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At the heart of textile evolution ACTIVITY REPORT. 2018 A word from the president
"2018: Recognition and Renewal As you all know, the year 2018 was a pivotal year with the phase III evaluation of the inno- vation clusters followed by our candidacy for phase IV. Assessment and Recognition Over the last 5 years, faithful to our communal ambition and Techtera's desire to be AT THE HEART OF TEXTILE EVOLUTION, we can summarise our action around three issues: 2019: Renewal of the label - Great Innovation, of course, with stronger key prospects for the sector themes for the future: This new year, the support of our members, • Reinforced expertise, recognised through partners and funders, who have followed us international joint projects with greater for many years, and our team’s commitment involvement in the textile sector’s organi- have been rewarded by the renewal of the sation linked with its markets - the cluster cluster's labelling for the next four years. is now positioned as a European Innovation The preparatory work in 2017 and 2018 Cluster. allowed us to demonstrate the issues involved • Two dynamic clubs: in developing an innovative value-generating sector in fast-growing markets. • STeW, Smart Textiles and Wearables, explores new needs in fast-growing This continuity and commitment - “AT THE markets HEART OF TEXTILE EVOLUTION” - are thanks to you; Techtera is proud to be an integral • RECIT, Recycling and Circular Economy, part of this dynamic and innovative sector. largely developed by the cluster, opens new opportunities for innovation. Let us continue to go further, innovate and invent tomorrow’s markets. • Increased visibility of the textile industry in its application markets as a provider of Let us continue to be the same coherent innovative solutions. Several partnerships and united force open to other skills and and European projects were initiated in technologies. 2018, particularly in the automotive, aero- space and health sectors. Louis Vovelle Luxury Excellence: the cluster's involvement President " in fashion & luxury activities has accelerated to combine the “training world” with textile innovation through participation in juries in major competitions and numerous events in the sector. International recognition with expanded areas CERTIFICATION: for action: Techtera’s help for companies in their export business intensified in 2018 ISO 9001 (2015), for Techtera’s through support at international markets quality management system. and trade shows; 90 companies benefited in 2018. Figures of the year 2018
19% 33 20press 174 2 international newsletter Techtera market brochures: newsletter releases open rate press • Recycling and sent mentions Circular Economy • Smart textiles
18 % 2 % Trade fairs Success fees
10 % Trade union 2 % Europe
RESOURCES 6 % 48 % Board members Subsidies
15 % Memberships
5 % 45 % Strategic Textile industry management stimulation, support towards innovation 5 % Communication
ACTIONS 16 % Administrative management
11 % 19 % Market making International for fashion actions and decoration •3• Textile industry stimulation, 27 workshops, 1286 participants
8 Innovation 11 Competitiveness 1 Techtera Resource Workshops Workshops Workshop
• Textile and printed • Japanese market potential • The textile, vector of electronics day and opportunities for the innovation in the equine textile industry sector • Metallization: Interest and applications for textiles • Technical textiles in Japan and flexible materials • Patent monitoring: The key 6 Fashion & Decoration • 3D printing for textile players in textile innovation Trends Workshops applications and flexible materials • Digital communication • 2 Fashion workshops: strategy Fashion trends analysis • Textile and energy - Autumn/Winter season • Market place: Building 2019/2020 • Polymeric materials in the sustainable and profitable - Spring/Summer season 2020 field of sport and leisure growth in marketplace • 2 Decoration workshops: • Materials & products to • European fundings for SMEs Decoding home trends innovate in the field of food - Autumn/Winter season • Program Worth presentation packaging 2019/2020 - Spring/Summer season 2020 • Reactive extrusion in • South Africa workshop partnership with Axelera • Ambition Europe: European • 360° workshops (2 editions): Global Trends & Market • Industry of the future: fundings for R&D Eco-efficient processes • Germany: Technical textiles and plant market & Interculturality
• BOOSTALPS: Automotive and textile
Clubs Techtera 2 clubs dedicated to 1 Valorisation major thematics of Workshop the textile industry: Trends programmes • ACIC conference: • Smart Textiles & What practices to innovate Wearables (Club STeW, in a network with SMEs? 35 members) ! • Recycling and Circular Economy in the Textile Industry (Club RECIT,
25 members) Chutes, on recycle
