The manufactured fibre was fulfilling 30% needs of American textile mill consumption by 1960's and 40% of country’s fibre needs by 1965.

New uses for manufactured fibre were being known with the establishment of U.S. space program. The fibres have very different uses from clothing to spaceship nose cones. When Neil Armstrong put his first step on the moon, he was wearing the space suit which included multi layers of aramid and nylon fibre and the flag he waved was made of nylon.

The exhaust nozzles of the two large booster rockets contain 30,000 pounds of carbonized rayon and these exhaust nozzles work for lifting up the space shuttle in the orbit. Carbon fiber is used as a component in the aircraft for lowering weight, lowering fuel costs and adding strength.

Uses in the present day

With the new developments and discoveries the industry of manufactured fibres is diversified. More new fibres can be obtained from this rather than that available from nature. After the world war –II major industries start new developments and discoveries for the new fibres having the unique qualities. These are fibres made for some special applications and these fibres are like Aromatic polyester e.g. vectran and econol and Aromatic polyamide/aramid e.g. Twaron, Nomex and Kevlar. In the early 1990 some super fibres were being discovered like glass fibre, composite fibre, ceramic fibre and carbon fibre which are completely inorganic fibre.

Manufactured fibres have varied no. of applications when it comes in the area of industrial uses and these applications comprise of construction materials for moon-based space stations, super-absorbent diapers and artificial organs and engineered non-woven products were used in the roofing materials, floppy disk envelopes, road bed stabilizers, apparel interfacing and surgical gowns. These non-woven fabrics are made without weaving or knitting and it could be anything as soft and comfortable as limp cloth and as stiff as paper.

The years of commercial production of manufactured fibres are as given in the table below.

Thus, we can summarize the whole history of fibre production according to the year in which it is first produced.

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