Marine Textiles
Textile industry began with the need of protecting human being from the changing climatic conditions. Before fabrics were discovered, man first covered his body with leaves, plant fibres. Textiles are now an essential part of every bodys life. Rather than just to cover the skin, it is used to provide for fashion requirement and comforts. Textiles are mainly applied in three fields such as
- Apparel uses
- Home textiles
- Technical textiles
Among which technical textiles are an expanding area of textile industries. One of the driving forces of the modern technical textile industry is new yarn and fibre development. With liberalization and globalization as the changes happen all over the world, the 1980s was a particular period which saw the commercial introduction of a wide range of new materials. The various technical fields such as Agrotech, Geotech, Indutech, Medtech, Mobiltech (automobiles, shipping, railways and aerospace), Oekotech, Packtech, Protech, sporttech. Technical textiles are gaining fast recognition to be one of the most dynamic and promising areas for the future of the textile industry in India for high-performance applications. In this topic we are mainly focused on fibres used in marine application and requirements of the marine textiles. The very important things like various textile applications in marine environment, some of the commercial available products, manufacturers and testing methods of appropriate textiles are also discussed in the paper.
