Last Update: 4 September 2008
Annual Conference - Sustain-tex - Earlybird Registrations now available until 19 September - click here for great savings - go to the conference website for full details
"Forming a Future" - TCF Showcase in Canberra - 22 Sep 08
The TCF Review's final report was handed to government on 30th August, however we are unsure as to whn the report will be relased to the public. The next step for the TCF in negotiating the proposed assistance to industry is to influence decision makers in Canberra that the TCF industry is worth the funds.
To this end, the TTNA is joining with the Carpet Institute of Australia and the Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA) to showcasea the TCF industry to government and the media in Canberra at Parliament House on Monday 22 September 2008
Textile organisations are invited to showcase their products in a 2x2 mtr space, with the aim of providing the government with a compelling case to award further assistance to the TCF industry. Click here for the full registration and letter to industry.
Joint Briefing & Tour - TTNA/Composites Australia - 11 Sep 08
Deakin University at Waurn Ponds will be the venue for the TTNA's forthcoming members' briefing and tour on Thursday 11th September 2008. The theme is Fibres & Composites - Deakin as a Partner. Go to the Events page for further details about the speakers and the tour. Or click here for registration details.
Annual General Meeting - Postponed until further notice
New Members - Subscribe Now with New Membership Categories
If you've always wanted to be in the TTNA but couldn't get around to subscribing, now is the time. Click on the Join Us page to see the new membership application form and new membership categories. You are bound to find the perfect category for your organisation that won't break the bank, and still allow you to be represented by the association that concentrates its efforts specifically on technical and nonwoven textiles.
A synopsis of the past year in TTNA is available here. We look forward to welcoming new members.
TTNA Membership Subscriptions 2008-09 - Now Due
it's that time of year again when membership subscriptions are once again due for the 2008-09 financial year. Existing members should have received their renewal notices last month. New members, wishing to join the TTNA, should click on the Join Us page to see the new membership application form and new categories. A synopsis of the past year is available here. We look forward to another rewarding year ahead.
TTNA's Submission to the TCF Review
Members can now view TTNA's submission to the TCF Review in the Members Only section of the website. Click here to enter.
International Fibre Centre's new FUNDING STRATEGY was officially launched on 11 June by The Hon Jacinta Allan MP, Minister for Regional & Rural Development and Minister for Skills & Workforce Participation. About 100 textiles industry personnel were present.
The Victorian Fibre and Textiles Industry Analysis which was commissioned by IFC to inform the new funding strategy was also publicly released at the launch. The Members Only section shows Deloitte's powerpoint presentation of of this analysis. Members click here to enter.
Industry Briefing - Global Commodity Sourcing
The May Members' Briefing attracted over 30 people from the industry. Shane Bewry's presentation discussed the rising prices in the resin market, supply risks, and also the current state of alternative/substitute materials in the manufacturing sector. Key issues such as the supply chain, hedging options, negotiation strategies and general business procurement initiatives were also covered as they apply to Australian manufacturers who face uncertainty with prices and supply.
Shane's presentation is now available to members through the members only section of the website. Members, click here to enter.
Members' Briefing with Australian Nanotechnology in Brisbane:
TTNA members and guests will have the opportunity to meet members of the Australian Nantechnology Alliance in Brisbane on the afternoon of Thursday 17th April 2008 to discuss synergies and future collaborative projects and business. The briefing is following the official launch of Future Materials - another organisation with potential business opportunities for TTNA members. Register quickly for this event - don't miss this one. Meetings and possible tour of the university will be available on Friday morning 18th April.
More details & Register for event - click here.
TTNA Nonwovens Course:
The Nonwovens Basics and Nonwovens Product Development Workshop will be held at CSIRO Textile & Fibre Technology in Belmont from 12-15 May 2008. Registration brochure is available here. Or click here to read more about the course and the trainers involved in the Education section.
