Challenges for Textile SMEs to Reach Sustainability
2023 (English)In: Production Processes and Product Evolution in the Age of Disruption: Proceedings of the 9th Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference (CARV2023) and the 11th World Mass Customization & Personalization Conference (MCPC2023), Bologna, Italy, June 2023 / [ed] F. G. Galizia, M. Bortolini, Springer, 2023, p. 393-403Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Sustainable development
00. Sustainable Development
Abstract [en]
The textile industry has a significant environmental impact while at the same time playing an important role in society. There is a need to improve the textile industry's sustainability. Textile SMEs encounter numerous challenges to reach sustainability. This paper aims at recognizing the challenges by collecting, analyzing, and discussing some theoretical and empirical data. At the end of this paper, six main groups of challenges are presented: lack of stakeholder knowledge about sustainability, lack of resources, lack of communication, and effective legislation. Also, recognizing the relevant needs and finding some conceptual solutions for textile SMEs to overcome the challenges and reach more sustainability are considered as future work of this study.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2023. p. 393-403
Series
Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, ISSN 2195-4356, E-ISSN 2195-4364
Keywords [en]
Green transition, Production, SMEs, Sustainability, Textile industry, Environmental impact, Sustainable development, Textiles, Empirical data, Green transitions, Main group, SME
National Category
Mechanical Engineering Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-62629DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34821-1_43Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85172374294ISBN: 978-3-031-34820-4 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-34821-1 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-62629DiVA, id: diva2:1803697
Conference
Proceedings of the 9th Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference CARV2023 and the 11th World Mass Customization and Personalization Conference MCPC 2023 Bologna 20 June 2023 through 23 June 2023
Funder
Vinnova2023-10-102023-10-102024-11-14Bibliographically approved