Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT), a private non-profit body which promotes the Italian textile machinery sector, recently hosted its annual meeting, where sustainable technologies emerged as the main point of discussion, with mentions of innovations and the recovering textile machinery market.
Owing to the new sustainable technologies developed by Italian manufacturers, 221,000 less tonnes of CO2 eq. were emitted into the environment in 2014, the equivalent of reducing CO2 eq. emissions generated by 38,000 cars. Sustainable innovation is among the primary goals promoted by ACIMIT – a goal that can be achieved only through a strict collaboration with the recipients of innovative research, the textile producers, according to the association.
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Innovation, which goes hand-in-hand with being sustainable, was also discussed at length. “Innovation is a discriminating element between those who have managed to overcome the long period of recession in production, and those who on the other hand struggled on the sidelines,” explained Raffaella Carabelli, President of ACIMIT adding, “In future, innovation will play an even larger part in making a difference in the textile sector.”
The textile machinery market is expected to grow even bigger with Vietnam, Bangladesh Cambodia, India, Myanmar, etc. focusing to increase their share of textile exports in the international market, which will require these countries to adopt latest machinery and technologies. This will further drive growth in the textile machinery market world over.
