Industrial Area:
Functional Textiles
Research of functional textiles that allow for more efficient solutions in terms of costs and functional and structural properties
Eurecat’s Functional Textiles Unit investigates functional textiles that allow for more efficient solutions in terms of costs and functional and structural properties, given the limitations inherent in traditional technologies, which are generally rigid and expensive.
Experience
Design and prototyping
- Biosensors.
- Posture and movement monitoring.
- Heating and lighting systems, sound actuators.
Design and industrialisation
- Textile structures for various applications.
- Smart textiles with stimuli-responsive biopolymers.
- Functional materials in complex fabric structures.
Materials and structures
- Preformed reinforced textiles to optimise structures and processes.
- Material hybridisation to optimise performance.
- Design of textile solutions to optimise composite structure manufacturing procedures through direct heat transfer.
Services
Studies
- Viability study.
- Concept testing.
Prototyping
- Functional prototype.
- Industrialisation.
- Short series.
Audit
- Process studies and auditing.
- Technical analysis of textile samples.
Training
- General courses.
- Specialised courses for companies.
Highlighted projects
Team
Virginia García
Director of Functional Textiles Unit at Eurecat
Virginia García graduated from the University de Malaga as a telecommunications engineer and specialises in communications.
Her career began at the company AT4Wireless, where she worked in the radiofrequency communications department and specialised in implementing RFID technology in various areas of application. The users of this RFID technology varied from industrial units to consumers. She later worked at the CETEMMSA technological centre as a project manager, successfully managing research projects in ambient assisted living and eHealth. She then progressed to become a product manager for CETEMMSA. This involved the development of thermoelectric textile solutions, so she focused on in the integration of electronics into textiles and the selection of the appropriate conductive fibres for the textile solutions. CETEMMSA later merged with other Catalan technological centres and Eurecat was born.
Virginia was therefore chosen to lead research and development in the Functional Textiles Department at Eurecat. This department combines knowledge of textile structures with that of new materials. It also works on the integration of electronics into textiles and the development of textile wearable technology and multifunctional textiles.
Multimedia
News
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