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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 Phone: +49 (0) 211/9686-3581 · Fax: +49 (0) 211/9686-4040 · www.textile-trends.de
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 Phone: +49 (0) 211/9686-3581 · Fax: +49 (0) 211/9686-4040 · www.textile-trends.de
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