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Textile Innovation Trends& what they can bring to the Protection Markets
Mauro ScaliaProject Manager EURATEX
ENPROTEX Conference, Brussels, 9 December 2015
T/C Industry Key FiguresEU-27, 2014
Europe is the undisputed Global Innovation Leader
in Fashion, Technical Textiles & Textile Technology
2014 2013-2014 evol.
Turnover € 165 billion +2.4 %Investment € 4.3 billion +2.9 %Employment 1.63 million -1.5%N° companies 172,700 -0,9 %Extra-EU Exports € 43 billion +3.5%Extra-EU Imports € 99 billion +8.5%
Textile End Markets
21,240%
20,174%
15,320%
8,951%
8,109%
4,938%
3,984%
3,676%2,834%
2,637%
1,964%
1,824%
1,571%
1,431%
1,347%Transport
Protective end uses
Construction
Wooden furniture
Medical, Pharma & Health
Rubber
Leather & footwear
Paper & printing
Metal
Machine tools
Agriculture
Mining
Electronics
Food & drink
Sports
Technical & industrial
applications
Clothing & fashion
Interior & home textiles
Textile Applications by Fibre Usage
Main technical applications:
Transport
Protection
Construction
Furniture
Medical
Key Future Trends
High value-added specialty products and high-tech manufacturing
New textile applications
Customisation, value-added services & new business models
Sustainability & resource efficiency
Digitisation enabling the 4th Industrial Revolution for
Textiles and Clothing
– Functionalised fibres and textiles for specific end user needs
– Application of novel technologies for fibre/filament formation (incl. nano-fibres)
– Dry, flexible & energy-efficient textile surface treatment technologies (e.g. nano-surface modification, plasma, laser, UV, multi-functional coatings)
– Advanced mechatronics and digitisation in textile manufacturing (digital printing, dyeing & finishing of textiles)
Key Technologies for the next 10 years
Specialties & High-tech Processes
– High-performance fibres and textiles materials for use in highly technical applications or under extreme conditions (carbon, ceramic, metallic substrates, multicomponent fibres/filaments)
– New manufacturing technologies for realisation of complex, multi-layered, 3D shaped or multimaterial/hybrid textile and composite structures
– Smart textiles for application in functional interiors or smart wearable systems (health & performance monitoring, sensing/ambient intelligence, energy-harvesting & storage, light & temperature management)
Key Technologies for the next 10 years
New Textile Applications
⁻ Virtual modelling and design of textile materials and products and direct on-demand digital production
⁻ Greater application of digital, data and Internet-based technologies across the entire textile-fashion value chain
⁻ Adoption of new business models with attractive economics for SME’s
Key Technologies for the next 10 years
Customisation & New Business Models
⁻ Novel process technologies which are less energy and less water intensive also in small series production
⁻ High-tech textile recycling for circular economy concepts
⁻ Bio-chemistry based textile processing
⁻ Greater use of EU-origin natural & bio-mass based fibres such as flax, hemp, European wool or European agricultural and forestry resources, waste or by-products
⁻ Substitutes for toxic/restricted textile materials & auxiliaries (dyes, coatings, finishes and speciality additives)
Key Technologies for the next 10 years
Sustainability & Resource Efficiency
Interesting Developments for Protection
• Protective textile products with a better function
– Light-weight fabrics with high protection and wear comfort level
– More reliable, precise or localised (multi-)functionalisation
– Products with integrated smart functions
• Protective textile products with a better sustainability profile
– Less energy, water & toxic chemicals used in production and care & maintenance
– Use of bio-based or waste-based fibre material sources
– Highly efficient local, on-demand production (less stock, transport, production waste)
• Better services for protective textile buyers/users
– New processes in care & maintenance (CO2 cleaning, garment re-functionalisation…)
– Easier, more affordable customisation and made-to-measure products
– More customer-centric service concepts through digitisation
Textile ETP Contact
Thank you for your attention!
Mauro Scalia, Project Manager EURATEX
Lutz WALTER
Secretary General
The European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles & Clothing
Ph. +32-2-285.48.85
E-mail: [email protected]
www.textile-platform.eu