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How to Enter Technical Textiles Markets
- The 4th symposium
Le Meridien Hotel, PORTO, Portugal
22-23 March 2007
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Programme Thursday 22 March 2007 09.00 – 17.30 Keynote paper 1: The modern textiles company in 2007: moving forward in a challenging world
Professor Roshan Shishoo (Shishoo Consulting) Session 1: New markets and opportunities for the modern textiles industry
Chair: Bill Lakin (Director General, Euratex)
- Current state of the key markets
Michael Jaenecke (Director Techtextil and Avantex, Messe Frankfurt GmbH)
- A view from North America
Steve Warner (President, Industrial Fabrics Association International)
- Raw materials and nonwovens markets
Barry Davies (Director – Fibers, CMAI Group)
- How chemicals and raw materials can add value
Rule Niederstadt (Head of Marketing, Technical Textiles Europe, Huntsman)
- How plasma treatments can add value
Stephen Coulson (Technical Director, P2i Ltd)
Workshop 1 Keynote paper: How Europe is responding to the challenge
Bill Lakin (Director General, Euratex) Session 2: How to build competitive advantage
Chair: Colin Purvis (Director General, CIRFS and EATP)
- Why is testing needed and what does it add?
TBC
- What are performance fibres and how do they add value?
David Morris (Head of Economics, CIRFS)
- The value of branding and marketing
Jim Findlay (Associate, W.L. Gore & Associates)
- Modernizing through the exploitation of information technology
David Cullis (Managing Director, XeBusiness Ltd)
- How we got started in technical textiles and what we learned along the way
Pedro Ferreira (Marketing Director, Fifanta)
Workshop 2
Friday 23 March 2007 09.00 – 17.30 Session 3: Entering the medical textiles market
Chair: Steve Warner (President, Industrial Fabrics Association International) Case study 1: How we developed and commercialised a new technology for safety and protection Dow Corning
- Nonwovens in medical applications
Pierre Wiertz (General Manager, EDANA)
- Tytex: A case study
TBC
- Testing medical textiles to demonstrate added-value
Dirk Hoefer (Direktor des Instituts für Hygiene und Biotechnologie, Hohenstein Institutes)
- Medical textiles from the end-users perspective
Patricia Grocott (Kings College London)
- Using smart textiles to monitor health
TBC
Workshop 3 Session 4: Entering the smart textiles market
Chair: Roshan Shishoo (Shishoo Consulting) Case study 2: Nano-Tex Inc: A case study
Dirk Keunen (Business Development Director Europe, Nano-Tex Inc)
- How smart textiles and nanotechnology can help save the textile industry
Adrian Wilson (Editor, Smart Textiles and Nanotechnology)
- Combining electronics with textiles
TBC
- Combining technologies as a key to success
TBC
- Engaging the consumer with design and functionality
Sharon Baurley (Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and EPSRC Network: Smart Textiles)
- Eleksen: a case study
John Collins (Vice-president of Marketing and Sales, Eleksen Ltd)
Workshop 4 and Chair’s concluding remarks
Roshan Shishoo (Shishoo Consulting) |
Conference objectives
The textiles industry over the last twenty years has been in constant turmoil: production has migrated, with ever-growing acceleration, towards Asia, particularly now to China; roll goods makers and end product manufacturers have consolidated, merged, even gone out of business; the global market place has constantly altered. As competition continues to relentlessly increase, even companies based in countries previously been seen as lower cost producers (Southern Europe, Turkey, India) are now facing the question of how to survive in a truly global market.They are facing the same challenges as companies in Northern Europe and North America.
And as the manufacture of textiles and textile end products has changed, so the effects have been felt by supplier industries, including raw material suppliers, fibre manufacturers, machinery builders, even research organisations and trade associations. This process shows no sign of ending, presenting traditional textiles manufacturers with continuing problems.
