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A favourite jacket that's virtually indestructible, but can ultimately go on the compost heap, in line with the principle: tough on the outside, soft on the inside. That's a fitting description of the Peppermint Group’s EcoJacket. In a future study, textile engineers from the Advanced Materials Competence Centre (AMCC) joined professional recyclers to demonstrate that their innovative TRIWITEX yarn construction represents a huge step towards a sustainable future for the textile industry. The concept aims to combine two previously incompatible worlds. (Article in German language)

Innovation Press

Entry bands made of PET bottles, a red carpet made of old fishing nets and plastic waste recovered from the sea, a ball gown made of roses - this year's "Bundespresseball" was all about change. With sustainable concepts, new materials and a clever recycling economy, the textile industry can also make an important contribution to sustainability. Ingeborg Neumann was happy to give the guests an insight into our highly innovative textile world.

(Article in German language)

Company Innovation

The basic principle of intelligent living environments is to install technical systems anywhere in the house where they are needed. However, the necessary power and communication connections are not always available. In the new project ConText, a consortium under the coordination of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is developing a user-friendly and intuitive technology for smart textile surfaces, which makes walls and floors in living areas usable for cable-based power supply and communication.

 

Innovation

As a warm-up to Berlin Fashion Week, the North Rhine-Westphalian textile industry presented itself at the NRW office at the Federal Government in Berlin. The event premiered the first PolitFashionNight.

 

Company Innovation

Peppermint becomes cooperation with Startup Teens: The Berlin entrepreneur and company founder Ingeborg Neumann wants to inspire pupils.

Innovation Press

As part of the Federal Government's Digital Agenda 2014 to 2017, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy has launched the "Mittelstand 4.0 - Digital Production and Work Processes" funding initiative. The aim of this initiative is to support small and medium-sized enterprises on their way to digital transformation.

Innovation

Exhibits will be shown which are intended to give small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) an insight into the possibilities of industry 4.0.