Post on 18-Mar-2018
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