A conference on technical textiles was held in New Delhi, November 16, 2022.

Companies exhibited a wide range of protective textile products. Panel discussions in the conclave covered the prospect of indigenisation of protective textile products in India, experience and expectations of consumers towards adoption of Indian protective textiles and market promotion and export opportunities of protective textiles in India along with global best practices.The technical textile industry is a sunrise industry with a robust growth rate of ten per cent annually. However, the sector is still small in size and there is a lot of opportunity for India to be a prominent player in the global arena.

So the need of the hour is to focus on product diversification, design, aesthetics as well as the need for training the manpower involved. Efforts are being made to develop and implement standards for technical textile items and produce and market quality products that are at par with international standards. The National Technical Textiles Mission has undertaken initiatives such as supporting R&D projects in niche and strategic protech areas. Guidelines will be formulated to support and create an education ecosystem and skilled workforce in the field of technical textiles with the development of new courses and laboratory infrastructure in technical textilesto promote the growth of technical textiles in India.