la Repubblica.it, November 15, 2021
ORGANIC FURNITURE special
ZAMBAITI COTTON MILL SINCE 1967 THE COMPANY PRODUCES HAPPIDEA HOME LINEN, AN ETHICAL BRAND
“The sustainable philosophy that changes furnishings”
The time spent at home has taught us to enhance the furnishings, to take care of the small details, because where we spend most of our lives is where quality and attention to detail cannot be missing. Lara Corna, head of research and development at Cotonificio Zambaiti, a Bergamo manufacturing company that has been operating in the textile market for more than fifty years, knows this well. In particular, reality plays a fundamental role in the sector's transition to a completely sustainable philosophy, making a difference in living and daily living in the name of respect for the environment and against all waste. It is therefore an innovative company, which however has not "woken up" now, due to the most modern ecological needs: its story begins much earlier. In the nineties.
A LONG HISTORY
Cotonificio Zambaiti has been producing the Happidea home linen brand since 1967, the high-end Cassera Casa line, the Ecotone organic cotton yarn collection. In fact, it is the first Italian company to use digital printing technology for home textiles, thanks to which, among other things, it has become the exclusive owner of the Anne Geddes license. It was the first Italian company to use digital printing technology for home textiles.
A CONSOLIDATED REALITY
Zambaiti's industrial sector has its cornerstones in research and development, style, prototyping, fabric preparation, bleaching, dyeing, finishing, printing with all the latest technologies, quilting, cutting, packaging and logistics warehouse for fabrics and finished products: By structuring itself into these departments, the company follows the processing of a high quality textile product from start to finish. Thus consolidated over the years, Cotonificio Zambaiti reveals itself today
the ideal partner and main reference for numerous companies in the private label and large-scale retail trade textile market. All the furnishing components are the result of
Zambaiti's work become a flagship of quality: with the Happidea brand, sheets, quilts and linings come from natural, recycled materials, with a view to greater protection of health and well-being, as well as improving the planet through reuse and recycling of materials. Natural fiber replaces microfibre, for sheets that are ideal for the health of the body. The quilts are filled with 100% recycled PET, regenerated from the plastic that ruined land and sea. Non-toxic dyes and reusable packaging are a further precaution of a company long devoted to a transparent, sustainable and valuable ethic.
COTTON MILL PRODUCTION
COMMITMENT FROM THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE TERRITORY AND RESOURCES TO THE BEST OF TECHNOLOGY
With safeguard and innovation:
This protects everyone's well-being
SINCE 1990
LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT IN A HEALTHY WAY
HERE IS THE GREEN PRODUCTION CYCLE
A production cycle that has always used natural materials, such as the Gots certified organic cotton yarn of the fabric in the Ecotone line, the BCI certified percale and satin of Cassera Casa, the use exclusively of dyes or elements that are non-toxic for nature and the territory , Oeko-Tex certified. This is how Cotonificio Zambaiti provides its contribution to a
healthier environment. Furthermore, since 1990, the company has installed a plant for the recycling of semi-finished textiles and the production of quilts with PET padding
recycled. If until recently a choice to recycle might have seemed unusual, today it appears to be a dutiful act of responsibility and a strong additional motivation for choosing the purchasing product. Choosing products that embrace the green philosophy means making a personal contribution to a production cycle aimed at a healthier environment for future generations.
Among the key principles that make Cotonificio Zambaiti a solid and historic company is not only environmental sustainability. The latter is certainly the most evident philosophy, but it is the living expression of a broad and specific vision, which begins with the valorisation of the territory and does not stop, because it places its roots in cutting-edge technological development.
VALUES
Italianity first and foremost: producing in the Bel Paese means for the company to do business by investing resources and employing the entire supply chain to guarantee a safe product that respects rigid safeguard protocols. This also translates into obtaining the best quality/price ratio for customer satisfaction. As regards the technological drive, Cotonificio Zambaiti is constantly seeking innovation in the industrial sector and, in collaboration with Casahomewear, in the use of virtual and augmented reality in order to be able to present the products in the catalog thanks to the free Casahomewear app ( available on AppleStore and GooglePlay).
Finally, one cannot fail to mention the commitment of reality in the sense of
social sustainability. In fact, there have been numerous social commitment projects over the years, the latest in chronological order being the Letto ad Arte collection - born from the competition promoted for young artists in collaboration with the Giacomo Carrara Academy of Fine Arts - and the collaboration with ENPA, in order to support the association by contributing from the purchase of products from the home line. Only now can we fully understand the philosophy embraced by the company in the direction of ecological sustainability: in Cotonificio Zambaiti the valorization of the territory, of its resources, has as its natural result an operation, a production aimed at protecting the quality of personal life and environmental. People and research are therefore its soul, which then translates into a production cycle concretely committed to ecology.
