Dr. Patrick Rapp, State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism, delivered a welcoming address. „ADD ITC can ‘feel right at home’ here in Stuttgart. Baden-Württemberg was and is a textile state, our companies in the textile and clothing industry are building on their past successes and at the same time are well equipped for the future thanks to their innovative spirit. Textile materials and processes are formative for our business location. Functional textiles and textiles based on high-performance fibers as well as those based on renewable raw materials offer further potential that is far from being fully exploited“, says State Secretary Dr. Patrick Rapp.

Under the motto “From the idea to practice”, the Forschungskuratorium Textil e. V. presented successful cooperation projects from the IGF-ZIM program in a separate transfer session, in which representatives from science and industry jointly developed and successfully implemented products and processes.

Speakers from this year's partner countries Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg gave a comprehensive insight into the textile industry and research in the three countries with lectures and discussion contributions.

The conference program was complemented by exhibition stands from 24 companies and institutes as well as over 100 scientific posters. Three of the poster presentations were honored with the Best Poster Award of the Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference 2024.

The conference is organized annually in rotation by the institutes ITM Dresden, DWI Aachen and DITF Denkendorf. Next year, the ADD International Textile Conference will take place on November 27 and 28. The DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials e.V. will then invite participants to Aachen.