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

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Techtextil
Frankfurt am Main, 24 to 26 May 2011
Forschungsanstalt – EMPA), St. Gallen, Switzerland, will chair this
lecture block focusing, inter alia, on the production of nano-ribbed
fibres and permanently conductive yarns. With Prof. Carl A.
Lawrence, University of Leeds, Great Britain, in the chair, the ‘New
technological developments and processes’ lecture block will look at,
for example, intelligent coating techniques, textile-tube inlays and a
multi-laser system.
Avantex - Innovative Apparel Textiles
The 6 th Avantex Symposium opens on 24 May 2011 and will concentrate
on the Protech area of application. In the first lecture block
on ‘Personal protection and protective textiles’, Dr. Jan Laperre of
Centexbel, Gent/Zwijnaarde in Belgium, will present, for example,
innovative protective textiles that repel insects, are characterised by
high bullet resistance and offer acoustic-thermal insulation. To be
chaired by Dr. Sharon Baurley of Brunel University, School of
Engineering & Design, Uxbridge, Great Britain, the second block of
the first day, ‘Apparel and electronic systems’, will focus on
integrating electronic systems into textiles to create ‘e-textiles’ and
include, for example, lectures on technical applications for the
changed demands of the ‘smart textiles’ community, the
development of an interactive police vest and ‘soft circuits’ for
intelligent textiles.
‘Intelligent textiles – from the research stage to the product’ is the
main theme of the Avantex Symposium on Wednesday, 25 May. At
these lectures, speakers will present a variety of interesting
examples showing the development process from the idea to the
finished product.
February 2011