Storage Vessels:

Flexible coated fabrics are used in collapsible storage containers. The major requirements for such storage systems are high tear and tensile strength with minimal weight. Examples of these types of structures include liners for transport containers and reservoirs, gas holders, marine dracones, and portable liquid (fuel, water) containment systems.

Interior Textiles:

Interior textiles include carpets, bedding products, toweling products, table linen, curtains and upholstery fabrics and as the number of houses increases, so does the potential market for these products. Other products include carpets(woven, tufted and needle felt); Bedding products (sheets, blankets, pillow cases and duvet covers); toweling products (including towels of every type, kitchen towels and flannels); Table linen, net curtains, solid drapes and upholstery fabrics, cushion covers, made-ups and bed linen, carpets and floor coverings, wall coverings(noise abatement panels and decorative panels). World markets for Interior Textiles to 2012 is a major new market reports assembled by the internationally renowned organization Comite international de la Rayonne et des Fibres Synthetiques (CIRFS).

The potential for Home Textiles is enormous but the business of manufacturing furnishing fabric for interiors is still at a nascent stage in the vastness of one of India's major economic activities: the textile industry. The textile industry is still largely focused on the apparel segment. Some manufacturers saw the growth potential in dressing Indian interiors and took an early lead in the game. Reliance for one, anticipated the possibilities for home furnishings in India, and launched Harmony, its home textiles brand way back in 1988. For fabric manufactuer's looking at home textiles, the domestic market is reportedly growing at a healthy annual rate of 10-12 per cent.

Traditionally, manufacturers of Home Textiles in India have preferred cotton fibre to synthetics. Viscose dyed yarn had a fair share in this segment. Slowly the use of polyester is increasing.

Summary:

The potential uses for textiles in architecture and construction are almost limitless. The difficulties for textile manufacturers operating in this market include the strongly cyclical nature of the construction industry and the unevenness of major projects, the long testing and acceptance procedures and, perhaps above all, the task of communicating these developments to a diverse and highly fragmented group of key specifiers, including architects, construction engineers and regulatory bodies. The construction requirements, practices and standards of just about every country and region are different and it has, so far, proved very difficult for any acknowledged global leaders to emerge in this market.

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