The Nineteenth Shanghai International Textile Industry Exhibition Takes The Lead.

The nineteenth Shanghai International Textile Industry Exhibition (SHANGHAITEX 2019) will be held in Shanghai New International Expo Center (Pudong) on November 25, 2019, ~11 28. The exhibition area will be over 100 thousand square meters. The 9 exhibition hall will gather more than 1200 exhibitors at home and abroad. It will display a series of intelligent textile machinery and innovative environmental protection materials, help the industry practice the production scheme of environmental friendly textiles, and work hand in hand towards "sustainable fashion".

The theme of this exhibition is "Zhihui textile leads to a better life". In addition to showing the top scientific and technological achievements of the global textile industry, it will also focus on launching the "Textech Galaxy spinning Galaxy" equal period activities, focusing on the new field of textile fashion: artificial intelligence, wearable technology and start-ups. Through the exhibition, forums, competitions and business matching, we should explore frontier innovative technologies, build bridges for textile, fashion and technology industries, and jointly explore the endless possibilities of textiles and inspire the future.

Display innovative achievements

Since the beginning of this year, the economic situation at home and abroad has been complicated and severe, and the global economic growth has been sluggish and the boom of international trade has declined. Under the circumstances of external instability, uncertainty and increasing Sino US trade situation, the pressure of economic operation of China's textile industry has increased. Against this background, SHANGHAITEX 2019 is actively innovating and contributing to the transformation and upgrading of the industry.

Liu Weiping, general manager of Shanghai Textile Technology Exhibition Service Co., Ltd., said that since its first exhibition in 1984, SHANGHAITEX has been strongly supported and actively participated in by industry organizations and enterprises in the industry. In the past 35 years, it has made considerable progress and has grown rapidly. SHANGHAITEX has become an important activity in the global textile industry. SHANGHAITEX is always committed to building a communication platform for new textile equipment, new technologies and new ideas, so as to contribute to the development of China's textile industry. In recent years, the exhibition revolves around the requirements of the "13th Five-Year plan" of textile industry and the development concept of "technology and fashion" in Shanghai textile industry, and strive to create a communication platform closer to the needs of enterprises and closer to market changes. The exhibition main contractor closely combines the current hot spots, constantly innovating exhibition ideas, expanding new exhibition plates, and striving to get through the whole industry chain of the textile industry. Before the exhibition, we will take the perspective and multiple forms as the breakthrough point to bring together the world's top textile machinery, and build a professional, authoritative and forward-looking platform for the technological innovation, cooperation and exchanges and trade exchanges of China's textile industry. As a professional textile exhibition with a long history and rich experience, Shanghai textile machinery exhibition has won the recognition and favor of the industry because of its wide coverage, excellent industry resources, strong professionalism and remarkable effect. The exhibition has always been supported by professional customers. The hot exhibition areas such as "spinning, spinning and industrial textile machinery area", "weaving machinery area" and so on are popular. Many well-known exhibitors at home and abroad have signed up for the exhibition, and they will show their latest technology and products at the Shanghai textile machinery exhibition.

Special Concurrent Events

Promoting the industry's cross border innovation and exploring any new ideas related to textile fashion has always been the concept of SHANGHAITEX.

This year's SHANGHAITEX 2019 will closely follow the industry's development hotspots and priorities, and launch a series of special district activities and forums.

In recent years, a large number of start-ups have risen, and their new products and new service concepts have provided help for enterprises to break through traditional businesses and improve market share. For instance, Goxip, a start-up company, works with international brands and e-commerce giants such as Adidas, NET-A-PORTER, ASOS and other enterprises, using image search technology to help users search for fashion items. Every month, 600 thousand users are using, with an average consumption of about $40 per month, and there are huge business opportunities. SHANGHAITEX 2019 will launch the "Textech Startup Planet" in the W5 Pavilion, with two major activities in the exhibition and textile workshop. Experts in fashion and textile industry will introduce their brand new products and technology. The forum and Exhibition topics include heating fabric, 3D custom jeans, artificial intelligence production management plan, light self-cleaning yarn and clothing pest control technology. The exhibition area will provide a display platform for textile and fashion related start-ups around the world. It will display a series of new yarn fabrics, innovative wearable technology, innovative new retail solutions, AI artificial intelligence, IoT, 3D and garment recycling technology. SHANGHAITEX 2019 will continue to organize the WTTDC Zhihui textile design competition to promote young designers and industry to create creative materials, create new smart materials and cross boundary new technologies, and integrate technology and textile fashion to bring better life experiences to consumers. During the exhibition, a series of thematic forums such as "fashion jeans new ecosystem - Sustainable Development Forum" will be held. Representatives from enterprises and industry experts will give their opinions on the 4 fields of textile industry, environmental protection, automation production, fashion trend and so on, which will help viewers to seek high value-added and profitable business inspiration. In addition, the China Health Care Association Health textile branch will jointly organize the "2019 international health Textile Science and Innovation Conference" jointly organized by Ya style Exhibition Service Co., Ltd. during the exhibition. It will organize and recommend excellent technological innovation enterprises to participate in the SHANGHAITEX 2019 "health function textile area" to show the new Hing Technology and health textile products. It is worth mentioning that the exhibition site will provide business matching services, quickly contact buyers and suppliers, and seize business opportunities.

Build a cross-border platform

A major innovation of the nineteenth Shanghai international textile industry exhibition is that it will organize the second International Conference on fashion and textile artificial intelligence (AIFT 2019) in collaboration with the Department of textiles and clothing of Hong Kong Polytech University.

With the successful completion of the first AIFT International Conference in 2018 in Hongkong, China, AIFT 2019 will be held as the focus of the SHANGHAITEX 2019 activities in the same period, and will be held in Shanghai on November 25, 2019, ~11 27. According to the introduction, AIFT 2019 speakers include professor Zheng Yixiong and Huang Weiqiang, Professor of textile and clothing department of Hongkong University, director of Department of Textile Design Department of Royal College of Art, Anne Toomey, KITHCT Chair Professor Cai Dacheng of National University of Singapore computer school. The main topics of the speech include Internet of things, textile and garment supply chain modeling, textile material defect detection, textile material color measurement, smart textiles and clothing / wearable devices, 3D modeling and virtual fitting, retail sales intelligent management and fashion sales forecasting, etc., and comprehensively analyze AI's opportunities and challenges for textile and fashion industry. In addition to the keynote speech, AIFT 2019 has invited papers from researchers in the global AI and fashion textile industry to invite them to express their views on the basic theory, principles and techniques of AI, as well as their applications in fashion and textile fields, and to promote their research in related fields. It is understood that the collection of AIFT 2019 papers ended in September, and received more than 40 original research papers. The papers will be published in the original publishing section of AIFT 2019 (November 26th ~11 27).

In the past 20 years, with the great progress of computer technology, the academic research of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in fashion and textile industry have become a hot topic, which is deeply concerned by academia and industry. At the same time, the large data generated by various mobile platforms, social media interaction and e-commerce exchanges in online fashion new retail business provide new research models and opportunities for researchers and practitioners. AIFT 2019 will provide an open platform for researchers, engineers and practitioners in AI and fashion textile industry. We will conduct extensive exchanges and discussions on the development of Frontier AI technology and the practical application in fashion and textile industries, creating opportunities for academic and industrial partnerships and finding future global partners.