Taipei TITAS: Global Event Of Functional Fabrics

The only professional textile exhibition in Taiwan is sponsored by Taiwan textile and Development Association. Its exhibits are mainly functional fabrics, fashion fabrics and accessories. Its application covers three major fields, including clothing, home textiles and industry, so far it is the eighteenth.

The 367 exhibitors from 11 countries and regions participated in the exhibition with 760 exhibitors. The number of exhibitors and the number of booths were all high.

"Taipei small and fresh" fabric business

According to the statistics of Taiwan textile and Development Association, the three day exhibition attracted more than 40 professional buyers from over more than 40 countries in the world, and invited 80 international brands and 80 exhibitors to hold more than 1000 field trips.

The exhibition scale of TITAS is smaller than that of some mainland exhibitions. However, the functional textiles of the stadium are all applauded and applauded.

This TITAS has successfully attracted the buyer's functional fabric "star products", including the 7~20 Dan Neal pearlite resistant wire of Taiwan chemical company, the high quality and high functional knitted fabric of Ru Hong enterprise, the moisture absorption and quick drying cloth, the temperature control yarn, the cotton felt yarn and the FIR absorbance heating yarn in the Jinghua industry; the South weir industry can block nearly 70% infrared and ultraviolet rays, can effectively cool the 2~5 TCool TCool, and the luminous composite fabric RAYs21TM; the WIKO high efficiency moisture reaction adhesive glue Evereco PUR.

In terms of innovative and environment-friendly textiles for tackling climate change, there are far east new century famous polyester products TopGreen World Cup, the WaterlessEco-dyed supercritical CO2 water free dyed fabric of Fu Mao company, S.Caf technology, environmental protection technology, caffeine yarn and so on.

In addition, the most popular concept of smart clothing is the 3D special organization that produces visual changes, and the textile wearable technology demonstrated by the textile industry comprehensive research institute.

The essence of trade exhibition is paction and promotion.

Every year, the company will invite the famous brand buyers from all over the world, especially Europe and America, to participate in the one to one purchasing conference with the exhibitors.

This exhibition is worth mentioning that the British classic brand Burberry and the American brand Coach also joined the procurement camp, which confirms that Taiwan's innovative functional textiles have successfully crossed the fashion market, and the use of fashion fabrics for functional fabrics has become a trend.

Welcome to the popular brand buyers are the US Victoria's Secret, Jones, Brazil's largest women's underwear manufacturer Hope, China fashion women's clothing Lily.

In the field of sports, outdoor and leisure, the buyers' camp is even stronger, including the US Speedo PVH and The North Face, Canada Roots, Brazil Adidas and Alpargatas, Sweden Peak Performance, Norway Helly, Holland, France, UK, Germany, and Germany, Russia and Japan.

"Function, environmental protection, fashion" to lock global buyers

Function, environmental protection and popularity are the three major demands of Taipei Textile Exhibition for many years.

The innovation of textiles is an important factor to attract international buyers to visit regularly every year. It is also an important force for TITAS's annual growth.

Buyers regard TITAS as the market vane of sports apparel fabrics (functional fabrics), and Taiwan is at the world's leading level in terms of sportswear raw materials and environmental protection technology.

JULIA WELTI, a representative of German Globetrotter brand, who came to buy again, said that there was a lot of harvest. Globetrotter is an outdoor sports brand, mainly looking for polyester, wool and other materials.

"This year's exhibitors present a functional professional technology similar to the previous ones but the pattern has increased a lot. The development of Taiwan's knitting industry is amazing."

JULIA said the organizer also arranged to visit several manufacturers and may cooperate with 4 of them.

She believes that for German and European consumers, high quality and high functionality are necessary for clothing products, and she is very confident about knitting technology in Taiwan.

SPEEDO UK has been producing professional swimwear and its sales are stable. Its representative, KEVIN LAU, said: "this is the fourth time that the company has participated in TITAS, where we can understand the development trend of raw material suppliers, see the future trend of the industry, and understand the trend of other brands."

His most important task is to find inspiration for the 2016 Olympic Games costumes and manufacturers of relevant environmental materials.

The main customers of Korea's largest outdoor brand BLACKYAK are professional climbers and walking enthusiasts. In recent years, the sales performance in Korea has increased by more than 30% annually.

They have been working with Taiwan manufacturers for 5 years. This exhibition is a major objective of their fast drying, breathable, waterproof functional products and elastic and high quality knitted products.

In the exhibition, I met Li Ning Co clothing material development manager Dai Xiaohong.

He said that every year, companies would send people to visit TITAS. First, they should visit partners and explore new suppliers. Two, exchange information and focus on trends.

The research and development of functional fabrics in Taiwan is more specialized and leading, and pays more attention to environmental protection from raw materials to fabric products and their production process.

"One to one negotiation" in-depth matching

Europe, the Americas and Asia are located in the exhibition hall, from Victoria's Secret, Burberry to Adidas, The North Face, where buyers wait for sellers to come to business on the basis of agreed dates.

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro is expected to cause a great demand for sportswear, and climate warming has also led to a surge in demand for lightweight and breathable fabrics.

Representatives of Brazil Adidas group said they are actively looking for lightweight ribbons and polyester fibers.

The 35 hundred year old PAIHO group is a large rope family, and has cooperation with almost all of the world's top sports shoes and clothing brands.

The Zeng Hun's commentary on the east side of the product development department shows the sample book, ribbon, elastic band, shoelace, elastic rope, sideband, zipper head and trademark.

There are many colors and designs in the bunch, ultra light, super quiet, fluorescent and reflective, which deeply attracted the businessmen from Brazil.

The first mainland women's clothing brand Lily participated in the one to one negotiation with 11 suppliers for TITAS.

Zhang Le, senior manager of the product business department, said he had a deeper understanding and understanding of the recent development direction and key points of Taiwan suppliers. Lily's concern for fabrics was fashion, innovation and quality, and also found several potential suppliers.

Zhang Le commented that the organizers of the exhibition were well served. From the exhibition itself, functional fabrics were dominant.

Shanghai Jia Linjie

Supplies company is also one of the invited buyers. Zhang Mengmeng, manager of the production technology department, said the organizing committee's initial arrangements were very thorough. On the one hand, it was recommended that the purchasers' purchase intention should be collected and classified.

On the one hand, the exhibitors will be screened out and recommended to buyers in the direction of buyers. After the two sides agree to match, the organizing committee will set the time for negotiations between the two sides. This exhibition service is very standard and thoughtful, and has become a landmark service of TITAS.

Zhang Mengmeng said that this arrangement saved many time and effort for the buyer to search and inquire. The opening of the exhibition can start negotiations with the customers who wish to purchase. The two sides are ready to go to the theme.

In contrast, although some large exhibitions are full of types and huge amounts of information, they need to spend a lot of time on "sea election" and "Taobao".

She is accompanied by the design director this time, from a procurement procedure, price checks, a design, product angle selection, on the spot clapper, efficiency is very high.