Visitors to ITMA 2011 can look forward to knowledge sharing, cross-fertilisation of ideas and more collaborative interactions with some of the world's leading textile researchers and educators.
A total of 46 institutions have applied to take part in the Research and Education (R&E) pavilion, making this a key highlight at the 2011 ITMA exhibition, which will be held at the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via venue in Barcelona, Spain, during September 22-29.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet experts at Textiles Intelligence, in Hall 3 on Stand C110. Members of the editorial team will be available for questions on trade and production trends in the global textile industry, and companies are invited to visit the stand to share information about new products and innovations.
CEMATEX will be awarding grants to all the participants in the Research and Education pavilion. And a total of 24 abstracts have been approved for presentation at the R&E Speakers Platform. The presentations on process technology and textiles and R&D will be held during September 23-25.
Among the participating institutions in the Speakers Platform are the Città Studi SpA; Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Sud Alsace; Ghent University, Department of Textiles; Institut für Textil- und Verfahrenstechnik Denkendorf (ITV-Denkendorf); the Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University (ITA); Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM; Cetex Institut für Textil- und Verarbeitungsmaschinen gemeinnützige GmbH; London College of Fashion; Instituto Tecnológico Textil (AITEX); Institut D'investigació Tèxtil I Cooperació Industrial de Terrassa-UPC; Shinshu University, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Japan.
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About ITMA
ITMA is considered to be "the Olympics" of textile machinery exhibitions. It has a 60-year history of displaying the latest in machinery and software for every single work process involved in textile manufacturing. It is held every four years in Europe.
About CEMATEX
The European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers (CEMATEX) comprises national textile
machinery associations from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It is the owner of ITMA and ITMA ASIA. For more information, please visit www.cematex.com
About TEXTILES INTELLIGENCE LTD
Textiles Intelligence is a leading provider of business information on the global fibre, textile and apparel industries - via printed publications, online access to news and information, and conference presentations from our team of industry experts. The company is headed by Robin Anson, an internationally recognised expert in textile trade and strategy. For more information about Textiles Intelligence and its reports, please visit www.textilesintelligence.com