With the spring weather we were lucky enough to receive during Techtextil, you could be forgiven for not thinking much about heated textiles as you were munching on your bratwurst and sipping a beer in the fairground’s sunshine-bathed courtyard. But the unseasonal April snow in Frankfurt a few weeks before the fair – a particularly ... Read more...
They are everywhere, absolutely everywhere – but seriously: e v e r y w h e r e. But don’t worry, they are on the good side. Read more...
Enormous 320 m bridge pillars, the world’s highest, are rising towards the sky at the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul. During the construction of the pylons, curtain facades with reinforcements from the solidian GmbH, a specialist in textile concrete from Albstadt in Germany, were realized for the Turkish company Fibrobeton that used the elements to build ... Read more...
Investors use the word ‘unicorn’ to describe start-up companies valued at over a billion US dollars. When applied to the potential for personalised clothing, the metaphor of this fabulous animal scores a bull’s eye – or rather a unicorn’s horn! Read more...
With ‘smart’ (i.e. electrically conductive) textiles, which can warm us, illuminate our lives with colourful lighting, monitor our vital parameters or communicate with our smartphones via Bluetooth, the textile industry is creating a whole new field of applications in which growth rates of up to 30 percent per annum are forecast. Read more...
Innovations are essential for a sector to get ahead quickly. As at previous editions of the fair, this year’s ‘Techtextil Innovation Award’ once again put the spotlight on some of the many new textile developments. Read more...
The fact that basalt is a volcanic rock doesn’t prevent some people in the textile industry from drawing fibres and manufacturing products from it. The results are sturdy and, at the same time, lightweight constructions – or, indeed, pullovers for offshore wind farms. Read more...
