A technical textile is a textile product manufactured for non-aesthetic purposes, where function is the primary criterion. Technical textiles include textiles for automotive applications, medical textiles (e.g., implants), geotextiles (reinforcement of embankments), agrotextiles (textiles for crop protection), and protective clothing (e.g., heat and radiation protection for fire fighter clothing, molten metal protection for welders, stab protection and bulletproof vests, and spacesuits).
Market Insights
According to Publisher’s latest study, the global Technical Textiles market size was valued at US$ 182350 million in 2023. With growing demand in downstream market, the Technical Textiles is forecast to a readjusted size of US$ 242380 million by 2030 with a CAGR of 4.1% during review period.
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Global Technical Textiles key players include Ahlstrom, Global-safety-textiles, Kimberly-Clark, Cnlovely, NBOND, etc. Global top five players hold a share about 8%.
Asia-Pacific is the largest market, with a share about 30%, followed by Norht America and Europe, having a total share about 25 percent.
In terms of product, Traditional Textiles is the largest segment, with a share about 50%. And in terms of application, the largest application is Electronic Industry, followed by Aerospace, Medical Industry, Architective, Agriculture, Auto industry.
Key Features:
The report on Technical Textiles market reflects various aspects and provide valuable insights into the industry.
Market Drivers and Challenges:
Market Drivers-
Growing Demand for Advanced Materials: The demand for technological textiles is driven by the requirement for high-performance materials that are strong, durable, and resistant to external forces. Automotive, aerospace, and construction industries require materials with high performance, lightweight qualities, and enhanced safety features.
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Increasing Focus on Sustainability: Industry-wide sustainability initiatives have spurred demand for environmentally friendly and recyclable products. Technical textiles provide alternatives such as biodegradable fibres, recycled materials, and energy-efficient goods, which correspond with the growing demand for environmentally responsible activities.
Advancements in Healthcare and Medical Applications: Technical textiles are widely used in the healthcare industry, including wound dressings, surgical gowns, and implantable materials. The aging population, developments in medical treatments, and the necessity for infection control fuel the demand for innovative technologies.
Market Challenges-
High initial investment: The development of specialist technical textiles necessitates significant investment in research, development, and manufacturing infrastructure, making market entry difficult for smaller businesses.
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Quality Assurance and Certification: Manufacturers have hurdles in ensuring product quality, performance requirements, and regulatory compliance, demanding stringent quality control and certification systems.
Market Fragmentation: The technical textiles market is highly fragmented, with many different product categories and applications, making it difficult for manufacturers to build brand differentiation and market positioning.
Supply Chain Disruptions: Global supply chain disruptions like as raw material shortages, transportation bottlenecks, and geopolitical conflicts have an impact on technical textile production and distribution, causing price volatility and delivery delays.
Technological Developments:
Smart Textiles: The incorporation of sensors, actuators, and electronics into textiles enables the creation of smart textiles for wearable technology, medical monitoring, and car interiors, with features like as temperature regulation, moisture detecting, and health tracking.
Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials and nanocoating improve the performance attributes of technical textiles, such as water repellence, UV protection, antimicrobial properties, and self-cleaning capabilities, creating new opportunities for use in healthcare, protective gear, and filtration.
3D Textile Structures: Additive manufacturing and 3D weaving processes allow for the creation of complex textile structures with variable qualities such as porosity, flexibility, and strength for use in composites, automotive components, and aerospace.
Biomedical Textiles: Biocompatible fibres, implants, and tissue engineering scaffold materials are driving innovation in biomedical textiles for applications such as implantable medical devices, surgical sutures, and regenerative medicine.
Recommendations and Opportunities:
Expand Market Reach: To diversify revenue streams and reduce risks associated with market instability and competition, investigate undiscovered markets and application areas such as medical textiles, protective garments, and filtration.
Embrace Sustainability: To match consumer demands for eco-friendly products while still complying with regulatory regulations, emphasize sustainable methods throughout the value chain, from raw material procurement to manufacturing procedures and end of life recycling.
Market Forecasts and Future Outlook:
The global technical textiles market is projected to expand gradually driven by advances in material science, expanded applications, and rising demand for high-performance, value-added textiles across industries. Technological advancements, industry consolidation, and strategic collaborations will influence the future of the technical textiles market, creating chances for differentiation and success. By embracing innovation, sustainability, and strategic alliances, stakeholders can realize the full potential of the global technical textiles market and generate long-term value development.
