Innovations in fibres, and intelligent and medical textiles

摘要

Welcoming delegates, whom he described as applied scientists, to Technical Textiles: The Innovative Approach, President of the UK's University of Manchester Alan Gilbert commented on the appropriate nature of the venue. Manchester, he said, had been at the heart of the world's first industrial revolution: taking cotton from the American south, and developing spinning, weaving and, subsequently, factory production technologies to turn it into textiles gies to turn it into textiles capable of meeting a burgeoning demand. Today, Manchester was no longer the so-called "cotton capital of the world" and the local textile industry was striving for another revolution, this one based on much more sophisticated technology.