150 years of impact

150 years of Swiss Textiles! To mark our anniversary, together with President Carl Illi, we are dispelling old prejudices about the textile industry and revealing why 2024 will be a springboard into a new chapter!!!

What awaits you in our anniversary year

Meet

We bring politics and business together and take a look behind the scenes of our members' everyday life as SMEs. What challenges are they mastering in an increasingly fast-changing international environment? How do they break new ground creatively and imaginatively and thus make their contribution to a sustainable, successful textile industry?

Join us on our visit to the following companies:

• 15 May: Mover Sportswear SA, Lausanne (VD)
• 20 June: Calida AG, Sursee (LU)
• 26 June (8:15 - 11:30am): Lantal Textiles AG, Langenthal (BE)
• 21 August: Mammut Sportswear AG, Seon (AG)
• 4 September: Bcomp Ltd., Fribourg (FR)
• 6 November: HeiQ Materials AG, Schlieren (ZH)
• 13 November: OceanSafe AG, Bern (BE)

Networking

We introduce our members to each other and to interesting personalities from other sectors. Therefore we're launching a new event series called "Brennpunkt. We talk about it" to discuss most relevant topics.

We started on 28 March with the topic "Deindustrialization" (article only available in German). We asked expert Dr. Jens Kaiser from the University of St. Gallen how Switzerland is doing as a workplace and what is going on in the textile manufacturing industry. Monika Schärer moderated the event.

Celebration

On the afternoon of June 7, 2024, our Annual General Meeting will take place, followed by a party in the Riithalle in Zurich. For our members and guests. The invitation was issued in person at the beginning of April 2024.

Inspire

When we reflect on the future, we now have to consider the potential impacts of artificial intelligence. Will it take away our jobs? Will it inspire us? With a wink of the eye, the motivational sayings on these postcards were selected together with Sebastian Wyss, a graphic artist from Bern. His algorithm is based on numerous quotations obtained from the Internet – sampled and subsequently combined to create
entirely new ones. These are intended to provide inspiration and to encourage you to reflect on, and shape, the future together with us. Here you can order the postcards.
Idea – www.p-inc.ch
Realisation – www.wyssseb.ch

Suprise and information

We accompany all activities in our anniversary year on our social media channels. Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.