What are the segments that make up the industry?
Take your pick. The industry is like leaves on a tree, where the trunk could be industrial textiles; the branches the major segments, and they may vary with each “tree” or person doing the defining; and the smaller branches and the leaves representing the various subsegments. Yet we have to start somewhere. Messe Frankfurt, the sponsor of Techtextil, the international trade show for industrial textiles, has long broken out the industray into 11 segments (or 12 depending on how you count environmental fabrics) . Those are a good place to start. 1. Agrotech – Fabrics used in agricultural applications such as horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, fencing, landscaping, etc. 2. Buildtech – Materials used in construction, civil engineering, interior construction, lightweight and/or temporary buildings, etc. 3. Clothtech — Technical components of clothing such as breathable membranes, shoe reinforcement and construction, rainwear. 4. Geotech — Geotextiles and geosynthetics — materials
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