Oekotech: Environmental Protection Textiles
Textiles that protect the environment: they line landfills, soak up oil spills, control erosion and clean air and water.
- 1 articles
- 7 standards
- 3 calculators
What it covers
- oil-spill sorbents and booms
- landfill liners and covers
- erosion-control blankets
- filters for flue gas and waste water
- biodegradable textiles
Made from
Polypropylene for sorbents, HDPE and geotextiles for landfills, natural fibres for products meant to degrade.
Market size India: Rs 488 crore (US$0.08 billion) in 2019-20, 0.4% of India’s technical-textiles market. World: US$1.4 billion. The study could not separate Oekotech from Geotech at product level, so this one is rough. Ministry of Textiles, Baseline Study 2020, Tables 9.1 and 9.2
Articles
Test methods and specifications
Grouped by the subject in each standard’s official title. Each entry links to the register record, which names the current edition and its equivalents.
Test method for accelerated hydrolysis of textile materials and biodeg2
Evaluation for biodegradability of nonwovens1
Environmental aspects1
Determination of the aerobic biodegradation of textile materials in se1
Design using geosynthetics1
Laws and mandatory certification
Instruments in the regulation register whose obligations name this class’s products. In force first; rescinded and replaced orders stay listed as history.
No law in the register names this class’s products yet.
Upcoming trade fairs
No fair is filed under this class. The general technical-textiles fairs are on the section page.
Machines
No machine in the register is filed under this class yet.
Calculators
Raw-material prices
Daily and monthly series for the fibres and feedstocks this class is mostly made from.
The site does not yet track a price for this class’s main materials (polypropylene, glass, aramid and carbon are not in the price register).
US import duty headings
The HTS headings these products usually fall under. Classification turns on the exact product, so read the lines under each heading.
These products fall outside chapters 50 to 63, which is what the tariff register holds.