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Go to topicProtecting life and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit
Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
Go to topicMaking space accessible and developing the technologies for the future
Go to topicAt the workshop in Lille 4-5 July 2002, 72 industrial representatives met with ESA's Technology Transfer Programme to brainstorm how space technologies can be used in everyday textiles, fibre products and clothes to add value to the final products. In all 53 European and Canadian companies were represented covering the complete textile supply chain: textile machinery producers, high-tech fibre industries, classical textile manufactures, designers, mass market clothes producers and distributors. This resulted in an unprecedented synergy of ideas in the roundtable discussion.