At 17th ITMA, the world’s foremost trade fair dedicated to textile machinery, being held in Milan, there is a significant presence of Italian companies. And as Raffaella Carabelli, President of ACIMIT (the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers) says they are proud to have brought back to Milan the world’s major textile machinery fair after 20 years. He added that the numbers not only ranked Italy first among exhibiting countries, however, they were a true testament to the vitality of the sector, and confirm the good state of health of the Italian textile industry.
The event’s slogan is ‘Master the Art of Sustainable Innovation’ and here too, Italian manufacturers played a major role. Besides, this edition of ITMA is a litmus test for assessing the commitment of the global textile machinery sector to a truly sustainable textile and garments industry, given the slogan of the event.
Carabelli says their association is committed to issues of environmental and economic sustainability since 2010, with the ‘Sustainable Technologies’ project, to which over 40 companies have adhered. Italian machinery manufacturers have been focusing on the issue of sustainability for their products for quite some time now, to satisfy the demand for efficient technology solutions that effectively cut back on consumption, and thus the production costs. During the event they are presenting the specialised press the project’s effects on CO2 emissions.
