Specialty Fabrics Review September 2022 - 64

Incremental
developments
provide opportunities
for manufacturers
to penetrate the
advanced textiles
market with fewer
capital investments.
Existing opportunities
Conventional fabric structures like
wovens, knits and nonwoven webs can
be used in different combinations to
harness characteristics of individual
fabric structures, such as the high
strength and rigidity of wovens, the
elasticity of knits, porosity, and the
softness of nonwoven webs.
Stiff woven and heavyweight
fabrics can serve as reinforcement
with applications in medical textiles,
automotive textiles and infrastructure.
These materials can serve as inserts
with knit fabrics as outer layers giving
stretchability. Tricot knits serve as an
outer layer in high-end automobiles.
Heavyweight fabrics serve as a
base layer for high-end abrasives.
Antiballistic chest shields involve
woven fabric layers with nonwoven
binding layers, enhancing shear
resistance. There have been many
incremental developments with few
disruptive innovations. Incremental
developments provide opportunities
for existing manufacturers to penetrate
the advanced textiles market with
fewer capital investments.
Tightly woven heavyweight cotton
fabrics find applications as base
materials for developing abrasives.
Kanakalakshmi Mills, based in
Coimbatore, India, develops coarser
fabrics for industrial uses such as
abrasives, canvas belts, tarpaulin, tire
cord and more using Sulzer Projectile
Looms. These fabrics are made using
yarns from 6 Ne to 20 Ne. (Note: The
Ne count refers to the number of
times the length of 1 pound of yarn
can be divided by 840. So, a 6 Ne yarn
would produce 5,040 yards in 1 pound
of yarn.) This company demonstrates
how to translate cotton fabric into a
high-tech product by way of active
collaboration with Carborundum
Universal Ltd.
Conventional fabric structures like wovens, knits and nonwoven webs can be used in different
combinations to harness the high strength and rigidity of wovens, the elasticity of knits,
porosity, and the softness of nonwoven webs. Photo: Anh Nhi Đu Lê
Functional finishes for
conventional textiles
Textile wet processing is a major
water and energy consumer. The
conventional textiles sector must make
strides in finishing to move toward
the advanced textiles sector. One
of the United Nations' Sustainable
Development Goals includes limiting
global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees
Celsius during this century, which puts
greater demands on the conventional
and advanced textiles industry to
increase the use of biodegradable
raw materials, use natural product
chemistries, and reduce the use of
water and chemicals.
Herb-based natural products are
gaining attraction, particularly in
developing next-to-skin medical
products such as wipes.
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