Although it’s the first exhibition, it’s not hard to find through the list of enterprise participants in this exhibition that threshold of “textile future” exhibition is so high and rigorous. In over 200m2 exhibition area, there are TAICHISTONE fusing and advocating healthy textile products, SAITE Silk replacing silk with natural fiber through innovative technology to significantly reduce cost and give consideration of both fashion and functionality, SDL Atlas famous as a quality control expert, global special chemicals manufacturer HUNTSMAN with products winning ISPO Global Design Award as authoritatively appraised by global sports industry, international top-trend guider WGSN, global color master COLORO as well as functional and ecological textile products representatives namely fabric and clothing brands certified by Fabrics China Hangtag.

It’s reported that this “TAICHISTONE · Textile Future Exhibition 2018” consists of static exhibition and technical forum, stretching across CHIC and INTERTEXTILE transversely and introducing ISPO longitudinally to get through professional fields. Static exhibitions located in CHIC exhibition area (No. 3 hall) “TAICHISTONE · Textile Future Exhibition 2018” takes science and technology as forerunner and exhibition of innovative technological products from upstream and downstream enterprises of the industrial chain as the principal line with diversified expression forms like technological guidance from information institutes and product solutions, etc. Exhibited products represent development orientation of domestic and international products, meeting innovation-driven development trend within the industry. In the eyes of Li Bo, effective combination of static exhibition and future forum cannot only let audiences directly feel visual impact from technological fusion but also let them listen to rich experiences from excellent enterprises in the industrial chain; not only intuitively experience advanced technological products but also deeply learn about principles and techniques behind science and technology”. “In addition, according to unified deployment of future textile exhibition, we will gradually implant future exhibition into industrial clusters and promote high-quality development of the whole industry by adjusting measures to local conditions according to industrial demand”, supplemented by Li Bo, Deputy Director of CTIC.

Li Bo, Deputy Director of CTIC

Thus it can be seen that “TAICHISTONE · Textile Future Exhibition 2018” is different from ordinary professional exhibitions at technological level and fusion level. By combining domestic and foreign famous enterprises and institutes like TAICHISTONE, SAITE Silk, SDL Atlas, ISPO, WGSN, HUNTSMAN, COLORO, Fabrics China Hangtag, this exhibition has effectively integrated superior resources and service platforms and helped upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to establish systematic exhibition spaces like products, technologies, trends and consultancy. It not only expands covering fields of CHIC and INTERTEXTILE in contents but also compensates for the defect of incompatible exhibition in the industrial chain caused by differences in positions where enterprises are located in the industrial chain and products they produce in present exhibitions. 

TAICHISTONE: General textile health becomes “new highlight” for the future industry

As a high-tech company centering on new textile material － Tachistone healthy energy fiber, integrating R&D, sale and brand operation and possessing multiple intellectual properties, TAICHISTONE Co., Ltd has been dedicated to independent R&D of healthy energy fiber and functional product design and it has transformed natural Taichistone into related healthy energy textile products like textile fiber, yarn and fabric as well as other derivatives. In the eyes of General Manager Wang Ronghua, scientific and technological innovation is the fundamental concept of enterprise survival and development without any doubt. General healthy textile industry is not only the new front line for future development of functional fiber and an important orientation for self-independent industrial innovation. Representing era development demand fusing greenness, health, technology and fashion, it is the fifth wealth tide after IT. Healthy energy fiber created by Taichistone can fully embody health care functions for human body as a strong performer in this aspect. In this exhibition, TAICHISTONE should not only embody superior functions of healthy energy Taichistone fiber but also should elevate people’s initiative in using healthy functional fiber textile products so as to make deserving contributions to elevating people’s health level and improving their well-being rating.

It’s reported that healthy energy Taichistone fiber can be manifested in fiber forms like polyester staple fiber, viscose staple fiber, acrylic staple fiber, nylon filament and polyester filament, which can be made into underwear with healthy functions, sports bra, healthy shirts, home textile and sleeping pillows improving sleep and other products. In this exhibition, TAICHISTONE company has even let people feel about functionality of future products with products like micro-circulating TAICHISTONE bracelet, TAICHISTONE wing glass making wind become mellow, TAICHISTONE teaware making good taste and other products. In addition, TAICHISTONE has also organized speeches relating to future development trend of functional fiber on “future forum” on 16th, introducing latest products with development prospect as well as application and development status and latest popular development trend to the audiences.

“Future textiles feature functionality and intelligence. People can feel about and self-practice healthy lifestyles at any time when using textiles. People will feel about health and pursue happiness in relaxation”, Wang Ronghua describing “future textile” in his heart to the journalist.

