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
Texcare Forum
Texcare’s free lecture programme took place on all four days of the fair and covered the topics of automation, energy and resources, circularity and textile hygiene.
The forum promoted the transfer of knowledge between experts, manufacturers and users, with discussions centring on development trends, challenges and pioneering solutions. Messe Frankfurt worked closely with the DTV, the VDMA and other international associations on the programme.
At the ‘International Market Updates’, experts from TRSA, Sveriges Tvätteriförbund and Texcare France provided insights into the textile service markets in their respective countries.
Young Competence
Young Competence offered young professionals an insight into the textile care industry and a behind-the-scenes look at Texcare. Vocational schools were able to register for a guided tour, during which they and their students visited selected exhibitors. There, participants had the opportunity to make industry contacts and learn more about the latest technologies and career opportunities in the textile service industry.
Young Competence was organised in cooperation with the German Textile Cleaning Association (Deutscher Textilreinigungs-Verband – DTV) and vocational schools.
Guided Tours
Guided Tours: Texcare 2024 featured Guided Tours for the first time. Participants were introduced to particularly impressive innovations on the tours, which were led by experts. In addition to innovations from major market leaders, the focus was also on advanced solutions from smaller companies.
These were the top themes at Texcare 2024
Automation
Automation and digitalisation have made textile care processes much more efficient. This is because they not only optimise 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 were 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 showcased a wide range of solutions, which often consist of an intelligent combination of equipment, chemicals, controls and laundry quality.
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 offered 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 were 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 - were the focus of Texcare International 2024.
