Broad
understanding / Scope
• Technical
textiles has never been a single coherent industry sector and market
segment.
• It is
developing in many different directions with varying speeds and levels of
success.
• There is
continual erosion of the barriers between traditional definitions of textiles and
other ‘flexible engineering’ materials such as paper and plastics, films and membranes,
metals, glass and ceramics etc.
• Technical
Textile correspond to basic textile skills of manipulating fibres, fabrics and
finishing techniques as well as an understanding of how all these interact and perform
in different combinations and environments.
• Beyond
that, it has much of the technology and expertise associated with the
industry
resides in an understanding of the needs and dynamics of many very
different
end-use and market sectors. By that means the new industries are
end
emerging.
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