SAITE Silk: The future gives consideration of both environmental protection and fashion & nature

Shanghai SAITE Silk Co., Ltd. has been concentrated on R&D, production and sale of various women’s clothing fabrics like silk, artificial silk and chemical fiber. Over 50 domestic and foreign famous brands like COACH, kate spade and GUESS are on its cooperator list. When asked about reasons for participating in the exhibition, Gao Qinggang, General Manager of this textile enterprise with 5 million meters of various fashionable clothing fabrics sold annually and forging ahead at a yearly 10% rate expressed that, “SAITE Silk is determined to provide clients with first-rate services for the whole industrial chain, while ‘textile future exhibition’ puts forward development concepts and solutions for different professional fields in future textile market and provides a matching platform for enterprises to show product innovative capacity and manifest product functionality, environmental protection and fashion. For future development of textile industry, I believe that we must use environmentally friendly and natural fiber based on fashion and embody anti-wrinkle, waterproof and moisture-absorption characteristics of this product”.

SDL Atlas: Let frontier technology serve the globe

As the main supplier of text instruments for industries like fabrics, apparel, yarns and fibers and laboratory test equipments as well as consumables, SDL Atlas (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. has provided comprehensive solutions for quality management of global textile and apparel industry in the aspects of textile test, quality control and laboratory equipment. In the eyes of vice president of SDL Atlas, Wen Guowei, textile future is infinitely broad and must be the textile future integrating technology and innovation, internet, intelligence and arts, and energy conservation and environmental protection. Fabric functionality will be manifested to bring about enormous change to human life. Striking a pose on the stage of textile future exhibition, SDL Atlas is to share the latest and the most advanced test technologies with extensive users and use exhibition platform to communicate with the industry over technical experiences so that the enterprise can serve global textile industry better.

In this exhibition, SDL Atlas has brought a detecting “artifact” named fabric touch tester. It’s said that this instrument uses a new-type test method which can quantify fabric comfort degree. Moreover, it’s a comprehensive and rapid objective tester which can measure physical parameters belonging to three major categories: thermal properties, mechanical characteristics and geometric texture characteristics of fabric surface. Besides exhibiting this “artifact”, SDL Atlas has also recommended “future” textile products in ways of Wechat and industrial website and other online ways. Meanwhile, in order to popularize this new technology, SDL Atlas will systematically expound the enormous progress brought by this new technology to this industry through a keynote speech “a new-type test method which can quantify fabric comfort degree”.

WGSN: See through opportunities, guide the demand and create the future
 
As a global top-end trend authority, WGSN has always provided the most authoritative prediction of future popular trend for users. As for original intention of participating in “textile future exhibition”, Paul Ma, Sales Vice President of WGSN in China, expressed that, “‘creating the future’ is brand slogan of WGSN and we believe that ‘textile future’ will accurately see through and guide consumer demand and bring the best experience to consumers with innovative technology and fashionable design. Through this exhibition, we hope to show insight, analysis and prediction of WGSN for future trend to extensive Chinese users and help them to understand, innovate and lead the future. Textile industrial development in China is experiencing profound changes with enormous future development space. Taking Shanghai as a starting point, this exhibition will gradually drive development of various industrial clusters and provide optimal opportunity for win-win development. For later exhibition activities, WGSN will actively take a part in and fully support their deepening and extended development with our industrial influence, global experience and authoritative professional consulting resources”.

It is learned that WGSN will systematically show “Fashion” and “Insight” products mainly popularized by China’s textile industry in the exhibition. “As one of the most classical products of WGSN, ‘Fashion’ provides users with recent and long-dated authoritative trend prediction information like trend report, fashion intelligence, T-stage analysis and professional photo gallery. “Insight” focuses on analyzing rapidly changing future consumption dynamics and market pattern and provides users with insight of extreme commercial values in aspects of future consumers, marketing, retail, innovation, etc. It may be said that the two products accord with theme of this exhibition very well”, introduced by Paul Ma. Besides static exhibition, WGSN will also assign trend experts to share professional trend prediction with audiences on “future forum” held in the morning of March 16th.

ISPO: Textile future is also future of sports industry

As a global leading sports commerce and trade platform, ISPO, developing till now, not only has three major exhibitions — ISPO Munich, ISPO Beijing and ISPO Shanghai — which help it to improve its popularity and establish commercial link. Moreover, it has set up ISPO Global Design Award, ISPO Global Innovation Award, ISPO Functional Textile Popular Trend Award and ISPO College to provide all kinds of knowledge and experience, sharing industrial information and advanced trend and encourage industrial innovation so as to boost development of sports industry. Joining in “textile future exhibition” this time, it hopes to transfer and share popular trend of functional textiles and related innovative products with the whole industry.

