By: Shramana Ganguly Mehta, Ahmedabad It's not just branded apparel that is driving the growth of India's textile sector. As the Indian consumer drapes up her home with exquisite upholstery, introduces baby diapers and tea bags to the family and drives around in four-wheelers, it is pushing a new category of speciality textile in the subcontinent...

This report encompasses some of the most interesting processes of forming composite elastic nonwoven webs. Elasticity is a desired property in nonwoven webs to be used in bandages, diapers for a tight yet comfortable fit, garment linings for a body-hugging fit, bandages that should be stretchable to cover the wound well and several other applications...

The application oriented feature of textile materials in various technical fields has lead to the wide focus of textiles in recent years. Geo & Medical Textiles has gained importance over the last two decade. The ability of Geo & Medical Textiles to important strength and increase liter of textile materials has now changed the view about the textile sciences...

The United States Marine Corps and the U.S. Army have taken the initiative to develop state-of-the-art fire retardant nonwoven composite fabric technology for use mainly in Combat Utility Uniforms (CUUs) and coveralls. This effort is being conducted via Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts awarded to Nanosyntex...

The market of technical textiles for intelligent personal protective clothing and equipment (PPE) comprises clothing and other often textile-based systems and accessories whose main function is to protect the user. These products are used under very different circumstances...

Home furnishing industry has been vibrant and happening place in the textile industry in the last one decade both in India and elsewhere. Designers, producers and the marketers endeavor to read the consumer aspirations better. However, many in the Indian exports Industry have their own troubles and concerns. While explorations and experiments in every possible direction are continuously taking...