HONG KONG World leading clothing retailers and experts on eco-textiles and sustainability will convene at the Planet Textiles event next March which runs alongside Interstoff Asia Essential.
Executives from Wal-Mart, KIK and IKEA have confirmed that they will speak at the new Planet Textiles event on sustainability which will take place at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in March 2010.
Eleanor Wright, Wal-Mart, raw materials director, based in Shenzen, China has agreed to update textile manufacturers at the event about the latest on the US retail giant s sustainability index. Petra Katzenberger, Head of CSR at KIK, Germany s largest discounter will reveal a new carbon footprinting initiative and IKEA s Anurag Priyadarshi will share the results of an IKEA study on the environmental impact of pigment versus reactive dyes during textile production.
Other confirmed speakers include Simon Weston of Hong Kong-based Fountain Set who will talk about the company s latest regenerated cotton project which will see the first commercially available products launched by retail partners in March 2010.
Phil Patterson, Chairman, of the RITE Group (Reducing the Impact of Textiles on the Environment) will speak about how the big brands in Europe and the States can engage more effectively with textile manufacturers in Asia.
Pat Nie Woo from the Sustainable Fashion Business Consortium a group of leading Hong Kong-based textile manufacturers will look at current and future challenges to implementing sustainable change in the textile sector and ask what are the realities?
Other leading brands are yet to finally confirm their participation in what is sure to be a ground-breaking, new event on eco-textiles in the Hong Kong/China region.
