New concept for lecture blocks with more options at Techtextil

16 Feb '11

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Braz Costa of the Technological Centre for the Textile and Clothing Industries of Portugal (Centro Tecnológico das Indústrias Téxtil e do Vestuário de Portugal – Citeve) will chair the lecture block on processing electronic systems in textiles. Covering the spectrum from sensor systems integrated into textiles for automobile interiors, via conductive e-fibres, to luminous textiles, the focus will be on the challenge involved in bringing together electronic systems and textiles.

On the same day, Dr. Thomas Stegmaier of the Institute for Textile and Process Technology (Institut für Textil- und Verfahrens¬technik), Denkendorf, will chair the lecture block on 'Surface modifications for new and adaptive functions'. The main question to be dealt with by the six lectures in this block is how can surfaces be treated and modified to give textiles new functions and properties?

On the last day of the fair, the first of the two lecture blocks at Techtextil Symposium will be devoted to 'New fibres and fibrous structures'. Dr. Ana-Maria Popa of the Swiss Material Testing and Research Institute (Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungs¬anstalt – EMPA), St. Gallen, Switzerland, will chair this lecture block focusing, inter alia, on the production of nano-ribbed fibres and permanently conductive yarns. With Prof. Carl A. Lawrence, University of Leeds, Great Britain, in the chair, the 'New technological developments and processes' lecture block will look at, for example, intelligent coating techniques, textile-tube inlays and a multi-laser system.

Avantex - Innovative Apparel Textiles
The 6th Avantex Symposium opens on 24 May 2011 and will con¬centrate on the Protech area of application. In the first lecture block on 'Personal protection and protective textiles', Dr. Jan Laperre of Centexbel, Gent/Zwijnaarde in Belgium, will present, for example, innovative protective textiles that repel insects, are characterised by high bullet resistance and offer acoustic-thermal insulation.

To be chaired by Dr. Sharon Baurley of Brunel University, School of Engineering & Design, Uxbridge, Great Britain, the second block of the first day, 'Apparel and electronic systems', will focus on integrating electronic systems into textiles to create 'e-textiles' and include, for example, lectures on technical applications for the changed demands of the 'smart textiles' community, the development of an interactive police vest and 'soft circuits' for intelligent textiles.

'Intelligent textiles – from the research stage to the product' is the main theme of the Avantex Symposium on Wednesday, 25 May. At these lectures, speakers will present a variety of interesting examples showing the development process from the idea to the finished product.

The Techtextil and Avantex Symposiums will be held in the Congress Centre of Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre and all lectures will be translated simultaneously into English and German.

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