德国法兰克福AM AM - 2022年6月20日 - 在与Corona有关的三年休息后，领先的贸易展览会TechTextil和Texprocess再次颁发了著名的创新奖。来自新产品，可持续性和自动化等领域的屡获殊荣的新发展证明了：纺织创新和技术为行业的许多分支机构提供冲动，并承诺市场和销售成功远远超出了他们自己的部门。2022年6月21日在TechTextil和Texprocess举行的公共颁奖典礼上，将获得来自七个类别的13名优胜者。
As is the case for many other industries, times are challenging for the textile industry: the consequences of Corona, the Ukraine war, strained supply chains, sustainability issues, rising energy prices and recruitment problems – the industry is under pressure from many sides. But more than almost any other industry, it is also very adept at meeting these challenges with new ideas, developments and business models. This year’s Innovation Awards at the leading trade fairs Techtextil and Texprocess are another example of this. With their new products, materials, solutions and processes, the 13 award winners are demonstrating in an exemplary manner that textile innovations are the ideal way to create market opportunities and boost future business revenues, out of the challenges of the present.
World’s first: first woven heart valve without postfabrication
In the “New Product” category, the Techtextil Innovation Award goes to the Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology (ITM) at the Technische Universität Dresden. Together with medical product manufacturers and heart surgeons from the Cardiovascular Center Würzburg and the Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, textile researchers from the ITM have succeeded in developing the world’s first woven heart valve that does not require a single seam or other joining technique. “Our new development should also help children with heart valve defects in the future by growing with the heart of the young patients – avoiding repeated surgical interventions,” says Dr.-Ing. Dilbar Aibibu, research group leader for biotextiles and medical textiles at ITM. Worldwide, cardiovascular diseases are among the most common causes of death; several million people die from them every year. When patients receive heart valve replacements, artificial mechanical or biobased solutions are usually used. If ITM has its way, the woven valve, which won the Techtextil Innovation Award, should become a beneficial alternative in the future.
Reuse of waste from a natural source
在“新材料”类别中，RBXCréations（France）获得了由大麻废物制成的新型纤维素纤维的创新奖。该材料称为Iroony®，是关于以下问题的开发：现在种植大麻是为了生产纤维或生产大麻油，但不能合并两者？现在，RBXCréations成功地开发了从浪费油料大麻中提取纤维素的过程。纺入纺织纤维，可用于生产可持续的纺织品，包装和其他“绿色”产品。该奖项是为了将浪费从可再生能源转变为符合最高可持续性标准的有价值的纤维素纤维的持续而成功的努力授予RBXCréations。
用于医院，电动汽车和服务器农场的纤维屏蔽技术
“新技术”类别中的TechTextil创新奖授予来自Sangerhausen（Saxony-Anhalt）的总部位于Aachen的纤维冰刀GmbH和Deutsche Basalt Faser GmbH，以共同开发了铝制底层底底纤维。它结合了玄武岩的强度与铝的电导率。据纤维制品称，在医院或服务器农场的建筑物中，电磁屏蔽作为墙纸，除其他地方，应比传统的铝箔高达20倍，得益于新开发项目。另一个有吸引力的市场，特别是增长的市场是电动汽车的屏蔽解决方案。Fibrecoat首席执行官RobertBrüll：“对于像我们这样的年轻公司而言，赢得TechTextil Innovation Award是一个重要的里程碑。我们很荣幸获得专家独立陪审团的享有盛誉的奖项。尤其是，我们的客户的信心和因此而获得的知名度至关重要。
更可持续的卫生产品，例如尿布
来自巴伐利亚凯尔海姆（Kelheim）的Kelheim Fibers GmbH和Chemnitz的Saxon纺织品研究所（STFI）在“新概念”类别中获得TechTextil Innovation奖，以开发基于高纤维素的新颖，热结合的非纺织品，用于生产高纤维素，以生产可重复使用的产品吸收性。消费者不再需要在高性能或环保产品之间进行选择。卫生产品的性质和性能归功于Kelheim，STFI和总部位于柏林的启动Sumo的创新。Kelheim Fibers的新业务开发总监Marina Crnoja-Cosic博士：“与我们的合作伙伴一起获得TechTextil Innovation Award，这是一种极大的荣幸和乐趣。我们认为该奖项不仅是对所介绍的项目的区别，而且是对我们的创新策略的认可。毕竟，在与合作伙伴的对话中，我们可以对当前趋势进行更快的反应，以更具针对性的方式发展，并加速创新解决方案的商业化。”
浪费汽车行业作为资源
Another Techtextil Innovation Award in the category “New Approaches on Sustainability & Circular Economy” honors a process that uses natural leather waste from the automotive industry to produce innovative textile coatings. It was developed by CITEVE, the Technology Center for Textile and Clothing in Portugal, and partners ERT Têxtil Portugal, CeNTI and CTIC (all Portugal). After CITEVE researchers discovered that cutting operations in the automotive industry generate a large amount of natural leather classified as waste, they sought a solution to reuse it. The expert jury recognizes the development as a successful industrial symbiosis: “Waste from one industrial sector is used here as a resource in another. The work of the CITEVE researchers thus supports an important trend toward a resource-efficient, environmentally friendly and sustainable textile industry.”
