FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany — June 24, 2019 — Techtextil 2019 again hit the mark with satisfied exhibitors and increased levels of international participation. Even more in demand: textiles for functional apparel and solutions for lightweight construction in the motor-vehicle industry.
With 1,501 exhibitors from 57 countries, Techtextil, the international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens, which was held from 14 to 17 May 2019, showcased an even more extensive range of high-tech textiles than ever before. With growth of around 1.6 percent in exhibitor numbers (2017: 1,477 from 55 countries[1]), the trade fair offered its largest event to date, which, with 42,500 visitors from 105 countries, including visitors from Texprocess, and a level of international participation of 63 percent, was also more international than ever before.
“Four days, a full program and an impressive variety of textile materials for all applications. I am repeatedly impressed at how innovative, creative and successful the technical textiles sector is. And the world knows, too, that this sector exhibits in Frankfurt every two years, in all its concentrated dynamism and energy. Nor has there ever before been such international participation,” says Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt.
Techtextil – the most international edition to date
With some 63 percent of visitors coming from outside Germany (2017: 61 percent) Techtextil has recorded its most international show ever. The leading five countries of origin for visitors were, after Germany, Italy, France, Turkey, the Netherlands and Spain.
With 421 exhibitors from within Germany and 1,080 from abroad, the level of international participation amounted to 72 percent. The five most strongly represented countries in terms of exhibitors were, after Germany (421), Italy (134), China (113), France (103), Switzerland (63), Great Britain (62). New among them – or returning after an absence – were Brazil, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Tunisia. Moreover, there were 14 countries that were represented with national pavilions. In spite of a somewhat dismal assessment of the economic climate in the sector on the part of the exhibitors, their satisfaction, in terms of the degree to which they had achieved the targets they had set for their participation in the show, rose by one percentage point to 89 percent.
明天城市中的纺织思想
专门针对“城市生活 - 未来之城”主题的部分是与代表荷兰创意经济的创意#olland合作建立的，并展示了创新的解决方案和对未来城市生活的富有远见的建议。
The content was curated by the Stijlinstituut Amsterdam. The zone’s architectural design was the work of the Dutch architectural practice Refunc, who built a completely demountable structure using around 2,000 interwoven conference chairs.
升级公司Denimx展示了如何将纺织品换切成员转变为摩托车的车身组件。设计和工程顾问Rombout Frieling Lab凭借其“颜色移动”，在各种纺织品元素的帮助下，未来将如何满足其居民的旅行需求，时尚和愿望。代尔夫特技术大学推出了他们为Hyperloop开发的胶囊，他们在Elon Musk发起的“ SpaceX Hyperloop Pod”比赛中赢得了一等奖。在精心设计的装置和展览中，题为“观看的人”，新的时尚秩序（NOOF），这是一个在时装行业的国际才华横溢的创意平台，由一些年轻的才华展示了时装设计，专注于时装行业的可持续性。纺织建筑顾问Samira Boon通过基于纺织的房间场景引起了很多兴奋，将传统的日本折纸与Web技术的数字参数相结合。
其中一些装置有故意夸大的印象。Artificially created meat products in the form of ice cream or talk of future professions such as that of ‘human organ designer’ and an artificial textile womb for premature babies threw up questions about the limits of the possible, as well as about what is ethically acceptable. The section proved a great stimulus for getting people to think about scenarios and issues for the future, whilst leaving plenty of room for inventiveness in the field of sustainable solutions and for collective initiative.
此外，带有样品纺织品展示的TechTextil参展商在材料库中也可以这样做。
可持续性是该行业的主要问题
With the ‘Sustainability at Techtextil and Texprocess’ initiative, both trade fairs put their exhibitors’ approaches to sustainability explicitly on the agenda for the first time. A dedicated trade-fair guide took visitors to the relevant exhibitors.
2019年也是第一次，在可持续性类别中获得了TechTextil Innovation Award的两名获奖者。The prize winners included the working group from Comfil (Denmark), including Chemosvit Fibrochem (Slovakia), the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Engineering – ICT (Germany), Denmark’s Technical University and Centexbel (Belgium), who were chosen for BIO4SELF, completely organically based, self-supporting thermoplastic composites based on PLA fibres. These composites can be used in motor vehicle construction, in the sports industry and in medical technology.