The one area of the industry which has shown strong growth and offers the opportunity for companies to expand and innovate is technical textiles: high-performance materials for a wide variety of industrial and consumer end uses. So the desire to enter these markets has grown. In addition, even the biggest and most experienced technical textiles companies need to keep progressing in order to compete with the greater involvement in technical textiles by Chinese, Indian, and Eastern European firms. Therefore, to help organisations interested in entering technical textile markets, as well as those who wish to develop their activities in technical textiles, International Newsletters Ltd, publisher of Technical Textiles International and Technical-textiles.net, has developed a unique concept: a practical symposium dedicated to helping manufacturers and suppliers understand exactly how to seize the opportunities presented by technical textiles.This, the fourth symposium in the series, is supported by CITEVE, the technological centre for the textiles industries of Portugal.
Who Should Attend
- Managing Directors,CEO's,Presidents and other senior managers with responsibility for the strategic,technical,product development or marketing direction of their company.
- General and consumer textile manufacturers who are seriously interested in diversifying theirbusiness into high-performance and industrial uses of textiles
- Technical textiles companies who wish to develop and expand their technical texiles activities
- Suppliers,analysts and others concerned with the future of the global textiles industry
Conference Venue & Dates
The symposium will be held in the meeting rooms of the luxurious Le Méridien Park Atlantic Porto Hotel, located in the fashionable Boavista area of the city. A special discounted room rate has been negotiated for delegates to the symposium (see registration form for details).
The event takes place on 22-23 March 2007
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The Event
To enter new technical textiles markets is very difficult. All elements of the manufacturing chain need to be re-engineered: product development, raw materials, machinery, manufacturing processes, marketing and sales techniques, testing and quality control, and certification; from finding new suppliers to targeting new customers. This symposium is designed to ease that process.
DAY ONE will analyse all the areas which a company needs to consider when making this transition:
- What are technical textiles and which are the best markets to choose?
- How do I re-engineer the company?
- What machinery and materials do I need?
- How can I get advice and funding?
- How do I make the change?
DAY TWO will focus on particular areas which offer great opportunities for companies: medical textiles and smart textiles. Presentations will explore the same issues, but in the context of the specific needs of each, including:
- What are medical textiles and smart textiles?
- How are these markets going to develop in the future?
- What do I need to do to develop a business plan to enter these markets?
Speakers will be drawn from a wide range of supplier companies, consultants, industry associations and research organisations. Presentations will include case studies from managers of companies that have successfully engineered this change. Every session will include an extended discussion workshop led by the session chairman, designed to stimulate group debate and one-to-one interaction.
The Conference Chairman
Professor Roshan Shishoo, formerly director of the Swedish IFP Research Institute, now runs his own consultant company SHISHOO CONSULTING AB in Gothenburg, Sweden. He chaired the first three ‘How to Enter Technical Textiles Markets’ symposiums and has organised many other seminar programmes in technical textiles, including conferences for Messe Frankfurt, Germany, the UK Textile Institute and the IFAI, USA. He also travels extensively in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia.
The Organisers
International Newsletters Ltd is the world's principal publisher of magazines and newsletters in the field of technical textiles. The company publishes Technical Textiles International magazine and runs the TTNet web service. It also publishes three specialised newsletters, Advances in Textiles Technology, Medical Textiles, Smart Textiles and Nanotechnology and a number of reports, books and CDs about textiles and other engineering materials.
Porto, A World Heritage Site
Located not far from the heart of the Portuguese textile industry, Porto is the second largest city in Portugal with over 300,000 inhabitants. The centre within the old city wall was awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 1996, and is full of narrow twisting streets with houses once painted or tiled in colourful facades, and of the bustling energy of working people during the day and the liveliness of busy "tascas" and restaurants at night.
Opposite Porto, on the south bank of the river Douro, lies Vila Nova de Gaia, home of the world-famous Port wine lodges such as Grahams and Taylors, many of which offer tours and wine tastings. Many of the main lodges maintain their traditional "barcos rabelos" boats used to bring the wine down the river from the Upper Rio Douro.
Porto is easy to reach by car, plane or train from anywhere in the world. It is on the main motorway network in Portugal, and the newly opened (2006) metro now directly connects the airport to the city centre.
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Guy Kitteringham
International Newsletters Ltd,
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Worcs, WR9 8DE, UK
Fax: +44 (0) 870 1657212
Tel: +44 (0) 870 1657210;
E-mail: sales@intnews.com Or book online at
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