Interview

Brexit in the UK has caused major issues with sourcing labour, added regulatory and import/export burdens, increased input costs and reduced customer confidence. Dr Kerry Senior, Director, Leather UK, a membership-based trade organisation with the remit to represent, promote and protect the leather industry, elaborates.

The mission of the Sustainable Leather Foundation (SLF) is to support the global leather industry to learn, to improve and to protect the planet for future generations. Towards this objective its latest offering is the Partner Profiles and QR Codes which link up the SLF and a company’s website, and the company’s Transparency Dashboard. In a brief conversation with texfash.com, Deborah Taylor, Managing Director at SLF elaborates on the initiatives.

Vegan, completely biodegradable and produced with bio-fabrication, AMSilk’s products are environment friendly and make a significant contribution to a future zero-waste society. Ulrich Scherbel, Managing Director at AMSilk, the world’s leading supplier of innovative high-performance biotech materials, talks to texfash.com about how he aims to make smart performing biotech materials part of everyday life.

Here’s how and why Basel-based VYN claims to be the first sneaker brand to stand for responsible materials and manufacturing, eco-innovation (designed for self-repair), care services, and at the end of life, responsible disassembly and re-use of materials and resources, thereby creating a circular system.

Traceability solution provider Haelixa promises to bridge current traceability gaps by physically marking raw materials and identifying them at any supply chain step, proving claims of product origin, recycling, manufacturing and quality. Chief Executive Officer Michela Puddu elaborates in this texfash.com Special.

Digital technology is key to unleashing creativity, answering the call for more sustainability, more precisely and cost-effectively answering consumer demands, and providing the process digitisation necessary to make onshoring/nearshoring profitable and eliminate unnecessary supply chain complexity and risk, says Ronen Samuel, the Chief Executive Officer at Kornit Digital. A texfash.com Special.

With a proven legacy of over 80 years, Lenzing AG’s sustainable production of botanic fibres has remained as the centrepiece of strategic focus of its core business. Avinash Mane, Commercial Director (South Asia), Lenzing Group, talks to texfash.com about the role the three-decade-old Tencel fibre has played in the business of denim.

The risks are becoming bigger. COVID-19, Russia-Ukraine war, Suez crisis, Shanghai situation—all these were unforeseen. But that's why those are called risks. Cem Altan, President of the International Apparel Federation discusses how apparel brands and manufacturers can mitigate risks.

SustainKart retails only sustainable products, claiming to be India's first-ever and largest ‘responsible’ e-commerce platform that currently hosts over 1100 brands and 93,000 SKUs (including fashion), aiming to revamp closets and households with conscious products. The mission is to change the spending pattern of Indians for their lifestyle commodities. SustainKart targets becoming a unicorn by mid-2023. Dutt talks to texfash.com about his journey that began when he was all of 12 years.

The Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) is a private national body that knits about 80% of the Italian textile machinery players. Its key mandate is to promote this segment of the industry within and beyond its shores in tandem with the Italian Trade Agency and Italian Ministry of Economic Development. ACIMIT President Alessandro Zucchi talks to texfash.com about how the machinery segment is surviving the current volatile times.