Types of Technical Textiles
There are various types of technical textile fabric manufactured in the textile industry. Depending on functionality and properties, technical textiles have a variety of categories.
They provide varied performance and functionality according to the type. Different types of fabric are used for different types of work. Below is a description of the categorization and its applications:
- Agrotech or Agro-textiles: It’s used in agriculture, horticulture aquaculture, and forestry.
- Buildtech or Construction Textiles: Mostly uses in construction and Building.
- Clothtech or Clothing Textiles: Used as a material or Clothing and footwear’s technical components.
- Geotech or Geotextiles: Road, Highway, brank, etc. constructions.
- Hometech: Household and furniture and floorcoverings technical components.
- Indutech or Industrial Textiles: Industrial uses like filtration, cleaning conveying, and others.
- Medtech or Medical textiles: Used in the Medical and hygiene industry.
- Mobiltech or Transport textile: Uses in Manufacturing Automobiles, railways, shipping, and aerospace, etc.
- Oekotech or Ecotech: used in oil gas, water transportation system to environment maintains friendly protection.
- Packtech or Packaging textiles: Used in the packaging industry.
- Protech or Protective textiles: Used in Personal and Medical protection.
- Sporttech or Sports textiles: Used in Sportswear and Sports Equipments.