Event dates: September 10-12, 2025

Location: Dornbirn, Austria

The Dornbirn GFC 2025 seeks to explore a broad range of topics across critical industry areas, including work & protective wear and defense, carbon stewardship, fiber innovations, and a cross-industry session designed to bridge knowledge between sectors.

Highlight topics:

Work & protective wear and defense:

Papers are invited on smart textiles that deliver real-time data to enhance safety for first responders and industrial workers, flame-resistant fabrics tailored for multi-risk environments, and sustainable innovations that promote eco-friendly materials and recycling within workwear and protective apparel.

Carbon stewardship:

Biomass, recycling & capture: Submissions are encouraged on the use of sustainable biomass in textiles, novel recycling methods for post-consumer textiles, and carbon capture technologies that span the industry value chain.

Fiber innovations:

Papers on advancements in biopolymers, natural fibers, and the latest textile and nonwoven processing techniques are welcome to highlight innovations from production to application.

Cross-industry session:

The congress invites thought leaders to address the fiber industry’s intersections with energy transition, pulp, paper, and packaging innovations.

Submission information

For more details on submission guidelines and topic descriptions, visit the Dornbirn GFC website: www.dornbirn-gfc.com/de/call-for-papers-dornbirn-gfc-2025.

With its legacy of fostering collaboration and innovation, the Dornbirn Global Fiber Congress 2025 promises to gather forward-thinking ideas that will advance sustainable, resilient, and high-performance solutions across the fiber and textile landscape.