Innovation and specialisation may be a path to survival for a notoriously moribund industry

The company that epitomises the new, technological face of the Australian textile industry, Geofabrics Australasia, prefers to describe itself as an engineering company. Geofabrics, which makes industrial fabrics for use in construction and agriculture, has little in common with conventional textile companies. But if the Australian textile industry has a future, it may be through the development of businesses such as Geofabrics.