From the Sector

With its new Trend and Event Platform, the Premium Group presents a new concept for a progressive community. According to Premium Group classic trade fair formats are over - this summer it's all about (re)connection, real emotions and new perspectives. The emphasis lies on the most relevant trends and the power of networking, but in a more personalised and intimate way.

PREMIUM and SEEK are focusing on a more rigorous curation of promising brands and collections as well as various opportunities to connect. An extensive content programme of keynotes, round tables, live interviews, study presentations and panels on the most important trends will offer two diverse and time-efficient days. The areas of concentration encompass sustainability, technology, fashion, business, lifestyle, and beauty. The repertoire of topics include marketing themes such as LinkedIn and Tik Tok, new tech tools such as ChatGPT or Virtual Dressing as well as news from the metaverse. Sustainability topics such as denim, circularity, re-commerce, vintage and the new Green Deal laws will be discussed as well as cross-industry topics such as female empowerment, Gen Z and modern leadership.
     
PREMIUM marks the first event of the season for womenswear. New silhouettes, design trends, provocation and the current zeitgeist are brought to the forefront with a carefully curated selection of brands. The fashion scene and visitors can look forward to the best of denim, hyper-femininity, beauty, well-being, future Berlin icons and innovations from the tech and lifestyle sphere. New talents will also have the opportunity to pitch their labels to a professional audience. SEEK focuses on heritage, Y2K, modern sportswear, outdoor and sustainable brands, which will be shown in the CONSCIOUS CLUB. Other highlights will include talks and inspiring activations from the community.

"We listen, research and curate the most important trends for the industry. To do this, our team of experts travels across Europe and exchange ideas with representatives from the entire industry. The results of months of work can be discovered in two days," says Maren Wiebus, Creative Director of the Premium Group.

Today, attention is the most important currency for the fashion industry. This is also why, for the very first time ever, the Premium Group events will take place over only two days instead of three. At the same time, generally accepted norms and rules are questioned, taken apart, and put back together again. The organisers of Premium Group invite fashion professionals to discuss the rules and redefine them together.
 
The summer editions of PREMIUM and SEEK will take place on 11 and 12 July at the new old location Station-Berlin in the heart of Berlin.

• Renowned global denim event goes live again after two years
• Bangladesh Denim Expo brings together the global denim supply chain
• The show has a sustainability focus, and a central theme of ‘Beyond Business’
• Bangladesh is the 2nd largest denim exporter to the EU and the third largest to the United States

After a two-year break, Bangladesh Denim Expo will once again open its doors in the international Convention City, Bashundhara (ICCB) in Dhaka on May 10th & 11th 2022. The event is now firmly established as one of the world’s leading denim trade shows, and its live return is a huge boost to the global denim manufacturing sector.

“Beyond Business” is the theme of the 12th edition of the show. Bangladesh Denim Expo addresses the new opportunities for successful & sustainable business, in a world that now demands that industry leaders to go “Beyond Business.”

79 Exhibitors are set to attend the event, consisting of both local and international participants.

In this edition exhibitors will display fabrics, garments, threads, machinery, finishing equipment and accessories, positioning the show as a true representation of Bangladesh’s denim industry - the second largest denim exporter to the EU and third largest to the United States.

Through a series of product displays, seminar sessions & panel discussions, the Expo will encourage robust debate and interaction among exhibitors and visitors.

8 seminar sessions conducted by exhibitors at the two days event, and two panel discussions, reflecting the overriding sustainability theme of this edition of the Expo.

Industry experts will gather to discuss how the denim industry can improve, not only from a business perspective, but also considering social and environmental impacts and goals.

Asia's largest fashion fair, CHIC SPRING SHANGHAI, will postpone the event planned for March to April 14-16, 2022. The latest worldwide pandemic developments due to the new virus variant Omicron prompted the CHIC organizers to take this step.

With this relocation, the organizers are also taking into account the interests of international exhibitors and visitors. In addition to various international joint stands, Germany will also be represented with a GERMAN PAVILION. The trade fair team is working on innovations at the trade fair with the highest priorities and will now focus the entire marketing on the new date.

CHIC SPRING is the showcase for the latest trend developments in fashion and offers trade visitors a concentrated overview. CHIC SPRING as a fashion and lifestyle fair shows the areas of womenswear, menswear, kidswear, denim, shoes and bags, accessories, designers and streetwear in clear segments at the National Convention & Exhibition Center in Shanghai.

