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Innovation Pavilion Present at Stand 4281INDEX will feature an Innovation Pavilion, including research consortia dedicated to new opportunities for nonwovens. Present at the exhibition will be ACTECO, the European Commission: DG Research, INTELTEX and STELLA.The objective of ACTECO—co-efficient activation for hyperfunctional surfaces—is to support the textile, biomedical and food industries in the development of economical and ecological plasma processes. This project aims at new plasma processes that are able to bring innovative properties, leading to hyperfunctional surfaces with a lifetime matching the final product. This breakthrough will be achieved by developing existing knowledge in plasma processes and functional materials in combination with new plasma systems. The radical innovation is to provide new tools for an eco-production adapted to specific sectors. European Commission: DG Research Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials & New Production Technologies provides a multi-disciplinary and integrative research and technology development approach with the potential to improve competitiveness and sustainable development across a range of industrial sectors. The overall objective of the INTELTEX project is to develop a radically new approach to obtain intelligent textiles combining three innovative functions: • continuous measurement of mechanical stresses applied to the textile structure • thermal self-regulated textile surfaces • detection of chemicals (toxic volatile solvents…) STELLA —Stretchable Electronics for Large Area applications—examines a new technology for smart textiles. As a consequence of the ambient intelligent vision where the citizen carries along more electronic systems near the body, wearable electronics are needed. Typical applications are intelligent textiles and clothes, healthcare personnel or fitness monitoring. The electronic systems for these applications have to be stretchable with a soft touch nature in order not to hamper the comfort of the user and to be ideally almost unnoticeable to him. They should be able to reliably withstand all mechanical and chemical requirements of the clothes in which they are integrated. In the EU project STELLA, a consortium has developed a platform technology to enable interconnection, packaging and assembling technologies. For example, a new generation of stretchable substrates based on a nonwoven with a stretchable conductor pattern for large area applications has been developed. |
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