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| Turkey's developing market: Technical textiles |
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| HIGHTEX 2010, at
which the raw materials, intermediate products and finished product of technical textiles-the market of the future-will be exhibited, will be the largest meeting point of tech-nical textiles and weaving technologies of Middle East and Eastern Europe. |
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In Turkey, being one of the most important centers of world textile industry,
technical textiles market started to develop in the recent years
thanks to the development of high value added products.
The
producer companies, which started their activities with simple products
in 1970s, now export tones of technical textile raw material or
end products to the world. Especially Meltblown, Spunbond, Spunlace,
Thermobond, Waterlaid technologies are preferred in Turkey.
Technical textile producer companies produce raw material or intermediate
products used by all the sectors, mainly construction, ready
made clothing, geotextile, home textiles, cleaning/cosmetics/hygiene,
automotive, packaging, food industries. Since the producer companies
operating in Turkish market have just discovered technical textiles
market, they define themselves as a part of the sector they serve. Being
pleased with the global demands for their products, the producers
continuously make technological investments in order to renew their
technologies and
increase their capacities.
Also new
countries start to
operate in the
sector. Aiming to
start smart textile
production as
well, Turkish producers
receive attention
with the
R&D and P&D investments
they
have increased
recently. Also the
products marketed
by most of
the end product producer companies under their own brand receive
worldwide interest. There are hundreds of companies operating in this
field in Turkey.
Production capacities of technical textiles in Turkey
The approximate production amounts of intermediate and end products
in Turkey, according to their sectors are:
• Annual production capacity of agrotextiles; 1 million tone.
• Annual production capacity of construction textiles, 1.3 million tones.
• Annual production capacity of ready made clothing textiles, 900
thousand tones.
• Annual production capacity of geotextiles, 600 thousand tones.
• Annual production capacity of home textiles, 2.7 million tones.
• Annual production capacity of industrial textiles, 2.3 million tones.
• Annual production capacity of textiles used in cleaning/cosmetics/
hygiene sectors, 1.6 million tones.
• Annual production capacity of automotive textiles, 2.4 million tones.
• Annual production capacity of packaging textiles, 650 thousand tones.
• Annual production capacity of protective textiles, 215 thousand tones.
• Annual production capacity of sports textiles, 400 thousand tones.
• Annual production capacity of food textiles, 670 thousand tones. |
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