Aus der Branche

Kornit Digital has announced its partnership with Matset (Turkey) as it continues to broaden its market presence.

Delivering digital textile production-on-demand solutions to the Turkish market
With over 45 years of experience, Matset has a long-standing reputation as being a pioneer of innovation in the printing industry. After the first meeting, Kornit and Matset were quick to recognize how their partnership would effectively accelerate the development of the Kornit brand and solutions in the Turkish market. The deal will see Matset sell and deliver after-sales support for all Kornit textile solutions, including both direct-to-garment and direct-to-fabric product lines, particularly for t-shirts, activewear, denim, fashion, beachwear, home textiles, and fabrics.

Doğu Pabuççuoğlu, General Manager at Matset, explains the collaboration combines the digital leading vision of Matset with the market awareness and quality of Kornit’s products: "With Kornit’s production systems, we have made an important addition to our product portfolio. We were able to quickly build a roadmap and are sure the market share will increase very rapidly in the near future. With Kornit’s reliable and creative solutions and our well-known and engaged distribution network, we will provide customers with a strong sales and support service.”

The Spring Edition of Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles will return to the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from 10 – 12 March 2021, together with four other textile events including Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition, Yarn Expo Spring, CHIC and PH Value. The fairs will offer an all-round business platform and a host of exciting synergy effects for the sector.

High-quality finished products to be offered
In March 2021, the Spring Edition will showcase a selection of home textile products including bedding & towelling, rugs, table & kitchen linen, home textile technologies, textile design and many more. Additionally, the fair will be held concurrently with Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition, Yarn Expo Spring, CHIC and PH Value, offering a comprehensive sourcing platform for the sector.

Lenzing views Intertextile as an ideal platform to present their sustainable home products
The Lenzing Group, a leading producer of man-made cellulose fibres, is amongst the major industry players who have already confirmed their participation in the upcoming fair. Ms Lesley Wu, Home Textile Business Development at Lenzing Fibers (Shanghai), talked about new market trends in the post-pandemic era and the reasons they decided to join the Spring Edition of Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles:

“Even though the home textile industry has, to some extent, been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak, there are both opportunities and challenges for the sector. Without a doubt, environmental protection and sustainable development are the hottest topics in today’s society. Consumers are paying more attention to healthy lifestyles and looking to make a shift to green consumption as a result of the pandemic. More and more consumers are opting for functional and sustainable raw materials. Environmentally sustainable fibres are therefore gaining popularity.”

“Right now, we expect the home textile industry will continue its steady recovery. Home textile companies may look for opportunities in product and marketing innovations, such as developing functional and sustainable home textile products and exploring various O2O business model options,” Ms Wu added.

Lastly, Ms Wu shared why they chose to participate in Intertextile: “We decided to exhibit at Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles because it is an influential trade fair for the industry. As the Lenzing Group has been expanding in the home textile market, we want to use this platform to showcase the applications for TENCEL™ branded fibres in home textiles, and to further promote sustainability through our TENCEL™ Home cellulosic fibres.”

To find out more about this fair, please visit: www.intertextilehome.com

Asia’s leading trade platform for the home and contract textile industry, Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles, is ready to welcome over 600 exhibitors to China’s commercial hub from 24 – 26 August. As China’s economy continues its recovery, the upcoming fair will serve as a key platform for the industry to reconnect and prepare for the seasons ahead. Taking consideration of current international travel restrictions, Intertextile has launched a brand new online business matching platform, enabling participation for those who cannot travel to Shanghai.

Ms Wendy Wen, Senior General Manager of Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd commented: “2020 has been a difficult and unpredictable year for every business and industry across the world, so we are pleased to be providing a platform for the home textile industry to connect and recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles is the first physical trade event for the sector held by Messe Frankfurt since January, so we hope that the fair assists the sector to join forces and overcome this challenging year together.”

Ms Wen continued: “Our first priority is to create a clean and hygienic space for all participants to source and network. To achieve this goal, the fair will implement extra health care and hygiene precautions onsite. On the other hand, we are aware that a number of travel restrictions are still in place across the world. With this in mind, Intertextile will offer a series of online services for those who are unable to travel to Shanghai, allowing the fair to reach as wide an audience as possible.”

