Advanced Textiles Expo 2025

Michael Rein
Director of Engineering
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA)


Dr. Michael Rein is the Director of Engineering at the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) manufacturing institute. Dr. Rein is leading technology and product development that introduce advanced multifunctional fibers and electronics into textiles to enable a high-tech transformation of the US textile industry. Dr. Rein received a BSc degree in Materials Engineering and a BA in Physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, MSc in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT.

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