Norway, known in Europe for its high environmental quality, has chosen Italian technologies for textile recycling.
In the city of Sandefjord, about a hundred kilometers from Oslo, the country's first plant in a high-performance sector was inaugurated.
The latest generation machinery exported is from the Ommi company in Prato. It is not the first time that the Norwegian authorities have chosen Italian cars to improve their industrial activities.
Italy and Norway have a solid commercial collaboration in sectors useful for addressing the energy transition and climate change. Textile waste management is certainly part of it.
The news concerns appreciation abroad of what our industries do, often alone. On the technological and plant engineering side it should give a wake-up call to our locals mister No. anti-implants.
In this specific case, the production of recycled fabrics has contributed in the last three years to making Italy the European country with the highest recycling rate of total special and urban waste.
Here it is an entire district - Prato - that is chosen as a partner by a country that is taken as a model of sustainability.
Green technologies, an obligatory choice
Prato is the largest textile hub in Europe with 7 thousand companies. Applications across the district have created revenue and jobs.
Let's remember that textile recycling is used to create new clothes and recovery processes are also affecting the big fashion houses. If Italian fashion by great designers is always in vogue in the world, it is right that it is also an expression of environmental protection.
Today, goods are produced on a large scale by reducing the use of raw materials, in particular water and energy. In Tuscany there are 400 companies certified with the Global Recycled Standard.
There is a network that is being integrated with Europe that holds textiles responsible for 10% of carbon emissions. We need to reduce them and for this reason the new Norwegian plant branded Italy is an unequivocal response to the defeatists at home, in effective permanent service.