Market Size and Growth: The research report provide an overview of the current size and growth of the Technical Textiles market. It may include historical data, market segmentation by Type (e.g., Nonwovens, Composite Textiles), and regional breakdowns.
Competitive Landscape: The research report provides analysis of the competitive landscape within the Technical Textiles market. It includes profiles of key players, their market share, strategies, and product offerings. The report can also highlight emerging players and their potential impact on the market.
Downstream Procumbent Preference: The report can shed light on customer procumbent behaviour and adoption trends in the Technical Textiles market. It includes factors influencing customer ' purchasing decisions, preferences for Technical Textiles product.
Government Policies and Incentives: The research report analyse the impact of government policies and incentives on the Technical Textiles market. This may include an assessment of regulatory frameworks, subsidies, tax incentives, and other measures aimed at promoting Technical Textiles market. The report also evaluates the effectiveness of these policies in driving market growth.
Environmental Impact and Sustainability: The research report assesses the environmental impact and sustainability aspects of the Technical Textiles market.
Market Segmentation:
Technical Textiles market is split by Type and by Application. For the period 2019-2030, the growth among segments provides accurate calculations and forecasts for consumption value by Type, and by Application in terms of volume and value.
Segmentation by type
Nonwovens
Composite Textiles
Traditional Textiles
Segmentation by application
Agriculture
Auto
Electronic
Aerospace
Medical
Architective
Other
Segmentation by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
Key Players
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
DuPont
Beaulieu Technical Textiles
Ahlstrom
Techtex
Freudenberg
Honeywell
Johns Manville
3M
Global-safety-textiles
Kimberly-Clark
TWE-Group
Alexium International
JM-Textile
Huntsman
Asahi Kasei Fibers
Protan
Milliken
Invista
Arville
Polymer Group
AandE
Borgers
Don and Low
PandG
DELFINGEN
IBENA
Lenzing
Tech-Tex
Schoeller-textiles
Table of Contents
1 Scope of the Report
1.1 Market Introduction
1.2 Years Considered
1.3 Research Objectives
1.4 Market Research Methodology
1.5 Research Process and Data Source
1.6 Economic Indicators
1.7 Currency Considered
1.8 Market Estimation Caveats
2 Executive Summary
2.1 World Market Overview
2.1.1 Global Technical Textiles Annual Sales 2019-2030
2.1.2 World Current & Future Analysis for Technical Textiles by Geographic Region, 2019, 2023 & 2030
2.1.3 World Current & Future Analysis for Technical Textiles by Country/Region, 2019, 2023 & 2030
2.2 Technical Textiles Segment by Type
2.2.1 Nonwovens
2.2.2 Composite Textiles
2.2.3 Traditional Textiles
2.3 Technical Textiles Sales by Type
2.3.1 Global Technical Textiles Sales Market Share by Type (2019-2024)
2.3.2 Global Technical Textiles Revenue and Market Share by Type (2019-2024)
2.3.3 Global Technical Textiles Sale Price by Type (2019-2024)
2.4 Technical Textiles Segment by Application
2.4.1 Agriculture
2.4.2 Auto
2.4.3 Electronic
2.4.4 Aerospace
2.4.5 Medical
2.4.6 Architective
2.4.7 Other
2.5 Technical Textiles Sales by Application
2.5.1 Global Technical Textiles Sale Market Share by Application (2019-2024)
2.5.2 Global Technical Textiles Revenue and Market Share by Application (2019-2024)
2.5.3 Global Technical Textiles Sale Price by Application (2019-2024)
3 Global Technical Textiles by Company
3.1 Global Technical Textiles Breakdown Data by Company
3.1.1 Global Technical Textiles Annual Sales by Company (2019-2024)
3.1.2 Global Technical Textiles Sales Market Share by Company (2019-2024)
3.2 Global Technical Textiles Annual Revenue by Company (2019-2024)
3.2.1 Global Technical Textiles Revenue by Company (2019-2024)
