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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