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(c) Copyright Verband der Nord-Ostdeutschen
Textil- und Bekleidungsindustrie e.V. (vti)
East German Textile Production with Yearly Growth Rates in Technical Textiles
Technical Textiles take a share
of 42% of the East German textile production, which is above the
federal average. Bertram Höfer, chief executive officer of
the association of the North-Eastern German textile- and clothing
industry e.V./vti , Chemnitz, explicated further in front of the
trade press on the occasion of the latest Techtextil on the grounds
of the Frankfurt Fair that hometextiles have 30% and textiles for
clothing 28% of the production total. Many of the hometextiles manufacturers
of the region have found with the segment Technical Textiles a "second
leg to stand on". The Eastern German branch will emerge strengthened
out of the current crisis and counts on "a black zero with
a red rim" at year`s end, they said.
The textile industry of Saxony has
mastered the transformation from traditional fabrication to development
and production of innovative hightech products. Even more than 180
Saxon companies and research institutes are active in the techtextile
sector. With the network initiative Technische Textilien Sachsen
(VITT) (Technical Textiles Saxony) - the Innovation Netzwerk Textil
e.V., Chemnitz/INNtex with managing director Klaus Stapf at the
top as network manager - the Free State of Saxony supports the set-up
of strategic enterprise networks. In Thuringia it is the state-promoted
project "SmartTex". According to Höfer the 200 companies
of the total branch with 18,000 employees look into the future deliberately
optimistic, even if there are currently export drops to see. >>
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