Heimtextil develops its sleep products category more every year. Hall 8 has more sleep products than many sleep products fairs.
The home textile industry enters every new year in Frankfurt where Heimtextil takes place. A respectful number of Turkish exhibitors also fly to Frankfurt in the first week of the year after they ship their competitive products for display at this number one trade platform of the industry. This year over 150 Turkish exhibitors will showcase a wide range of home textile products from curtains to bedroom and bathroom textiles. Heimtextil, the world’s biggest trade fair for home and contract textiles, opens its doors in Frankfurt am Main from 14 to 17 January 2015. 151 Turkish exhibitors will display a wide range of home textile products from fabrics, draperies, bed and bath products, accessories, etc. Hall 8 has a great number of sleep products even mattress machinery every year from different parts of the world. The product range at the fair has a wide variety from mattresses to machinery. The sleep products industry product suppliers as well as buyers find the show very lucrative. Other halls also have some exhibits of the industry. In addition to an unrivalled range of products for the window, upholstery, floors, walls and sun-protection segments, as well as bathroom, bedroom and table textiles, Heimtextil 2015 will be distinguished by visionary trend presentations, informative events, international awards and other occasions for the sector. “Our aim is to offer the international sector not only the most comprehensive range of products at Heimtextil 2015 but also the earliest possible overview of tomorrow’s themes and trends”, says Olaf Schmidt, Vice President Textiles & Textile Technologies. “I am confident that Heimtextil 2015 will achieve this goal, an optimism that is reinforced by the positive echo from the exhibitor side and our plans for a new, lavish trend area.”
Outstanding number of exhibitor registrations
The fair is well on the way to being distinguished by an excellent number of exhibitors. In 2014, 2,714 companies made presentations and set a new record for exhibitor numbers at the fair. This positive development is continuing in 2015, as reflected not only by an increase in the exhibition space already booked but also by the fact that several renowned new exhibitors are coming to Heimtextil 2015. They include, in the home-textiles section, Boras Cotton, Epson Europe, J. Pansu and Perla Texbiar and Toray, and, in the case of household textiles, Andersen Textiles, bb&dd, EG.Heild, Fossflakers, GI.PE. Tex, Mistral Professional Textiles, Sot. Sboras, Spacio Repos, Tejidos Acabados Teycu, Udden, Värnamo Sängkläder, Visco Foam, ‘von Erika’ and Westmark. Several renowned companies that did not take part in recent editions of Heimtextil have decided to return in 2015. In the home-textiles segment, they include Diaz Sunprotection, Eisenkolb, Fine, Fine Art, Gebrüder Munzert, J. Pansu Paris, Johanna Gullichsen Oy, Ledieu-Houriez, Lodetex, Nelen & Delbeke, NMC, Nooteboom Textil and Tilldekor. Among the returnees in the household textiles segment are C-ENG, David Fussenegger, Fussenegger Heimtextilien, Steiner and Zoeppritz.
Hall 4.0 to be occupied for the first time as the hotspot for tomorrow’s trends
In addition to the exhibition space used at previous events, Hall 4.0 will also be integrated into Heimtextil 2015 as the first port of call for all visitors looking for particularly innovative products and the latest trends, e.g., the booming field of digital printing, for which key players such as Epson Europe and Hewlett Packard will be taking part. Supplementing the exhibitors’ product presentations will be the 2nd European Digital Textile Conference, which is being organized again in cooperation with the World Textile Information Network (WtiN).
