Industrial Technical Textiles

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"Technical textiles" comprises a diverse range of manufacturing activities tied to broad end-use markets. The industry embraces products ranging from the mundane, such as wiping cloths to the spectacular such as heart valves, aerospace composites, Military Body Armor, Marine, Medical, Construction/ architectural fabrics, Transportation and High-Technology. The supply chain that connects fiber producers with end-use markets is a long and complex one. The common characteristic that unifies all technical textile applications, activities and companies is the use of fibers, often engineered in fiber, yarn and fabric form, to provide specific technical performance characteristics to meet the final customer/ market requirements, either as a final product in themselves or as a component in another product.