Dresden ceases traditional, national textile conference

04 Dec '07

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After concluding the 33rd Aachen Textile Conference last year, there won't be a 34th one. And also Dresden ceased its traditional, national textile conference. Instead, the textile research institutes of Aachen and Dresden areas put together a new conference to be launched in Aachen on November 29 and 30, 2007: the Aachen-Dresden International Textile Conference.

Jointly, they aim at imposing the event (Aachen-Dresden) as one of the most important textile meetings in Europe and a platform for the international textile industry., The conference will be hold in Aachen in odd years, while Dresden will host it in even years.

By combining their national meetings into a new, international conference, the organizers bundle their competence in the areas of textile chemistry and materials research, on one hand, and textile technology and engineering on the other. Altogether 500 participants registered for the upbeat conference, 20 % thereof coming from foreign countries of Europe and overseas. Therefore, the first "Aachen-Dresden" is clearly much more international than the former individual meetings.

The "Aachen-Dresden" started with four plenary lectures afar from classical textile disciplines but offering important stimuli for textile applications, as Professor Martin Moeller, the director of the DWI (German Wool Research Institute, Aachen), stressed in his opening speech. Ferdi Hermanns from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Applied Sciences, Krefeld, reported on tether technology for space applications.

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