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CHAPTER 3 | Material becomes creation
Thanks to
a marriage between a proclivity towards innovation
and complete management of the process, the Group is able
to guarantee maximum product quality, whilst constantly refining its environmental and social sustainability profile.
The production cycle
The harmony in every cog in Ratti’s production is
also reflected in the printing of the fabrics. They have a balance of colours and fluidity, as they do in the sublime quality of this art which is an equilibrium between traditional craftsmanship and technological and design innovation.
Strengthened by a tradition born out of the manufacturing of silk, over time Ratti has transferred the specialist capabilities it has developed working with this fine fabric to different natural fibres, composite fibres and technological fibres. Heritage and modernity: a pair of words that, in Ratti, look back over 70 years of history and merge into a heritage that is driven, always, by the search for manufacturing excellence. A capital deriving from an aggregated knowledge of culture
and craftsmanship that has made the company an undeniable point of reference in the art of printing.
The Group manages the entire production cycle, from the creative phase, including the fabric design and production planning, to the ennoblement processes and hemming. Three principal production cycles are carried out by Ratti:
• Weaving
• Dyeing and printing
• Hemming finished garments
The overarching theme in production processes
is innovation: Ratti studies, experiments with and
adopts new production techniques, new technologies and new printing processes. Thanks to a marriage between a proclivity towards innovation and complete management of the process, the Group is able to guarantee maximum product quality, whilst constantly refining its environmental and social sustainability profile.
Looking to the future in a sustainable manner, for
Ratti, means not abandoning the past but, instead, continuing to build on it and invest in it to offer a high- quality product. Ratti has conducted an internal study, verified by Bureau Veritas, regarding the different use
of resources of the two printing processes, inkjet and table technology, comparing the use of electricity, water and chemical products.
The results obtained demonstrated how much more virtuous table printing was in that it used lower quantities of chemical products and less energy.
The validity of the results of the internal study were confirmed by its compliance with the standard ISO14021:2016. In addition, in 2019 a study was
carried out with the aim of verifying the self-declared environmental claims of rotary printing in comparison with inkjet printing. Also in this case the result obtained was a demonstration of how much more virtuous rotary printing was due to its lower use of chemical products and energy.
Table printing versus inkjet printing
Energy saving (TEP/m)
Water saving (l/m)
Chemical products saving (g/m)
SILK -19%
COTTON -33%
VISCOSE -47%
4% -40%
34% -39%
-9% -48%
Source: Internal study verified by an independent body, 2017.
COTTON -33% 31% -37%
Rotary printing versus inkjet printing
Energy saving (TEP/m)
Water saving (l/m)
Chemical products saving (g/m)
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JERSEY COTTON
-18% 26% -64%
VISCOSE equal 36% -60%
Source: Internal study carried out in 2019 and verified by an independent body in 2020.