The Texprocess Innovation Award honors progressive and unconventional new developments, ideas and visions and thus supports the cross-sector dialog between researchers, the manufacturing industry and users. The following criteria are evaluated for the Innovation Award: Innovation level, technical quality, digitalization, economic and ecological quality (such as sustainability), quality improvement, design quality, material selection, and the overall concept. For the first time, Texprocess will also mark an outstanding development in the field of garment making and processing technologies with the Texprocess Fashion Technology Award. Submissions are now open online. The deadline for applications is March 25, 2022.

"With the Innovation Award, Texprocess promotes promising and pioneering approaches to textile processing. Companies have the chance to present new developments and creative projects to a top-class international panel of experts", explains Michael Jänecke, Director Brand Management Technical Textiles & Textile Processing.

An independent international jury will select the best ideas from all the innovations submitted. The winners of the Innovation Award will be presented at a special show at Texprocess 2022. For the first time, the winners will also be presented virtually in the Digital Extension of Texprocess.

Entries are invited from exhibitors of Texprocess 2022, as well as companies, institutes, universities, polytechnics and individuals not represented at the fair. The rules: the developments submitted should be shortly before being launched onto the market or, if already available on the market, not have been so for more than two years. Additionally, they may not have been chosen for any other award.