“White Gold” is high tech and pure nature // Exhibition and themes create facts

“Important key elements in the conference will be responsible cotton growing, ‘Green Genetic Engineering’, economic efficiency and competitiveness, quality and availability as well as – very essential – new innovative directions for the usage of cotton. It will be shown that cotton as a bio-degradable product of nature also offers valuable features for high tech products,” as Ernst Grimmelt, current President of the Bremen Cotton Exchange, emphasises.

The conference, which traditionally takes place in the historic Bremen Town Hall, offers its visitors a programme of lectures that convinces with its quality and the contributors´ expertise. In eight sessions altogether, the Bremen hosts will not shy away from dealing with critical questions also, as they are often asked in the public dialogue due to a lack of or wrong knowledge. After the successful discussion about water consumption during the 2014 conference, this time it is about plant protection products resp. pesticides: are they really harmful? Are they necessary, or can one do without? What does the current agronomic research say?

The Cotton Conference connects the newest research results with their practical utility. This also becomes clear within the frame of an exhibition complementing the conference: under the umbrella “Soft Edges”, students of the Master Studio Material and Technology at the University of Arts Bremen will show innovative products in which cotton with its natural features as a technical fibre is combined with e. g. bio-based polyactic (PLA) fibres, utilising their thermoplastic properties. Here, special thermo-processes developed by the Fibre Institute are applied which give the products shape, firmness and rigidity. The result are products for the application in the field of interior design, where the user is in direct contact with the product. These are furnishings, mattresses or room dividers that resemble the known three-dimensional fabrics thanks to their 3D character. The students were supported in their work by the Fibre Institute as well as by the Bremen Cotton Exchange.

Interested journalists are invited to be present at the conference and also at the conference party “Bremen Evening”.

Further information regarding the Cotton Conference and registration is available on: https://baumwollboerse.de/en/cotton-conference/