EUROPEAN TECHNICAL TEXTILES STRONG AS GERMAN INNOVATION THRIVES
March 8th, 2015
UNLIKE conventional textiles, demand for technical textiles (TT) in Europe follows a cyclical pattern, focused on end-markets, which is one reason why sales are now rising strongly on the back of demand from the transport and construction industries. The contrast here is with nonwovens, which enjoy stable sales growth mainly because of consistently solid demand from the medical and hygiene sectors. "We look at the percentage of total fibres going into different applications and we say about a third goes into technical textiles, a third into clothing and third ...
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