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Digitalisation &

Industry 4.0 discussion

at Texprocess

Texprocess Forum will be held for the 4th time at the Texprocess trade fair in Frankfurt am Main from 9-12
Towel export in March this international conference. The sharing of data will be done in 40 rounds of lectures and panel discussion in
May 2017. Science and industry expert will be sharing their latest textile processing trends and knowledge at
these four days of event.
reached $ 70.354mn Industry 4.0 and digitalization are the main themes of the forum along with sustainability and quality manage-

ment. In this regards efforts from different industry experts would be brought into light including; SPESA,
Lectra, Human Solutions, Hohenstein Institute and Gerber Technology, TÜV Süd, Takko Holding and Datacol-
or and Bayern Innovativ. The fair will also have a separate lecture block where the focus will be placed on the
Towel export of Pakistan grew by 15.78% in the during the time period from July-march, 2016-17 as use of digital textile printing for functionalization and finishing of technical textile with Mimaki, Zimmer
month of March, in comparison to the exports of the compared to the exports of 597.1 million of the Maschinenbau and Coldenhove.
corresponding month of last year. According to the corresponding period of the previous year. But in
data given by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the last 9 months exports of the bed-wear increased According to the sources a session with the title Technology enabling digitization of the apparel industry will
almost 15,325 metric ton of towel that worth’s of by 5.11% and about 263,814 metric tons of be held by Dave Gardner, Managing Director, Spesa, Philippe Ribera, Lectra (France), and Mike Fralix, Textile
about 70.354 million USD is exported in the month bed-wear worth 1.585 billion USD were exported as Clothing and Technology Corporation. Andre Wissenberg, Vice President, Oerlikon, Ger Brink, Professor
of March as compared to the exports of 13,551 compared to the exports of 244,295 metric ton of Smart Functional Materials, Saxion University, and Fernando Pimentel, President, ABIT, will present Accounts
metric tons of worth 50.76 million USD of the same worth 1.508 billion USD in the last year. of companies implementing industry 4.0. At the same time new business in the fashion industry enabled by
month in previous year. During the first three industry 4.0 technologies will be presented by Rosanne van der Meer, Founder, The girl and the Machine, and
quarters of the ongoing fiscal year the export of Month on month basis, the exports of bed-wear Lutz Walter, R&D Manager, Euratex.
towel from the country has fallen by 3.18% and grew by 5.43% and was recorded at 29,259 metric
recorded at 132,723 metric ton. ton of worth 180 million USD against the exports of Texprocess is free of cost for the visitors of Techtextil and Texprocess and is scheduled to be held in hall
28,995 metric tons worth of 171.182 million USD of number 6.0. According to the organizers the lecture program has been compiled by DTB – Dialogue Textile
Towels, worth of 578.24 million USD were exported the same month of last year. Apparel, the International Apparel Federation (IAF) and the World Textile Information Network. The Texprocess
lecture program in the digital printing section will be supplemented by the European Digital Textile Confer-
ence, which WTiN is holding for the first time at the fair on 10 May 2017.