Conference languages: German/English with simultaneous translation in both directions
Topics in 2021:
Plenary and keynote sessions and special symposia on
Textile mechanical engineering ideas – quo vadis?
- Flexibilization towards lot size 1 and small series
- Industry 4.0
- New products through machine innovations
- Resource and energy efficiency
Opportunities with new materials: High-performance fibers and fiber composites
- Carbon fibers, ceramic fibers, bio-based fibers
- Fiber modifications, secondary spinning, recycling strategies, process technologies
- Shaped fiber compounds, polymer matrix materials
- Insight into new advanced materials – simulation and testing systems
Competitive advantages and sustainability: Functionalization, new finishings
- Sustainable coating and finishing chemicals
- Coating, laminating
- Environment-friendly processes
- Textile printing
New challenges: Medical textiles / medical technologies
- Sensory and actuatory medical devices
- Personalized medicine
- New biomaterials, drug delivery
- Resorbable polymeric implants for the support of regenerative processes
New applications, new markets
- Textile building, architecture
- Mobility
- Energy
- Environment
Transfer Session ”From Idea to Practice“
- Presentation of innovations (e.g. products, technologies, processes) transferred into the industry from research co-operations, especially by IGF/ZIM
The Call for Papers is closed.