ABSTRACT
SCI-TEX, 12-15 Hanazono-cho, Ohtsu, 520-022, Japan
(Received 5 August 2008; final version received 1 September 2008)
This article is situated to be successive to “Fibre materials for advanced technical textiles” in the series of “Advanced technical textiles” of Textile Progress. In the previous article, fiber materials used for advanced technical textiles are introduced. In this article, advanced technical textiles products are described according to the application fields of the fiber materials. Although this article does not cover all the end-uses, it contains major parts of advanced technical textile products, which include products for resources and environmental issues, for automobiles, for medical uses, for protective uses, for information technologies, for civil engineering and for electronics textiles.
