Community Research and Development Information Service - CORDIS

Key information

Launch
December 2004

Website

European Technology Platform contact person
Lutz Walter
European Apparel and Textile Confederation - EURATEX
Tel: +32 2 285 48 85
Email

European Commission contact person
Eva Patricia Hualde Grasa
Tel: +32 2 296 62 25
Email

John CLEUREN
Tel: +32 2 296 73 14
Email

Production and processes

Future Textiles and Clothing – FTC

Fibre and textile-based materials and products have always played a vital role in human life and there is no reason to believe that their importance will diminish in the 21stcentury. With a growing world population and a rapid increase in textile consumption in developing countries, a whole range of new application areas for textiles and constantly rising user requirements (in terms of functionality, variety, precision, performance, reliability, user and environmental friendliness of textile products, textile production in both volume and value) is set to rise.

Key documents

Vision - 2004

Strategic Research Agenda – 2006
"The Future is….Textiles"

ManuTex - Cross-platform research roadmap of FTC and ManuFuture - 2007

Bio-Tex - Cross-platform research roadmap of FTC and Suschem-Biotech - 2009

Last updated on: 2011-06-17