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4th International Conference
Industry – Products – Markets
June 9–11, 2008
Hotel Lindtner Hamburg, Germany
Experts from Asia, Europe and USA present
• Industry trends: New business opportunities for the textile industry
• Sustainable Growth: Business models and ecological solutions
• Innovations: Yarns, coating and finishing technologies
• Applications: Clothing, medical purposes, construction, automotive
June 11, 2008
Special Day: Smart and intelligent textiles
Reality is beginning to catch up with the vision.
Transfer new developments from research to production!
Organised by:
www.textile-trends.de

Programme: June 9, 2008
Market trends and sustainability
9.00 a.m. Registration and hand-out of documentation papers
9.30 a.m. Opening of the Conference by IIR and Welcome address
by the Chairman
Prof. Dr Thomas Gries,
Head of the Institute for Textile Technology (ITA),
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2.15 p.m. INVISTA environmental stewardship: A holistic approach
• Waste elimination: looking for ways to improve the production
efficiency of spandex products
• Product quality and environmental stewardship: insuring we operate all
sites to the same standard
• Practice a science-based approach to uncover the biggest opportunities
to reduce the environmental footprint throughout the textile value chain
Robert L. Kirkwood, Vice President - Technology, INVISTA S.à r.l., USA
Trends and future markets
9.45 a.m. Textile industry today and tomorrow
• Textile industry today
• Factors affecting sustainable growth
• Technological and market challenges of the future
• Future materials, production technology and applications
Prof. Dr Thomas Gries
10.15 a.m. Questions & Answers
2.45 p.m. Questions & Answers
3.00 p.m. Networking refreshment break
3.30 p.m. Alternative coating and laminating
• Latex-free carpet: Creating totally recyclable products
• Dry laminating and coating for producing in an environmental
and cost-effective manner
Karel Lansu, Director Marketing and Sales,
Klieverik Heli B.V., The Netherlands
10.30 a.m. Networking refreshment break
11.00 a.m. Supply and demand of cotton and price development
• World cotton situation: production, consumption and stocks
• World cotton trade
• Actual crop situation
• Development of cotton prices
• Outlook
RA Jan B. Wellmann, Executive Director,
Bremer Baumwollbörse/Bremen Cotton Exchange, Germany
11.30 a.m. Strategies and future markets for textile machinery
manufacturers
to be named
4.00 p.m. The importance and future of textile recycling
• Development of textile recycling
• Quantity potentials
• Collection tools
• Textile recycling process
• Regulation and other problems
• Future aspects
Olaf Rintsch, Managing Director,
Textil-Recycling K. & A. Wenkhaus GmbH, Germany
4.30 p.m. Questions & Answers
4.45 p.m. Conclusions and the end of the first Conference Day
12.00 a.m. Questions & Answers
12.15 p.m. Networking Lunch
5.00 p.m. Get together and „Hamburg at night“
IIR warmly invites you to relax with a glass of sparkling wine or
German beer before starting to experience Hamburg!
Business models for sustainable growth in the industry
1.45 p.m. Making the difference: sustainability production of
natural garments
• Holistic approach of manufacturing ethical and natural clothes
• Various focuses on organic, social and fair trade aspects
• Difference to conventional production highlighted along the textile
processing chain
• Examples from daily business
Rolf Heimann, Director Innovation and Ecology,
Hess-Naturtextilien, Germany
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Programme: June 10, 2008
Technology trends & applications
8.30 a.m. Coffee and Tea
12.45 p.m. Networking Lunch
8.55 a.m. Opening remarks from the Chairman
Prof. Dr Thomas Gries
Technology Trends
9.00 a.m. New possibilties with special conductive yarns
• Connecting textile with electric, heating and sensor function
Hans-Peter Mauch, Managing Director, W. Zimmermann GmbH, Germany
9.30 a.m. Biomimetic fibrous compound materials – Natures lessons for