Signature of the ESMOD partnership Upcycling and recycling, Textile industry stimulation, initiatives headed by 27 workshops, 1286 participants the cluster Greater actions « Chutes, on recycle ! » (We recycle for fashion & luxury textile wastes!), the upcycling event It is part of the actions of the RECIT Club. Consolidation of school and industrial interaction The “We recycle textile wastes!” day, organised by Techtera with the support of the city of Lyon, Techtera expands its network to fashion schools. brought together more than 90 manufacturers In February 2018, Techtera signed a partnership and designers on November 13, 2018 in Lyon. , France's leading fashion school. with ESMOD Objective: linking up textile manufacturers with Objectives: designers in order to make use of production • To affirm together the wish to create bridges offcuts through upcycling. 200 appointments between Techtera members, suppliers of organised during the day. materials or innovative manufacturing The event was also a place for exchanges with processes and ESMOD students, future conferences, an exhibition of creations and the designers and managers of fashion companies. awards ceremony of the upcycling initiatives • To enrich the creative abilities of students as competition. regards clothing, fashion and dressmaking. • To broaden the dissemination of technical Recycling: theme of the TEXTIVAL textiles in the fashion sector. 2018 edition Support for major events Techtera and Unitex co-organised the sustainable innovation challenge competition for innovative The year 2018 was marked by shows dedicated textile initiatives and solutions for sustainable to the world of fashion and luxury at which development. Techtera supported its members (Avantex, Première Vision, Munich Fabric Start). The cluster The cluster also participated in the conference, also took part in the Fashion Tech Days. entitled “Textile recycling: a global approach to sustainable development” held at TEXTIVAL. Trends programmes
Dedicated to fashion, these programmes launched in 2017, and headed by Techtera with Smart Textiles, three trend firms, are the key-to-success workshops for future collections. in the Highlights
Objective: a continuous and up-to-date watch Techtera accredited the training on connected on aesthetic and creative trends in order to ac- creative materials. quire a clearer vision of products to develop for The STeW club designed and developed the PROTO future seasons. STEW, a localised pressure sensor, presented Active member of juries at major at IFAI, SIDO and Première Vision- Wearable Lab. competitions As part of the Think Tank, Fibertronics, dedicated In 2018, Techtera participated in the jury of the to the fibers and textiles of the future, Techtera 12th edition of Talents de mode (fashion talents), co-organised a day with the JCFA (Japan Chemical one of the most prominent fashion contests and Fibers Association) in Lyon and implemented in the jury of Théophile Legrand international partnerships with schools and Japanese award of textile innovation 2018. universities. •5• THE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS of 2018
COLLABORATIVE R&D PROJECTS FINANCED IN 2018
BEM CHAB Develop a complete mannequin (bust and Manufacture a circular knit that will be used robotized limbs), anthropomorphic, evolutive to wrap reinforced concrete piles intended and instrumented. especially for engineering structures. Budget: 3 837 000 € Budget: 1 087 748 € Financing: PIA, Innovation contest Partners: 4 Financing: R&D Booster, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Région
AUSTRALE 4 Design a secure unit authentication solution in the THz and Radiofrequency domains to fight DEPOREX against fraud and counterfeiting. Optimise one of the steps of a chemical Budget: 1 108 902 € recycling process for polyester textile materials: Partners: 4 depolymerization of polyester by reactive extrusion. Financing: ANR Budget: 102 000 € Partners: 3 Financing: BPI, Directorate General for Enterprise REMOPP Restore Mobility to Paralyzed People. Budget: 199 964 € Financing: Pack Ambition Recherche, Auvergne- FOURMI Rhone-Alpes Région Design a textile fiber optic sensor to develop a new system for structures monitoring to anticipate structural damage and limit heavy maintenance work. Budget: 30 000 € TEXT4SUN Partners: 4 Improve the performance of polyester to Financing: R&D Booster, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Ultra-Violet. Région Budget: 600 000 € Partners: 4 Financing: EUROSTARS THE PROJECTS SUPPORTED SINCE 2005 210 546 PROJECTS MILLION EUROS budget
TECHTERA EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIPS
CONTEXT ALLIANCE Promote European exchanges between experts to Develop cooperation between the textile sector, generate research, development and innovative ICT (Information & Communications Technology) projects in the field of intelligent textiles. and the defense and security aspects at a European Budget: 450 000 € level. Partners: 33 countries Budget: 266 000 € Partners: 7
In 2018, projects with different stages of maturity came to feed the “pipeline”.
