On October 16, the three-day 22nd Taipei Textile Exhibition (TITAS) opened . 456 manufacturers from mainland China and countries and regions including Taiwan, France, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore and other countries and regions participated in the exhibition, with an exhibition scale of 1,003 booths.
It is reported that purchasing representatives from more than 100 international brand manufacturers were invited to Taiwan to hold more than 1,000 one-on-one procurement negotiation meetings with exhibitors. Smart textiles, sustainable environmental protection, and high-tech innovative functional textiles have become the highlights of this year's TITAS.
Taiwan Textile and Tactic Association Chairman Zhan Zhengtian delivered a speech at the opening ceremony.
Exhibitors at home and abroad have participated in the event.
. In addition to Formosa Plastics Enterprise, Far East New Century, New Optical Synthetic Fiber, Xinguang Textile, Nanwei Industry, Tainan Textile, Yijin Industrial, Xurong Group, Ruhong Enterprise, Sanyo Textile and other well-known Taiwanese enterprises, it also includes the Industrial Technology Research Institute, the Institute of Textile Industry Comprehensive Research, the South Taiwan Textile R&D Alliance, the Taiwan High-quality Underwear Alliance, Taiwan Spinning, artificial fiber manufacturing, wool textile, silk weaving, weaving, knitting, silk printing and dyeing, cotton printing and dyeing, garment making, socks, gloves, hats, towels, non-woven fabrics, Taipei needle trucks and other research institutions and members of the Association.
In terms of smart manufacturing of ready-to-wear, Taipei Textile Exhibition invited sewing equipment companies, such as Gao Lin, Taiwan Ouxima , Mingjiang Company, etc., to exhibit time-saving, labor-saving and high-efficiency ready-to-wear sewing automation and smart equipment.
also exhibitors from mainland China, Japan and South Korea. Among them, Quanzhou Shenghengxiang Textile Co., Ltd. mainly engages in polyester and elastic fabrics. This exhibition brought its latest developed graphene fabric; Changshu Sanlin Textile Co., Ltd. mainly exported and brought flannel, CVC velvet, fleece and other fleece products; Changshu Xunda Iron Knitting Textile Co., Ltd. exhibited the latest developed jacquard fabric .
Jiangsu Changshu Zhongzhou Textile Sales Company has been here to participate in the exhibition for the fourth time. The company mainly focuses on foreign trade exports and mainly engages in polyester, leisure sports, environmentally friendly regeneration, and functional fabrics. Liu Shimei, general manager of company, said in an interview with a reporter from "Textile and Clothing Weekly" that the main purpose of participating in the exhibition is to use TITAS to further strengthen communication and exchanges with customers and peers, and hope to open up a broader market through this exhibition.
It is worth mentioning that as the only representative of wool textile enterprise in mainland China, Shandong Kangpingna Group Co., Ltd. also made its first appearance at the Taipei Textile Exhibition. Assistant Chairman and Executive Director Chen Hui , said: "Taiwan's coarse spinning companies are relatively few. This time we participated in the exhibition, we not only brought the company's latest new products, pure wool coarse spinning and jacquard series, to further show the corporate image and enhance brand influence, but also wanted to further understand trends and consumption trends through the exhibition platform and the Taiwan market, so as to open up the Taiwan and Southeast Asian markets, accelerate the internationalization process of Kangpingna, and achieve high-quality development."
am exhibitors from Japan, in addition to the "old face" Mikiriyan, Unitika and the fiber evaluation technology agreement meeting were the first to participate; the Daegu Gyeongbek Textile Industry Federation of South Korea also continued to participate in the exhibition this year, and two companies, Dain Sky and Ibigeng, South Korea, participated in the exhibition for the first time. In addition, the Federation of Industry and Commerce of India (FICCI) organized 10 member manufacturers to participate in the exhibition, hoping that through the TITAS platform, it can promote more supply and demand complementarity between India and Taiwan's textile-related companies.
