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 have built a Centre of Excellence - The Textile & Fashion Hub - that houses 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.
And 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.