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Digital Transformation of
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the Chinese Textile sector

The Chinese government has come up with a comprehensive plan to speed up digitization, networking and
intelligence in textile industry. The digitization would be promoted to many subsectors in the textile industry.

Cotton textile industry: cultivating solutions such as online quality monitoring of spinning, intelligent cotton
assorting, yarn quality prediction, intelligent transfer in the workshop, optimized production processes,
automatic doffing, and intelligent detection of fabric defects.

Printing and dyeing industry: cultivating solutions such as intelligent production scheduling, automatic
transfer and distribution of dyes and chemicals, automatic size mixing, centralized control of dyeing vessels,
automatic cloth feeding and unloading, digital color management, intelligent cloth inspection, and digital
wastewater treatment. Knitting industry: cultivating solutions such as automatic yarn changing, automatic
doffing, real-time online measurement and adjustment of yarn length and adaptive control system for
constant tension, intelligent detection and automatic classification system for knitted fabric defects, broken
needle monitoring, virtual design and process simulation. Home textile industry: cultivating solutions such as
digital production lines, intelligent production scheduling, supply chain management, intelligent
warehousing, smart store operations, and precision marketing.

Apparel industry: cultivating solutions such as three-dimensional apparel design, intelligent cutting, flexible
production, personalized customization, intelligent material transfer, supply chain management, store
operation, platform-based design, and platform-based marketing.

Italian textile machinery production

to continue to grow in 2023

Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) President Alessandro Zucchi revealed that
the preliminary data for 2022, shows the value of Italian machinery production is expected to exceed 2.5
billion euros. “President Alessandro Zucchi also added, increasing by 10% compared to the previous year
saying exports account for more than 85 percent of this value. The economic conditions and political
tensions in 2022 threatened business activities in all sectors. ACIMIT estimates for 2023 – 2026 still show a
slight growth in demand for textile machinery.”

The ACIMIT president stated that digitization has become increasingly deeply rooted in Italian textile
machine manufacturing companies. The manufacturers are being issued digital-ready certification after a
detailed audit of their processes. He said efficient and digitized machines have reduced the use of resourc-
es. He disclosed that a survey on the Green Labels produced from 2016 to date, showed the quantified
avoided emissions using green labelled machines are 1.2 billion tons of CO2 equivalent, corresponding to
221,187 cars traveling for 35.000 km over a year.

Zucchi expects ITMA 2023 will be the largest ITMA ever, with about 1500 companies all over the world
including 380 Italian exhibitors. The Italian companies will showcase innovative technological solutions to
ITMA 2023, which would reduce energy consumption and raw materials.

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