Energy Made-to-Measure campaign, the initiative for energy efficiency in the European textile and clothing industry led by Euratex, will intensify as of 2015 thanks to new collaboration with both the VDMA’s Blue Competence initiative and the Sustainable Technologies project of ACIMIT.

The organisations have signed two separate Memorandums of Understanding for these actions to join efforts for the benefit of the European companies.

Energy Made-to-Measure

Since 2014, EURATEX, the European Apparel and Textile Confederation, in collaboration with dozens of organisations across Europe runs the Energy Made-to-Measure (EM2M) campaign, which provides companies, notably the SMEs,  with tools, best practices and training to assess options and take informed decisions about energy efficiency measures.

The campaign has so far promoted the outcome of three international projects on textile and clothing manufacturing co-funded by the European Union, namely ARTISAN, SESES and SET.

More than 20 public events took place in eight countries to meet some 500 professionals and discuss opportunities to spare energy and cut costs for a more efficient, sustainable manufacturing.

Collaboration

In 2015, the Energy Made-to-Measure campaign will intensify promotion of energy efficiency in textile manufacturing together with ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers and with VDMA, the German textile Machinery Association.

VDMA has launched the Blue Competence initiative to support the sustainable textile production, especially by means of a more sparing use of resources and more efficient manufacturing processes involving intelligent technical solutions.

ACIMIT has created the Sustainable Technologies project with the aim of developing and promoting new production models and efficient processes from an energy standpoint, with a reduced environmental impact. 

Mutual interest in sustainability

Based on such clear mutual interest in sustainability and in the competitiveness of textile manufacturing, EURATEX signed agreements with the two leading associations to join forces and benefit from each other‘s achievements in all applicable areas, for instance, technical know-how and communication.

Common activities will be discussed as of next week in Budapest on the occasion of the SET project Advisory Board, of which both VDMA and ACIMIT are members.

The international trade fairs like Techtextil/ Texprocess that takes place from 4-7 May in Frankfurt, and ITMA, which is to be held in Milan in November, offer additional opportunities to present early results and upcoming steps to the attention of global companies.

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