The word "function" originates from Japan, so it is understandable that functional textiles began in various chemical fiber factories in Japan. In the early days, it was emphasized that new materials produce new functions, often first with relevant fiber function technologies, and then looking for new functional applications. What is the "functionality" of textiles? The most incisive "functional" design is multi-faceted. Functions are related to people themselves and their living environment, including comfortable and healthy functions, leisure and sports functions, safety and protection functions. Contains medical and physiological functions.

With the global economic development, the demand of the consumer market has driven the vigorous growth of the textile industry. However, under the business model of production-based sales, excessive production has not only caused environmental pollution but has also caused unnecessary waste of resources. Over the past few years, this has led the United Nations and the European Union, to begin to advocate "sustainability" and "environmental protection" as the focus of global development for the next 10 years.

With the global economic development, the demand of the consumer market has driven the vigorous growth of the textile industry. However, under the business model of production-based sales, excessive production has not only caused environmental pollution but has also caused unnecessary waste of resources. Over the past few years, this has led the United Nations and the European Union, to begin to advocate "sustainability" and "environmental protection" as the focus of global development for the next 10 years.

The textile industry was a leading sector in Taiwan's early industrialization stage. The growth and achievements of the textile industry also led to the development of other industrial sectors. The garment manufacturing industries are downstream industries in the textile industry chain. Its upstream includes fiber manufacturing, chemical additives, spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing, and other industries. The garment manufacturing industry are the processing stage in the industry chain. It is also an important industry that gives added value to textiles.

The digitalization of the textile industry, which is highly connected with the consumer market, is the general trend. In particular, the digitalization of the supply chain such as 3D simulation technology can greatly simplify and speed up the product development and production process, and at the same time achieve the reduction of manpower, which promotes fashion and textiles. Industry players are all vigorously promoting digital transformation, and the recent digital development of the textile industry has mostly focused on issues such as sustainable fashion, circular economy, and digital innovation.

One of the simplest ways of classification is to classify textiles other than general clothing and home decoration textiles as technical textiles. Let’s see what are so called Technical Textiles.

The upstream of the textile industry chain is the petrochemical raw material. After being manufactured into nylon fiber, polyester fiber, rayon fiber, carbon fiber and other human fiber products, it is spun into yarn, then woven into cloth, and then bleached, dyed, printed, Dyeing and finishing procedures such as coating, finishing, tailoring and sewing into garment products or other related textile products. The textile manufacturing process can be divided into four stages: fiber, textile, dyeing and finishing, ready-to-wear/home textiles, among which textiles can be further divided into two steps: spinning and weaving: spinning is the transformation of roving into spun yarn. After being sent to the factory, the yarn is inserted into the operation axis of the textile machine table, and the textile machine table pulls the yarn upward and sends it to the textile machine; the next step is the weaving step, at this stage, the shuttle is used in the textile machine. It shuttles back and forth continuously, and finally weaves it into a piece of cloth. After finishing the cloth fabric (including cotton, wool, synthetic fiber, etc.) into a box, it can be sent to downstream manufacturers for post-processing to form a textile industry chain.

The word "function" originates from Japan, so it is understandable that functional textiles began in various chemical fiber factories in Japan. In the early days, it was emphasized that new materials produce new functions, often first with relevant fiber function technologies, and then looking for new functional applications. What is the "functionality" of textiles? The most incisive "functional" design is multi-faceted. Functions are related to people themselves and their living environment, including comfortable and healthy functions, leisure and sports functions, safety and protection functions. Contains medical and physiological functions.

Suddenly, everyone was eager to get on the green train. But with sober thinking, perhaps our best practices are just around the corner: eco-friendly fabrics, local manufacturing, and gentle and natural processing. This article will start from three directions: ecological man-made fibers, yarn built-in component addition technology, and environmental protection post-processing, and take stock of the natural resources that can be used in the textile industry.

Carbon neutrality, inflation, and rising energy costs will speed up the restructuring of the textile fiber supply chain. Suppliers with vertically consistent factories and green products are expected to win.

Smart clothes are clothes made of fibers or fabrics integrating electronic components and combining information technology, which can be used as signal transmission. Looking at the technological changes of functional clothing, the content of patents has shifted from functionality to intelligence, gradually narrowing the gap between technology and reality. The design of smart clothing requires multi-faceted considerations. Cross-industry integration and cross-domain integration are inevitable trends in the future. Taiwanese industries already have the advantageous technologies required for smart clothing, breaking through the existing operating framework of wearable devices and combining with different needs and usage scenarios. And integrating wireless transmission module and communication technology, using fabric as the carrier of signal transmission, can achieve new thinking of creating value and new opportunities for product development.

In recent years, the term functional fabric has emerged in major clothing brands and the textile industry, which refers to textiles or clothing products made of new types of textile materials with various functional demands. Clothing is a necessity of human life, and it also acts as an intermediary role between the human and the environment. It helps and adjusts to make people's lives more comfortable and safer, and the value of clothing is further improved.

With the global economic development, the demand of the consumer market has driven the vigorous growth of the textile industry. However, under the business model of production-based sales, excessive production has not only caused environmental pollution but has also caused unnecessary waste of resources. Over the past few years, this has led the United Nations and the European Union, to begin to advocate "sustainability" and "environmental protection" as the focus of global development for the next 10 years.

The textile industry was a leading sector in Taiwan's early industrialization stage. The growth and achievements of the textile industry also led to the development of other industrial sectors. The garment manufacturing industries are downstream industries in the textile industry chain. Its upstream includes fiber manufacturing, chemical additives, spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing, and other industries. The garment manufacturing industry are the processing stage in the industry chain. It is also an important industry that gives added value to textiles.

The global production chain is constantly shifting, and so is the shoe industry. How should the trend of the shoe industry develop in the future?

Taiwan’s textile industry has shifted from processing and exporting imported raw materials in the early days to the development of man-made fibers based on raw materials provided by the petrochemical industry, supplemented by imported natural fibers such as cotton and wool, and developed a complete upstream, midstream, and downstream production system, including man-made fibers. Manufacturing, spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing, clothing, and apparel products.