2020 fair highlights

To provide buyers with greater efficiency, the fair, which covers four halls, will be divided clearly by product categories: Household Hall (hall 3), International Brands / Upholstery Hall (hall 4.1), Brand Fabrics Hall (hall 5.1) and Sofa Fabrics Hall (hall 6.1).

In addition, the Contract Business 360° concept will return this year, with over 40 premier upholstery exhibitors presenting their latest textile products and furnishing solutions for contract use. Exhibitors include Guangzhou Yuanzhicheng Home Textile, Haining Julai Textile, JAB, Morgan Shanghai, Symphony Mills, Suzhou Roufang, Ter Molst International, Zhejiang Hexin and Zhejiang Maya Fabric. Furthermore, top brands such as Agmamito from Poland and Wollsdorf Leather from Austria will be exhibiting for the first time at Intertextile.

Online business matching platform offers new sourcing landscape

Although face-to-face interaction is irreplaceable, a virtual complement has become more important as a result of the worldwide pandemic. To support the industry during these unprecedented times, Intertextile has launched a brand new online business matching platform. With this free service, participants are able to source and network at their fingertips. The virtual platform will offer many new features including:

• Easy sourcing: exhibitors are categorised by product groups including Sofa / Decorative Fabrics, Curtains and Accessories, Bedding and Finished products, Shading and Accessories, and Editors
• Live-streamed product presentations of exhibitors
• Smart recommendations: pre-selected exhibitor lists will be provided to buyers based on their personal preferences and interests
• Convenience: participants are able to use the service through computers or portable devices without the need to download any software

High quality fringe programme covers comprehensive topics
 
The fair’s event programme will once again provide the industry with the latest trends and insights in four topics: Design Inspiration, Business O2O, Textile & Technology and Industry Empowerment. One of the highlights will be the 2021 Intertextile Trend Forum, led by Shen Lei, the Chinese representative of the Intertextile International Lifestyle Trend Committee. The forum will bring together five prominent Chinese designers including Ben Chen, Ben Wu, Meng Ye, Paul Pang and Xie Ke, who will delve into the theme of 2021 Intertextile Trends–“BOUND”, as well as the Chinese market conditions. The event will be held on day 1 of the fair, from 14:00 – 17:00 in hall 5.1 booth C18, and streamed live online.

Another not-to-be-missed event is the Ride the Storm – Home Textile Digital Printing Forum, which will include an array of educating seminars that cover the latest digital textile printing trends and technologies. The forum will be held on day 2 of the fair, from 13:20 – 17:20 in hall 3, booth M12.

Furthermore, joining forces with Tmall Global, the largest cross border B2C online retail platform in China, the fair will host a series of seminars delivering the solutions and strategies for industry digitalisation during the afternoon of day 1. In addition, the well-received Furniture & Home Textile Direct Negotiation Event will return to provide an excellent opportunity for furniture companies and fabric brands to collaborate.

Additional health care and hygiene precautions will be in place

As trade fair co-organisers, Messe Frankfurt’s number one priority always remains the health and safety of fairgoers. To maintain a clean and hygienic environment for visitors and exhibitors to meet in, extra measures will be in practice at the fair. These include: real-name registration, onsite temperature checks, frequent sterilisation of public areas and distancing measures for forum / seminar audiences, amongst others.

Swiss textile innovator HeiQ adds bio-based thermofunctional polymer products to their HeiQ Smart Temp family for a full range of intelligent thermoregulation triggered by body heat. The newly introduced products add dual-action cooling at contact to the already successful dynamic evaporative cooling technology.

Launched in 2011, HeiQ Smart Temp was a pioneer in intelligent thermoregulation technology for textiles. Continuous refinements of this product range have allowed HeiQ to be the go-to solution provider as its technologies offer not only industry-leading dynamic evaporative cooling performance, but also ease of application and a friendly price point for brand partners. The latest breakthrough with cool touch technology allows consumers to touch, feel and understand the technology at point-of-sale, and ensures thermal comfort at all times by providing the benefits of cool at contact and continuous evaporative cooling. It is currently optimized for use on home textile products such as mattress ticking and bed linens. All HeiQ Smart Temp products are Oeko-Tex® Class 1-4 conform, bluesign® and USDA BioPreferred pending.