可持续性类别的第二个奖项授予毕加索，毕加索是葡萄牙合作伙伴的合作项目，该项目是根据真菌和植物提取物和酶开发服装染色和治疗过程的项目。该项目合作的是纳米技术和智能材料中心（CENTI），Tintex公司，该公司专门从事可持续的纺织品，香料和草药生产商Ervital，Bio-Technology Company Bioinvitro Biotecnologia和纺织品工程中心 - Citeve。
Increasing demand for textiles in architecture and the building sector
另一个特殊的领域集中在Techtextil created by suppliers of fibre-based materials for the architecture and building sector, who were principally targeting architects and building engineers with their products. “With our ATLAS membrane, we introduced a new textile product for architectural use, which we have been developing intensively over the past few years. We were overwhelmed on the first day, particularly by international visitors. On top of our already large proportion of existing customers, a huge number of new ones were added as the show went on,” said Dr. Günther Gradnig, Managing Director at Techtextil exhibitor Sattler PRO-TEX GmbH, Austria. Also amongst the products exhibited was a façade in textile-reinforced concrete, developed by Penn Textile Solutions, together with producers of concrete components Stanecker and the Institute for Textile Engineering at the RWTH University of Aachen. Ettlin Smart Materials presented a lightweight, thin woven architectural fabric to be used as a sunshade, which is at the same time water-resistant, breathable, UV-resistant and transparent.
对于已经第15次的，TechTextil的“新建筑的纺织结构”竞争奖励了创新方法，原始思维和学生和年轻专业人士的出色材料解决方案。学生竞赛由其赞助商，国际协会Tensinet和TechTextil共同组织，今年颁发了八次提交的奖项。One of the awards went to Masa Zujovic, Isidora Kojovic and Nevena Jeremic from the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture (Serbia), who picked up on Techtextil’s 2019 special theme ‘Urban Living – City of the Future’ to create the design for their ‘Voro-Membrane’.
Lightweight and smart: technical textiles for the vehicle industry
根据工业协会的说法，“完成 - 纱线 - 织物 - 技术纺织品”（IVGT），从统计上讲，每辆汽车中都有40多个基于纤维的组件。其中包括座椅盖，头部衬里和安全带，以及纤维增强塑料的过滤器，软管，安全气囊，仪表板和车身组件。这使TechTextil成为了OEM和供应商的开发人员，设计工程师，设计师和购买者最受欢迎的平台之一。
Around a third of exhibitors at Techtextil showcased textile-based solutions for applications in the motor vehicle manufacturing segment. On show for the first time in Frankfurt was a stitched inductive charging coil, which has been developed by the German Institutes of Textile and Fibre Research in Denkendorf (Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf – DITF) together with Daimler, BASF and Bosch. With their new developments, textile suppliers Rökona from Tübingen have brought lighting effects and functions right into the car interior. Roma-Strickstoff-Fabrik Rolf Mayer, who make fabrics for side panels, pillars and parcel shelves for both German and European car manufacturers, exhibited a knitted heating system for the passenger compartment.
Variety: textiles for industrial applications
Around half of the exhibitors at Techtextil also had products for the mechanical engineering sector and for the chemical and electrical industries in their selections and were grouped together under the Indutech banner for industrial applications. Included in this area too, were, amongst other things, smart textiles with lighting and heating circuits, sensors and activators built in in the form of textile pads. In evidence here was the close cooperation between textile specialists and electronics engineers. Similarly, the German Institutes for Textile and Fibre Research in Denkendorf (Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf) and the AMOHR company, based in Wuppertal have, together, developed a partially automated process, which ensures that electronic components adhere to elastic conductive strips.
