Germany : 'Golden Shirt Award' enters next phase with a new topic

The International Trade Fair for Textile Finishing and Promotion will again feature an attractive range of products and services and an extensive accompanying programme in 2008.
12 months before the start of the 5th International Trade Fair for Textile Finishing & Promotion (TV), over 40 exhibitors have already confirmed that they will be attending the industry mee-ting-point for textile printing, embroidery, flocking, transfer printing, textile promotion and merchandising.
The trade fair will be held for the first time at the New Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre from 25 to 27 January 2008.
According to the organisers, gmk Veranstaltungs service GmbH and Messe Stuttgart, TV will attract visitors from Europe and other continents to Stuttgart through an extensive accompanying programme featuring, for example, the staging of the new competition for the “Golden Shirt Award”.
Exhibitors at TV Textilvered-lung & Promotion regard the trade fair as the leading European event for textile decoration and textile promotion. Over 40 exhibitors have therefore already registered for the trade fair at the start of 2008.
They include the following companies:
Falk & Ross Group Europe, Aulenbacher, Amann & Söhne, Karl Gröner, Hakro, Madeira, Promodoro, Print Equipment, Heinz Walz, Mountek, Walter Schulze, Hebbecker and New Wave.
“Golden Shirt Award” enters the next phase with a new topic. In addition to a fashion show, the TV Technical Forum, various special shows, talks and other key topics, the extensive accompanying programme of TV will again include the “Golden Shirt Award” which will be presented for the fourth time by the media partner of TV, i.e. the trade journal “TVP Textilveredlung & Promotion”.

The motto of the competition will be “Mix ’n’ Jet it“. The challenge for all competitors will be to combine innovative digital textile printing (inkjet) with at least one of the traditional finishing techniques of embroidery, printing (silk-screen and transfer printing) and flocking. The techniques can be demonstrated on shirts, all kinds of clothes, flags, etc.
The winners of the Award will be chosen by trade visitors at TV. Cash and non-cash prizes to the value of 10,000 Euro will be presented to the winners. The closing date for registration is 14 September 2007. The closing date for competition entries is 1 November 2007.