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ance. In addition, as the importance of home textile products among customers is gaining attraction nowadays, the expectation of features and added value in addition to fine quality and better designs increases too. With the growing technology, some of the new features were embedded in the home textiles such as antibacterial, flame retardant, hydrophobic, quick-dry, and cooling. If there are parents that are paranoid about their child getting bacterial infection even in the home, they can try to get the products such as pillows, blankets, curtains, towels,
and bedsheet that are embedded with nanotechnology. Plus, it is a golden time for home textiles manufacturers to grab the chance to improve selling revenue by promoting a new range of products pertaining to the customer’s taste. Figure 2: Happy baby, happy life. Hence, its time to venture into functional home textile. In short, we can now see that textiles are well matched with technology. As the textile market evolves, we can see the market align with other industry where the textile industry has the largest customer base. The downstream industry players in particular must
take advantage of this opportunity by selling new value. To that end, the fashion industry especially in Malaysia does not have to source from the outside of the country because NanoTextile has already made considerable progress in developing clothing in this country. All the stated technologies for textiles are available including self-cleaning, odour control, antistatic, and iron-free functionalities. Therefore, the theme “When Fashion Meets Technology” does make sense as it not only modernizes the clothing industry with nanotechnology, but it was created to please us.
FA B R I C R E P O R T
Lockdown in UK and Europe has drastically changed the market of import and export Vinod chothani Domestic Report • From the very perspective of Mr. Vinod Chotani, the fabric market is growing very slow, just 20 – 25 % and not much news is coming in increase of the market. • In his own words the market has not picked up even after the lock-
down has been lifted up and lot of support is needed for it to get back in its initial form. • And also the Union budget of 2021 has not relieved the conditions of the fabric market or the Textile Budget has not shown any hope.
International Report • Lockdown in UK and Europe has drastically changed the market of import and export. • The domestic market need upliftment and European countries are also facing the same.
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