INNOVATION, AUTOMATION TO DRIVE NORTH AMERICA’S TECHNICAL TEXTILE INDUSTRY
April 1st, 2016
NORTH America’s textile sector - of which technical textiles comprise nearly 70% production by value in the USA and just below 50% in Canada - has grown slowly when compared with global production. And growth within the industry in North America will further slow by 2020 due to competition from the Asia-Pacific region and Western Europe, according to industry analysts at Euromonitor. However, other experts stress that innovation, automation and a surging demand for technical textiles by US car makers and medical service providers will keep the North American ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.