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Article: Increased competition drives more innovation in North America
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- Technical Textiles International : TTI
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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The fifth biennial Techtextil North America was held at the Cobb Galleria, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1-3 April. This year's exhibition featured 310 companies from around the globe. Visitors included our North American Editor John W. McCurry.
Good news for the organizer Messe Frankfurt Techtextil North America's 310 exhibitors were generally pleased with the interest shown from visitors, themselves attracted by an array of developments shown in the growing, but increasingly competitive technical textiles market. Functional textiles/apparel appeared to be among the innovations drawing the greatest attention, while the underlying themes of the previous two exhibitions - military and protective ...