As Türkiye’s first and only international exhibition in this field, HIGHTEX continues to be one of the most important platforms where global collaborations in the technical textiles and nonwoven sector are shaped.

Technical textiles have gone beyond the traditional understanding of textiles and become a strategic industry, with a wide range of usage areas extending from automotive to healthcare, from construction to agriculture, and from defense to filtration. While the size of the global technical textiles market reached approximately 247 billion dollars as of 2025, the market is projected to rise to 272.3 billion dollars by 2030. This growth reveals that innovation, sustainable production approaches, and increasing demand for lightweight, durable, and high-performance products are strongly feeding the sector.

The nonwoven segment continues to be the locomotive of growth

Nonwoven fabrics, one of the most strategic subfields of technical textiles, are similarly displaying a remarkable momentum. It is stated that the global nonwoven market stood at 52.6 billion dollars in 2025 and is expected to reach 75.7 billion dollars by 2030. Behind this growth lies the increasing use, particularly in hygiene, medical products, filtration, construction, and automotive applications. HIGHTEX 2026, too, by positioning itself at the very center of this transformation, will bring together under one roof all links of the sector, from nonwoven raw materials to production technologies, from intermediate and end products to high-value-added solutions.

Accelerating demand in medical textiles

At the exhibition, a wide range of products and technologies, from medical textiles to automotive and transportation textiles, from smart and functional textiles to geotextiles, and from agricultural textiles to industrial applications, will meet visitors. Participants will not only exhibit their products; at the same time, they will gain the opportunity to open up to new markets, develop international collaborations, accelerate technology investments, and closely follow the most up-to-date trends in the sector.

Medical textiles, one of the prominent fields in the technical textiles sector, will also be one of the most important focus topics of HIGHTEX 2026. The global medical textiles market, which stood at 26.17 billion dollars in 2025, is projected to reach 38.71 billion dollars by 2034. The growing world population, aging societies, the rise in the need for access to healthcare services, and hygiene standards becoming increasingly more critical are accelerating demand in this field. Especially disposable medical products, surgical textiles, wound care solutions, and protective healthcare textiles are among the most dynamic product groups of the coming period.

On the other hand, automotive, construction, and agricultural textiles also continue to play a critical role in the growth of the sector. While the Asia-Pacific region leads global technical textile revenues with a 47% share, the basis of this growth lies in the increase in automotive production, infrastructure investments, urbanization, the rise in safety standards, and demand for sustainable building solutions. On the agriculture side, the increasing global population and the need for food security make technical textile solutions that provide protection, efficiency, and resource savings more strategic.

HIGHTEX’s global scale inspires confidence

The scale that HIGHTEX has reached also concretely demonstrates the trust felt in the exhibition. HIGHTEX 2024, together with ITM 2024 held simultaneously, brought together 1,385 companies from 71 countries, while the two exhihibitions hosted 66,200 visitors from 99 countries in total. This strong picture clearly shows why interest in HIGHTEX 2026 has already reached its peak.

HIGHTEX 2026 is preparing to become, beyond being only a exhibition where products are exhibited, a strategic center where the future of the technical textiles and nonwoven sector is shaped, new business connections are established, information sharing accelerates, and global trade networks are strengthened. At a time when the world's technical textiles market has reached a size of hundreds of billions of dollars and subsegments such as nonwoven and medical textiles are rapidly expanding, HIGHTEX 2026 will stand out as a strong international platform that will offer sector professionals the opportunity to gain a greater share of this growing market.