Technical textile

These textiles are designed with specific performance characteristics and properties, making them suitable for various industrial, medical, automotive, aerospace, and other technical applications.

Unlike conventional textiles used for clothing or decoration, technical textiles are optimized to offer qualities such as strength, durability, flame resistance, chemical resistance, moisture management, and other specialized functionalities to meet the specific needs of diverse industries and sectors.

The classification system developed by Techtextil, Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH, is widely used in Europe, North America, and Asia.

[2] These are sometimes spelled Agrotex, Buildtex, Clothtex, Geotex, Hometex, Indutex, Medtex, Mobiltex, Oekotex (Ecotex), Packtex, Protex and Sportex.

There are the various textile products, fabrics forms, fibers and techniques used in agro-textiles which are useful for agriculture mainly for crop protection and in crop development such as shade nets, thermal insulation and sunscreen materials, windshield, antibird nets, which provide minimal shading and proper temperature, air circulation for protecting plants from direct sunlight and birds.

Clothtech encompasses the functional parts that may not be visible, such as zippers, labels, sewing threads, elastics, insulating fiber fills, waddings, shoelaces, and drawcords velcro, and interlining cloths.

Sewing threads is the major component that accounts around 60% followed by labels at 19%, interlinings at 8%, shoelaces and zip fasteners at 5%, and Velcro and umbrellas at 2%.

[16] In the contract market such as for large area buildings, ships, caravans, busses, fire retardant materials are used.

Medical textiles are the textile materials such as fibers, yarns and fabrics that supports medtech (area of application) with healthcare, hygiene, infection control, barrier materials, polymeric Implants, medical devices and smart technologies.

[18] The technical textiles for medical use also help in providing facemasks, FFP2 facial mask, surgical clothing and drapes, disposable nitrile gloves, goggles or visors, head caps, long shoe covers hoods, various wound care assistance such as bandages and dressings, and compression garments, etc.

Medical textiles integrated with smart technologies provide remote contact between doctor and a user.

[21]Mobiltech textiles are used in the engineering and design of automobiles, railways, ships, aircraft and spacecraft.

The most obvious are seat covers, safety belts and airbags but one can find textiles also for the sealing.

[30] Textiles merged with electronics enables technology for a variety of applications in health care, rehabilitation or sports.

[31] Wearable computers have larger roles and contextual capabilities such as sensing, adaptation, resource discovery, and augmentation.

Water droplet on the surface of fabric coated with durable water repellent
A disposable glove made of nitrile rubber . These gloves are often used during medical examinations and procedures to reduce the risk of cross-contamination and germ dissemination.
DEA agents wearing Level B hazmat suits (also called hazardous materials suit). The suit is a piece of PPE that consists of an impermeable whole-body garment worn as protection against hazardous materials.