Threading the future: Pakistan’s prospects in technical textiles

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Pakistan is traditionally known for its dominance in cotton costumes and domestic textiles, now its eyes are turning towards a high potential but developed frontier: technical textile. Textile products are one of the basic needs of human life. The need for performance -based textiles has given rise to technical textiles, which have shown significant innovations over the past few decades. Their utility in various fields like agriculture, industries and healthcare can be gauged from the fact that they are being used rapidly to replace traditional textiles because of their specific features.

The technical textile industry is one of the fastest developing industries in the world. It is a very innovative and versatile industry, serving widespread closing markets with less competitive and more extra cost than traditional textiles. Due to these qualities, many countries have been forced to move their textile industry from traditional to technical textiles.

The technical textile market value is about US $ 190 billion and consumes 22 % of total fibers globally.

Since the active, high-performance fabric is increasing for the global market-$ 200 billion has been estimated by 2030-Pakistan’s textile industry faces both a challenge and opportunity to develop ahead of the traditional classes.

Recognizing the importance and impact of technical textiles, including business volume and a variety of applications, textile and its associated industries must be changed and the emerging market is essential. Stepping from traditional to special textiles is a project that needs to be focused on both private and publicly.

In terms of global consumption of fibers for technical textile, polyester is the most important fiber with a 26 % shares shared.

In Pakistan, there are two types of technical textiles. Dedicated/special technical textile industry clusters and traditional textile industry that produce technical textiles. In relation to its applications, the technical textile is divided into 12 key types.

The technical textile industry is present in Pakistan as small and medium -sized businesses (SMEs) as small industrial clusters.

The demand for technical textile is likely to be traced in Asia -Pacific countries. Mobilitic, Andotic and Sport Tech accounts for 52 % of the total market.

Europe and China together with global technical textile production are more than 50 %, while India’s production is about five percent. Unlike traditional textiles with a total annual growth rate of one percent, the technical textile growth rate in the world is about 4.4 %.

Mobilitic is the largest application of technical textiles, with US $ 42 billion and 22 % in the global market. Then after the endotack and sports, it is part of US $ 30 billion (16 percent) and US $ 27 billion (14 percent) respectively.

These three categories are 52 % of the total technical textile market. For a developing country like Pakistan, the technical textile is emerging as an important innovation for the country’s economy.

Not only the local market has the potential, but the export market also has the potential. There is a growing demand in regions like the Gulf countries and African countries, and there are government privileges to increase exports.

Pakistan faces major challenges that prevent the technical textile industry from reaching its full potential. One of the most important competitive benefits in the technical textile business is a unique product based on proprietary technology, which is achieved by extensive investment in research and development and product development activities. The lack of technical skills and special technology is a hindrance to the development of this industry.

Technical textile and nun woven fabrics lack special training centers and lack of skills that can provide technical support to the business. There is a lack of overall awareness about the high rate of technical textile content, applications and benefits and staff business. Another limit is the lack of high -performance fiber, yarn and special fabric providers.

Local suppliers may have access to this type of raw material, but they can provide non -uniform quality and delays. There is a lack of testing facilities that can verify the latest tests and technical materials such as anti -microbial activity, fire retardant, porrosity, filtration performance, and others.

In combination with the absence of technical textile LOCAL local standards, this results in high levels of uncertainty in the market. In most cases, investing in technical textiles in Pakistan is high because of the high capital cost of machinery, especially in the process of upstream.

The lack of financial support has increased the intensity of the problem. In addition, most of the technical textile companies in Pakistan are small and medium -sized businesses, including small economies.

Pakistan takes advantage of the GSP+ status, which makes it an ideal purchase platform for the EU (EU) countries for technical textiles, semi -processed and manufactured products.

There are some dangerous factors for technical textile value China in Pakistan. Increasing competition from countries like India, Vietnam and Turkey.

The technical textile sector in India has become one of the fastest growing classes in the Indian economy and may have two digits growth in the coming years. Vietnam is emerging as one of the largest exporters of technical textiles, while Turkey is an important part of the global technical textile market and has a strategic position in terms of closeness to Europe, familiarity with the securities industry and secure links.

Rapid technical changes, knowing and increasing safety on proprietary technologies and difficulty gaining technical information, is increasing the hesitation of local companies in investing in this sector.

Pakistan’s technical textile industry is suffering from the abundance of problems, mainly the lack of proprietary technology, the lack of high performance and special raw materials, and the high capital cost of machinery for technical textiles.

There is a lack of overall awareness about the high rate of technical textile content, applications and benefits and staff business. Pakistan has a unique power in technical textile. It is a great place for business due to cheap labor in the process of labor, for example made, made, breaking, processing and product development.

Moreover, there are many small industries in Pakistan for the manufacture of small quantities. There are big businesses along with scale economies that can compete with global rivals.

The industry is very diverse in Pakistan, which has a wide range of products that can meet the diverse local demand for technical textiles. Pakistan has a high local demand for technical textiles, including Med Tech, Cloth Tech and Blood Tech, which is an important strong point that can help the development of the industry.

Establishing a special research center for Excellence and Technology Incubitator, which can support research and development activities, technology trade, technical training, and technical consultations.

Creating supply chain training by emphasizing technical textile and major global suppliers. Make high efficiency and ease of imports of special fibers, yarn and fabrics and reduce imports imports on raw materials.

Provide awareness and training programs to textile companies in Pakistan on basic principles, applications, and technical textile market capacity

Establishment of pilot plants and prototyping facilities to support new technical textile developments.

Textile engineering curriculum to add an important or concentration to technical textiles. Special titles adding to technical textiles in the curriculum of other engineering Major.

Pakistan’s technical textile sector is at a confluence. Although the road has to be challenged – from old infrastructure to limited skills – potential rewards are very important to ignore. With the right policy support, the climate of investment and innovation, Pakistan can position itself as a competitive player in the field of global technical textiles.

Navigating these challenges wisely can turn the current boundaries into long -term powers.