sustainability: this year’s theme at aachen-dresden
This year’s Aachen-Dresden International Textile Conference, November 26-27, in Germany, will focus on sustainability. The organizers believe that the industry needs to make a paradigm shift away from planning and controlling productivity, to designing products and processes that promote the responsible use of resources. The sessions of will concentrate on:
- Sustainable creation of value in view of technology, new materials, and functionalization
- Apparel and ready-made manufacturing
- Textile machinery–saving of energy and resources
The speakers list is quite impressive. They include leading innovators in the textile industry: Hanneke Boerstoel of Teijin Aramid/NL, speaking about the production of high-performance fibers made from renewable resources; Kurt van Wersch of Monforts, discussing innovative management of resources in continuous dyeing and finishing; and Arnold Schneller of BASF, enlightening attendees of the conference to the innovations in bioplastics. This year’s contributors are certainly a fitting choice for a change of theme from productivity management to sustainability.
Professor Martin Moeller, director of DWI at RWTH Aachen University, explains why the forum is devoted to sustainability:
…growth eventually meets a limit, and is subject to up and downturns, or needs a re-orientation. ‘Sustainability’ as a concept for development thus gains further importance.
We are pleased to see the conference tackle this subject to which we have devoted years of hard work. Naturally, we’re eager to see real industry changes come from conference. We look forward to learning just what new processes are on the horizon for the textile industry, and how they compare to AirDye® technology.
