Over the past year, TMAS, the Swedish Textile Machinery Association, has been working with Climate Partner on a corporate carbon footprint mapping project with its member companies.

The aim is to move toward a more sustainable textile industry.Over half of the members of TMAS are participating in the project, which involves calculating each operation’s Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in order to identify the current climate impact and areas where reductions can be made.

The project’s scope examines all aspects of a business split into five areas: facility management (heating, electricity, water, cooling agents and waste disposal); employee mobility (commuting and company cars); business travel (flights travel by train, rental cars), procurement (production, packaging and office materials), logistics (inbound and outbound). Primary data is being used wherever possible and emission factors originate from internationally recognised databases.

The Textile Machinery Association of Sweden (TMAS) comprises leading Swedish companies with textile technology, automation and production processes. The expertise of its members ranges from advanced systems for yarn fault detection and tension monitoring, to yarn feeding technology for weaving, automated sewing production lines, cutting machines, embroidery technology, effective material handling systems, spray application system for fabric finishing and much more.Each company is very different in terms of size, structure and operations, but share common goals in the design and production of textile machinery that is flexible and highly automated, and wherever possible enables savings in energy, water and chemicals consumption.