Fashion and Lifestyle Channel

Spanish companies need trained engineers to design textiles, textile design and develop products, manage innovation, international trade and financial management, quality and environment, interpersonal relationships and occupational risks.

It has been shown how energy costs are a key factor in competitiveness, so you need to reduce energy consumption.

For connoisseurs of fashion, ‘Made in / by Spain’ brings novelty and curiosity, but it needs a further boost for its recognition in international markets.

At a meeting today at the Confederation of Employers of Galicia, in the town of Santiago de compositely, the components of the Industrial Centre of Textile and Clothing presented the main results of the activities to be conducted during which you and its fifth year of operation.

Among the main conclusions and recommendations, include:

The textile and clothing industry as a whole is configured as a sector with great influence within the Spanish industrial activity. This sector includes a figure higher than 130,000 workers and about 20,000 companies, of which 39% are engaged in the textile industry and 61% for clothing.

About exports, have remained stable at 7,700 million euros. Imports have fallen by 10.4% to 11.8 thousand million.

The partnership between Spain and fashion is low, since the Spanish fashion is still not sufficiently recognized in international markets.

The new textile sector has been reflected in the success of a new form of business, which unites the production and distribution through its own retail chains. Logistics has become a strategic tool for businesses in order to meet the changing tastes of consumers with the speed required, while production needs are covered internationally.

The introduction of social clauses in the field of textile procurement is to ensure compliance with the rights of workers involved along the value chain and the wider dissemination of CSR among companies in the sector. Environmental clauses are of limited use, however highlights the increasing use of eco-labels.

Spanish companies need trained engineers to design textiles, textile design and develop products, manage innovation, international trade and financial management, quality, environment, interpersonal relationships and occupational risks. The low enrollment is primarily due to ignorance of the sector, the content of the study and performance of the functions of graduates in the same, which makes these studies are considered unattractive.

It has been shown how energy costs are a key factor in the competitiveness of these enterprises, so that in order to meet the challenges of the sector is necessary to reduce energy consumption and investment in training and technologies.