How close is a R&D project to the market? TRL SCALE (Technology Readiness Level)
Basic and applied research Development Pre industrialisation
Idea Proof Technology Industrial Market 123 of concept 456demonstration 89 validation introduction
ANR : ational Research Agency
FUI : Single Interministerial Fund
ADEME : Ministry of Environment and Energy
IM BPI : French- erman financing support
H2020 : ori on2020 European programme for research and innovation •7• A wide range of markets considered 20 trade shows and collective missions — 90 companies accompanied
Events & trade fairs FRANCE INTERNATIONAL
PREMIÈRE VISION (2 editions) CAMX The global event for the fashion sector Main exhibition of composites in America (Fashion) (Composites)
AVANTEX (2 editions) ISPO The first international tradeshow dedicated Major business events for the sports industry to the innovation in the textile and Fashion (Sports) industry (Fashion) MUNICH FABRIC START (2 editions) FASHION TECH DAYS International trade fair for textiles, accessories, Event for fashion and technology, organised denim, streetwear and sports clothing in cooperation with several regional players (Fashion, Sports) (Fashion) HEIMTEXTIL SIDO International show dedicated to home textiles Internet of Thing, Artificial Intelligence & (Home textiles) robotics event (Smart Textiles) IFAI WEARABLE LAB The leading show for specialised textiles Area dedicated to invention and forward- in North America (All markets) looking ideas (Smart Textiles)
JEC WORLD ISPO - January 2018 The leading trade fair for the composites industry (Composites)
TEXTIVAL Business and innovation meeting for textiles and flexible materials (All markets) SIDO - April 2018
RDV CARNOT Meeting place between innovative firms and the world of R&D, to support the innovation projects of companies (All markets)
CHUTES, ON RECYCLE !
Day of linking up textile manufacturers with Avantex - February 2018 designers in order to make use of production offcuts through upcycling (Fashion, Infrastructures, Recycling)
Première Vision - February 2018 A wide range of markets considered 20 trade shows and collective missions — 90 companies accompanied
Network & outreach Interclustering Mission to Japan France Techtera, in partnership with Business France and with the support of the French ministry for • Hub of clusters for the Factory of the Future the economy and finance, took part in a textile with AXELERA, IMAGINOVE, MINALOGIC, MONT- technology mission in Tokyo and Nagoya. BLANC INDUSTRIES, PLASTIPOLIS, TENERRDIS and VIAMECA. Cross sectorial cooperation for galvanising the exchanges and work on new collaborative projects answering the stakes of Mission to Colombia the factory of the future. As part of the EU-TEXTILE2030 programme, Techtera co-organised a collective mission to bring a textile company delegation to Medellín, the textile capital of the country. • Composites Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: cooperation between the textiles, chemistry and plastics industries with AXELERA, Mission to South Africa PLASTIPOLIS and VIAMECA. As part of the EU-TEXTILE2030 programme, Techtera coordinated the organisation of a collective mission in South Africa.
International • ALLIANCE: cooperation between the textile sector, ICT (information and communication technology) and defense and security.
• CONTEXT: European networking activities of Business opportunities scientific and industrial experts in the field of intelligent textiles.
• EU-TEXTILE2030: alliance to boost the European textile industry outside Europe. 43 business opportunities were answered thanks to CART’TEX database
•9• Achievements & Outcast Review of the period 2013-2018 Techtera, initiator of themes and Solidity of the economic model driving force of the textile industry and administration • Significant growth in the number of members • 52% of the cluster’s resources were of private (+65.5%) - 197 members at the end of 2018 origin in 2018 • Exceptionally strong member loyalty since the • Balanced administration in terms of type and cluster’s creation representation of members • 89% participation of SME members in at least International: one of the cluster’s one joint R&D project foundation stones since its creation • Backing of the sector as a whole with 131 letters • Identification of Techtera as a point of entry for of support European SMEs signing of a memorandum of Performance linked to recognised cooperation between France and Japan skill in joint projects • Strong European ambition since 2012: • Nearly €90 million in public aid for national and 45 European projects submitted by Techtera regional projects since 2013 and/or its members, 11 projects funded, coor- dination and partner of two COSME projects • 63% success rate for FUI calls for projects in 2017 (French government fund for innovation clusters) • Partner of 17 foreign clusters • 209 textile patents filed by members, most of which were filed in partnership • Member of the European base for the textile industry, co-construction of the innovation roadmap
48 competitiveness clusters have been labelled for phase IV (2019-2022) and 8 for a duration of 1 year. The ambition of this new phase is to enable approved innovation clusters to strive for excellence in key sectors of the future and to expand throughout Europe. 2019-2022 Strategic roadmap
Project factory - 3 technological axes -
Smart and Circular Economy Factory of the future high-performance materials and new economic models
The TechteraFab: An area designed to accommodate your industrial machines and confirm your concepts on a large scale
Outreach and Business development
Identification of Strengthening the synergies Increasing the European Development of collaborations with the dimension cross-border cooperation of the sector clusters of the region
Expertise and solid organisation, master word of a perennial pole
Strengthening the Techtera team of experts Intensification of alliances throughout France The members of Techtera in 2018
197 members, on the whole textile value chain.
164
Companies 96 SMEs (20-250 employees)
12 Medium-Sized 197 Companies MEMBERS (250-2 000 employees)
3 Groups (> 2 000 employés) 53 Very Small Companies (<20 employees)
1 3 29
Trade union Clusters Labs, Universities, Schools
•11• Premium Members 2018
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