High-Visibility Workwear Solution
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Drainage Geocomposites
Bentofix® Green – Biodegradable Geosynthetic Clay Liner for Flood Protection Project in Brixen
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Agriculture
Agrotech covers shade and crop protection nets, ground cover, silage film, greenhouse screens, fleece and root control fabrics. UV stability across the growing season, and increasingly whether the fabric can be collected and recycled or safely degrades in the field, decide what growers are willing to buy.
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Automotive Textiles
Mobiltech is textile in motion: seat covers, headliners, carpets, airbags, seat belts, tyre cord, filters and hoses. Every part has to meet fogging, abrasion, flammability and recycling requirements, and electric vehicles are quietly changing the acoustic and thermal demands on all of them.
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Clothing Textiles
Clothtech covers the functional textiles inside garments and footwear: interlinings, waddings, membranes, sewing threads, elastics and shoe components. They are invisible in the finished product, yet they decide how a garment keeps its shape, how it breathes, and how well it survives a hundred wash cycles.
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Construction Textiles
Buildtech puts textile into buildings: membranes for roofs and facades, geotextiles in foundations, concrete reinforcement, scaffolding nets and insulation. Tensile membrane structures and textile reinforced concrete let designers span and shape what steel and concrete alone cannot, at a fraction of the weight.
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E-Textile & Smart Textile
Smart textiles put sensing, heating, lighting and data into the fabric itself. Conductive yarns, printed electronics, encapsulation and washable connectors turn a garment into a measuring device for healthcare, sport, protective clothing and industry, with washability and interconnection still the hardest problems to solve.
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Ecological Protection Textile
Oekotech is textile put to work for the environment: erosion control mats, landfill liners, filtration media for air and water, oil booms and covers that limit emissions. Durability under UV and chemical load has to be balanced against biodegradability wherever the fabric is meant to disappear into the soil.
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Geo Textiles
Geotextiles hold infrastructure together below the surface. Woven and nonwoven fabrics, geogrids, geomembranes and geocomposites separate, filter, drain, reinforce and seal in roads, railways, dikes, landfills and tunnels, where a design life measured in decades and long term creep behaviour matter more than initial strength.
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Home Textiles
Hometech runs from mattress ticking, upholstery and carpet to curtains, filters inside appliances and cleaning cloths. Flame retardancy, abrasion resistance, stain release and comfort are the properties that count, and recycled and bio-based fibres are moving into the mainstream faster here than in most other textile markets.
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Industrial textiles
Industrial textiles do the work no one sees: filter media, conveyor and drive belts, hoses, ropes, insulation and reinforcement inside machines and buildings. Fibre choice, weave, coating and finish decide how long a part survives heat, abrasion, chemicals and load, and that is where most of the innovation happens.
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Medical Textiles
Medtech runs from wound dressings, sutures and implants to gowns, drapes and the filtration inside medical devices. Biocompatibility, sterilisation, barrier performance and traceability decide what is allowed near a patient, and single use against reusable is a live debate in every hospital purchasing department.
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Packaging textiles
Packtech covers everything textile in packaging and transport: big bags and FIBCs, woven sacks, strapping, nets, wrapping and protective liners. Strength per gram, UV stability, food and pharma compliance and increasingly recyclability decide which construction is chosen for which load, and how often a bag may be reused.
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Protective Textiles
Protective textiles, or protech, keep people safe where ordinary clothing cannot. Aramid, PBI, flame retardant and high visibility fabrics, coatings and multi-layer laminates protect against fire, heat, chemicals, cut, arc flash and ballistic impact, under certification schemes that decide which fabric may be used for which job.
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Sport Textiles
Sports textiles have to move with the body and manage heat and moisture at the same time. Knitted and woven structures, membranes, laminates and finishes deliver stretch, breathability, protection and durability, from base layers and footwear uppers to artificial turf, sails and the composite reinforcement inside equipment.
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E-Product & Market Insights
One market in depth
Next to the E-Update with the headlines, the E-Product and Market Insight editions each take one subject in depth: the latest articles, videos and manufacturers on that technology or in that market. These are the Market Insight editions on the markets.
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Five Market Insight editions on the markets; the four E-Product editions are listed on the zone pages. Every market page lists the past editions on its own market.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a market on TextilesInside?
A market is an industry – medical, automotive, construction, protective wear, sport, home and so on – with its own page bundling the latest news, case studies and newsletter editions on technical textiles in that industry.
How is a market different from a Technology Zone?
A Technology Zone covers a technology – fibres and yarns, fabrics, coatings, composites, processes – that applies across industries. A market covers one industry and everything it needs across those technologies. The same material often appears in several markets, and the same market draws on several zones.
How do I find manufacturers for a specific industry?
Browse the Technical Textile Manufacturers A–Z, or open a market and use the field experts listed there – most manufacturers state the industries they serve.
How often is new content added to a market?
New articles, case studies and newsletter editions are added continuously; the Market Insight editions each take one market in depth.