Market Driven Innovations in Textile Materials, Technologies and Products
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2020
- Latest edition
- Editor: Roshan Shishoo
- Language: English
Market Driven Innovations in Textile Materials, Technologies and Products explores the importance of market demand in driving innovative research and development in the textile a… Read more
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Description
Description
Market Driven Innovations in Textile Materials, Technologies and Products explores the importance of market demand in driving innovative research and development in the textile and clothing industry. Close cooperation between the technical textile industry and manufacturers has profoundly affected the development of the textile industry worldwide, leading to improvements in manufacturing and processing techniques, material properties, and design practices. Drawing on case studies from industries including sportswear, medical and hygienic products, composites, automotive interior component, road and building, this book provides a fascinating new perspective on innovation in textiles.
Key features
Key features
- Combines case studies from many industries with academic research to provide a valuable comprehensive approach to this subject
- Explains how different stages of the supply chain can exert upward pressure on present technical capabilities
- Examines the influence of technical textiles on the textiles industry more broadly, and investigates how this influence may continue
Readership
Readership
Textile scientists, technical staff working in textile research institutes, company directors, R&D and product development managers and industrial scientists, producers of textile processing systems. Researchers and postgraduate students of textile materials in academia
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Historic market-pulls ushering new applications for textiles
3. Market driven innovations in fibres and yarns
4. Market driven innovations in fabric manufacturing technologies
5. Market driven innovations in textile products
6. Market driven innovations in nonwovens products
7. Market driven innovations in high-functional/high-performance clothing
8. Market driven innovations in smart textiles
9. Market driven innovative processing technologies for textiles
10. Textile pre-forms gaining ground in composite manufacturing
11. Impact of technical textiles on global textile teaching and research
12. Technical textiles changing the image of the global textile and clothing industry
13. Specific sustainability issues and solutions related to technical textiles
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 31, 2045
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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