CITEXT – International Business Convention for Technical Textiles and Soft Functional Materials

Techtera and Its Members at the Forefront of Textile Innovation

CITEXT is the business convention that connects producers and users of functional textile and flexible material solutions.

Over the course of 20 editions, more than 2,200 companies—including SMEs and large corporations—have already taken advantage of these qualified, pre-scheduled 40-minute B2B meetings.

Come and develop new business opportunities, identify suppliers, build partnerships, accelerate your innovations and capture emerging trends.

Created at the initiative of the Champagne-Ardenne Textile Industry and organised by abe – advanced business events, CITEXT is the ideal platform to help move your projects forward.

Techtera and its members will take part in the following conferences:

• Conférence n° 2 : Polymer recycling in textile applications
  TECHTERA – Juliette JAUPITRE – SOLSTICE Project: Chemical recycling and value chain development
  CETI – Mélanie Monceaux – Towards a Circular Economy for Materials: Thermomechanical recycling
• Conference No. 3: Composite Recycling – Pioneering Projects for the Recovery of High-Performance Fibres
  IFTH – Lauranne BERTOSS – Duchess Project: Repurposing carbon fibres for a new generation of composites
  CETI – Guillaume CAMBRONNE – Mechanical Recycling of Aramid Textiles: Towards the sustainable recovery of end-of-life technical materials
• Conference No. 6: Innovation through Design Thinking to Address New Uses
  SIGVARIS – Bertrand VIALLE, R&D and Innovation Director, with TECHTERA
• Conference No. 5: From the Laboratory to the Field: Textiles – Especially Smart Textiles – Supporting Soldier Protection
  Cyprien BOURRILHON from the IRBA, and a speaker in the latest cohort of the OPTITEX programme—the Defence incubator led by TECHTERA—will share the research priorities of the French Armed Forces Health Service and explore the opportunities offered by smart textiles to enhance soldier protection and performance.

The 2026 edition is shaping up to be particularly rich for the Techtera ecosystem and will once again demonstrate the industry’s ability to turn industrial challenges into opportunities for innovation.

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Contact: José  VILLATORO LEAL – jvillatoro@techtera.org