It’s online the new ACIMIT video on colour produced by Italian Trade Agency in cooperation with ACIMIT, thanks to the financial support
of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. The video on colour, produced by Italian Trade Agency in cooperation with ACIMIT, thanks
to the financial support of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, highlights the great tradition of the Italian textile dyeing/
finishing/printing sector. Aestheticvalue, functionality, comfort of textile and fashion products are the global result of each intermediate
production process: from spinning, to weaving, to dyeing (or printing) unto finishing, the ultimate and decisive segment of the production
cycle where the textile item changes and enhances. These finishing operations evidence the indispensable contribution of technology to shape the colour, giving to the textile item its definitive surplus value, which is an essential requisite to get consumer’s preference.
In this segment of the textile production chain the Italian machinery exceeds in quality. In Italy the machines for finishing account for
46% in terms of companies and for 33% in terms of number of employees of the whole textile machinery industry. The production in 2014
reached 535 million euro, of which exports represents 88%.
In the dyeing/finishing/printing sector the Italian supply is characterized by the excellence of the production and the strong innovative
dimension. In the ‘70 the main requests of innovation were from the fashion world, for which some machines such as air tumble and garment
dyeing were developed. Later, environmental protection has become an additional value in the development of Italian machinery. The
demand for sustainable products involves the realization of machines safer and environmentally friendly.
The innovative goals today go through the printing sector; in the digital printing, in particular, the Italian companies are at the top. But innovation characterized also the changes made to some traditional machines (e.g. steamer and washing plant) to meet the needs of this new trendy and less pollutant production.
At ITMA 2015 it would be possible to verify how the interaction between competences, chemistry evolution and mechanical innovation is an advantage for the Italian manufacturers of finishing sector to develop sustainable machinery. In Milan in the finishing/ printing sector the Italian exhibitors will be about 150 for a occupied surface of almost 15,000 sq.mts.
