The global textile and garment manufacturing industry converged at ITMA 2015 in Milan to source innovative solutions to enhance their business sustainability. Their commitment to sustainability is evident from the strong industry turnout. At the end of eight days, the 17th edition of the world’s most established textile and garment technology exhibition attracted visitorship of almost 1,23,000 from 147 economies.
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M aster the Art of Sustainable Innovation? is the avowed message for ITMA 2015 & rightly so. Humanity cannot make the Earth sick due to its greed. It is very easy to grasp the meaning of ethics in the sustainability exercise because textile manufacturing being one of the worst polluters on Earth needs to clean its act, by the R-routes — Reuse, Reduce & Recycle.
The sustainability wave that has started rolling a few years ago, is gathering force, as the countdown for ITMA begins.
Let´s look at some examples in India and its neighbour, Bangladesh. Exploration Architecture, a company that specialises in biomimicry, has completed its design for a sustainable factory in Nagpur, India
Ingersoll Rand advances the quality of life by creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and efficient environments. Its brands´Club Car®, Ingersoll Rand®, Schlage®, Thermo King® and Trane®´work together to enhance the quality and comfort of air in homes and buildings, transport and protect food and perishables, secure homes and commercial properties, and increase industrial productivity and efficiency.
Despite some reduction in the export of Italian textile machinery to the traditional markets of China, India and Turkey, Italian textile machinery industry is optimistic of the rest of the 2015 and 2016 and is also having a positive outlook on the long-term prospects.
Since the last ITMA edition, the global textile and garment industry has made rapid strides and evolved tremendously with technological innovations. And 2015 being the Year of Sustainability, the organisers have done well to make this as the main theme ´ Master the Art of Sustainable Innovation.