NANOITALTEX 2011
Markets, product innovations and emerging technologies
for the textile-clothing sector
Milan, November 23/24th
Grand Hotel Villa Torretta
Since its first edition in 2005, NanoItalTex has been characterized for
being a meeting and a collective brainstorming on a different way to
approach the future, disclosing possible “visions” in advance and
encouraging the development of strategies aimed at promoting and giving
dynamism to the sector.
The aim of the several editions has been to point out the innovative
capacities of textile materials as possible interactive solutions for the
requirements of a developing society, by foreseeing emergent needs and
consequently managing to plan development processes aimed at finding
possible solutions to them.
Due to the particular economic situation, the themes of NanoItalTex 2011
will be focused on:
- analsys of the textile and clothing worldwide sector: opportunities
and risks for Italian technical textile operators. It will be discussed the
evolution of the textile-clothing industry taking into consideration the
general economic situation; it will be presented an overview about textile
fibre worldwide consumtpion and investments in the textile machinary sector
comparing them to the trend of the technical textile consumption.
- Potentials and trends of the technical textiles in extra-European
markets. Some emerging markets and other already industrialized are proving
to be very interesting and dynamic for the technical textile industry.
Speakers coming from India, USA, Russia and China will present the evolution
of technical textiles in their countries.
- Innovations in the textile machinary sector. As the development of
innovative textile products cannot do without a continuous interaction with
the textile machinary sector, for textielmachinry producers, in order to
compete worldwide, it is strategic to maintain close contacts with that part
of the textiel indsutry focused on innovation and reals needs of our
society. Speeches about innovative processes and technologies focused on
technical textiel production or with the aim to realize processes
environmentally friendly.
- Innovative products and applications. Even in a period of economic
crisis, the development of innovative products can be the right stategy to
be different and approach new markets. In this session companies and R&D
centres will present their most recent innovation in terms of
microincapsulation, innovative uses for monofilaments, smart textiles and
composite structure.
- Evolution ot the flame retardant sector. Even if the economic crisis
is affecting some traditional markets of the flame retardant textiles, new
opportunities are emerging both for products and applications. Some of the
most important worldwide producers of chemical treatments and FR textiles
will present their newest innovations for a more and more demanding and
wider market. A specific moment will be dedicated to the prsentation of the
state-of-the-art of the development of a new generation of polyester and
polypropylene fibres based on intumescent products.
- Enterprise knowledge management. All companies must face the need of
safeguard the company know-how. In this session will be presented a tool
developed with the support of the European Commission aiming at identifying,
capturing, storing and managing the industrial knowledge. A practical
demonstration of this tool will be done.
Languages: Simultaneous translation service available from and to English.
For information about the meeting up-to-date program and participation terms please check following websites:
www.nanoitaltex.org;
www.texclubtec.it
Alternatively, contact TexClubTec
tel. +39 02 66118098
