Vanderveer Designers recently traveled to the Techtextil exhibit in Frankfurt to see where the industry is heading with new substances and developments in technical textiles. Our team was inspired by the wide range of applications — from fashion and clothing to architecture, healthcare, the outdoors and automotives. Once again, we have left with many new creative and innovative ideas. In part, thanks to the awesome presentations given by @nextnaturenetwork. Until next year!

1. Report Vanderveerdesigners visit Techtextil 2019 May 16th 2019
Leading international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens
International exhibitors will be presenting the entire spectrum of technical textiles,
functional apparel textiles and textile technologies at Techtextil

2. BWF Feltec
Traditional wool felt meets innovative design.
Wool felt is the oldest textile material and yet at the same time an ultra-modern product. With its classic wool felt, supplemented with
needle felts made from natural and synthetic fibres, BWF Feltec offers a unique product variety. Function-enhancing optional finishes
widen the broad application spectrum.

3. Elastollan, BASF
Breathable, permeable and tear-resistant: Elastollan as basis for fabrics, membranes, fibers and melt adhesives
Due to its high elasticity and mechanical resilience, the plastic is suited for the production of various basic materials
in the textile industry. Polyester fibers coated with Elastollan can be processed, among other things, into UV-resistant
and highly flexible fabrics for shading systems as well as outdoor furniture..

4. Abrasive backing Material with Styrofan 2820, BASF
High flexibility, Thermal dimensional stability, Self-crosslinking
Water-based styrene butadiene dispersions used in cementitious mixtures, water-proofing applications, concrete bridge decking, mortar
and concrete modification, facer coatings, wallcoverings, felt underlayment and glass fiber shingles

5. Bache innovative
Seamless 3D knitted structure combined with selected filled double layer weave knit

6. Stine Randestad, New Order of Fashion
Stina Randestad’s graduation collection HYBRIDS explores expressive material combinations through fabric manipulation
and a generative methodology, aiming for a bang.“I wanted to see how I could make materials meet and what happened when they did.
During a process of free material exploration, I stumbled upon two fabric manipulation techniques: laser cutting mesh and combining
stretchy with stiff materials.

7. Stine Randestad, New Order of Fashion
These techniques not only helped me to merge materials in an interesting way,
they also‘shapeshifted’the material from being 2D to 3D, which generated expression, movement and an ability to transform.
Hybrids is also an example of how a shift in a design process, such as putting material development first,
can lead to new ideas and unexpected results.”Computer-generated prints, by merging the codes of generic prints, complete the idea.

8. Hortus bionica studio Samira Boon
How can we design sustainable buildings that really move us? The Hortus Bionica species are the inhabitants of our vision for an
adaptive future architecture that interacts with its users and environmental factors. The resulting species, organic 3D textile installations,
are able to react to stimuli and change shape in an automated way though sensor technology. This garden of robotic textile creatures resemble
nature in architectural setting and carry out a number of smart functions, including climate and UV control, to react to changing circumstances
and improve our habitat.The research is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Sensor Lab and supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.

9. Techtextil 2019
We have had an inspiring and innovative day on the textxtil
Seen beautiful materials, interesting coatings, progressive machines and so much other things!

10. WTEX, Bio EVA
Curently 17 bilion pair of shoes are produced worldwide every year.
The outsole cutting stage generates about 25-35% of waste which represents 80 tons of waste per milion pairs.
EVA represents 14% of that waste.
WTEX incorporate the waste of EVA by reusing it and aiming for a waste-free circular resource world.

11. Cork-a-tex
The cork yarn, developed by Penedo and Sedacor in collaboration with CITEVE and FEUP, was highly praised by the jury chair of the
Techtextil Inovation Awards. Cork a tex yarn, composed by cotton and cork waste is an innovative and high performance yarn that
simultanously incorporate the properties of textile substrates at the level of comfort, touch, appereance and the functional benefits of cork:
natural, comfortable and warm feeling, hypoallergic with high friction resistance and good resilience.