TTNA Exhibition at the Composites Australia/Composites CRC Annual Conference and Exhibition - Formula for the Future:
The TTNA will be exhibiting in booth no. 22 at the Composites Australia Exhibition on Thursday and Friday 13/14th February. TTNA members are welcome to send or deliver any of their marketing material for display on the booth. If any members would like to be booth staff in the booth (only two), you would get free access to the entire exhibition. Contact Lorraine at the TTNA for further details - lorraine@ttna.com.au or call 03 9866 6643 .
National Innovation System Review:
Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, has announced a review of the national innovation system to be conducted by an expert panel. The panel will release an Issues Paper in February 2008. It will identify the key questions for stakeholders in preparing submissions to the Review, due Wednesday 30 April 2008. The review panel will be conducting stakeholder meetings across Australia in March. The Stakeholder meeting in Melbourne is scheduled for Tuesday 11 Mar 08 from 1400-1600 at the MECC. Sydney's meeting is Friday 14 Mar at Wesley Conference Centre, 220 Pitt Street. Check the above links for further details.
Classified Advertisement:
Textile Technologist Available - click here or go to Members Only area for further details.
Members' Briefing : OH&S Seminar
The TTNA and RMIT are co-hosting the first Members' Briefing of the year - a seminar on Occupational Health & Safety. Three experts will present on the theme. This briefing will be held immediately after the first day of the Fibre Orientation course. Drinks and networking will be provided for this event. Click here to register for this event. Click here to see biographies of the speakers.
Training: Controlling the Fibre Orientation in Nonwoven Technology
Click here to register for this training course. See further information in the Education page.
The TTNA, in collaboration with the International Fibre Centre, RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles, and Ramsay McDonald Pty Ltd to deliver training on fibre orientation in nonwoven textiles. The two-day workshop will be held on 26th and 27th February 2008. As RMIT's contribution to industry and continuing contribution to the TTNA, RMIT's Specialist Centre at the Brunswick campus in Victoria has been made available for this program.
Federal Government's new policy document - "An Innovation Future for Australian Industry"
Click here to see the policy framework for implementing a range of iniatives to:
* bridge the divide between industry and research;
* ensure that business has better access to new ideas and new technology; and
* increase innovation incentives across the economy.
The TTNA Advocacy Officer will be in close contact with the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research about your views on this document. Please send your comments to the TTNA at lorraine@ttna.com.au for compilation.
TTNA: DELIVERING ADVANCED MATERIALS.
See TTNA's new marketing brochure! Click here to view it...print it and help spread the good word.
IFC's Survive, Sustain, Succeed -
Fibre and Textile Environmental Management and Sustainability Forum -
Monday 26th November 2007 at RMIT University Auditorium, Brunswick (VIC): The TTNA supports the IFC's call for members of the textiles industry to discuss future strategies for the development and implementation of an environmental management and sustainability program for the Australian textiles industry. Click here for information to do with this forum; Registration Form; Agenda; RMIT Map.
TTNA EVENTS SCHEDULE 2008 : The new Events and Training Schedule for 2008 is now drafted and available on the Events Section. Please list dates of events in your diary. If there are any clashes, please let us know as early as possible. Click here for schedule.
Members' Briefing Monday 29th October 2007: The Spring Members' Briefing was held on Monday 29th October from 3-5pm at the Victorian Innovation Centre in Collins Street, Melbourne. TTNA Members can read the full reports and see the presentations on the Members Area of this website.
TTNA Annual Conference - Thanks from the TTNA Chair, Rod McKenna
Dear Industry Colleagues,
It gives me great pleasure, as the new chair of the TTNA, to reprt on the great success of last week's TTNA Annual Conference held in Albury, New South Wales.
The evaluation sheets reflected very positive experiences and I can assure you that all suggestons raised will be addressed by the Events Committee. This is a diverse industry and the TTNA is here to serve all aspects of it.... Click here to view the Chairman's letter.
