Techtextil symposium programme takes shape
01/04/2011
Speakers will present product, material and technology developments and offer a future-oriented view of the trends and developments in the international technical textile sector.
“The two symposiums take an in-depth look at issues of importance to the sector and where the trends are headed,” said Michael Jänecke, brand manager for technical textiles at organising company, Messe Frankfurt, in the build-up to the event. “The symposiums offer orientation and information in the expanding sector of innovative textiles and their applications.”
Altogether, visitors and exhibitors will have the choice of 60 different Techtextil and Avantex lectures. The focus of the speakers will be on user-oriented presentations with the emphasis on aspects of practical interest to visitors.
The concepts of both the Techtextil Symposium (May 24-26) and the Avantex Symposium (May 24-25) have been revised to ensure greater transparency, Messe Frankfurt continued. There will be two lecture blocks in the morning, each with six lectures, and two in the afternoon, also with six lectures per block. Thus, two blocks of lectures will always be held concurrently. The daily timetable has also been changed with the morning programme running from 09.30 to 12.15 and, following a break for lunch, the afternoon programme from 14.00 to 16.45. This restructuring is to give visitors and exhibitors the chance to take part in as many of the lectures as possible.
A programme committee made up of renowned international experts has compiled the individual lecture blocks. Each lecture block is devoted to a single subject.
Main topics at the Techtextil Symposium will include new materials–reviewing innovative material developments including organically based agricultural textiles, 3-D knitted spacer fabrics for medical applications and thin silicon membranes for use as barrier layers–high-performance textiles using nano-technology, intelligent materials with versatile electronic systems, new fibres and fibrous structures, and new technological developments and processes.
At the Avantex Symposium, topics will include personal protection and protective textiles.
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