CCI Organises 7th Annual Cotton Day in Jakarta

Nearly 400 Indonesian textile industry stakeholders attended the 7th annual Cotton Day in Jakarta, an event hosted by Cotton Council International (CCI) to celebrate the importance of US cotton to Indonesian mills and expand its usage.

“The journey to a smart cotton future starts with US cotton fibre. US cotton’s sustainability, quality, transparency and innovation, including two programs, Cotton USA Solutions and the US Cotton Trust Protocol, clearly sets it apart as a superior fibre,” Rio Hartanto Jap, Indonesian CCI Representative said.

The event featured seminars, US cotton exhibitions, a networking forum and a fashion show of US cotton-rich garments by esteemed mills, brands and fashion designers in Indonesia.

Participating partners included: Argo Manunggal X Project Sekar, Duniatex, Apac Inti Corpora, Bateeq, Samase, Mega Perintis, Lucky Print, Hakatex and Indo Liberty Textile.

Mills learned how they could achieve peak performance with US cotton through Cotton USA Solutions, five business-building programs that show how using US cotton can boost a mill’s productivity, efficiency and profitability.

Led by the Cotton USA technical team, whose vast experience provides unmatched expertise in US cotton spinning, these offerings include Cotton USA On-Site Mill Visits, The US Cotton Academy, the Cotton USA Mill Exchange Program and US Cotton Seminars.

The US Cotton Trust Protocol is a voluntary, farm level science-based sustainability program that is setting a new standard for delivering value to all stakeholders across the entire supply chain from farms to finished products.

It is the only system that provides quantifiable, verifiable goals and measurement and drives continuous improvement in six key sustainability metrics – land use, soil carbon, water management, soil loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy efficiency.

It is also the world’s first sustainable cotton fibre program to offer article-level supply chain transparency to all members.