AgResearch, Corporate Member of The Textile Institute, will be hosting the 43rd Textile Research Symposium at The Chateau on the Park Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 2-3 December 2014.

This international symposium, the Japanese edition of which is popularly known as Mt Fuji Conference, will be supported by the Textile Machinery Society of Japan along with a number of other organisations and businesses.

The conference will cover presentations on textile research in a wide range of fields from fibre science to apparel engineering, including:

• Fibre and polymer science
• Textile processing
• Dyeing, finishing, coating and laminating
• Technical textiles
• Performance evaluation
• Design, fashion and clothing science
• Wool and natural fibres, and their yarns and textiles
• E-Textiles, sustainable and bio-based materials and textiles
• Nano-fibres and nano-materials
• Mathematical and computer modelling
• Textile objective measurement technology

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