February 2011 Techtextil International Trade Fair for ... - Textination

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Techtextil
Frankfurt am Main, 24 to 26 May 2011
developments including organically based agricultural textiles, 3-D
knitted spacer fabrics for medical applications and thin silicon membranes
for use as barrier layers.
On Wednesday, 25 May, the Techtextil Symposium will be chaired
by Prof. Roshan Shishoo, Shishoo Consulting, Askim, Sweden, and
spotlight ‘The latest developments in the field of high-performance
textiles using nano-technology’. Rounding off the Techtextil
Symposium on Wednesday will be a lecture block on ‘Intelligent
materials with versatile electronic systems’.
Braz Costa of the Technological Centre for the Textile and Clothing
Industries of Portugal (Centro Tecnológico das Indústrias Téxtil e do
Vestuário de Portugal – Citeve) will chair the lecture block on
processing electronic systems in textiles. Covering the spectrum
from sensor systems integrated into textiles for automobile interiors,
via conductive e-fibres, to luminous textiles, the focus will be on the
challenge involved in bringing together electronic systems and
textiles. On the same day, Dr. Thomas Stegmaier of the Institute for
Textile and Process Technology (Institut für Textil- und Verfahrenstechnik),
Denkendorf, will chair the lecture block on ‘Surface
modifications for new and adaptive functions’. The main question to
be dealt with by the six lectures in this block is how can surfaces be
treated and modified to give textiles new functions and properties?
On the last day of the fair, the first of the two lecture blocks at
Techtextil Symposium will be devoted to ‘New fibres and fibrous
structures’. Dr. Ana-Maria Popa of the Swiss Material Testing and
Research Institute (Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und
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