Compostable textile coating
“可持续性和循环经济新方法”类别中的TechTextil创新奖授予纺织研究所Centexbel（比利时），旨在为纺织品涂料和印刷油墨提供基于生物且可堆肥的分散。新开发不需要溶剂，并将涂料和印刷油墨的全新聚合物带入市场。根据专家陪审团的说法，这项创新是纺织品涂料行业迈向基于可再生资源的更多产品的重要一步。
Fashion from pineapple peel
The Italian company Vérabuccia is honored in the “Performance Fashion Award” category for an innovative production process for the fashion and design sector. The patented process is designed to transform fruit waste into fashion highlights. A first material is the so-called “Ananasse”. According to Vérabuccia, the special feature of this is that unlike other plant leathers, which tend to imitate real animal leather, it retains the original appearance of a pineapple skin; this emphasizes the origin of the raw material. With the Techtextil Innovation Award, the jury honored the unconventional thinking of the young Italian label, whose originality proves that innovative and appealing fashion can be developed from surprising materials.
100 percent compostable binder for nonwovens
In the “New Technology” category, the company OrganoClick (Sweden) receives the Techtextil Innovation Award for the development of a 100 percent bio-based binder for nonwovens applications that is made from waste components and is therefore said to be fully compostable. The innovation is designed to replace plastic-based binders. Because nonwovens are often made from non-degradable plastics, the Swedish company specializes in developing compostable material alternatives from wheat bran, fruit or crab shells, among others. This convinced the jury of the Techtextil Innovation Awards: “OrganoClick receives the award for its efforts to find bio-based raw material alternatives to replace oil-based materials.”
Formaldehyde-free & bio-based coating system
The third award in the category “New Approaches on Sustainability & Circular Economy” goes to Deutschen Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf (DITF) from Baden-Württemberg and the company TotalEnergies – Cray Valley (France). Together, they have developed a novel, formaldehyde-free coating system. It is based on non-toxic hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) derived from biomass waste. These HMF-based dip formulations are capable of replacing formaldehyde-based adhesion promoters on a one-to-one basis. For background: in tires, conveyor belts or V-belts, rubber materials are reinforced by cord. The quality of such cord composite systems with high-strength fibers such as polyester, aramid or polyamide and rubber is determined by the adhesion properties of the fibers to the matrix. In the established manufacturing process, adhesion promoters made of resorcinol-formaldehyde-latex (RFL) are used. However, formaldehyde has been classified by the EU as a proven carcinogen and mutagen since 2014. The jury therefore welcomes the health and environmentally friendly new development. It contributes to a more sustainable textile industry and the reduction of harmful chemicals.
Texprocess Innovation Award
In the “New Technology” category of the Texprocess Innovation Award, as many as three winners will receive the prestigious award this year:
Cold gluing robot is set to revolutionize seam bonding
焊接和缝纫机Vetron制造商Typical Europe GmbH (Kaiserslautern) is being honored for a new type of cold gluing robot. For the first time, it is to perform the sealing of seams with adhesive tape on the reverse side completely automatically. Cold gluing, for example for decorative seams on dashboards or closing seams in outdoor clothing, is state of the art in many industries. But because the adhesive tape has to be cut off manually, the technology could not be combined with the high demands of process automation, for example in the automotive industry. Until now. For the first time, the new special robot applies the adhesive tape in an automated process and also cuts it off automatically using a tape cutter. According to Vetron, the innovation, which was presented publicly for the first time at Texprocess, is already attracting great interest from the automotive industry.
“Reinvention of the embroidery head”
The second award in the “New Technology” category goes to ZSK Stickmaschinen GmbH from Krefeld for a new type of embroidery head for single- and multi-head embroidery machines. According to ZSK, the “R-head” is designed to achieve embroidery speeds of up to 2000 stitches per minute. By comparison, traditional multi-head embroidery machines currently achieve embroidery speeds of up to a maximum of 1200 stitches per minute. With this innovation, ZSK aims to enable a new dimension of productivity with higher embroidery precision and reliability even at high embroidery speeds. According to ZSK, the R-head significantly reduces noise emissions compared to current embroidery heads. Customers should also be able to replace it themselves if necessary. The judgment of the expert jury: “This is the reinvention of the embroidery head.” Hans-Rochus Groß, Head of Application Technology at ZSK: “During the development of our latest embroidery head, we were driven by a quote from Hermann Hesse: ‘To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible.’ In this sense, the Texprocess Innovation Award confirms that we have achieved our ambitious goals. The award will be an additional drive for us to continue to achieve ‘the maximum possible’ for our customers in the future.”
Increasing productivity and reducing fatigue of sewing machine operators.
