ITMA 2023: Epson technology meets sustainability
Creativity and Innovation: a bridge to sustainability
Project: ITMA 2023. Epson technology meets sustainability
Goals: Presenting the pioneering edge of industrial direct-to-fabric printing
Target: Corporate stakeholders
ITMA 2023, the world’s largest exhibition for textile and apparel technology, which was staged in Rho (MI) from June 8 to 14, 2023, chose environmentally and climate neutral.
Rete Clima has made ITMA 2023 a carbon neutral event that brought to the attention of the industry audience the latest innovations with the aim of helping textile and apparel manufacturers transform and grow their businesses.
ITMA 2023 was an opportunity for Epson to show the public how the transition to increasingly sustainable textile production processes is already achievable, including through highly flexible solutions. The company has long been at the leading edge in addressing and solving instances of reducing environmental impact with its printing solutions, minimizing consumption of water, energy and CO2 equivalent emissions.
In collaboration with Rete Clima, all the activities connected to the event ITMA 2023 have been analyzed (such as: mobility of participants, transportation of materials, energy consumption of the venue, materials used for set-ups, catering and overnight stays, and wast) in order to quantify its “carbon footprint” and to offset it up to the climate neutrality of the event.
How was neutralized the climate impact of the event?
Compensation of the carbon footprint of the ITMA 2023 event takes place trough the cancellation of a number of carbon credits equal to the value of the carbon footprint of the event itself (expressed in terms of tCO2).
The emissions, estimated at about 130 tons of CO2 for the event, were actively managed through the support of a solar energy project certified according to VCS-Verra standards, such as the Project VCS 1230 – Solar Photovoltaic Power Project at Jalgaon, Maharashtra, in India aims to generate clean electricity through the exploitation of solar energy. The project aims to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels, helping to avoid significant amounts of emissions of air pollutants with public health impacts such as SOx, NOx and suspended particulate matter (SPM).
The carbon offset projects Solar Photovoltaic Power Project at Jalgaon, Maharashtra, supported by Epson participate in the VCS Program (Verified Carbon Standard) – Verra:
