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| Issue date:23/06/2010 |
| Source:Journal for Asia on Textile & Apparel |
| By Staff Reporters |
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| Italian exhibitors supporting ACIMIT's initiative of sustainable technology have put the green logo on their machines |
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The prime issue in this year's ITMA Asia + CITME is resource-efficient production as demand for green textiles is on the increase while textile mills are facing the rising costs of resources, oil, gas, electricity and water.
The biggest European participating groups of the show, German and Italian textile machinery manufacturers stressed the importance of providing customers with the solutions that meet their production needs, which today revolve around cleaner production and resource-efficiency.
Textile mills are looking for efficient machines which allow them to maintain the level of productivity without negative effects on the production costs or to the environment.
According to a study conducted by the textile division of the German machinery association, VDMA, with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants last year, different optimization levers contribute to the efficiency in energy, materials and other resources in the next 10 years.
German solutions for efficiency in energy, materials and resources |
It was found that by optimizing the production process, the efficiency could be increased by as much as 27%. Ranking second is the optimization of system control (23%), followed by the optimization of design (21%), substitution of sub-systems (14%), optimization of materials (13%) and others (2%).
Managing Director of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association, Thomas Waldmann, points out that the expense factors in a product lifecycle include the costs for acquisition, installation and start-up, while many costs are often not transparent at first glance, such as the costs for maintenance, service and repair - but also for energy and operating, the influence on costs for raw materials like fibers and yarns and the production waste, environmental costs (for certificates and special filters), costs for unscheduled repair, disposal, staff and so on.
"This phenomenon is comparable with an iceberg – only its top is visible from above the water surface while the real iceberg lies underneath," he comments.
German exhibitors take up the largest exhibition spaces among all European participants in this year's ITMA Asia + CITME, totaling about 5,400 square metres, compared with Italy (nearly 4,000 square metres) and Switzerland (about 2,500 square metres).
The China market and other countries in Asia continue to be the main areas for allocating marketing efforts for the textile machinery producers. Last year, Euro 628 million worth of German textile machinery were sold to China / Hong Kong, while the total export value for the year stood at Euro 1,813 million.
India ranked second as an export market for German textile machinery with a total value of Euro 161 million, followed by the USA market (Euro 142 million), and Turkey (Euro 65 million).
The textile machinery market became active again towards the end of last year, and even more so in the past few months.
Green logo for machinery makers
In view of the increasing demand for green textiles in the market, the Italian machinery manufacturers association, ACIMIT, is planning to introduce a green tag to help Italian textile machinery suppliers to differentiate their products in the market. The process may involve a certification body.
ACIMIT has developed a logo (a stylized leaf with the heading "Sustainable Technologies") that appear at the booths of ACIMIT's members participating in this initiative.
President of ACIMIT, Sandro Salmoiraghi, says, "We are certain that visitors at ITMA Asia + CITME will especially appreciate this commitment being put forward by our Association and by our entire sector with respect to environmental issues, as has been demonstrated by China's own textile industry, making energy savings its primary message.
"This is an additional opportunity to strengthen the existing technology partnership between Italian machinery manufacturers and Chinese and Asian textile manufacturers, as testified by our export numbers towards the entire Asian continent".
Maurizio Forte, Italian Trade Commissioner in Shanghai, comments that China market for Italian textile technology has a promising future as Chinese end users, encouraged by government policies, are continuing to invest on the high-end, energy-saving, and high efficient textile machinery, whose demand is not yet satisfied by domestic machinery manufacturers.
"The data show that, after a slight decline in 2009, our export restarted a growth trend which, in the first quarter of 2010 attained more than 85%, confirming Italy as the third largest exporter country to China after Japan and Germany", says Mr Forte.
"For Italian manufacturers," emphasizes Mr Salmoiraghi, "2010 has begun with some positive signs. A growing number of orders and other encouraging indicators are coming to us from Asia, where our exports have grown over the first two months of the year by 58% compared to the same period for 2009. In China, Italian sales have increased by as much as 165%".
He says that stability is the most important for the future development of the textile machinery industry. While he does not think that the recovery of the textile sector would bring the industry back to the pre-crisis level, he considers the present situation as a process towards a more stabilized market.
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