Techtextil Symposium 2015: first overview of the programme and registration available

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Techtextil, Leading International Trade Fair for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens in Frankfurt am Main, is holding a comprehensive symposium programme for visitors and exhibitors concurrently with the fair from 4 to 7 May 2015. As in the past, the 18th Techtextil Symposium will be held under the patronage of EURATEX – European Apparel and Textile Confederation. "Top speakers will present the latest developments in the fields of products, materials and technologies and offer an inspiring overview of the trends and developments in the worldwide sector", says Michael Jänecke, Head of Brand Management, Technical Textiles & Textile Processing, Messe Frankfurt. For the first time, the symposium will be held in Room Dimension of Hall 4.2, in the heart of the Exhibition Centre.

The Techtextil Symposium programme is split into morning and afternoon events, each with six lectures. The individual lecture blocks were compiled by a programme committee of international experts. All lectures and discussions will be translated simultaneously into German and English.

An overview of the subjects to be covered
Innovation is the watchword of the Techtextil Symposium lecture blocks, which begin with 'New applications' on the Monday of the fair, 4 May. To be chaired by Dr Jan Laperre of Centexbel, Belgian, the subjects under discussion include 'Textiles for open sea biomass cultivation' and 'Printing of conductive structures on textiles'.

'New functional clothing' is the motto on the morning of Tuesday, 5 May. The programme includes lectures on 'Protective clothing legislation and standardisation as drivers of market development' and the 'Spacetex Project: textiles in space'. This block will be chaired by Dr René Rossi of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), St. Gallen, Switzerland.

In the afternoon of 5 May, the chair for the 'New Materials' block will be taken by Sabine Gimpel of the Thüringen-Vogtland Textile Research Institute (TITV), Germany, for lectures including 'Qmilk- the natural milk fibre' and 'Bacteria: friends not foes'.

'New Technologies' is the heading for the lectures on Wednesday morning, 6 May, which will be chaired by Braz Costa of CITEVE – Centro Tecnológico das Indústrias Têxtil e do Vestuário, Portugal. There, visitors can find out, for example, more about 'Sintered Nonwoven Production' and 'New technologies to create complex fibre based structures for biomedical applications'.

On Wednesday afternoon, Dr Klaus Jansen, Forschungskuratorium Textil e.V., Germany, will chair the wide-ranging programme of lectures on 'New surface treatments', which includes discussions of 'Self-cleaning textiles – from nanoparticles synthesis to end-user effective solutions' and 'Textile filters for the recovery of precious metals from industrial process waters'.

On the last day of the fair, 7 May, the focus shifts to 'New textile composites' with lectures on, inter alia, 'Multi-material components based on hybrid-yarn textile and sheet metal' and 'Thermoplastic composite material derived from the polyetherimide (PEI) fibre'. In the chair will be Prof Roshan Shishoo, Shishoo Consulting AB, Sweden.

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