The European Textile Finishers’ Organisation(member of EURATEX)

Slovene Textile Platform

Ljubljana, 28 September 2006

Cees Lodiers

Secretary General of CRIET

• CRIETCRIET = Comité Réuni de l’Industrie

de l’ Ennoblissement Textile

• Main activities: dyeing, printing, coating, finishing

• Membership: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland,Turkey, United Kingdom

• Topics: environmental issues like REACH and IPPC

• Exchange of information on prices of chemicals, energy, water etc.

• Statistics on economic performance like production, employment, labourcosts etc.

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A B CH D F GB I NL NOR TGeneral Textile Situationa. Production -1 -5 -5 -4,3 -8 -6,4 -3,3 0 -10

b. Turnover -3,6 -7,5 -2,3 -3,4 -6,4 -6,8 3,8 -10 -30

c. Employment -8,4 -5,5 -6,2 -7,2 -8,8 -7,1 -8,3 -7,5 5 -15d. Investments 12 -12,5 -1 -4,8 1 20 86 -30

Textile employment figure 15.180 34.000 11.100 88.344 91.040 80.000 211.000 8.250 5.300 353.000

Textile Finishing Situationa. Production -15 0,3 -5 -16,8 -8,2 -3,1 10 -20b. Turnover -16 -3,9 -4,7 -16,2 -3,8 2,5 10 -40c. Employment -5,5 2 -8,8 -12 -8,8 -4,5 -7,5 -15d. Costs : wages 3 2 1,4 1 2,5 3 4,4 1 3,4 15

chemicals/dyestuffs 0 1,8 1 2,7 5 0 1,5 2 0energy: oil 18 23 35 40 38 49 25

gas 7 47 26 40 29 52 23 85 25electricity 2 56 2,5 30 0 47 15 3 1

Textile Finishing employment 3.800 1.028 10.500 6.913 9.400 38.800 1.950 720 53.000

Textile-finishing companies 15 63 15 130 137 22 187 23 16 320

• Main event: yearly Congress in one of the member-countries

• 2007-Congress in Istanbul ( May 24-27)

• All interested textile organisations/ textile companies are welcome as member or as quest

CRIET’s FOCUSCRIET’s FOCUS

Offer a platform for the innovative powers of the textile industry

The ambition of CRIET is:• to present a yearly update on innovation

• to dicuss succesful businessstragegies

• create a pleasant atmosphere for informal business contacts

Content of 2006 - CongressContent of 2006 - Congress•Economic: “Globalisation;what will remain in Europe?”

•Innovation: The European Technology Platform

•New technologies : Nanotechnology for textiles

•Company strategies: TenCate,Gamma,Lauffenmühle

Content of 2007-Congressstill under cunstruction, but:

•Innovation: Progress of Strategic Research Agenda

•Marketing strategies: end-user marketing

•Company visions (Sioen,Freudenberg, Porcher)

•Economics:exchange of view with Chinese delegation

CRIET’s CongressCRIET’s Congress

is the place to be if you believe in the future ofis the place to be if you believe in the future of

the European textile industrythe European textile industry

Thank you for your attention!Thank you for your attention!