International demand for production capacity is growing. Fashion labels and garment manufacturers are looking for new outward processing channels to outsource production fully or partially. At the same time, rising production costs in Chinaand India are bringing about a reconsideration of priorities: transparency in the textile supply chain, optimum technical integration and corporate social responsibility are replacing price as the most important production criterion.Against this background, the ‘Source it’ area will offer detailed insights into newchannels and technologies during Texprocess from 4 to 7 May 2015.

‘Source it’ offers both production companies and fashion enterprises supplementary benefits such as, the former can take new orders and find out about the latest technologies at Texprocess, e.g. new solutions for sewing, joining, embroidering and cutting. For their part, fashion labels can find not only innovative production machines but also interesting companies for outward processing. ‘Source it’ is also aimed at export-promotion companies, national associations or institutions of the textile and garment industry.

At Apparel Sourcing in Paris and New York, garment manufacturers target the design-oriented visitors of the concurrent Texworld. ‘Source it’ also presents companies from the outward-processing sector. Additionally, the ‘Source it’ area is distinguished by its highly technological orientation and, therefore, is of particular interest to Texprocess visitors, most of who come to see machinery. This combination of production companies and suppliers of machinery and technology is unique in Europe and future-oriented.

Given the demand for environmentally friendly and socially fair production in the garment sector, ‘Source it’ will focus on social standards and textile labels in 2015. Well-known testing and certification systems, such as GOTS and OEKO-TEX® with STeP, have found their way into production facilities in Eastern Europe and Asia.