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Nonwoven and Technical Textiles in India: Current Scenario |
| In the recent past, India offered enormous excitement for the US and European technical textiles sector. They all eyed India as an immediate new market offering enormous opportunities. India's growth is expected to be around 8% in the years ahead and should be watched as a growth market. |
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Insights from World's Leading Automaker for the Indian Technical Textiles Industry |
| New markets and new technologies offer growth opportunities for the nonwoven industry are some of my gleanings from a foresight presentation made by General Motors' technical experts recently in Lubbock. At present, it would appear bizarre to seek the advice of automakers given all the turmoils they have gone through and still struggling. |
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Filtration...A GROWTH Market for Technical Textiles |
| There are many similarities between the fiber, textile and nonwoven fabric industry and the filtration industry. The most obvious is that textile materials are used widely in the filtration as filter media. However, what is not so obvious and what few in the textile industry realize is that the filtration industry is as broadly segmented... |
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Biopolymers in the Medical Field |
| There is a wide range of application of biopolymers in medicine which include tissue engineering, wound healing, controlled release of drugs, post surgical treatments, etc. Their application in tissue engineering is mainly due to certain desirable qualities such as suitable surface morphology, mechanical properties, ease in processability and tailorability, degradability, etc. |
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Geotextiles |
| A geotextile composite liner was placed on the upstream slope of the clay core between the core and rock-fill shoulder to prevent seepage through a rock fill dam at reservoir in China. The paper investigates the coupled effects of stress and seepage on the performance of the rock-fill dam. |
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Technical Textiles - Present Trend and Requirements |
| Technical textiles are high performance textiles that require special functionality. The market of technical textiles is significant and expanding as the products are being put to an ever-increasing number of end uses in various industries such as |
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Disposable Medical Textiles |
| Disposable Medical Textile (DMT) is likely to grow rapidly in India in the near future. During the last ten years a lot of effort is in vogue for the development of technical textile (TT) in India. The DMT, in all probability, would emerge as one of the most prominent products among TT. |
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