Prsentation PowerPoint

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CARPI
? 17th june 2005 ?
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From traditional to technical textile

• In the Champagne-Ardenne Region

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Actions done to develop technical textiles in our
region

• Club Textile Intégral IFTH
• Citext
• 3D knitting plateform

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From traditional to technical textile

• History
• Medical equipment suppliers
• Automotive suppliers
• Early 1990s
• Management of the reconversion
• Starting up of bonding companies

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Convention Internationale dAffaires des Textiles
Techniques
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Citext - BIRTH

• Citext Europe has been created in 1997 by UNIT
  with the help of IFTH Troyes.
• It is one of the strategic tools set up by the
  textile union in the Champagne-Ardenne to make
  the companies think about other markets.
• Citext has been made as a regional window and as
  a  commercial comfort  tool.
• It is a real accompaniement to help the
  traditional textile companies in new business
  areas, for new partners, for working differently.

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Technical and commercial opportunities

• Have in 2 days the equivalent of several months
  of business prospection.
• Be registered in the directory of technical
  textile buyers.
• Prospect in good conditions (meetings are
  organised, people are wanting and available).
• Meet other companies already acting in these
  markets to collect information.
• See that technical textiles are more a matter of
  creativity than complexity.
• Full-scale test, for exhibitors, in a short time
  an for an interesting cost, the interest of
  products and services of the company.

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How it works

• A two days meeting
• Preset meeting planning
• A catalogue to choose your meetings
• Both lunches with everybody to meet even more
  people
• A on-site assistance, with a letterbox system,
  to obtain new meetings.
• 40 minutes meetings

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CITEXT 2005

• 220 participants
• 3 500 meetings
• 5 conferences
• Plateform  3D knitting and integral knitting 
• Garments and gloves for protection (fire heat
  cut)
• Bonding by the foam coating process
• Will Future coatings require nanotechnologies ?
• How to choose firemen equipements ?

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BUYERS who goes to Citext ?
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Why do buyers go to Citext ?
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Suppliers Who ?
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Other tool

• THE 3D KNITTING PLATEFORM