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.

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.

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu目前在加拿大的Green Story, Inc.擔任首席可持續發展官，並駐扎在香港。他在香港理工大學獲得博士學位，是紡織與服裝供應鏈環境可持續性、產品生命週期評估（LCA）和產品碳足跡評估（PCF）等領域的知名專家。他在紡織製造、研發和測試方面擁有五年的工業經驗，並在各種消費品的生命週期評估（LCA）、碳足跡和生態足跡評估方面擁有十多年的經驗。他發表了100多篇研究論文，撰寫了眾多專書章節，並編寫/編輯了100多本關於碳足跡、回收、環境評估和環境可持續性的書籍。