Trafi Creatività Tessile is an Italian textile company founded in 1983 in Prato, Italy with 32 employees. They specialize in space dyeing and unusual textile techniques, investing 15% of their turnover into R&D. The textile fashion world demands new products as customers ask "what's new?". Trafi explores innovation through new processes and techniques to attract new customers, improve skills, and address changing market trends. They see opportunities through interacting with the TCBL network's business cases around natural cotton, small production runs, eco-friendly dyeing, waste recycling, and working with independent designers.

1. Trafi Creatività Tessile srl
Prato, Italy
Fabio Giusti - f.giusti@trafi.it

2. Business activity• Founded in 1983 in Prato -
Italy
• 35 years of development in
space dyeing and other
unusual techniques
• 32 employees
• 15% of turnover in R&D
• Customers in all fashion
textile market sectors

3. Market
issues
• Fashion textile world
needs new products.
• Customer question is:
“What’s new?”
• We have to give them
innovation, but in reliable
and cost effective ways

4. Innovation
potentials
• New processes for new products
• Opportunities for being attractive for new
customers
• Opportunities to improve our knowledge
and our skills
• It makes easier to address new market
trends
• Welcome new designers with new ideas
and new dreams

5. Value chain
scenarios
• Do better with less: easy to say, but difficult
to realize
• TCBL as a shortcut
• Our company can interact with several TCBL
business cases

6. Value chain
scenarios
• Space dyeing for “Natural Cotton”

7. Value chain
scenarios
• Ability and attitude to manage small lots for
“Short run”

8. Value chain
scenarios
• “Eco-friendly” special fancy dyeing with
natural dyestuff and steam

9. Value chain
scenarios
• Eco-friendly process to obtain ready to wear
garments starting from textile production
waste by needle punching technique

10. Value chain
scenarios
• Welcome new needs, new ideas from
“Independent” designers

11. Value chain
scenarios
• “Bioshades” to change and improve our
space dyeing techniques

12. Value chain
scenarios
• Thousands of samples are waiting to
become an archive (our “Heritage”)

13. Interaction
with TCBL
• No more to say
• TCBL is a unique community with
unique tools
• It ’s going to be fun!!!

14. Thank you
Trafi Creatività Tessile
Fabio Giusti - f.giusti@trafi.it