The TTNA conference was a great success! Senator Kim Carr, the Australian Labor Party’s Shadow Minister for Industry, Innovation, Science and Research, assured a gathering of the said age group at the recent TTNA annual conference that a “policy for industry was not a dirty word”. Courageously entering territory where few politicians dare to tread, Senator Carr promised to deliver an industry policy based squarely on innovation if Labor were to be elected.
Read all about it here.
And click on Events Photographs on Friday for photographs.
Click here for Kerryn's write-up of the event.
TTNA Pavilion at Techtextil India – 10-12 October 2007
It’s on!
The TTNA will be exhibiting at Techtextil India from 10-12 October 2007, with financial assistance from the Victorian Government – the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development.
With only 4 weeks to organize this exhibition, we are sure we can do it – and do it well! Read the media release here. Or contact lorraine@ttna.com.au to say you're in!
The TTNA conference will be held in Albury on 30th and 31st August 2007. Go to the Conference page for further details. Click here for the program; click here for registration details.
Graduate Certificate in Lean Leadership
TexSkill and Swinburne University have partnered to deliver the Vocational Graduate Certificate in Competitive Enterprise in Lean Leadership, and TTNA member organisations are welcome to participate, generously funded by the International Fibre Centre. Go to the Education Page for further details or click here for TexSkill's brochure.
Environmental Management System - Training
Click here for a summary, or here for the training package details. Further details on the Education page.
SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED!!!
TTNA Conference Speakers and Sponsors Announced
Go to the Conference page now for the first of the growing list of speakers and sponsors for our upcoming annual conference -
The Three Rs - Recreation, Resources & Retirement - the Role for Technical and Nonwoven Textiles. Abstracts and bios are available
on the conference page. Click here for the list of speakers.
TTNA Events Committee - Position Available
If you feel you could make a difference in the TTNA by contributing your ideas, sharing your contacts and committing some of your time to the Events Committee, please contact the TTNA Management Office now! Click here for more details.
TTNA Subscription Renewals
Notices for subscription renewals will be posted this week - 1st June. Special discounts for conference registration are available to those who remit by 30th June. See here for details.
TTNA Melbourne Winter Members' Briefing -
The next briefing will take place on the day of winter solstace - 21st June
2007 - at the Carlton Brewhouse. Come along for a tour of the brewery, see technical textiles at work, and hear about skills search in the industry from Permanser Technology. Click here for details.
TTNA Workplace Training - Carding
This course can take place in your own workplace, with your own staff, using your own equipment at a time that suits you. Take advantage of this now and make the old "black art" of carding make sense to you your staff. More details on the Education page, or register here.
TTNA Training - Coatings, Laminates & Adhesion
This course taking place at RMIT Brunswick on Tuesday 1st through to Thursday 3rd May is open for registration now! Book before 23rd April for discounts. More details on the education page, or register here.
2007 Annual Conference - The Three Rs - Recreation, Resources & Retirement - The Roles for Technical and Nonwoven Textiles
This year's annual conference will be held in Albury at the Hovell Tree Inn
on the last two days of winter - Thursday and Friday 30 & 31st August 2007. Calling for Speakers here. Check out the opportunities available for Sponsors here, and for Promotional Sponsors here. Read all about it on the Conference page.
2007 Autumn Members' Briefing in Victoria (Geelong) -
Theme: Introduction to Basell and its Customers - including a tour
of the Basell facility
With great assistance from staff and management of Basell Australia, we are holding this briefing at the Basell plant, Refinery Road, Corio on Thursday 22nd March 2007 - Click here for write-up of event
Two new training options -
The Coatings& Laminates Program (including the Mechanics of Adhesion)
2-4 May 2007 - Click here for details Carding: Theory and practice in the Work Place
During May and June, and taking place in your very own workplace at the time that suits you! - Click here for details See TTNA's Full Training Suite in the Education Section, or click here for the TTNA Industry Training Program
The TTNA Management Office has moved to Level 15,
10 Queens Road, Melbourne VIC 3004
Telephone numbers - (03) 9866 6643/5442 - and fax (03) 9866 6434 -
remain the same.
