Technical Textiles Executive

About the TTE

About the Executive

The Technical Textiles Executive is a group of 30 UK companies with a collective turnover of £350 million. Made up exclusively of industry leaders, it exists to ensure the UK retains a strong base in technical textiles manufacturing and is based around building individual company growth.

The group aims to increase the sales of its members by 8% annually. This is supported by an average R&D spend for member companies of 3%. To achieve this members of the TTE work together in a spirit of mutual self-interest. Here our some examples of some successes in our first year

  • One group member saving £10,000 on loom purchases through the sharing of knowledge with another during a site visit
  • Development of a new £100,000+ business between 2 member companies
  • A new capital purchase decision of £140K
  • Companies shared sales leads from Techtextil
  • Members overcoming historic suspicion of another member company and placing product finishing within them that was previously finished outside
  • Numerous commercial collaborative projects taking place between members based around trust built through informal communication
  • Pooling knowledge and resources to tackle common problems such as electricity costs and manufacturing waste
  • Management teams within companies helping each other to solve problems through the website forum
  • Lobbying group made up of industry leaders can bring key decision-makers together and make things happen
  • Skills Group: Post graduate course for science graduates interested in technical textiles commences at Manchester University autumn 2005. Working with DTI and Technitex to establish strong R&D support for industry
  • Commercial Group. Civil Engineering, Aerospace, medical groups aimed at increasing sales for member companies
  • Members benefiting from research carried out for members in Shanghai by the Chief Executive and a member’s agent
  • All members benefiting from a free 4-day skills audit for their individual companies as a direct result of the Executive taking on the role of ‘lead body’ in Skillfast’s technical textiles sector skills agreement exercise

The below document outlines the Executives views on the current state of the Technical Textiles industry and makes recommendations to ensure continued growth of the sector.

Download: Commercialising Innovation (PDF)

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