structurally optimised technical materials
• Biomimetics
• Bio-inspired fibrous compound materials
• Technical plant stem
• Gradient materials
• Smart structures
• Processes of biomimetics (‘bottom-up-approach’, ‘top-down-approach’)
• Chances and limits of biomimetics
Prof. Dr Thomas Speck, Full Professor for ‘Functional Morphology and
Bionics’; Director of the Botanic Garden, University of Freiburg,
Faculty of Biology, Germany
10.00 a.m. Questions & Answers
10.15 a.m. Networking refreshment break
10.45 a.m. Economical solventless silicone coating: performance at low
coat weights with transfer coating
• Performance, mechanical, pressure retention, obtained at low coat weight:
fabric is not damaged
• Economical, decreased overall coat weight, potential new fabrics
constructions or coating effects
• Productivity, potential for debottlenecking
• Eco-friendly, no need of solvent
Dr Bertrand Bordes, Textile Coating Technical Manager,
Bluestar Silicones, France
11.15 a.m. Sefar experiences with industrial sol-gel processes for surface
modification of precision technical fabrics
• Super hydrophobic surfaces
• Improvement of abrasion resistance
• One-step application
• In-situ patterning of surface by nanoparticles
• Protection of devices
Dr Peter Chabrecek, Project Manager, Sefar AG, Suisse
11.45 a.m. Laser welding of technical textiles
• Standard welding process
• Laser welding of textiles
• Process alternatives: Direct welding, welding of laser tapes,
transmission welding
• Advantages of laser welding
• Material combinations
• Equipment and online process control
• Market segmentation
Dr Dirk Hänsch, Managing Director, ProLas GmbH, Germany
Applications
2.15 p.m. Transferring materials from the space industry into high
performance clothing
• Description of various prototypes containing high-tech materials such as
Aerogel, Hydrogel, a thermo-active textile membrane and
Ni-Ti alloy wires
• Integrating particular materials to realise high added value garments
Dr Marco Giacomelli, Chemist, Grado Zero Espace, Italy
2.45 p.m. Plasma coatings on textiles and yarns for medical purposes
• Metallization of textiles and yarns by sputtering
• Textile-integrated electrodes
• In-situ incorporation of silver nanoparticles within functional
plasma polymers
• Cell-attractive and bacteria-repelling surfaces
Dr Dirk Hegemann, Head of Plasma Group, EMPA – Swiss Materials
Science & Technology, Laboratory for Advanced Fibers, Suisse
3.15 p.m. Questions & Answers
3.30 p.m. Networking refreshment break
4.00 p.m. Specialty nonwovens for housing use and decorative applications
• CLAF (PE or PP) as a reinforcing material
• Milife (Polyester) as a sophisticated appearance resembling a
woven product
• Practical applications
Toshiro Shishido, President, Nisseki Plasto Company Ltd., Japan
Marc Rabbits, President & CEO, Atlanta Nisseki CLAF Inc., USA
4.45 p.m. Innovative textiles for the automotive industry
speaker to be named
5.15 p.m. Questions & Answers
5.30 p.m. Conclusions and end of the second Conference Day
5.45 p.m. Get together and futuristic Fashion Show!
IIR warmly invites you to network or relax with a glass of sparkling
wine or German beer. Be anxious for products with a market growth by
10 to 20 percent per year. Have fun with intelligent textiles presented
in a futuristic Fashion Show!
12.15 p.m. Questions & Answers
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Special Day: June 11, 2008
Smart and intelligent textiles
8.30 a.m. Registration and hand-out of documentation papers
9.00 a.m. Welcome address by the Chairman
Markus Strecker,
Member of the Board,
Interactive Wear GmbH, Germany
9.05 a.m. Wearable electronics – innovations for the textile industry
• Market update and trends
• Technological evolution and challenges
• Applications and segments
• Transferring new developments from research to production
Markus Strecker
9.30 a.m. STELLA: 2 Years of R&D in stretchable electronics,
status and perspectives
• What has been achieved after 2 years of development?
• What are critical challenges?