2007 Summer Members' Briefing in Queensland
Doing Business with the Queensland Government and the Dept of Defence
Thursday 22nd February 2007
Venue: Lakelands Golf Club at Merrimac (Conference Centre), Gold Coast.
This was a great function. The presentations were interesting and received
good feedback and questions. The Networking was extended by an hour so conversations could continue. Watch this space for a full write-up of the event.
The TTNA Management and Board wishes all of our Members, Visitors and Supporters a safe and happy Christmas season. We hope to see you at our functions in 2007 - a list of which is now attached in the events section of the website.
<Click here for complete release>
The 2007 Annual TTNA Conference
The Three Rs - Recreation, Resources and Retirement
Thursday & Friday 30th & 31st August 2007 in Albury, NSW
Record this event in your diary now! Click here for more details.
EDANA Nonwoven Training course in Malaysia
We are pleased to announce the TTNA’s cooperation with EDANA (the European Disposables and Nonwovens Association) in organizing, for the
first time in Malaysia, EDANA’s two highly acclaimed courses - Nonwovens Training Course and Absorbent Hygiene Products Training Course - from
11 to 15 December 2006.
<Click here for complete release> <Click here for registration brochure>
Final Members’ Function for 2006 – Lunch at Lynch’s
All fully paid members are invited to lunch, as guests of the Board, at Lynch’s Restaurant, Domain Road, South Yarra on Thursday 30th November 2006. Registrations must be received by 16th November.
<Click here for registration>
Spring Members’ Briefing – NSW – Thursday 12 October 2006
All members of the TTNA are invited to attend the Spring Members’
Briefing on Doing Business with State and Federal governments at the NSW DSRD, Level 47, MLC Centre, 19 Martin Place, Sydney. Non-members are
also invited to register.<Spring Members’ Briefing – NSW>
The TTNA Annual Conference 2006 – Thursday 31st August 2006
Creative and innovative uses of technology in design, engineering, processing and manufacturing are revolutionizing many industries. New technologies
create profound challenges and opportunities for the technical and nonwoven textiles industry. <Annual Conference brochure>
Technology Roadmaps & Skills Studies Program Back in 2003, the
TTNA participated in a comprehensive process of industry analysis for its submission to the Productivity Commission’s review on TCF industry assistance. The undertaking of a Technology Roadmaps & Skills Studies Program will assist technical andnonwoven textile firms to address these
issues in order to stay ahead in this increasingly complex business
environment. <Invitation>
The Nonwovens Basics Course is a comprehensive one day training
program covering nonwoven technologies and markets. It is aimed at
personnel who have an interest in nonwovens; who purchase, use or specify nonwovens; or those who are considering nonwovens applications. Topics will include raw materials for nonwovens, web forming and bonding technologies, conversion and finishing technologies, test methods, applications and environmental issues. <registration form>
The Nonwoven Product Development Workshop is a three-day
intensive program with a combination of class work, lectures and “hands on” practice that covers the entire nonwoven product development process.
In small teams, participants will develop a new product from design to product testing, including manufacturing and testing their prototypes in CSIRO’s nonwovens laboratories. They will learn to select the correct fibre and process combination to achieve the desired results. Participants will learn about
factors in fabric design for a wide range of products including market need, product design, material selection, finishing, cost and performance testing.
<registration form>
News Releases
Press Release No. 853 - 30 Aug 08
Australian Technical Textile Innovation Achieves International Auto Industry Success- Click here for full release
Press Release No. 852 - 4 Sept 08
TCF Associations Welcome Industry Review & Seek Further Transformation Incentives - Click here for full release
Press Release No. 851 - 4 sept 08
Sustain-tex - environmental solutions - The TTNA announces its annual conference, being held on 13 November 2008 at Melbourne Museum. Click here for full release
Press Release No. 821 -
Geofabric Pioneer Celebrates Anniversary and Innovation Success - Australian synthetic geotextile manufacturer, innovator and exporter, Geofabrics Australasia, will celebrate 30 years of operation and 20 years of manufacturing . Click here for full release
Press Release No. 820 -
Australian Textile Technology Making Waves in Overseas Markets
Gold Coast based Australian company, ELCO Solutions, began work on Europe’s first artificial surfing reef, at Bournemouth’s Boscombe pier in the UK.
