Our choice is to offset part of our CO2 emissions by planting new trees in Africa
Not only for the benefit of the environment but also to support the small communities of farmers who cultivate the land and live off its fruits.
RMS – Responsable Mohair Standard – New international Certication of Mohair that guarantees its traceability while respecting the animals and the environment in which they are raised.
RWS – Responsable Wool Standard – It ensures that wool from certified farms is properly identified and tracked. It also ensure tha sheep are treated with respect to their Five Freedoms and also ensures best practices in the management and protection of the land.
OCS – Organic Content Standard – This standard ensures the presence of natural fibers from organic agriculture in textile products.
Viktorija Mineikyte wins one of the five awards of the contest “feel the yarn” with a creation made using the yarns of Industria Italiana Filati.
The Pitti Immagine Filati 83 edition ended positively in a lively atmosphere and with an optimistic vision for the future of knitwear. Many were the ideas that emerged from this event, to which the young designers who participated in the ninth edition of Feel the Yarn contributed with their creative proposals.
Wins the FTY2018 award, offered by Biella Yarn, part of Südwolle Group, Margot Vaaderpass of the Royal College of Art who has been able to interpret the theme with creativity and competence, enhancing the yarns of Industria Italiana Filati His project explored the nature and its representations through technology, placing the accent on the future of traditional knitwear in a context of hybridization between the natural and the technological.
Industria Italiana Filati has renewed its participation in the FEEL THE YARN project, now in its 8th edition, which has proven to be a crucial occasion for collaboration between the Italian textile industry and the world of young international designers.
Consorzio Promozione Filati and Pitti Immagine, with the most important Italian spinning mills, promote the competition for knitwear designers coming from prestigious fashion institutes worldwide.
This year, the theme of the competition is KNIT MIX Industria Italiana Filati will supply its yarns to Heidi Biedermann, a student of the Swiss institute Hochschule Luzern.
is the new line of fancy yarns for weaving and jersey created by Industria Italiana Filati spa.
22 qualities make up the first collection Fall- Winter 2017- 2018 Wool worsted yarns, hollow spindle yarns andthe extremely thin and light yarns called AIRY Fancy shuttle and jersey yarns. combed wool, hollow spindle, spiral and Airy with a rarefied and very light body.
hange is most difficult but also most effective when it happens at the root of a problem. This is why we are now working with Italy’s Prato region to Detox the companies that supply renowned fashion brands, including Gucci, Prada and Armani.
As of today, 20 companies in the Prato textile district, the oldest in Italy, have joined the Greenpeace Detox campaign. They have already made great strides to remove hazardous chemicals from their factories and they are eager to make more.
Along with a group of companies of the CPF, we set out on this path by defining a Charter of Values fir Sustainability which is articulated on several points:
This first step will follow, always on a voluntary basis, other actions to implement in practice the values in which we recognized and the goals we set ourselves.
It ‘s inevitable that the production process becomes fully sustainable in relation to consumers, customers, employees and the entire community, and because of the path we have undertaken, will become reality quickly
With TREEDOM Industria Italiana Filati renews and supports a project in Africa.
In a region of Senegal were planted fruit trees directly from the farmers who will benefit from the fruit. Planting trees means putting the roots, living in the rhythm of nature and help the planet Earth.
In 2014, for the fifth year in a row, Toscana Promozione, Pitti Immagine, Consorzio Promozione Filati and the most important italian yarn producers will promote a contest for knitwear designers.
The goal is to support young international designers who will be able to create the most original knit creation, endorsing the most precious Italian yarns in the Autumn Winter 2015-2016. This year, the winner was Matilda Norberg, one of the students coming from the Royal College of Art in London. Matilda, tutored by Industria Italiana Filati, received the award directly from Raffaello Napoleone, Pitti Immagine CEO, Gianfranco Simoncini and Francesco Lucchesi, the President of CPF.