3.2.2 Global Technical Textiles Revenue Market Share by Company (2019-2024)
3.3 Global Technical Textiles Sale Price by Company
3.4 Key Manufacturers Technical Textiles Producing Area Distribution, Sales Area, Product Type
3.4.1 Key Manufacturers Technical Textiles Product Location Distribution
3.4.2 Players Technical Textiles Products Offered
3.5 Market Concentration Rate Analysis
3.5.1 Competition Landscape Analysis
3.5.2 Concentration Ratio (CR3, CR5 and CR10) & (2019-2024)
3.6 New Products and Potential Entrants
3.7 Mergers & Acquisitions, Expansion
4 World Historic Review for Technical Textiles by Geographic Region
4.1 World Historic Technical Textiles Market Size by Geographic Region (2019-2024)
4.1.1 Global Technical Textiles Annual Sales by Geographic Region (2019-2024)
4.1.2 Global Technical Textiles Annual Revenue by Geographic Region (2019-2024)
4.2 World Historic Technical Textiles Market Size by Country/Region (2019-2024)
4.2.1 Global Technical Textiles Annual Sales by Country/Region (2019-2024)
4.2.2 Global Technical Textiles Annual Revenue by Country/Region (2019-2024)
4.3 Americas Technical Textiles Sales Growth
4.4 APAC Technical Textiles Sales Growth
4.5 Europe Technical Textiles Sales Growth
4.6 Middle East & Africa Technical Textiles Sales Growth
5 Americas
5.1 Americas Technical Textiles Sales by Country
5.1.1 Americas Technical Textiles Sales by Country (2019-2024)
5.1.2 Americas Technical Textiles Revenue by Country (2019-2024)
5.2 Americas Technical Textiles Sales by Type
5.3 Americas Technical Textiles Sales by Application
5.4 United States
5.5 Canada
5.6 Mexico
5.7 Brazil
6 APAC
6.1 APAC Technical Textiles Sales by Region
6.1.1 APAC Technical Textiles Sales by Region (2019-2024)
6.1.2 APAC Technical Textiles Revenue by Region (2019-2024)
6.2 APAC Technical Textiles Sales by Type
6.3 APAC Technical Textiles Sales by Application
6.4 China
6.5 Japan
6.6 South Korea
6.7 Southeast Asia
6.8 India
6.9 Australia
6.10 China Taiwan
7 Europe
7.1 Europe Technical Textiles by Country
7.1.1 Europe Technical Textiles Sales by Country (2019-2024)
7.1.2 Europe Technical Textiles Revenue by Country (2019-2024)
7.2 Europe Technical Textiles Sales by Type
7.3 Europe Technical Textiles Sales by Application
7.4 Germany
7.5 France
7.6 UK
7.7 Italy
7.8 Russia
8 Middle East & Africa
8.1 Middle East & Africa Technical Textiles by Country
8.1.1 Middle East & Africa Technical Textiles Sales by Country (2019-2024)
8.1.2 Middle East & Africa Technical Textiles Revenue by Country (2019-2024)
8.2 Middle East & Africa Technical Textiles Sales by Type
8.3 Middle East & Africa Technical Textiles Sales by Application
8.4 Egypt
8.5 South Africa
8.6 Israel
8.7 Turkey
8.8 GCC Countries
9 Market Drivers, Challenges and Trends
9.1 Market Drivers & Growth Opportunities
9.2 Market Challenges & Risks
9.3 Industry Trends
10 Manufacturing Cost Structure Analysis
10.1 Raw Material and Suppliers
10.2 Manufacturing Cost Structure Analysis of Technical Textiles
10.3 Manufacturing Process Analysis of Technical Textiles
10.4 Industry Chain Structure of Technical Textiles
11 Marketing, Distributors and Customer
11.1 Sales Channel
11.1.1 Direct Channels
11.1.2 Indirect Channels
11.2 Technical Textiles Distributors
11.3 Technical Textiles Customer
12 World Forecast Review for Technical Textiles by Geographic Region
12.1 Global Technical Textiles Market Size Forecast by Region
12.1.1 Global Technical Textiles Forecast by Region (2025-2030)
12.1.2 Global Technical Textiles Annual Revenue Forecast by Region (2025-2030)
12.2 Americas Forecast by Country
12.3 APAC Forecast by Region
12.4 Europe Forecast by Country
12.5 Middle East & Africa Forecast by Country
12.6 Global Technical Textiles Forecast by Type
12.7 Global Technical Textiles Forecast by Application
13 Key Players Analysis
13.1 DuPont
13.1.1 DuPont Company Information
13.1.2 DuPont Technical Textiles Product Portfolios and Specifications
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