As highlighted in the 2008 TCF Review by Professor Roy Green, the survival of the TCF industry is reliant on businesses being innovative - both in new technologies and business models.
With that in mind TFIA and Kangan Institute are building a Centre of Excellence - The Textile & Fashion Hub - that will house state of the art machinery with supervised access to allow industry workers to attend outside work hours for the purposes of training, product development, sampling, testing, or pre-purchase machinery exposure.
With funding from the Australian Flexible Workplace Framework, TFIA and Kangan Institute have developed FashionABLE - an e-learning tool to educate the participants in the OH&S safety aspects of the centre as well as the training around the machinery and innovative best practice within the TCF industry.