The third winner in this award category is Juki Central Europe (Poland), which has developed an AW-3S automatic bobbin thread winding and feeding device. This not only automatically calculates the amount of bobbin thread required when loading a sewing pattern, but can even change the sewing thread automatically, according to the manufacturer. AW-3S is thus designed not only to increase productivity, but at the same time to save operators from having to change the sewing thread manually. This reduces staff fatigue, allowing them to concentrate more on production and quality control. The jury welcomes the conversion of a manual process into an automated one as another example of Industry 4.0.
推进缝纫行业的数字化
The industrial sewing machine manufacturer Dürkopp Adler receives the Texprocess Innovation Award in the category “New Digitalization” for its software module “QONDAC Guided Working”. The company from Bielefeld wants to take digitalization in the sewing industry to a new level. In interaction with programmable sewing machines, QONDAC Guided Working is intended to become the perfect link between planning, operating personnel and machine by supporting processes from production planning to the last work step at the final workstation. In addition, manual workstations or conventional sewing machines can also be easily integrated into the network. Niklas Böckmann, Head of Digital Products at Dürkopp Adler: “The Texprocess Innovation Award confirms us in our claim to drive the digitalization of the sewing industry. With developments such as QONDAC Guided Working, we want to make customers’ production more sustainable and efficient by offering them the possibility to react faster to changes in production processes.”
The jury of the Techtextil Innovation Award:
- Prof. Dr. Fernando Carrillo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
- Eng. António Braz Costa, Technological Centre for the Textile and Clothing Industry of Portugal (CITEVE), Portugal
- Johannes Diebel, Forschungskuratorium Textil e.V. (FKT), Germany
- Dr. Heike Illing-Günther, Saxon Textile Research Institute e.V. (STFI), Germany
- Dr. Jan Laperre, Centexbel, Belgium (chairman of the jury)
- Prof. Dr. René Rossi, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland
- Dr. Thomas Stegmaier, Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung (DITF), Germany
- Prof. Dr. Henry Yi Li, The University of Manchester, England
TexProcess创新奖陪审团：
- Alexander Artschwager, Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf, Center of Management Research (DITF-MR), Germany
- Jürgen Brecht, HAUBER-GRUPPE FERD. HAUBER GMBH, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Gries, Institut für Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Yordan Kyosev, Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology, TU Dresden, Germany
- 克劳迪娅·范·波恩（Claudia van Bonn）
- Walter Wählt, Adidas AG, Germany (chairman of the jury)
- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Zöll, Hochschule Niederrhein, Faculty Textile and Clothing Technology, Germany
一目了然的获奖者和奖项类别
| Unternehmen | Projektname | Award-Kategorie | Techtextil/Texprocess |
| Centexbel | Biobased and compostable dispersion for use in textile coatings and inks – H2020 Biontop grant agreement No 837761. | New Approaches on Sustainability & Circular Economy | Techtextil |
| CITEVE | Valorisation of natural leather waste from automotive industry for the development of innovative textile coatings | New Approaches on Sustainability & Circular Economy | Techtextil |
| DITF Denkendorf | 技术绳索材料的新无毒倾角 | New Approaches on Sustainability & Circular Economy | Techtextil |
| FibreCoat GmbH | Alucoat | New Technology | Techtextil |
| ITM TU Dresden | woven heart valves | 新产品 | Techtextil |
| Kelheim Fibres GmbH | Cellulose-based Nonwovens for high absorbency reusable products | New Concept | Techtextil |
| OrganoClick | 100% biobased and home compostable binder for nonwoven applications from waste stream components | New Technology | Techtextil |
| RBX Créations | Iroony® : Innovative low-impact and performant cellulose supporting sustainable agriculture, for various applications in textile and packaging | 新材料 | Techtextil |
| Vérabuccia | Vérabuccia | Performance Fashion Award | Techtextil |
| DürkoppAdler GmbH | QONDAC Guided Working Module | New Digitalization | Texprocess |
| JUKI Central Europe Sp. z o.o. | 自动梭芯线风能和AW-3饲料设备S | New Technology | Texprocess |
| VETRON TYPICAL Europe GmbH | VETRON自动化冷粘结 | New Technology | Texprocess |
| ZSKStickmaschinen GmbH | ZSK„R-Head“ for embroidery speeds up to 2.000 stitches/min with unique compensation mechanism for first and second-order mass forces |
New Technology | Texprocess |
从6月21日至24日，仅在TechTextil和TexProcess
The Techtextil and Texprocess Innovation Awards will be presented on 21 June, 2022 in Hall 9.0. Textile innovations selected by international expert juries will be awarded prizes and presented publicly on all four days of the trade fair in Hall 9.1 (Techtextil) and 9.0 (Texprocess), in some cases for the first time. Here, from 21-24 June, visitors will have the unique opportunity to experience all the award-winning new developments in one place. For the 16th time, the Innovation Awards at the leading trade fairs Techtextil and Texprocess offer an excellent platform for cross-industry exchange between players from business, science and politics and for initiating forward-looking cooperations.
The event Techtextil & Texprocess will be held from 21 to 24 June 2022.
Posted: June 24, 2022
Source: Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH
