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• BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL APPLIED
• RESEARCH CAPACITY
• INTELLITEC/INTELLITEX PROJECT
• Dr Jacek Mlynarek
• CTT Group
• ACCC - Ottawa, February 21, 2003

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• CTT GROUP
• Centre for Textile and Geosynthetic Technologies
• INNOVATION AND RD CENTRE
• ON HIGH-TECH TECHNICAL TEXTILE AND GEOSYNTHETIC
  MATERIALS

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• OUR MISSION
• TO FAVOR INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF TEXTILE
  AND PARA-TEXTILE (GEOSYNTHETIC) MATERIALS AND TO
  STIMULATE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT IN THE
  TEXTILE AND PARA-TEXTILE INDUSTRIES

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• Partenaire de lindustrie

NOTRE CLIENT QUALITÉ NOS PRIORITÉS
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• 1982 Centre Protextile
  (5 employés)
• vers
• 1987 Centre des technologies
  textiles Québec Inc. (CTT)
  (12 employées)

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• 1988 SAGEOS Inc. (Centre des technologies
  géosynthétiques) en collaboration avec l École
  Polytechnique de Montréal (50/50)
• (Employés 15)
• Mission
• Le Centre des technologies textiles Québec Inc.
  sest
• donné pour mission de favoriser le développement
• des matériaux textiles et géosynthétiques et de
• stimuler lavancement technologique de
  lindustrie
• textile et géosynthétique

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• 1992 Développement de SAGEOS Inc. en
  collaboration avec une compagnie de génie conseil
  (50/50) (18 employés)
• 1995 Page WEB - Promotion des services
• 1995 Bulletin dinformation INFOGEOS
• 1996-1997 Achat de la Revue canadienne du
  textile (1883) (25 employés)
• 1997 Accréditation ISO 9000

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• 1998 Réseau dÉchange et de Savoir-Faire (RESF)

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• Financement PMVT pour 5 ans de 1990 à 1995
• Financement PMVT pour 5 ans de 1996 à 2000
• Financement MRST (1997)
• Financement FCI 1 (1998)
• Financement FCI 2 (2001)

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• 2002 Revue textile (CTJ) et bulletin INFOGEOS
  sur INTERNET webCTJ.com et infogeos.com
• 2003 (?) Regroupement Intellitex Inc. de trois
  centres collégiaux Groupe CTT CETSO CGQ
  afin de développer la fondation de la nouvelle
  technologie des textiles intelligents au Québec

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• OPENING NEW AVENUES FOR TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN
  CANADA
• INTELLIGENT TEXTILES

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• Phase 1 Laying the foundation
• Phase 2 Determining the trends
• Phase 3 Identifying lead users
• Phase 4 Developing the innovative products

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HIGHTEX'2002
INTELLIGENT TEXTILES Groupe CTT Group,
Saint-Hyacinthe 23 / 04 / 2002
Smart Technology for Textiles and Apparel - Past,
Present and Future" Prof. Tao, Hongkong
Polytechnical University
Smart textiles State-of-the-art and future
developments Dr. Bruno Chevet, ITF France
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• Intelligent Textiles
• Inclusion of flexible micro-chips in textiles
• Inclusion of electronics components in fibres
• Fusion of electronics components inside fibres
  structure
• Short and long distance tele-communication issues
  

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• Creating Capabilities to Innovate
• Create new organizational structure within our
  Centre in which new technology can be developed
• Spin out an independent organization from the
  existing Centre and develop within it the new
  technology and values required to develop the new
  technological platform
• Acquire a different organization whose process
  and values closely match the requirements of the
  new task

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• Solution
• Spin out an independent organization from the
• Centre and develop within it the
• new technology and values required to develop
• the new technological platform

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• TRANS-TECH NETWORK
• 28 CEGEPS TECHNOLOGICAL CENTRES
• Partnership project Intellitec/Intellitex
• CTT Group Centre for textile and geosynthetic
  technologies
• CETSO Centre de technologie des systèmes
  ordinés
• CGQ Centre de géomatique du Québec

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• ACKNOWEDGMENTS
• ACCC
• Directors of CETSO and CGQ
• Staff of CTT Group
• Ministry of Finances, Economy and Research of
  Quebec Research, Science and Technology Mission
  and Indutry and Commerce Mission
• Ministry of Education of Quebec

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• THANK YOU !
• Dr Jacek Mlynarek
• CTT Group
• jmlynarek_at_ctt.ca
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]