Een foto-impressie van het congres
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Entrance of the Zebrastraat site where the International Conference on innovations in sports textiles organised by Centexbel and Fedustria took place |
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Art work on roof. The Zebrastraat site in Ghent is a symbiosis of business meetings, art performances and living |
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Jan Laperre, director general of Centexbel, welcomes the more than 100 participants from 11 different countries to the first international congress on Innovations in Sports Textiles |
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Congress participants attending one of the four parallel sessions on Comfort, Wellness and Safety aspects, Performances and Sustainability |
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Dixie Dansercoer illustrated the very high demands he and his fellow polar explorers require of textiles and textile performances in very extreme weather conditions. Textiles are often a matter of life or death in the (Ant)artics |
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During the plenary session on Friday afternoon, Dimitri Huygen of the Belgian Sports Technology Club explains the many business opportunities of a joint prospection to international sporting events, an initiative of Agoria and the Belgian International Olympic Committee |
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The coffee and lunch breaks took place in the large tent on the patio where the congress sponsors and scientific institutes showed their exhibits and/or scientific posters |
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Debomat displayed a curling mat that is part of a social integration project uniting elderly people and children |
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The Centexbel brochures and posters were intensively consulted and added extra colour to the exhibition room |
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Devan Chemicals displayed the t-shirt containing 4 active substances that was presented as a gift to all participants at the end of the congress |
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Weverij Jules Clarysse takes the cradle-to-cradle principle to heart with its production of very comfortable bath towels made of the pulp of soya milk and its policy of recycling used towels |
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TO2C and Unitex |
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The importance of textiles without harmful substances was illustrated on the Oeko-Tex stand |