New ‘Theme Park’ trend area
The event highlight in Hall 4.0 will be the ‘Heimtextil Theme Park’, which expands the previous Trend Show and moves from the ‘Forum’ to Hall 4.0 where it will provide a completely new form of presentation for the trends. The ‘Theme Park’ has room for a comprehensive show of future-oriented themes relevant to the sector. A series of measures will guide visitors’ attention to design-oriented, contemporary aspects including a ‘Material Gallery’ with specially selected exhibitor products, which provides an overview of the home-textile trends categorized by the trend themes for 2015/2016. The latest color trends will be presented at the ‘Color Pavilion’. Additionally, the ‘Theme Park’ will include hospitality, retail and sustainability areas. At the ‘Conference Space’ and ‘Community Area’, visitors can attend lectures given by top speakers and take advantage of the opportunity to exchange ideas and information with colleagues. But that’s not all: films will also be shown at the ‘Theme Park Cinema’. The visionary presentations at the ‘Heimtextil Theme Park’ will be based on the trend forecasts of the Heimtextil Trend 2015/2016, which was prepared by an international Trendtable of six renowned design studios under the motto ‘Experience’. The lead studio this year is Stijlinstituut Amsterdam from the Netherlands, which has also compiled the Heimtextil Trend Book.
Trend Spots for wall (3.1), sun (5.1) and retail (11.1)
Selected design aspects from the ‘Theme Park’ will be integrated into other exhibition halls in the form of Trend Spots. For example, there will be a presentation on the subject of ‘walls’ in Hall 3.1 showing exemplary applications for the wallpaper product group. In Hall 5.1, a Trend Spot revolving around the ‘sun’ will show the impact the trend forecasts for 2015/2016 could have on the choice and presentation of sun-protection products. In Hall 11.1, the retail trade will find valuable inspiration and examples for implementing the trend themes tailored especially to their requirements.
‘New & Next’: spotlighting young design
As at past events, the 2015 edition of ‘New & Next’ will reveal the creative design ideas of the coming generation. For the first time at the coming fair, however, this special presentation by start-ups and young designers will transcend the household textiles segment and embrace all Heimtextil product groups. The participants will include highly promising labels such as bb&dd from Tunisia, Maison des Dunes from Morocco, Sirftex from Portugal, Udden from Slovenia and von Erika from Germany. All are characterized by especially creative designs that, in many cases, are based on sustainable company concepts.
‘Green Village’: the center of sustainability expertise
For the first time, there will be a special platform for label issuers, certifiers and interest groups from the sustainability field. Heimtextil has been taking account of the on-going trend towards sustainable and fairly produced home, household and contract textiles for many years. Now, with the ‘Green Village’ in Galleria 1, it goes a step further and is adding a meeting place where visitors can gather information to the existing features. Moreover, they will also be able to obtain professional advice on the subject of sustainability. On the Friday of the fair, the ‘Green Village’ will offer a program of lectures on environmental issues and be the starting point for a ‘Green Tour’ during which participants will have the opportunity to make contact with companies operating with sustainable policies. Besides the ‘Green Village’, the Heimtextil offers a practical orientation aid for visitors looking for exhibitors with sustainable corporate policies: the ‘Green Directory’. Young Creations Award: Upcycling 2015 open to young designers from all over Europe The subject of sustainability is also a firmly-established part of the ‘Young Creations Award: Upcycling’ competition, which opens to young designers from all over Europe for the first time in 2015. The award goes to the best works submitted by young international designers and spotlights the subjects of textiles, sustainability and design. This time, the focus will be more than ever before on the textile character of the projects. Thus, the rules now stipulate that textiles must account for at least 30 percent of the materials employed. In distinction to recycling, the aim of upcycling is to create higher-grade products using waste materials. With the competition, Heimtextil not only helps young designers but also reflects an innovative trend in the interior field that reveals unused potential for sustainable material pro – curement and production. A selection of the most creative interior-design products will be on show in Hall 4.2.
Webchance Academy 2.0
Heimtextil visitors can look forward to a comprehensive seminar and lecture program focusing on the online business and marketing in the ‘Lecture Square’ of Galleria 1 on the Wednesday of the fair. The expert lectures will include examples of practical applications. Heimtextil 2015 will also offer basic lectures for e-commerce newcomers. And, for retailers with prior experience, advanced lectures will give them the chance to update their knowledge. All lectures will be translated simultaneously into English and are, therefore, of interest to both national and international attendees.
