Antimicrobial agents changing face of textile industry
Micro-organisms can pose certain threats to human being along with deteriorating quality of fabrics through fading, staining, odor etc. Thus, chemicals blended into antimicrobial textiles market serve the purpose of impeding growth of microorganism coupled with maintaining physical strength of fabric. Silver zeolite, silver silicate, titan oxide and others are some chemicals blended within antimicrobial textiles. Thus, there is rise in adoption of antimicrobial agents into textile fabrics by clothing and textile manufacturers. Rising clothing and textile industry is poised to provide growth opportunities to global antimicrobial textile market. According to World Trade Organization, Clothing and textiles industry accounted to hold 5% of total global merchandise exports in 2016. Further, according to Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), global apparel market stood at $1.7 trillion in 2016 that is further projected to reach to $2.6 trillion by the end of 2025. China and India would be the leading apparel market by end of 2025. Hence, rising apparel and clothing industry leverage immense opportunities to global antimicrobial textile market growth over forecast period (2019-2026). Furthermore, the global antimicrobial textile market is expected to witness a CAGR of 7.2% till 2026. Further, rising consumer awareness towards hygienic & healthier products, rising disposable income across the globe and increasing demand of antimicrobial textiles from healthcare industry are the major propelling factors for global antimicrobial textile market growth till 2026.
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Medical application to leverage immense opportunities till 2024
The trend of smart textiles for medical applications is expected to be the major fact complimenting the fastest growth rate of medical application. Smart textiles used for health monitoring utilize bacteria free and hygienic textile materials. According to Semantics Scholar, smart textiles consists of textile sensors, actuators, wearable electronics systems and others that are embedded into fabrics that further enables transmission and registration of physiological data along with wireless communication between medical personal and patient. Further, as per Semantics Scholar, smart textiles are used in maintaining hygiene among medical personal and patients’ uniforms, hospital textiles and others. Healthcare and hospital authorities would opt for antimicrobial textiles and smart textiles pertaining to benefits served by antimicrobial textiles such as cleaner, more hygienic products, less washes and others. Changing lifestyle of people coupled with shift towards hygienic products have turned out to be the major factors that has increased the adoption of antimicrobial textile in medical application.