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#ITMA 2015

CEMATEX publishes the 6th issue of ITMA Sustainability Bulletin

The new issue of ITMA Sustainability Bulletin (c) 2014 CEMATEX
The latest edition of the ITMA Sustainability Bulletin – the quarterly report on environmental performance from ITMA, the world's leading exhibition for textile manufacturing technology, is now available for download.
As preparations continue for ITMA 2015, CEMATEX recognises that sustainability will continue to be a topic of vital concern to manufacturers at all levels of the textile supply chain. In line with their mission to bring out the latest and most relevant intelligence, the ITMA Sustainability Bulletin is designed to keep people from textile business up-to-date with the latest environmental issues in textiles and the solutions available to address them.
The ITMA Sustainability Bulletin is a 10-pager with a couple of news about what happened in the terms of sustainability during the last weeks.

It contains news about the 'ITMA Sustainable Innovation awards', Oekotex STeP Certification, the Cotton LEADS programme and the Bio-based Industries Initiative.

Another topics are that US Congress proposes regulation of 'Toxic Chemicals' and a story about 'Making the Efficiency Case to China'.

To read the ITMA Sustainability Bulletin, please click here:

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