Indutech应用领域的另一个发展获得了“新技术”类别中2019年TechTextil Lnnovation奖。贵金属被废水冲洗掉的事实是德国西北纺织品研究中心（德意志Textilforschungszentrum Nord-West）的刺激性，以开发“纺织采矿”标题下的新形式的过滤介质。如果使用在克雷菲尔德（Krefeld）设计的吸附过滤器，例如在电流工程或导电盘制造中，则可以以廉价的方式分离有价值的金属。如今，已经存在针对工业应用的原型，这些原型将从电镀层过程中从废水的弱浓度中回收钯。每千克纺织品过滤器将留下约1,000欧元的钯金。
强烈代表：时尚，运动和户外的功能性服装织物
At around a third of all exhibitors, suppliers of functional apparel textiles, smart textiles and accessories, together with sports equipment, fashion items, outdoor clothing and protective workwear, make up the largest single group of exhibitors at Techtextil. At Techtextil 2019 they included, amongst others, companies such as Schoeller, Freudenberg, RUDOLF and Lenzing.
In addition to the extensive range of functional textiles, both visitors and exhibitors at Techtextil – like those at the parallel Texprocess – benefit from the numerous synergies offered by Techtextil, including, for instance, Neonyt, Messe Frankfurt’s global hub for fashionwear, sustainability and innovation at the Berlin Fashion Week (2 to 4 July 2019). In the run-up to the show, Andreas Dorner, Head of Sales for Europe and America at Lenzing, a long-standing exhibitor at Techtextil, observed: “We are seeing a definite increase in demand for our alternative ranges at Techtextil.”
The company has been producing cellulose fibres from wood for over 80 years, and supplies brands such as Levi’s, Asos, Esprit and H&M, where their fibres appear on the shelves in a variety of products, including sustainable T-shirts, skirts and trousers. Their fibres are to be found in, for example, collections from the outdoor brand Bleed, launched in 2009. Bleed will again be exhibiting at the up-coming Neonyt. In turn, Bleed weave on machines and plant produced by Techtextil exhibitor Lindauer Dornier GmbH from Lake Constance. The loom manufacturers, who enjoy a long-standing tradition in the industry, showcased, in Frankfurt, their latest solutions for the (energy)-efficient weaving of clothes, under the heading ‘The Green Machine’.
有吸引力的补充计划
The Techtextil Forum, a new, open format for expert discussion accessible to all trade visitors free of charge, was very well received. The focus here in lectures and discussion sessions over the four days of the show was on topics such as sustainability, filtration, smart textiles, composites, textiles in urban contexts, digital transformation and worlds of work, not to mention textiles for medical applications. The Digital Textile Micro Factory is shared by both Techtextil and Texprocess, and, with its ‘Technical Line’, ‘Fashion Line’ and ‘3D Knitting Line’, offered, for the first time, three production lines. It, too, drew a lot of visitors. Again, the Micro Factory grew out of a collaborative venture between the German Institutes for Textile and Fibre Research in Denkendorf (DITF) and a total of 15 partners and sponsors.
TechTextil和Texprocess：理想组合
TexProcess与TechTextil并行举行，也继续记录积极的发展。拥有来自34个国家 /地区的317名参展商，用于处理纺织品和柔性材料的国际领先贸易展览会吸引了法兰克福的参展商1.6％（2017：312个来自36个国家 /地区的参展商）。来自96个国家 /地区的26,400名游客，包括来自TechTextil的访客，参加了TexProcess（2017：25,100名来自109个国家 /地区的游客）。这两场演出一起欢迎来自59个国家 /地区的1,818个参展商（2017年：来自66个国家 /地区的1,789个）和来自116个国家 /地区的47,000名游客（2017年：来自116个国家 /地区的47,500名贸易访客）。
Techtextil and Texprocess: new date for the diary
The next Techtextil and Texprocess will take place from 4 to 7 May 2021 in Frankfurt am Main.
Techtextil in figures:
| Techtextil | 2017 | 2019 |
| Exhibitor numbers | 1,477 | 1,501 |
| 参展商国家 | 55 | 57 |
| Visitor numbers (incl. visitors from Texprocess) | 40,700 | 42,500 |
| Visitor countries | 104 | 105 |
| Internationality, exhibitors | 62 percent | 72％ |
| Halls | 4 | 4 |
| Joint stands | 14 | 14 |
[1]由FKM认证（德国官方机构以自愿验证展览数据）
Posted June 24, 2019
Source: Messe Frankfurt
