European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing “COOREERS”- Mid-term meeting – Bucarest - 8/05/2006 1 MAIN OBJECTIVES • to pool and coordinate research excellence across Europe involving industry, academia and research policy makers • develop a long-term strategic vision for the future of the industry and to set-up a corresponding roadmap for a structured development from today’s situation towards the future vision • significantly improve access to necessary resources and general research and innovation framework conditions • to promote the interests of its members while taking into account the Europan Union’s institutional framework and its international obligations • to create an environment within the European Union which is conducive to the manufacture of textile and clothing products “COOREERS”- Mid-term meeting – Bucarest - 8/05/2006 2 STRATEGIC RESEARCH AGENDA A VISION FOR 2020 Focused on three main areas: • move from commodity fibres, filaments & fabrics, towards specialty products from flexible high-tech processes • establishment and expansion of textiles as the raw material of choice in many industrial sectors and new application fields • end the era of mass manufacture of textile products, and move towards new era of customisation, personalisation, intelligent production, logistics and distribution SRA:http://www.euratex.org/download/publications/others/eurate x-broch-technology_platform.pdf “COOREERS”- Mid-term meeting – Bucarest - 8/05/2006 3 USEFUL LINKS European sites: • EU Textile Trade policy http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/goods/textile/whatson.htm • EU Quota management http://sigl.cec.eu.int/choice.html International sites: • WTO Agreement on Textile and Clothing: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/texti_e/texti_e.htm • United States trade representative (USTR) – Textile sector: http://www.ustr.gov/sectors/textiles.shtml “COOREERS”- Mid-term meeting – Bucarest - 8/05/2006 4 PARTICIPANTS MEMBERS: EUROPEAN BRANCHES: AERTEL EATP Austria Morocco AIUFASS ECA Belgium Netherlands CELC EUROCORD Czech Norway Republic CELIBRIDE EUROCOTON Denmark Poland CIRFS FIF Estonia Portugal CITA INTERLAINE Finland Slovakia CRIET MAILLEUROP France Slovenia ASSOCIATED MEMBERS: Germany Spain BELLEGRPOM (Belarus) PROMPTEX (F) Greece Sweden CHARGEURS (F) STORK TPG (NL) Ireland Switzerland Italy Turkey ETSA (B) TEXTIL MANUEL Latvia United GONCALVES (P) Kingdom MARZOTTO (I) WERNER Lithuania INTERNATIONAL (B) MIROGLIO (I) WOOLMARK LIMITED (UK) “COOREERS”- Mid-term meeting – Bucarest - 8/05/2006 5 ANY OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION • First Public Conference will be held in Brussels on June 7-8, 2006: http://www.euratex.org/content/publicevents.html • Final Conference on Space2Tex -Wastewater Recycling in Textile Finishing through the Application and further Development of Membrane Bio-reactors used in Space Life Support Systems will be held in Brussels on June 7, 2006 http://www.euratex.org/content/publicevents.html “COOREERS”- Mid-term meeting – Bucarest - 8/05/2006 6 CONTACT The European Apparel and Textile Organisation 24, Rue Montoyer; Bte. 10 B-1000 Brussels Belgium http://www.euratex.org phone +32-2-285.48.80 fax +32-2-230.60.54 e-mail: [email protected] “COOREERS”- Mid-term meeting – Bucarest - 8/05/2006 7.