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Just a Few Sentences from VDMA at The Turn of The Year 2018/2019

Just a Few Sentences from VDMA at The Turn of The Year 2018/2019

Associations, Textile
The challenges for the textile machinery industry are manifold with a view to 2019. The political and economic framework conditions have deteriorated, incoming orders in important markets are difficult to predict. Markets that have so far been less in focus have to be observed and worked on more intensively. Digitalization requires the design of business processes and models. At the same time, the recruitment and retention of both academic and industrial junior staff is becoming a permanent task for companies. The ITMA ASIA was the most important marketing and sales event for the industry in 2018 - albeit in China in a demand environment that is currently declining in many segments. Nevertheless, in a VDMA survey, 74% of participants rated the number of visitors to their own stand as...
VDMA and Walter Reiners Foundation Awards Five Young Engineers with a Total of 17,500 EURO

VDMA and Walter Reiners Foundation Awards Five Young Engineers with a Total of 17,500 EURO

Textile
Peter D. Dornier, member of the Executive Board of the VDMA Textile Machinery Federation and Chairman of the Walter Reiners Foundation for the Promotion of Young Engineers, honours five young talents. Numerous entrepreneurs and managers from the German textile machinery industry took part in the award ceremony at the Digital Capability Center (DCC) in Aachen, Germany. The prizewinner in the dissertation category, Dr.- Ing. Benjamin Weise, comes from the Institute of Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen University (ITA). He has dealt with a complex production process for the manufacture of modified multifilament yarns, which offers new perspectives for the development and manufacture of textile charge carriers. M.Sc. Susanne Fischer, winner of the Master's thesis category, has systema...