As the demand for thermo-functional polymer applications continues to grow, HeiQ created HeiQ Iberia to focus on this product development. There are three new products (two more in the pipeline) in the range that all provide instant cooling from a bio-based thermo-functional polymer, and each product is optimized to perform on specific items such as mattress ticking or bedding accessories. By adding a new category of products to the range, HeiQ now has a broad range of intelligent thermoregulation solutions for home textile market. HeiQ is launching these products for home textiles with their partner Standard Fiber at Heimtextil Frankfurt (7-10 January 2020).

“We have more and more business developing around temperature-regulating technologies”, says Sandy Gray, CEO at Standard Fiber LLC. “To support our mission of continuously introducing new technologies and innovations to our customers, we are excited to work with HeiQ and present HeiQ Cool Touch technologies to our customers to elevate and differentiate their products in the market”.

Akustikstoff drapilux 125, drapilux Schallabsorber A1 und die Dekorationsstoffe drapilux 132 Serie 60 und drapilux 189 haben zweierlei gemein: Sie werden alle im nordrhein-westfälischen Emsdetten gefertigt, und sie sind alle mit dem German Design Award 2020 ausgezeichnet worden. Ein besonderer Erfolg für drapilux, eine Marke der Schmitz Textiles GmbH + Co. KG.

drapilux ist einer der europaweit größten Textilhersteller und Vorreiter in Sachen intelligente Funktionen. Spezialisiert ist der Objektausstatter auf die Bereiche Office & Education, Hospitality, Healthcare und Maritim. Dass drapilux auch beim Design Maßstäbe setzt, zeigt die Auszeichnung mit dem German Design Award. Eine international besetzte Experten-Jury wählte gleich drei Stoffe und einen Schallabsorber für seine herausragende Designqualität als „Winner“. „Gratulation an unser Design Studio sowie die technische Entwicklung und Produktion für diese Leistungen, die die Jury offensichtlich überzeugt haben. Wir freuen uns sehr, dass gleich vier unserer Produkte den Preis erhalten haben!“, sagte drapilux-Vertriebsleiter Hubert Reinermann bei Bekanntgabe.

Die Gewinner im Detail

• drapilux 189 in der Kategorie Excellent Product Design – Home Textiles and Home Accessories
• drapilux 132 Serie 60 in der Kategorie Excellent Product Design – Home Textiles and Home Accessories
• drapilux 125 in der Kategorie Excellent Product Design – Office Furniture
• drapilux Schallabsorber A1 in der Kategorie Excellent Product Design – Office Furniture

Der komprimierte Überblick über die marokkanischen Fashion Industrie mit Spezialisten für Fast Fashion und Denimwear
1.853 Besucher, darunter markenstarke Unternehmen sowie die Topliste der vertikalen Anbieter
Schnelle Lieferzeiten, schnell auf Trends reagieren zu können, sind extrem wichtige Faktoren, um konkurrenzfähig zu bleiben. Mit dem Fast-Fashion Konzept hat sich die Branche stark verändert. Flexibilität bei der Beschaffung und Produktion von Musterteilen, kleinen Serien innerhalb sehr kurzer Zeit ist erforderlich und verleiht diesem Ecosystem in Marokko einen deutlichen Wettbewerbsvorteil. Ein weiterer Vorteil ist die Nähe zu Europa, die der Schnelligkeit in der Produktion weiteren Vorschub leisten. Auch die Zollfreiheit aufgrund der EU-Vereinbarung erleichtert den Warenverkehr.

1853 Besucher aus 22 Nationen haben die MAROC IN MODE - MAROC SOURCING genutzt, um nach neuen Produktionsunternehmen zu recherchieren und bereits bestehende Kontakte zu intensivieren und zu konkretisieren. 1.179 Besucher kamen aus Marokko, 674 aus dem Ausland: 32% aus Frankreich, gefolgt von 8,5% aus Italien, 8% aus UK, 7% aus Portugal, 7% aus Spanien, 6,5% aus Deutschland etc. Die Besucher setzten sich aus allen Handelsbereichen wie Modekonzernen, Filialisten, Online-Handel oder markenstarken Modeherstellern zusammen, von Discountern bis zu Luxusdesignermarken. Fast Fashion und nachhaltige Produktion standen im Fokus der Besucher, zudem hat die Qualität der Produktion viele Besucher beeindruckt.

