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China’s smart clusters raise EU textile sector stakes

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New report warns European textile technology suppliers must become system architects by 2035 or be eclipsed by China’s fast-advancing smart-factory ecosystem 

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Youngor’s smart knitting factory in Ningbo is cited as a concrete benchmark.

FRANKFURT – European textile machinery suppliers face a stark strategic choice: transform into architects of digitally integrated production systems, or drift into irrelevance as sub-suppliers to ecosystems shaped by others.

The study urges machinery makers to move beyond regulatory compliance towards measurable performance: reducing energy, water and material consumption through advanced process design.

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