Trend forum “Textiles for the future” 2024

5. Juni 2024 — Freiheit­shalle Hof

Sustainable and functional — Textiles for the future

The future of the tex­tile industry is char­ac­ter­ised by numer­ous chal­lenges, both in terms of new devel­op­ments in polit­ics and soci­ety, as well as the con­stant com­pet­i­tion and change in the tex­tile industry itself. Some trends some­times prove to be short-lived and barely per­cept­ible, while oth­ers, such as improv­ing sus­tain­ab­il­ity in pro­duc­tion and clos­ing gaps in the value chain, have been dis­cussed for years and can quickly be cat­egor­ised as excess­ive and dif­fi­cult to imple­ment due to the inter­link­ing with oth­er trends.
We there­fore want to address cur­rent and burn­ing issues in this for­um in order to inform you and inspire new ideas. We also want to focus in par­tic­u­lar on the top­ic of func­tion­al tex­tiles, as these are used in so many sec­tors, from leis­urewear to med­ic­al tech­no­logy, and there­fore play a decis­ive role as products with cus­tom­ised prop­er­ties.

Par­al­lel to the event, com­pan­ies and insti­tu­tions will be present­ing their innov­a­tions, products and ser­vices for the tex­tile industry of tomor­row.

Our con­tri­bu­tion is a talk with Ant­on Schu­mann Pro­jekt MOON: “Do not get caught up in dis­rup­tion”.

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