ITMA 2015 Review – Part 7
Exhibitors make sustainabilty a big part of their M.O.
Consumers worldwide have had an undying love of jeans – especially, over the last two decades at least, those with a distressed or already-worn look. But creating that popular effect – and producing denim in general – has typically been a dirty and potentially unsafe process.
But in this era of sustainability, a number of companies have worked diligently in recent years to improve denim finishing techniques, which historically require high water and energy usage as well as polluting and hazardous chemicals. As a result, incredible strides to reduce the ecological footprint and raise health and safety processes of denim production have been made.
One of those companies, Jeanologia of Valencia, Spain, recently introduced its latest innovation in the area of sustainable technologies at ITMA in Milan. The 22-year-old, family-owned company demonstrated what it calls The Zero Discharge Production Center.
GREEN JEANS
Sustainable denim finishing techniques gaining steam
Adaptive Control optimistic after 'excellent' show
U.K.-based Adaptive Control, with its largest ITMA presence ever, reported an outstanding exhibition.
“It was an excellent show at a great location and with great local support,” said Tony Webber, sales director, who is based in Huntersville, N.C. “The show was full of real interest and a sense of a opportunity. We had a diverse interest and several people interested in building local support in their individual countries.”
Adaptive showed its latest Adaptive Host System with more features than ever before using PC-control systems. It focuses on systems to enhance performance in the dye house, as well as finishing machines controls, including dispensing of chemicals. With the system, significant improvements can be made to reduce waste and ensure minimal environmental impact, Webber said.
Frank Levy and Sergio Dell’Orco attended their first ITMA together in 1967 in Basel, Switzerland. And there they were again, nearly 50 years later, working a booth at the most recent ITMA here in November.
Levy is the longtime owner of Quogue-N.Y.-based Stellamcor, Inc., which has represented Dell’Orco’s company, Dell’Orco & Villani (D&V) of Capalle, Italy, for decades. Together, Levy and Dell’Orco have developed numerous technologies over the years, most notably in the area of sustainability – way before it was “cool.”
Levy, Dell’Orco attend 14th ITMA together
