Texprocess will again be taking place parallel to Techtextil. The range of products at Texprocess covers all stages in the value-creation chain for textile goods, from design, IT, cutting out, sewing, seaming, embroidery and knitting to finishing, textile printing and logistics.
Fourth edition Texprocess
Some four months before the start of Texprocess, the highest number of registrations in its history have already been reported. Even now, more floor space has been booked than the previous edition had in total. “It is well worth our while continually developing Texprocess further, with regard to the technologies and processes on display, the hall layout and the complementary programme. With this fourth edition, Texprocess is now firmly established in the marketplace and is attracting other market leaders in the sector to Frankfurt,” says Olaf Schmidt, Vice President Textiles & Textile Technologies, Messe Frankfurt.
Overall concept retained
Texprocess reports growing numbers of companies signing up, particularly in the CAD/CAM and Cutting, Making, Trimming (CMT) product groups. Technologies and material for Sewing, Joining and Fastening are growing steadily, too. To make the profiles of Techtextil and Texprocess even sharper, the bonding and separating technology, CMT, CAD/CAM and printing product segments will be concentrated together at Texprocess in hall 4.0. Thus, visitors will find Techtextil exhibitors from these segments at Texprocess. These product groups will be deleted from the Techtextil nomenclature. Apart from this change, the overall concept behind the halls at the previous event will be retained. Trade visitors will also find Design, IT, Printing and the special IT@Texprocess section in hall 4.0. as well. At the latter, many new IT solutions for the apparel will be presented by exhibitors, such as product life-cycle management systems (PLM), ‘Cloud’ applications and 3D CAD systems, which make it possible to create tailor-made clothes in real time and without the need for a fitting. Exhibitors of machines and accessories for Sewing and Seaming will be presenting their products in hall 5.0 and 5.1. In Hall 6.0 embroidery technology, together with finishing techniques and logistics for textiles, will be showcased.
Highlight of ‘Living in Space’
This year both exhibitors and visitors at Texprocess will have the benefit of a rather special experience. Under the heading, ‘Living in Space’, Techtextil will be presenting the wide variety of applications for technical textiles in space travel, together with the processing involved. This is a cooperative venture among Techtextil, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). In Hall 6.1, a special, interactive area will be built to display, with the help of four thematic sections, the high-tech textiles and textile processing technologies that have emerged from and for space travel. The highlight of this area is a virtual-reality experience, whereby visitors to Techtextil and Texprocess get to go on a virtual journey through the universe. They will learn about the application of technical textiles in space travel and the processing required to make them.
Digital printing and Innovative Apparel Show
Digital Printing will be one thematic focus of the Texprocess complimentary programme. The sector’s information service, the World Textile Information Network (WtiN) will, for the first time, be organising the European Digital Textile Conference at Texprocess. The conference will centre round technologies for digital printing on textiles and will be held on Wednesday, May 10th in hall 4.0. And digital printing on textiles will also be taken up as a topic in a series of lectures, forming part of the Texprocess Forum, in hall 6.0, on all days of the trade fair.
Because of its previous success, the Innovative Apparel Show is to be continued and set on an international footing. For the first time four European universities/colleges (from Germany, France, Italy and Portugal) will be on the catwalk. Every day of the trade fair they will showcase their fashion designs from functional textiles and the processing stages that go into making them. The young designers will be displaying designs relating to the three key themes of ‘Textile Effects’, ‘Creative Engineering’ and ‘Smart Fashion’. Visitors will be able to vote for the public’s award throughout the duration of the trade fair, and the award will be presented at the last fashion show.
Submissions for Innovation Award
With the Texprocess Innovation Award, Messe Frankfurt seeks to honour the best new technological developments in the field. Submissions for the award may be made up until February 20th. The competition is open both to exhibitors at Texprocess 2017 and to other companies, institutes, universities, colleges and private individuals, who are not otherwise exhibiting at the fair. The awards in the various categories will be presented during the joint opening ceremony for Texprocess und Techtextil, on May 9th. At the same time, there will be a special display area in Hall 4.0, showcasing all the prize-winning products at Texprocess.
