Whether highly topical information or a dialogue with experts. The numerous events and top subjects at Texcare International give you the chance to expand and deepen your knowledge.
Events Texcare International
In addition to the exhibitors' highlights, the specialist supporting programme sets new accents. Here, the top themes automation, energy and resources, circularity and textile hygiene will also be examined in detail.
Texcare Forum
Texcare’s free lecture programme will take place in Galleria A09 on all four days of the fair and will revolve around the key topics of automation, energy and resources, the circular economy and textile hygiene.
The forum's main focus is on promoting the transfer of knowledge between experts, manufacturers and users. In this context, development trends, challenges, status determination and future-oriented solutions for the industry will be examined in detail. Messe Frankfurt is working closely with its partners, the German Textile Cleaning Association (Deutscher Textilreinigungs-Verband – DTV) and VDMA Textile Care, Fabric and Leather Technologies, as well as other international associations, to develop the content of the conference.
This year, Texcare Forum is also offering a lecture format for exhibitors. In 20-minute slots, exhibitors will present particularly innovative solutions or products from their portfolios to the audience. The participating companies include, among others, Ecolab, Kannegiesser, Christeyns, Electrolux, Veit and Seitz.
In their 'International Market Updates', also at the Texcare Forum, experts from TRSA (Association for Linen, Uniform and Facility Services Industry, USA), Sveriges Tvätteriförbund (Swedish Textile Service Association) and Texcare France will give a sound insight into the textile-service markets and industry initiatives in their respective countries.
Young Competence
Young Competence offers young professionals an insight into the diversity of the textile care industry and a look behind the scenes at Texcare. On Thursday, November 7, german-based vocational schools have the opportunity to register for a free guided tour of Texcare. Together with their young professionals, the schools will visit selected exhibitors at their stands. There, the young professionals will have the opportunity to make contacts in the industry and gain exciting insights into the latest technologies and the diverse career options in the textile service industry.
Young Competence is a collaboration with the German Textile Cleaning Association (Deutscher Textilreinigungs-Verband e.V. – DTV) and vocational schools.
Unfortunately, registration is only possible for German vocational schools.
Guided Tours
Texcare International will be offering Guided Tours for the first time at the upcoming event. Participants will be introduced to a selection of particularly impressive innovations on the trade fair tours curated and led by experts. In addition to new products from well-known major leaders, the tours will also focus on progressive solutions from smaller companies.
The Guided Tours will take place on all four days of the fair and are free of charge for holders of a valid Texcare ticket. They start at the Stand Guided Tours, B03, in the Galleria 0.
Starting time:
6 November 2024 at 1 p.m., 7-9 November 2024 at 11 a.m.
Stand Guided Tours, B03, in the Galleria 0
Duration of the tour: approx. 1 hour.
- Tour 1:
06.11.2024 / 1 p.m.: Guide Dr. Geert Böttger, Textile-Services Consultant
Participating companies: Dibella GmbH, deister electronic, Girbau, Spindle, Jiangsu Sea-lion Machinery - Tour 2:
07.11.2024 / 11 a.m.: Guide Dr. Geert Böttger, Textile-Services Consultant
Participating companies: Herbert Kannegiesser, SoCom Informationssysteme, Christeyns, Kreussler Textile Care, ABG Systems
- Tour 3:
08.11.2024 / 11 a.m.: Guide Tanguy Gernigon, Deutscher Textilreinigungs Verband
Participating companies: Ecolab Deutschland, SAIER Dosiertechnik, ATS-Tanner Banding Systems, MACPI, Polytex Technologies - Tour 4:
09.11.2024 / 11 a.m.: Guide Veronika März, VDMA – Textile Care, Fabrics & Leather Technologies
Participating companies: VEIT, BÖWE Textile Cleaning, Electrolux Professional AB, MEVO Metzler GmbH, SMRT Systems
Please arrive 15 minutes before the tour starts to register.
Activities of the Industry Associations
In addition, leading industry associations use the international platform of Texcare to present themselves with their own special events. Among others, CINET (Comité International De L`Entretien du Textile) invites you to its PTC World Congress on 8 and 9 November and presents the internationally renowned Global Best Practices Awards on the afternoon of the last day of the fair (9 November).
Texcare 2024 Top Themes
Automation
Automation and digitalization have made textile care processes much more efficient. This is because they not only optimize the flow of goods and data, but also replace burdensome work and simplify interfaces with customers, who can track where their laundry is and how it is being treated at all times. Countless new developments in this area will be presented at Texcare International.
Staff shortages are currently one of the biggest challenges facing the industry. With the help of robots, sensors and artificial intelligence, companies have the opportunity to compensate for staff shortages of skilled and unskilled workers, automate repetitive work and become more independent and efficient overall. At the same time, employees benefit from a higher quality of work and new opportunities for development.
Energy and resources
Resource efficiency has become one of the most important targets in textile care, and not just since energy prices began to rise worldwide.
Many laundries and dry cleaners are re-evaluating their processes in light of today's requirements in terms of consumption, emission avoidance and reduction of the CO2 footprint. Texcare showcases a wide range of solutions, which often consist of an intelligent combination of equipment, chemicals, controls and laundry quality.
The question of future energy sources is also becoming increasingly urgent. At the trade fair, the pros and cons of gas, electricity, hydrogen and other sources will be examined in detail so that companies can make the right investment decisions for their future.
Circularity
The hygienic cleaning and reuse of textiles is the epitome of a functioning circular economy. The sustained use of high-quality textiles makes both practical and ecological sense. From identification to collector/dispenser systems to fleet management, Texcare offers everything the textile service sector needs for its business model.
But the industry can also benefit from a circular approach in other respects. In the production facilities, water and energy are largely moving in closed loops. With the help of state-of-the-art technology, they are used economically, processed and recovered. And even at the end of the useful life of textiles, there is a new beginning: developments in textile recycling are another hot topic at Texcare International 2024.
Interview with Thomas Fischer, expert in textile recycling, recycling management and market development at bvse, on the topic of textile recycling as a significant contribution to sustainability
Textile care companies and rental services are already working sustainably today by caring for the laundry professionally and thus maintaining its value. This means that textiles can be used for longer and recycled later. But what happens when textiles reach the end of their life cycle? Our interview focuses on the current status of textile recycling in Europe.
Textile hygiene
Textile care companies have always been specialists in the hygienic preparation of textiles. The industry therefore expects demand to continue to grow in the field of textile hygiene in the health care and hotel and tourism sectors.
Innovations in textile hygiene - from disinfecting processes for textile cleaning, hygienic washing processes and detergents to antiviral finishing of textiles - will be the focus of Texcare International 2024.
Newsroom Textile Care, Cleaning and Cleanroom Technologies
Whether China, India, the U.S, Germany or France: Messe Frankfurt now holds events for textile care in all major economic regions of the world. In the newsroom Textile Care, Cleaning and Cleanroom Technologies you get the latest news about our textile care events worldwide.