1. New speciality fibres and fibre-composites for innovative textile products.
2. Applying functionalism to textile materials and related processes.
3. Bio-based materials, biotechnologies and environmentally friendly textile processing.
• Creation and development of textiles as a chosen material in many industrial sectors and areas of application. Topic groups:
4. New textile products for improved human performance.
5. New textile products for innovative technical applications.
6. Smart textiles and apparel
• The end of the mass production era of textile products and the advancement to a new era of special customer orders, individualization, intellectual production, logistics, and distribution. Topic groups:
7. Individualization of fashion/apparel mass production in manufacturing technologies and management of supply flow and logistics segments (mass customization).
8. New design and product development concepts and technologies.
9. Integrated quality and life cycle management concepts.
The implementation of technological platform trends and the prepared plan of strategic research including the identified trends of apparel and textile industry activity which are the most promising for Lithuania, as well as appropriate measures and actions in order to mobilize and target the actions of the enterprises and scientists working in the apparel and textile sector to fulfill the most promising activities, would help the Lithuanian apparel and textile industry and its enterprises to develop competitive future products and manufacturing.
Lithuanian Apparel and Textile Industry Association
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