CHIC is organized by Beijing Fashion Expo Co. Ltd. and China World Exhibitions, supported by the China National Garment Association, the China World Trade Center and the Sub-Council of the Textile Industry (CCPIT).

• Monforts customer Kipaş has been selected as the sole denim manufacturing partner in the €6.7 million European Union-funded New Cotton Project, involving the brands adidas and H&M, working in a consortium with suppliers, innovators and research institutes.

Kipaş, based in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, is currently installing its third Monforts Montex stenter along with a third Monfortex compressive shrinkage system in a combined configuration dedicated to denim production.

This follows the successful installation and commissioning of the second Montex and Monfortex lines at the Kahramanmaraş plant in 2018, which Kipaş Vice Chairman of the Board Ahmet Öksüz said had immediately exceeded expectations.

“We performed a very thorough technical investigation based on the latest Industry 4.0 analysis before the purchase, to determine what we needed, and the Monforts technology met all our requirements,” he said, in an interview with Textilegence magazine. “The Monfortex is equipped with a variety of features not found on classical shrinkage machines and the production can be monitored from beginning to end. It also exceeded our expectations in energy cost savings.”

Kipaş subsequently received a special certificate from Monforts in recognition of its exceptional utilisation of the technology to its full potential.

The latest Montex stenter now being installed at Kipaş is a 12-chamber unit with a working width of 2 metres featuring all of the latest automation features. The Monfortex unit, also with a working width of 2 metres, is in a ‘double rubber’ configuration, comprising two compressive shrinkage units and two felt calenders in line. This allows the heat setting of elastane fibres and the residual shrinkage of the denim to be carried out simultaneously, for a significant increase in production speeds.

“Around 90-95% of denim fabric production now contains elastane fibres and the Monforts system has allowed us to simultaneously increase our production and quality in this respect,” Mr Öksüz said.

Regenerated cotton
For the next three years within the New Cotton Project, Kipaş will manufacture denim fabrics based on the cellulose-based fibres of Infinited Fiber Company of Finland, made from post-consumer textile waste that has been collected, sorted and regenerated.

The patented technology of Infinited, which is leading the consortium of 12 companies, turns cellulose-rich textile waste into fibres that look and feel like cotton.

“We are very excited and proud to lead this project which is breaking new ground when it comes to making circularity in the textile industry a reality,” said Infinited co-founder and CEO Petri Alava. “The enthusiasm and commitment with which the entire consortium has come together to work towards a cleaner, more sustainable future for fashion is truly inspiring.”

Take-back programmes
Adidas and H&M will establish take-back programmes to collect the clothing that is produced, to determine the next phase in their lifecycle. Clothing that can no longer be worn will be returned to Infinited, for regeneration into new fibres, further contributing to a circular economy in which textiles never go to waste, but instead are reused, recycled or turned into new garments.

The aim is to prove that circular, sustainable fashion can be achieved today, and to act as an inspiration and stepping stone to further, even bigger circular initiatives by the industry going forward.

The EU has identified the high potential for circularity within the textile industry, while simultaneously highlighting the urgent need for the development of technologies to produce and design sustainable and circular bio-based materials. Making sustainable products commonplace, reducing waste and leading global efforts on circularity are outlined in the European Commission’s Circular Economy Action Plan.

Fashion brands produce nearly twice as many clothes today as they did 20 years ago and demand is expected to continue growing. At the same time, the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned every second. Most of the textile industry’s environmental problems relate to the raw materials used by the industry – cotton, fossil-based fibres such as polyester, and viscose as the most common man-made cellulosic fibre, are all associated with serious environmental concerns.

Die BANGLADESH DENIM EXPO ist viel mehr als nur eine Messe. Sie versammelt die Denim-Welt in Bangladesch und inspiriert sie, sich auf Innovationen einzulassen und sich auf Neuland zu wagen.
Ihre 8. Ausgabe steht nun ganz im Zeichen des bedeutenden Themas GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG - in Bezug auf Menschen genauso wie in Bezug auf die gesamte Produktionskette.
 
Am 9. und 10. Mai wird Bangladesch einmal mehr die Bekleidungswelt zur Bangladesh Denim Expo begrüßen. Die Messe ist einer der wichtigsten Treffpunkte der Denim Industrie und hat einen wegweisenden Ruf, wenn es um die Zukunft der Branche geht.

Die nächste Bangladesh Denim Expo widmet sich dem Thema GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG, u.a. um die Fortschritte zu beleuchten, die Bangladesch im Hinblick auf die Arbeitsbedingungen und den Umgang mit den Mitarbeitern gemacht hat. Aber GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG betrifft nicht nur den einzelnen Menschen, das Thema hat auch wirtschaftliche und politische Dimensionen. Deshalb möchte die Bangladesh Denim Expo die globalen Marken und Händler, Hersteller, Regierungen und Entwicklungspartner mobilisieren, eine gleichberechtigte, weltweite Bekleidungslieferkette zu etablieren.

Die Messe nähert sich dem Thema aus mehreren Richtungen und beleuchtet dabei die verschiedenen Aspekte von GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG und wie sie erreicht werden kann:

• Gleiche Rechte für Arbeiter und Angestellte, um sicherzustellen, dass sie mit Respekt behandelt werden und ein gutes Verhältnis zu ihrer Arbeit haben.
• Gleiche Verantwortung für alle Interessensgruppen in der Bekleidungslieferkette, um sicherzustellen, dass die Arbeitsplätze gefahrenfrei sind, sich nachhaltige Arbeitsprozesse durchsetzen, Umweltbewusstsein und Transparenz gewährleistet sind.
• Gleiche Chancen für alle - unabhängig von ihrem Geschlecht, religiöser Zugehörigkeit oder sexueller Orientierung, für alle sollten die gleichen Chancen gegeben sein, entsprechend ihren individuellen Fähigkeiten.

Geschlechtergleichberechtigung - Männer und Frauen sollten gleich behandelt werden, inklusive gleicher Bezahlung, keine Diskrimierung aufgrund des Geschlechts, keine sexuelle Belästigung, sondern gegenseitiger Respekt, der darauf achtet, dass geschlechtsspezifische Bedürfnisse berücksichtigt werden.

"Die Bangladesh Denim Expo ist ein zentraler Treffpunkt für die Interessensgruppen aus der weltweiten Denim Community geworden", sagt Mostafiz Uddin, der Gründer und Geschäftsführer. "Die Besucher tauschen ihre Ansichten aus und diskutieren die Bedeutung der Themen. Es wäre keine Übertreibung zu sagen, dass die Bangladesh Denim Expo erfolgreich dazu beigetragen hat, die Arbeitsbedingungen zu verbessern, indem sie ein konkretes Bewusstsein dafür geschaffen hat."
 
Die Bangladesh Denim Expo wächst mit jeder Ausgabe. Mehr als 14.000 akkreditierte Besucher werden für die aktuelle Show erwartet, die im International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka, Bangladesh, stattfinden wird.
60 Aussteller aus aller Welt haben bereits ihre Teilnahme zugesagt, 44 davon aus dem Ausland, 16 Denim-Unternehmen aus Bangladesch.
Die anstehende Bangladesh Denim Expo wird den Ausstellern und Besuchern eine einzigartige Erfahrung bieten. Sie werden einen Einblick in die Denim Industrie Bangladeschs bekommen, die neusten Trends kennen lernen, die die Branche in den nächsten Jahren prägen werden, und auf den Seminaren und der erweiterten Trendzone ihr Fachwissen erweitern können.

Die Seminare dienen als Plattform, auf der einige der Top-Experten und -Führungskräfte der Branche, aus den erfolgreichsten Firmen und Organisationen der gesamten globalen Lieferkette, ihr Wissen und ihre Visionen mit den Besuchern teilen.

Die Trend Zone stellt den Besuchern die neuesten Trends vor und präsentiert dabei auch die Schlüsseltrends im Bereich Stoff-Finishing und Styling. Sie ist immer ein echtes Highlight der Bangladesch Denim Expo und wird um einen Bereich erweitert, in dem neue Informationen ausgetauscht werden können.

Dies ist der Ansatz der Bangladesh Denim Expo, sich dem Thema GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG anzunähern - Wissen und Inspiration werden mit der ganzen Denimwelt geteilt.