CEMATEX, the European committee of textile machinery manufacturers has shortlisted six finalists from around 30 entries for its first ITMA Sustainable Innovation Award. Three of the finalists are vying for the ITMA Industry Excellence Award while the remaining three are competing for the ITMA Research & Innovation (R&I) Excellence Award.
The award recognises textile and garment manufacturers who have leveraged on technological innovations to advance business sustainability that benefit people, planet and profit. After much deliberation, the judges have picked Berto Industria Tessile SRL (Italy), Gebrüder Otto GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) and Levi Strauss & Co. (USA), who have worked closely with ITMA 2015 exhibitors to introduce innovative solutions to their production process or products.
For R&I Excellence Award – Masters, the three finalists are Jan Vincent Jordan, Institut Für Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen University for 'Development & Assembly of a Test Bench for the Analysis of Magnetic Weft Insertion', Jenifer Schneidereit, Hochschule Niederrhein for 'Sustainable Water Use in Textile Wet Processing: Development of a List of Improvement Measures for a Self-Assessment Tool for Factories' and Moniruddoza Ashir, Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology, TU Dresden for 'Development of Hybrid Woven Structures for Lightweight Applications'.
The winners of the ITMA Sustainable Innovation Award will be announced at the ITMA 2015 Gala Dinner held at the La Pelota in Milan on November 12. The winner of the Industry Excellence Award will receive a cash prize of €10,000 and a trophy, among other rewards. A cash prize of €4,000 will be given to the winner of the R&I Excellence Award.
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