Click here for full release.
Australian Technical Textile Innovation Achieves International Auto Industry Success- Click here for full release
Press Release No. 852 - 4 Sept 08
TCF Associations Welcome Industry Review & Seek Further Transformation Incentives - Click here for full release
Press Release No. 851 - 4 sept 08
Sustain-tex - environmental solutions - The TTNA announces its annual conference, being held on 13 November 2008 at Melbourne Museum. Click here for full release
Press Release No. 821 -
Geofabric Pioneer Celebrates Anniversary and Innovation Success - Australian synthetic geotextile manufacturer, innovator and exporter, Geofabrics Australasia, will celebrate 30 years of operation and 20 years of manufacturing . Click here for full release
Press Release No. 820 -
Australian Textile Technology Making Waves in Overseas Markets
Gold Coast based Australian company, ELCO Solutions, began work on Europe’s first artificial surfing reef, at Bournemouth’s Boscombe pier in the UK.
Click here for full release.
Press Release No. 809 -
Nonwovens Basics Course & Product Development Workshop - TTNA/CSIRO - 12-15 May 2008
Click here
Press Release No. 807 -
Fibre Orientation Course - TTNA/RMIT
Click here
Press Release No. 804 -
Occupational Health & Safety Briefing - TTNA/RMIT
Tue 26 Feb 08 - 4-6pm
Click here
Press Release No. 751 -
TTNA Annual General Meeting - Thursday 30th August - preceding the Annual Conference -
Click here
TTNA Annual General Meeting - Thursday 30th August - preceding the Annual Conference -
Click here
Press Release No. 745 -
TTNA Annual Conference -
Click here
News Release No. 744 -
TTNA Annual Conference -
Click here
Members' Release - TTNA Events Committee Position Available -
Click here for details
Press Release - Autumn Members' Briefing at Basell - complete report on event - <click>
Expressions of Interest
Called for Mumbai Techtextile October 2007
<click>
Members' News Release - 2007
Summer Members' Briefing in Queensland - Doing Business with Government- <click>
Summer Members' Briefing in Queensland - Doing Business with Government- <click>
Members' News Release - 2007
Annual Conference - The Three Rs - Recreation, Resources
and Retirement - <click>
Members' News Release - EDANA Nonwoven Training Course in Malaysia - <click>
Members’ News Release –
Final Members’ Function
for 2006 – Lunch at Lynch’s
<click>
TTNA Annual General Meeting – Announcement of New Board <click>
TTNA Annual Conference
Speaker – Technical Textiles in
India – A Market Perspective
<click>
Notification of
Annual General Meeting
31 August 2006
<click>
TTNA Annual Conference
2006 – Speakers <click>
Annual Conference - The Three Rs - Recreation, Resources
and Retirement - <click>
Members' News Release - EDANA Nonwoven Training Course in Malaysia - <click>
Members’ News Release –
Final Members’ Function
for 2006 – Lunch at Lynch’s
<click>
TTNA Annual General Meeting – Announcement of New Board <click>
TTNA Annual Conference
Speaker – Technical Textiles in
India – A Market Perspective
<click>
Notification of
Annual General Meeting
31 August 2006
<click>
TTNA Annual Conference
2006 – Speakers <click>
Training
TTNA-CSIRO Nonwovens
Product Development Workshop
– Proposed Schedule <click>
TTNA-CSIRO Nonwovens
Product Development Workshop
– Proposed Schedule <click>