It’s introduced that 19 products winning “ISPO Global Design Award” are displayed in this exhibition. Two products conform to “future” concept of textile industry. One is Men’s superlight windstop running jacket winning “ISPO Global Design Gold Award”, which is made of ultrathin elastic nylon material with waterproof technology. The jacket back uses of 10D knitted fabric to increase the breathability and accelerate perspiration so that the exercise will be more comfortable. The other one is jean centering on dynamic functions and winning “ISPO Global Design Award”, coming from international brand DUER in Canada. The landmark L2X Stay Dry high-performance jean combines COOLMAX® technology and Schoeller waterproof membrane technology so that it not only has windproof and rainproof functions but also lets exercise become more fashionable and comfortable. Besides exhibited products, ISPO will also share popular design trend of sportswear under global perspective within the industry on “future forum”.

When asked about textile future in his eyes, ISPO Shanghai project manager He Xiaoqing expressed that, “we believe that ‘textile future’ is future of science and technology and innovation but also the future of sports industry. Textile functionality has drawn more and more concern from consumers. Innovative technologies have been continuously applied to textile products to reinforce their functionality, which is present trend and also the future trend”.

COLORO: Color reform, the future has come

“We all can see present frequent changes of global textile industry. Core driving force is changing behaviors and expectations of consumers, and meanwhile new technologies and development and implementation of global industrial recombination are happening. We expect that “textile future exhibition” will present new solutions and ideas and show and link multiple disciplines, details and challenges in textile industry. We believe that textile future exhibition, as a brand-new and innovative color solution, is a perfect platform for COLORO to exhibit to the industry”, said COLORO production director Peng Hui when asked about initial intention of participating in this exhibition.

It’s introduced that COLOROTM has developed fabric color cards for textile and apparel industry as well as paper cards for non textile fields based on color system. Meanwhile, it has developed color education and training courses with the help of color system. In this future exhibition, COLORO Company and the color solutions it shows are both based on the “future” concept. In the eyes of Peng Hui, the future focuses on change of the whole value chain as driven by market response time, efficiency and sustainable technologies. It actually has started consumer investigation, trend prediction and design before reaching supply chain. And high-quality products adapting to trend and consumer demand by the supply chain on schedule. The future supply chain should not only produce products needed by consumers but also provide clients with simpler and more convenient additional services.

Based on the judgment over future textile field, COLORO has specially exhibited new color system entering the market after May, 2017 in this future exhibition. This system which will guide future “color revolution” is based on the research and development about how human sees and perceives colors over the 20 years and will guide people to select correct colors for consumer groups with brand new method.

Talking about more highlights of the exhibition, Peng Hui expressed that, “we will demonstrate COLORO electronic color working platform on the site and will invite color experts to explain color system and share professional color knowledge on “future forum” held on March 16th.

Fabrics China Hangtag: Small tags support major future development of the industry

In this exhibition, over 200 functional Fabrics China Hangtag products and over 20 clothing brands hung with Fabrics China tags in China have attracted many purchasers and buyers. When asked about how a small tag can exert a great effect in “textile future”, director of innovation office of CTIC Zhou Changnian expressed that, “the theme that Fabrics China Hangtag products want to express in this exhibition is: future textile should elevate intangible value and enterprise brand value. Fabrics China Hangtag is textile and apparel product certification work sponsored and implemented by CTIC, enjoying very high popularity and recognition within the industry. Not only over 300 fabric enterprises have applied for using tags, but also over 100 garment brands like Lining, Baleno, ERKE, Semir, balabala, ONE WAY, TUTWO, Toread and JOEONE have used tags. This  exhibition had integrated enterprises at different links of the industrial chain, and this is also the scope involved by tag ecosphere. Tags will also combine outstanding enterprises of various industrial chains with the help of this exhibition to promote testing and certification of functional and ecological textile products, elevate excellent domestic fabric image and improve overall competitiveness and influence of China’s textile and apparel industry.

Meanwhile, in order to help “Fabrics China” related enterprises to propagandize newly researched and developed products and shape brand images of domestic fabrics, CTIC has started strengthening popularization form since 2008 and selected representative enterprises in the whole national textile and apparel industry as “Fabrics China Hangtag Demonstration Unit”. Within the 10 years, over 90 enterprises involved in various fields like textile, garment, auxiliary and dyeing have won this laurel.

In Zhou Changnian’s opinion, this is only a good starting to show on the stage of the first textile future exhibition, and in the future, textile future exhibition will promote transformation and upgrading of textile and apparel industrial clusters as new kinetic energy and carrier. Textile future exhibition will integrate excellent industrial resources and organize outstanding upstream and downstream products in the industrial chain to exhibit new-type raw textile materials, chemical auxiliaries, instruments and equipment, green weaving and dyeing products as well as functional and ecological textile and apparel in integrated and innovative ways. Industrial clusters are partitioned mainly by industry or product field with a lack of certain leading ability in resource integration of industrial chain. Organic combination of textile future exhibition and textile and apparel expositions among local industrial clusters will facilitate multichannel interaction and cooperation between upstream and downstream products, boost more commercial contacts between enterprises and promote diversified, healthy and sustainable development of regional textile and apparel expositions.