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Global market forecast
of technical textile and
market analysis of
niche products
Source from Taiwan Textile Research Institute
By Liu, Yu-cheng, Deputy Researcher
Deputy Researcher, Taiwan Textile Research Institute
Technical textile is different from ordinary textile applications and functions. The demand comes from all kinds of
industry like medical and healthcare, agriculture, architecture, apparel, packaging, sporting equipment, automobile
and environmental field. In the past few years, these fields has been expanded continuously so technical textile is
expectedly with great potential, particularly in the developing countries. In the meantime, the terminal market also
is enlarging non-stop which bring the stable growth of technical textile. The future development of technology
is expected to be highly added-valued, innovative and intensively-skilled. Besides, the investment which many
countries have put into also motivates the market growth. This report is to introduce the global major markets and
highly-growing, high-tech protective clothes and filter material and to analyze the market scale as well as their
prospects.
Global Technical Textile market
In 2001, the total sales of the global technical textile market is 24,467.2 thousand tons, and the market trade value
is 130.40 billion US dollars. Until 2018, the demand of the technical textile is estimated to reach up to 30,710.1
thousand tons. From 2012 to 2018, the annual compound growth rate is 3.3%. As to the market trading quantity,
in 2018 it is estimated to increase up to 160.38 billion US dollars. From 2012 to 2018, the annual compound growth
rate is expected to reach 3.0%. (See Figure 1).