Innovative textiles are based on international
With the rise of the Internet of Things, comprehensively creating innovative, functional and safe smart textiles came into being. Taiwan Textiles develops smart textiles with its forward-looking vision and leads the trend of pulsating trends.Taipei Textile Exhibition takes innovative applications as the core promotion platform of Taiwan's textile industry, and continues to focus on the three core themes of "Smart Textile, Sustainable Environmental Protection, Functional Application" , and exhibits textiles with high-tech and high-quality smart functions that are both environmentally friendly and popular.
This exhibition has added a smart textile zone, which will expand and expand from the field of "smart textiles" and deepen to "smart process application" and "smart solutions", so as to create a smart textile system and be applied in the upcoming automation and intelligent development of the textile industry, so as to quickly respond and meet market demand. In terms of interaction, the area perfectly presents the product details with the application of AR real-life technology, allowing visitors to experience the product's smart features and composite functions in an immersive way.
Formosa Plastics Group booth covers five image areas: fashion down, popular sports, outdoor sports, leisure life, industrial materials; and integrates technology empowerment to lead fashionable and innovative textiles, presenting the all-round application and development of the main products of Formosa Plastics enterprises in various industries such as fashion, sports, and outdoors. At the same time, the latest yarns and fabrics are also displayed.
Far East New Century This exhibition not only expanded the exhibition area, but also displayed more than 300 items, which is even more large than before. This year's exhibition area configuration continues last year's international and modern design, and interweaves an endless stage area with highlights, big screen audio and video and catwalk activities. The exhibits focus on elements such as innovation and sustainability, presenting the latest masterpieces of R&D units and all upstream, midstream and downstream links.
Tainan Textile brings multiple sets of functional blended yarn types and has developed a variety of foreign cloths with major fabric factories. Nanfang uses thick spinning technology to play with a variety of new materials. Among them, the long fiber product "UMORFIL® T" developed in conjunction with UMORFIL® UFIL® T and the staple fiber product "UMORFIL® t" have attracted much attention. "UMORFIL® T" has a moisture content of three times that of ordinary polyester, while maintaining strong heat resistance and toughness.
Accompanied by "comfort" and "good feel" has become the main demands of major brands and buyers. Xurong Group has developed a variety of innovative fabrics and exquisitely designed sample clothes styles, and also exhibited exquisite knitted fabrics made of renewable materials. With the rise of green consumption awareness and the increasing awareness of consumers' environmental protection, Xurong Group said that all clothing items will be fully recycled by 2022.
Procurement Negotiation Conference is highly anticipated
reporters learned from the organizer that the Taipei Textile Exhibition invited purchasing representatives from more than 100 international brands from 19 countries to hold more than 1,000 one-to-one procurement negotiations within three days to build opportunities for exhibitors to negotiate with brands from various countries.
In the field of sports, outdoor and leisure , the first brands that came to purchase include: American outdoor brand OUTDOOR RESEARCH, hunting leadership channel brand CABELA’S, outdoor clothing brand KHANGRI, French sports and outdoor group BOARDRIDERS, British bicycle and clothing brand ENDURA, well-known sports clothing group UMBRO, Canadian bicycle and tri-iron brand LOUIS GARNEAU, and Chinese mainland sports brand Li Ning and other professional buyers.
Functional textile application has entered the fashion field, and popular fashion brands are also the brands invited by Taipei Textile Exhibition in recent years. In addition to international heavyweight brands such as COACH, RALPH LAUREN, PERRY ELLIS, KASPER, etc., I.T, a well-known fashion group in Hong Kong and CLUB MONACO, the American casual fashion brand, are all participating in the procurement negotiation meeting for the first time.
Industrial and home textile market is still in a stage of continuous growth. American workwear CINTAS Group, British children's stroller brand BRITAX, Brazil's well-known home textile COTEMINAS, Denmark's world-renowned footwear brand ECCO, and French sports and casual shoe brand DC SHOES are all well-known brands that have come from thousands of miles away. It is expected to bring new business opportunities at this Taipei Textile Exhibition.
This Taipei Textile Exhibition held 11 seminars in 3 days to see through the industry pulse, including: smart textile innovation trends, Taiwan textile new trends conferences, and new fibers and new technology development trends.
