In a panel discussion, the Heimtextil management and the international Trendtable will present the new Theme Park. Don’t miss this opportunity to obtain exclusive insights into how the Theme Park and its wide variety of design and future-oriented topics will be implemented in Hall 6.0 of Heimtextil 2016. Learn about the background to the coming trend prognoses and about the focal-point themes: retail trade, contract business, technology and sustainability. Language: English with German translation.

The Eurobike 2015 exclusively presents the international bicycle industry’s newest innovations and provides a complete range of offerings related to bicycles. During the press conference a selection of some of the latest innovations in the bike industry as well as everything that the bicycle exhibition has to offer will be presented. 

From 29 August to 1 September, international brands and key players in the sector will be exhibiting what the forthcoming winter and spring seasons will have to offer in terms of ideas for the home and for gifts. Tendence is the major German and European venue for new products in the consumer-goods sector to take place in the second half of the year. It has firmly established itself as the perfect venue in the European trade-fair calendar, at which to place orders for the autumn, winter and Christmas trade. At the same time, it introduces new ideas and creative designs from all over the world and gives an up-to-date perspective on the products that are going to be available for the following spring. More than half of all the exhibitors have no other opportunity, at any other venue, to meet up with the visitors at this time of year.

Excellent news for the two leading trade fairs: Techtextil and Texprocess 2015 will grow, with the biggest increase in the group of functional apparel textiles and apparel technologies. At the Press Conference Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt GmbH, will present a world premiere with a new multifunctional jacket. Furthermore, Detlef Braun and Olaf Schmidt, Vice President Textiles & Textile Technologies, will report on the latest developments of the textile fair portfolio of Messe Frankfurt and in particular, on Techtextil and Texprocess. Serge Piolat, President of Euratex (European Apparel and Textile Confederation), will then give an overview of the technical textiles sector in the European Union. Finally, Elgar Straub, Director General, VDMA Garment and Leather Technology, will discuss the current situation in the German leather and garment machinery industry.  

Superconductors are materials which below a certain temperature can "freeze" the field of a permanent magnet at a predefined distance and can thus hold it in suspension. Festo, the first supplier of automation technology to investigate this potential, is demonstrating three possible applications: the storage and movement of an object on suspended rollers (SupraCarrier); a suspended rotating conveyor shaft (SupraHelix); and the active, controlled conveyance of a suspended magnetic object carrier from one superconductor automation module to the next (SupraCycle).

The FlexShapeGripper can pick up, gather and set back down several objects with the widest range of shapes in one procedure – without the need for a manual conversion. This is made possible by its water-filled silicone cap, which wraps itself around the items being gripped in a flexible and form-fitting manner.

With the eMotionButterflies, Festo now combines the ultralight construction of artificial insects with coordinated flying behaviour in a collective. In order to replicate their natural role model as closely as possible, the artificial butterflies feature highly integrated on-board electronics. They are able to activate the wings individually with precision and thereby implement the fast movements.

At the Press Conference, Messe Frankfurt’s Olaf Schmidt, Vice President Textiles & Textile Technologies, and Michael Jänecke, Director Brand Management Technical Textiles & Textile Processing, will report on the latest developments at Techtextil, Leading International Trade Fair for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens, and Texprocess, Leading International Trade Fair for Processing Textile and Flexible Materials, which will be held at Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre from 4 to 7 May 2015. Jürgen Grebe, Corporate Sector Analyst at Commerzbank AG, will then present a Commerzbank report on the technical textiles sector offering a topical overview of the risks and opportunities in the market. Finally, Elgar Straub, Director General, VDMA Garment and Leather Technology, will discuss the current situation in the German leather and garment machinery industry.