Posted January 17, 2018

 

OBERTSHAUSEN, Germany – KARL MAYER hosted a conference here on Additive Manufacturing for the Textile Industry on January 11.

 

The Textile Research Institute Thüringen-Vogtland e.V. (TITV) organized the event, in cooperation with KARL MAYER.

 

“We want to create the exchange between the two worlds, namely between the additive manufacture as a young discipline of production and the textile sector as an industrial branch with a long tradition," said KARL MAYER Product Manager Michael Kieren, in the run-up to this event.

 

Kieren and his team organized a program that attracted about 100 specialists from different fields. Invited guests included manufacturers of textiles for the automotive, sports and medical sectors, finishing professionals and yarn manufacturers as well as experts from science and research. The interest in the meeting exceeded all expectations, according to organizers.

 

“I am very surprised by the high response to our conference and by the wide range of different areas from which our guests come," Arno Gärtner, KARL MAYER’s CEO, said during the conference "Both aspects show the importance of this topic, and the significance of events of this kind."

 

Dr. Uwe Möhring, managing director of TITV, also expressed his satisfaction with the course of the meeting.

 

“I think it’s great that so many people have come and that so many different discussions arise, especially in view of the high event density at the beginning of the year," Möhring said. “The contributions with real topics but also the size and mix of the audience encourage a successful exchange."

 

The agenda included lectures held by 3D-printer manufacturers as well as by companies that have already been working with additive manufacturing methods. They provided information about their experiences with various possibilities but also about still existing limitations.

 

Two experts presented first combinations of textile and 3D-print. A service provider in this business also took the floor: Tatcraft from Frankfurt presented with Maker Space its capacities for 3D-print, woodworking, water jet cutting and other technologies to experiment and explore different possibilities without major investments.

 

Source: KARL MAYER