Blockchain Technologies in the Textile and Fashion Industry

This book presents applications of blockchain technologies to foster sustainable development in the textile and clothing supply chain. The concept of Textiles and Fashion Sustainability has grown to a wider extent today. Among the list of items to achieve Sustainability in Textiles and Fashion, the key element is the traceability of supply chains in terms of mapping and tracing the entire supply chain to ensure sustainable supply chain management. Reliable and transparent, efficient data is one of the crucial requirements for Textiles and Fashion Sustainability in today's advanced industrial context and this is possible in this advanced era by various technological advancements such as Block chain technologies. These days one can see a widespread application of blockchain technology in the Textiles and Clothing sector. The core competencies of blockchain technology namely transparency, data auditability, privacy, value transfer, and process efficiency and automation are very much essential for achieving the multifold objectives under the theme Textiles and Fashion Sustainability.

Presents the applications of blockchains to foster sustainability in the textile and clothing supply chain Includes case study on combating luxury counterfeiting through the use of blockchain technology Discusses the future of Blockchain in wastewater treatment for the textile industry

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Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for Green Story, Inc. Canada as Chief Sustainability Officer and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

Inhalt
Combating Luxury Counterfeiting Through Blockchain Technology.- Boosting Luxury Sustainability Through Blockchain Technology.- Digital Hesitancy: Examining the organisational mindset required for the adoption of digitalised textile supply chain transparency.- Blockchain Utility By Pioneers In Fashion And Apparel Industry.- The Future of Block-Chain For Wastewater Treatment in the Textiles Industry.