Marokkos wichtigster Wirtschaftszweig auf Wachstumskurs
Heute gehört Marokko zu den zehn führenden Bekleidungsproduzenten in die EU und ist zweitgrößter Lieferant der Mittelmeeranrainerstaaten. "Die marokkanische Bekleidungsindustrie zeigt eine sehr große Dynamik, trotz des starken internationalen Wettbewerbsumfeldes. Seit 2012 wächst der marokkanische Bekleidungssektor kontinuierlich mit einem Rekordumsatz der Exporte im letzten Jahr von 37 Mrd. Dirham (2,65 Mrd. Euro)", so Mohamed Tazi, Generaldirektor von AMITH, Veranstalter der MAROC IN MODE in Partnerschaft mit AMDIE (Moroccan Agency for the Development of Investments) und der Groupe Banque Populaire.

Die Textilindustrie wird stark von Regierungsseite unterstützt, im Rahmen des PAI (Plan Acceleration Industriel) wird intensiv in die Entwicklung dieses wichtigen Wirtschaftszweiges mit 200.000 Arbeitsplätzen und 1.600 Firmen, Marokkos größter Arbeitgeber, investiert. Marokko ist eines der wenigen Länder mit einer konzertierten Strategie für die Entwicklung des textilen Sektors. Hierzu gehörte die Identifizierung der Eco-Systeme und deren Lokomotiven, die die kleineren Firmen in dem jeweiligen Segmenten mit sich ziehen und unterstützen: Fast Fashion, Denim, Knit, Technical Textiles, Home Textiles und Industry Retailer. Der Plan ist aufgegangen, die positive Dynamik zeigt sich in allen Regionen des Landes wie Casablanca, Tangier, Rabat etc. und in allen Eco-Systemen.

Emsdetten - Auszeichnung für den Artikel drapilux 235 03 aus der Boutique-Kollektion: Eine international besetzte Experten-Jury des German Design Award 2018 wählte den Stoff für seine herausragende Designqualität als „Winner“ in der Kategorie Home Textiles und Home Accessories aus.

drapilux ist einer der europaweit größten Textilhersteller und Vorreiter in Sachen intelligente Funktionen. Dass drapilux auch beim Design Maßstäbe setzt, zeigt die Auszeichnung mit dem German Design Award.

Neue Stoffqualität und stylisches Dessin

Auf Hospitality, Healthcare und Maritim spezialisiert, hat der Objektausstatter in diesem Jahr mit dem flammhemmenden, blickdichten 235 03 einen Artikel auf den Markt gebracht, der sowohl in Hotel, Schiff, Pflegeeinrichtungen oder im Wohnbereich eingesetzt wird. Insbesondere junge Style-Hotels setzen auf das moderne Muster, das den Häusern den besonderen Charakter verleiht.

„Das Dessin von Artikel 235 der Serie 3 erinnert an Kirschblütenzweige und wirkt natürlich-dezent, erhält durch kräftige, sparsam eingesetzte Farbakzente jedoch eine junge und trendige Note“, so Kirstin Herrmann, Leiterin des drapilux-Designstudios. Das Besondere der drapilux-Artikelserie 235 aus der „Boutique-Kollektion“ ist die neue Stoffqualität: „Das grobe Garn gibt den Textilien einen festen Griff und ist dadurch auch für Tagesdecken und Möbelbezugsstoffe gut geeignet“, erklärt Designerin Kirstin Herrmann weiter.

Der Stoff ist mit drapilux akustik ausgewiesen – eine Funktion, die den Raumklang positiv beeinflusst. In ausreichender Menge kann er zudem mit intelligenten Ausrüstungsvarianten geliefert werden: drapilux air und drapilux bioaktiv verbessern aktiv das Raumklima und bekämpfen Keime und Bakterien auf dem Textil.