“Digitalisation and interlinked networks in the sector are gaining traction and have now reached as far as the retail shop,” says Straub. Texprocess was also all about digital solutions for the sector – from fully networked production lines in the form of micro-factories and machines capable of autonomous learning to cloud-based collaboration between designers, product developers, manufactures and retailers across national boundaries. “We look towards the future with a great deal of positivity.”
The manufacturers of sewing and apparel technology and of machinery for the processing of technical textiles and leather, have been reporting a certain reluctance to invest amongst their customers, caused by, among other things, current international trade barriers,” says Elgar Straub, General Manager of the Textile Care, Fabric and Leather Technologies (TFL) division of the VDMA (Association of German Machine and Plant Manufacturers). “Texprocess has inspired a very positive mood amongst suppliers. We are fantastically satisfied with the show,” says, for example, Jan Cees van Baaren, Sales Manager at YKK. “Visitors came from all over the world, from the USA, Pakistan, Asia, even Columbia. There were, moreover, numerous exhibitors for accessories and components including, for instance, international market leaders for zip fasteners, YKK. “We had loads of people at our stand, who were looking for specific things, including many well-known brands such as Alpha Tauri, Mammut, North Face and Tommy Hilfiger,” confirms Hendrikus van Es, Head of Protection Textiles and Member of the Senior Management Team of Schoeller Textil AG. With these products, companies like Schoeller, Freudenberg, RUDOLF and Lenzing attracted designers, product managers and buyers from a host of well- known clothing manufacturers. There was, amongst other things, strong representation at Techtextil for suppliers of fabrics for functional apparel and of smart textiles with integral lighting, heating and sensory functionality, which are used in sportswear, fashionwear, outdoor clothes and workwear. Performance, functionality, and smart textiles – in abundance At the end of the day, this provides the foundation of good business,” confirms Jörg Perwitzschky, Director of Marketing at Bayern Innovativ, speaking of visitor quality. The discussions we have had have been exclusively on a technical level – and a very high level at that. “The nice thing about Techtextil is that the visitors you meet are 100 percent specialists. The response of exhibitors to the high levels of technical expertise amongst the visitors has been extremely positive. Günther Gradnig, Managing Director at Sattler Pro-Tex GmbH. On top of our already high proportion of existing customers, we got lots of new contacts during the course of the trade fair,” says Dr. “We were thoroughly inundated on the very first day, particularly with international visitors.
Techtextil scores highly for visitor quality and variety of users Both exhibitors and visitors were extremely well prepared and actively took advantage of what was on offer at the two fairs, in order to drive their business forward in focussed ways,” says Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt. This double-barrelled trade fair had, in particular, three major things going for it: a larger number of top decision-makers, higher levels of international participation and a greater degree of satisfaction amongst exhibitors than ever before. “Over the last four days, Techtextil and Texprocess have brought together the entire world of textiles and their areas of application in Frankfurt. Accordingly, for four days, the Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre once again became the leading international platform for users of technical textiles from the widest variety of sectors, as well as for manufacturers of apparel, fashionwear, upholstered furniture and leather products. With a total of 1,818 exhibitors from 59 countries and, in all, some 47,000 trade visitors from 116 countries 1, the two biggest editions of Techtextil and Texprocess ever to be held, ended today in Frankfurt.
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