Techtextil, the leading international trade
fair for technical textiles and nonwovens, will be held in Frankfurt, Germany
from 9 - 12 May 2017. Thanks to innovations and technology upgrade, technical
textiles gain wider applications in many industries, ranking among the most
important driving forces of growth in the textile industry.
From conductive yarns, via smart textiles,
to composites and lightweight constructions, Techtextil 2017 will present the
complete spectrum of textile solutions for the automobile, construction and
architecture, medicine and clothing industries.
According to the organizer, the booked
space exceeds the total area of the last edition in 2015.
“Technical textiles rank among the most
important driving forces of growth in the textile sector. The fact that so many
companies have already registered for Techtextil 2017 is an indication of how
dynamically the sector is developing”, says Olaf Schmidt, Vice President
Textiles and Textile Technologies, Messe Frankfurt.
Significant exhibitor growth comes from
European countries, particularly from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland,
Switzerland and Spain. Additional growth also comes from Asia.
As in the past, numerous countries will be
represented by national pavilions. Belgium and Italy have increased the size of
their pavilions and firm bookings have already been received from China,
France, United Kingdom, India, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, the Czech
Republic, Turkey and the USA.
Mission
to Mars: the technologies of textile processing for space travel
The highlight of this year’s Techtextil
will be the special ‘Living in Space’ event in cooperation with the European
Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
Techtextil will illustrate the broad
spectrum of high-tech textiles and textile processing technologies that have
emerged from and for space travel. A special, interactive area is to be built
with the help of four thematic sections for display:
- Mobility: brings together examples of
applications relating to locomotion in space, e.g., lightweight structures for
space capsules and parachute fabrics;
- Clothing: covers the subject of functional
garment textiles such as space-inspired high-tech fashion;
- Civilization: stands for textile products
for survival, e.g., geotextiles for growing foodstuffs and textiles for medical
applications, as well as for energy production or filtration;
- Architecture: presents applications for
dwellings and the infrastructure.
Techtextil
Symposium in cooperation with Dornbirn MFC
The concept of Techtextil Symposium, one of
the world’s leading events for textile research, is being expanded with the
coming edition to be held in seven consecutive blocks, each of seven lectures.
Thus, all lecture blocks will be expanded by one lecture.
Additionally, Techtextil is working
together with the Dornbirn Man-made Fibres Congress (MFC) in Austria for the
first time. Thus, Dornbirn-MFC will organize one of the seven lecture blocks
within the framework of the symposium.
Texprocess 2017 records highest number of registrations in its history
Texprocess, the leading international trade
fair for processing textile and flexible materials, will again be taking place
in parallel to Techtextil. It reports the highest number of registrations in
its history and thus continues its pattern of growth.
The range of products at Texprocess once
again covers all stages in the value-creation chain for textile goods, from
design, IT, cutting out, sewing, seaming, embroidery and knitting to finishing,
textile printing and logistics.
Texprocess reports growing numbers of
companies signing up, particularly in the CAD/CAM and Cutting, Making, Trimming
(CMT) product groups. Technologies and material for Sewing, Joining and
Fastening are growing steadily, too.
To make the profiles of Techtextil and
Texprocess even sharper, the bonding and separating technology, CMT, CAD/CAM
and printing product segments will be concentrated together at Texprocess.
Thus, visitors will find Techtextil exhibitors from these segments at
Texprocess.
Complementary
programme with focus on Digital Printing
Digital Printing will be one of the
thematic focuses of the Texprocess complimentary programme. The sector's information
service, the World Textile Information Network (WtiN) will, for the first time,
be organizing the European Digital Textile Conference at Texprocess.
And digital printing on textiles will also
be taken up as a topic in a dedicated series of lectures forming part of the
Texprocess Forum. The forum offers expert lectures on current issues in the
sector, on all days of the trade fair.
International
Innovative Apparel Show
Following on from the success of its first
edition, the Innovative Apparel Show is to be continued and set on an
international footing. For the first time, there will be, as well as a German
university, three European universities / colleges from outside Germany,
showcasing, on the catwalk, their fashion designs from functional textiles. The
show will take place on all days of the trade fair.
The young designers will be displaying
designs relating to the three key themes of 'Textile Effects', 'Creative
Engineering' and 'Smart Fashion'.
With the Texprocess Innovation Award, Messe
Frankfurt seeks, for the fourth time, to honour the best new technological
developments in the field. The awards in the various categories will be
presented during the joint opening ceremony for Texprocess und Techtextil. At
the same time, there will be a special display area showcasing all the
prize-winning products at Texprocess.
Visitors will, once again, find many new IT
solutions for the apparel industry in the IT@Texprocess section, where
exhibitors will be presenting product life-cycle management systems (PLM),
'Cloud' applications and 3D CAD systems, which make it possible to create
tailor-made clothes in real time and without the need for a fitting.
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