The Textile Association (India), Mumbai Unit is organising a seminar on technical textiles – titled “Technical textiles: Need of today and tomorrow” – on January 29, 2022 at Hotel Fortune Park Galaxy, Vapi, Gujarat. This seminar aims to give an opportunity to the textile technologists & experts to share their thoughts to meet the challenges which will be highly productive and beneficial.
Technical textiles provide new growth opportunities to the Indian textile industry to have long term sustainable future. Indian market of technical textiles during FY 2019-20 was over $ 19 billion (Rs 1.45 lakh crore) with an average growth rate (CAGR) of 12%. While global market size of technical textile was around $ 256 billion in 2019 and average growth rate (CAGR) is 4%. The strategic development in a knowledge-based industry, like technical textiles, will need access to a range of speciality raw materials, indigenous machinery manufacturing with latest technology and focus on cutting edge R&D with skilled man-power, which are still lacking in India. The dependence can eventually be reduced by further investing in these areas.
The Indian textile industry is currently very much excited towards diversification and new investments in technical textile projects due to various reasons, some of them are attractive government schemes like PLI, NTTM, ATUFS, MITRA mega park development and other incentives. In addition to domestic market growth, India can grab the major opportunities in the global technical textile market, reaching out to different application domains like, health care, defense, construction, agriculture, sports, composites, environment, smart technologies and many more. The deliberations in this seminar of TAI, Mumbai Unit will show the future trend to do more towards new arenas of research, innovation, market development and investments in technical textile business.
The seminars organised by The Textile Association (India), Mumbai Unit have always been on contemporary and innovative topics deliberating on the subject by high profile and experienced speakers. The TAI, Mumbai Unit apart from organising the events in Mumbai organises the seminar at Vapi for the benefit of the technicians from that cluster. The deliberations in this seminar will show the future trend to do more towards new arenas of research, innovation, market development and investments in technical textile business. In this seminar the experts from the field of technical textiles will address the gathering. There will be two panel discussions – on the topics of “Emerging opportunities in technical textiles†and “Technological advancements in technical textiles†– wherein the panel members will discuss the participants’ concerns on the theme. Over 200 delegates are expected to attend the seminar.
The seminar will focus on topics such as latest trend in weaving preparatory machinery for the technical textile; development in software; Industry 4.0 in technical textiles; Geotextiles/Agrotextiles; medical textiles; growth potential and prospects in India of technical textiles; protective clothing; government policies & strategies for technical textiles; sports textiles/construction textiles; technical textile product manufacturing/application in sectors like-health care, protective textiles/defense, construction, building materials, agriculture, etc.