Techtextil & Texprocess, International Trade Fairs for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens in Frankfurt is fully geared welcoming visitors from across the globe. The 2017 show is much bigger and better than ever before.
The highlight of this year’s Techtextil is the special ‘Living in Space’ event in co-operation with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Centre. On a special area, Techtextil and Texprocess visitors can undertake a virtual journey through space to Mars and discover how technical textiles and its processing technology can make it possible to set up communities in space.
Additionally, the ‘Material Gallery’ shows textile products and processing technologies from Techtextil exhibitors with links to space travel. There are presentations by start-ups that work at the interface of technical textiles and space travel.
Exhibitors include not only international market leaders but also numerous newcomers and returnees. Significant exhibitor growth comes from European countries, particularly from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and Spain. However, additional growth is also expected from Asia.
Particularly encouraging is that many companies want to enlarge their exhibition stands and that significantly more than 30 per cent of registrations come either from exhibitors who did not take part in 2015 or first-time exhibitors.
This year’s Techtextil once again attracts an international audience of trade visitors from all parts of the market for technical textiles. In 2015, almost 29,000 visitors from 102 countries made their way to Frankfurt to discover the latest products, services and ideas being presented by about 1,500+ international exhibitors.
The key to the success of Techtextil is to be found in the inter-disciplinary nature of the product groups and areas of application, which also offers innovative solutions and highly promising customers to sectors with no obvious links to the textile business, e.g., automobile and aircraft construction, personal protection, etc.
Innovative Apparel Show
Successfully started at Techtextil and Texprocess in 2015, the Innovative Apparel Show gets in 2017 even more international with universities for fashion and design from four European countries. These universities are presenting their visionary product ideas using technical textiles and modern processing technologies on all the four days. They are Accademia Italiana, Florence / Italy, ESAD College of Art and Design, Matosinhos / Portugal, Esmod Paris / France, and the University of Trier / Germany. The young designers show designs revolving around the themes of textile effects, creative engineering and smart fashion while a fashion show in the foyer of Halls 5.1 and 6.1 presents their ideas in a professional way.
This year’s Techtextil Frankfurt show is a must for textile entrepreneurs and visionaries who wish to branch out and explore the possibilities beyond commodity textiles.