Browsing: Automotive textiles

There is currently frenzied activity and investment taking place to commercialise self-driving cars, involving both the established automotive manufacturers and the technology giants of Silicon Valley.

The Joint Technological Conference (JTC) is a combined annual feature of four textile research associations NITRA, BTRA, SITRA & ATIRA.

We come across various fashion shows conducted in fashion hubs like Milan, Paris, London, New York, Loss Angeles, Dubai etc. These are the trendsetters in the society and from technology point of view knitting gels well with innovative fashion trends.

In synthetic fibres, Indian market has high potential mid-term for FDY, IDY and staple yarns, which might have been also due to the slowdown in the Chinese economy, said Michael Korobczuk at the Oerlikon Man-Made Fibre Seminar held at Silvassa very recently.

Today, a modern automobile contains between 20 up to 30 kg of fibres from the tyres to the sky. These fibres are used—visibly and invisibly—in many textile products for example as tyre cord, adhesive tape of the seat cover, claddings, sound proofing or insulating material but also for floor coverings. I