List of Participants to Brokerage Event
| First Name: | Arantxa | |
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| Last name: | Azorín | |
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About Organization | ||
| Organization: | AITEX | |
| Organization Profile: | AITEX is a non-profit making association established in 1985, composed by textile and related companies, whose main objective is to improve the textile companies’ competitiveness, promoting modernisation activities, new technologies introduction and improvement of the company and products quality. AITEX acts on behalf of the textile and clothing industries in Spain and overseas, having a strong industrial representation. Only in Spain, the number of finishing textile companies is more than 800, and the total number of textile and clothing companies is more than 16.000 of which around 4.000 are our regular clients (nearly 33%). Nowadays the textile sector in Spain, as it is also happening throughout Europe, is living a particular situation, which affects the textile manufacturing processes in a huge way. In this moment, AITEX plays an important role as more than 900 associated companies trust on AITEX in order to change their manufacturing processes, to adopt new technologies, new software, toolkits and so on. AITEX works in several fields of research and activities to support the textile and clothing sector. Among the many different tasks that the Institute fosters, we can point out the Standardization and quality, RTD Projects (National and European projects), Training and Lab Services for enterprises (including chemical, physical, fire behaviour, personal protective, comfort, 48-hours lab, water, microbiology, geotextiles and geosynthetics, automotive, medical and hygienic, filtration and ballistics) Our RTD personnel is structured in 6 research groups; Nanotechnologies, Intelligent Textiles, ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), Finishings on Technical Textiles and Clothing Technology. | |
| Department: | SMART TEXTILES | |
| Web site: | www.aitex.es | |
| Country: | Spain | |
Further details | ||
| Area of interest: |
* Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructure * Cognitive systems, interaction and robotics * Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare * ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency | |
