Nano-particles can help enhance the physical properties of conventional textiles in areas such as anti-microbial properties, water-repellency, soil-resistance, anti-static, anti-infrared and flam retardant properties, dyeability, and strength of textile materials.

The Government and industry advocates should continue to push the industry to grow in new directions, to remain technologically advanced and to make production even more economically viable.

The use of Information Technology in maximum possible ways can enhance the performance of the companies and many big textile units have already adopted IT in their companies in various forms.

Eco-friendly, crease resistant finishes have been found to have less deleterious effect on mechanical properties like tensile strength and abrasion resistance compared with DMDHEU.

With rising demands from customers, very soon meeting social accountability norms will be not only a competitive advantage but also will be a sheer necessity in getting overseas market access and customer satisfaction.

Coating and laminating are important value addition processes, and in this aspect the techno-commercial aspects of packtech products like soft luggage, and clothtech products like protective garments are revealed.