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

Textile ETP Contact

Thank you for your attention!

Mauro Scalia, Project Manager EURATEX

Lutz WALTER

Secretary General

The European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles & Clothing

Ph. +32-2-285.48.85

E-mail: info@textile-platform.eu

www.textile-platform.eu