• Current feedback and requests of the market
Dr Jürgen Günther, R&D Engineer, Freudenberg Forschungsdienste KG,
R&D Services, Germany
10.00 a.m. Questions & Answers
10.15 a.m. Networking refreshment break
10.45 a.m. BIOTEX – potentials of wearable monitoring systems
Dr Deirdre Morris, postdoctoral researcher in the Adaptive Sensors Group,
National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Ireland
Biotex project: integration of biochemical-sensing techniques into
textile for sweat analysis
• Sweat analysis and sweat rate
• Vital signs
• Measurement of pH/sodium
• Conductivity
Fabio di Francesco, Assistant Professor, University of Pisa, Italy
11.15 a.m. Advances in smart textiles in the frame of European projects
• Projects on smart textiles: Proetex (suits for emergency workers)
and Lidwine (bedsores)
• Developments on textile electrodes for electrostimulation,
energy scavenging through piezo electric materials and smart textiles
in general
Prof. Lieva van Langenhove, Head of Textile Department,
Ghent University, Belgium
11.45 a.m. Questions & Answers
12.00 a.m. Networking Lunch
Applications
1.45 p.m. Intelligent textiles for high performance and healthcare sports
speaker to be named
2.15 p.m. Large-area smart textiles for Ambient Assisted Living applications
• Integration technology of microelectronics in large-area textiles
• Textile-based proximity sensors
• Scenarios and applications for Ambient Assisted Living
• Robot navigation based on RFID-tags
Christl Lauterbach, Managing Director, Future-Shape GmbH, Germany
2.45 p.m. Questions & Answers
3.00 p.m. Networking refreshment break
Technology
3.30 p.m. Shining fabrics based on electroluminescence
• Applications and market
• Basic principle of EL-textiles
• Conditions of conductive yarns and textile structure the EL-textile
based on specifications
Dr Uwe Möhring, Managing Director,
TITV Greiz (Textilforschungsinstitut Thüringen-Vogtland e.V.),
Germany
4.00 p.m. New applications for wearable sensor systems
• Recent wearable sensor systems for applications ranging from sports
medicine to social computing
• Adaptive energy management and power harvesting in wearable
systems
Joe Paradiso, Sony Career Development Associate Professor of Media Arts
and Sciences, MIT Media Lab, USA
4.30 p.m. Questions & Answers
5.00 p.m. Conclusions and the end of the Confernce
Sponsoring and Exhibition
The trade exhibition accompanying TextileTrends gives visitors an opportunity to learn about
the latest products and services. Here the ideas and issues discussed in the presentations can
be immediately addressed in talks with suppliers. These can directly present their solutions
and approaches, thus turning interested participants into new customers.
If you would like to present your products and services or support the conference as a sponsor,
please get in touch with us! We will be glad to advise you.
Samentha-Viola Malbert
Sales Manager
Phone: +49 (0)211/9686-3725
Fax: +49 (0)211/9686-4725
samentha-viola.malbert@iir.de
Phone: +49 (0) 211/9686-3581 · Fax: +49 (0) 211/9686-4040 · www.textile-trends.de

Focussing on Innovation!
In the constantly changing textiles market, a culture of innovation and technological developments is essential for the industry to thrive.
This congress with participants from nearly all over the world has established itfelf as one of the most important meeting places for Members of
the Board, Managing Directors and Senior Executives from fibre and textile producers, trading companies, consumers and research institutes.
In the past years about 150 participants discussed recent trends and success strategies of the textile industry. The 4th International Conference
“TextileTrends” will give an update on innovations and developments in fibres, technical textiles, apparel and machinery again.
The programme chaired by Prof. Dr Thomas Gries, University of Aachen will discuss global trends and future markets, textile recycling,
innovative fibre and nonwovens technologies, as well as new coating and finishing technologies.
The third day is focussed on smart textiles chaired by Markus Strecker, Interactive Wear. This day covers the advances in smart textiles in the
frame of European projects (STELLA, BIOTEX, PROETEX, LIDWINE), new applications as well as technological solutions for energy management
and power harvesting.
Attend this meeting place to discuss new business opportunities, innovations and technological developments in the industry. Take the chance to
make valuable new contacts with textile experts from research and industry and to profit through collaboration.
We look forward to an exciting, inspiring conference!
Claudia Paul
Senior Conference Manager
Who will attend this annual meeting:
Members of the Board, Managing Directors and Senior Management from
departments
• Business Development
• Production Management
• Manufacturing
• Quality
• Procurement
• R&D
• Marketing & Sales
• Design
In 2007 the following industries attended the event:
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Do you have any questions concering the conference? We are for your service!
Content:
Claudia Paul
Senior Conference Manager Industries/Technology
claudia.paul@iir.de
Organisation:
Isabel Litzen
Conference Coordinator
isabel.litzen@iir.de
Phone: +49 (0)211/9686-3581
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