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Register now for our upcoming webinar 'Funding for Innovation & Implementing new technologies' with Tony Boon from Luxury Lockstitch UK, the KTP team at De Montfort University and Sue Rainton from University of Leeds and Future Fashion Factory Our latest webinar in the Disrupting Manufacturing series will delve into crucial topics shaping the UK's funding landscape and how UK fashion and textile manufacturing businesses can leverage these opportunities for growth and innovation. 📅 26 March 2024, 10:30am-12:00pm 📍 Online The session will cover: → The UK’s funding landscape for manufacturers, innovators and pioneers to explore the mechanisms available to support your initiatives and projects including some of the funding, programmes and grants available. → How businesses can access funding for innovation development, including key strategies and best practices of how to maximise your chances of securing financial support. → How working in partnership with academic institutions can drive innovation and implementation forward. → How funding can unlock potential for increased competitive advantage and foster sustainable growth. UKFT members can email info@ukft.org to register for free. You can register here: https://lnkd.in/exqjwM9n #innovation #manufacturing #fashion #textiles

Register now for our upcoming webinar 'Funding for Innovation & Implementing new technologies' with Antony Boon from Luxury Lockstitch UK, the KTP team at De Montfort University and Sue Rainton from University of Leeds and Future Fashion Factory Our latest webinar in the Disrupting Manufacturing series will delve into crucial topics shaping the UK's funding landscape and how UK fashion and textile manufacturing businesses can leverage these opportunities for growth and innovation. 📅 26 March 2024, 10:30am-12:00pm 📍 Online The session will cover: → The UK’s funding landscape for manufacturers, innovators and pioneers to explore the mechanisms available to support your initiatives and projects including some of the funding, programmes and grants available. → How businesses can access funding for innovation development, including key strategies and best practices of how to maximise your chances of securing financial support. → How working in partnership with academic institutions can drive innovation and implementation forward. → How funding can unlock potential for increased competitive advantage and foster sustainable growth. UKFT members can email info@ukft.org to register for free. You can register here: https://lnkd.in/exqjwM9n #innovation #manufacturing #fashion #textiles

🚀Exciting times in the world of fashion and technology! I'm thrilled to shine a spotlight on Makalot, a company that's revolutionizing the digital fashion and smart textile landscape. Makalot is at the forefront of innovation, merging the worlds of fashion and tech to create smart textiles that are not just stylish, but also functional and sustainable. Their commitment to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in textile production is truly inspiring. 🏃♂️👟One area where Makalot is making significant strides is in sport tech. They understand that the future of the textile industry lies in integrating technology to enhance performance and comfort. By focusing on sport tech, they're paving the way for a new era of intelligent, responsive, and high-performance textiles. French Tech Taiwan, a vibrant ecosystem of startups, investors, and innovators, is keen on supporting and collaborating with companies like Makalot. This partnership is a testament to the global interest in the intersection of fashion, technology, and sustainability. Here's to the future of fashion and tech, and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead! 🎉💼🌐 #Makalot #FrenchTechTaiwan #DigitalFashion #SmartTextiles #SportTech #Innovation #Sustainability #FutureOfFashion 我們即將在下周五5/17於高雄展覽館舉辦Makalot Innovation Day, 這將會是紡織成衣業首次結合AI, 運動科技, 數位時尚與ESG等跨產業議題探討, 將會有海內外專家共襄盛舉, 歡迎報名與我們一起交流創新的力量! https://lnkd.in/g2ShH7ru

Reinventing the supply chain one step at a time. We are truly honoured to have been mentioned in Sophie Benson's Vogue Business article "Are microfactories the answer to making fashion on demand?" #supplychain #fashionondemand #fashionindustry

Danaé Robert, senior associate at One Ventures, Santa Barbara, Calif., discusses the fashion industry’s need of large-scale innovation at today’s IMI & Alchemie Technology Ltd Digital Textile Manufacturing Technologies Conference at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton SouthPark in #Charlotte, N.C. She noted that there is no shortage of innovative ideas around sustainability and circularity, but many fail to achieve success, referring to a “Valley of Death” that represents the challenging divide between innovation and adoption. The conference is designed to inform and educate textile manufacturers, brand owners and others on the importance of innovative technologies within the dyeing, finishing and printing sectors and transform the textile/apparel industries' sustainability. eTextileCommunications.com and the Southern Textile Association are partners of this inaugural event. #ILoveThisIndustry #AmericanTextiles #WeMakeAmazing #Yarns #Fibers #Fabric #Fashion #Knitting #Weaving #Nonwovens #Apparel #Sustainability #Sourcing #SupplyChain #CutAndSew #Textiles #FashionDesign #TechnicalFabrics #IndustrialFabrics #Digitalization #DigitalTextiles #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation #Workforce #Circularity

According to Vogue Business, some next-gen material startups are limiting their reliance on fashion brands and looking for partners in other industries to find the scale / speed of adoption they need to succeed. This hasn’t been exactly our experience -- Sero™ natural performance fibre is not a typical next-gen material, and our journey to commercialization has largely side-stepped the fashion industry’s risk aversion. As a result, our regenerative materials are commercially available TODAY and we can quickly scale up production to support game-changers in a wide variety of industries. The flexibility of our materials, which are fit for purpose for categories and applications ranging from period and personal care to bedding, furnishings and apparel, means we do not have to deprioritize fashion. Instead, we are perfectly positioned to collaborate with sustainable fashion brands looking to develop products that restore the environment from the soil up.   Still, we love seeing next-gen materials gaining visibility via applications such as the iconic Herman Miller lounger or the integration done by BMW Group and JLR. Initiatives such as these help give the overall topic more visibility and momentum, which ultimately benefits all material innovation providers!    Which segments do you see as having the greatest potential for regenerative materials? #regeneration #hemp #fiber #textileindustry #circulareconomy #circularfashion #nextgen 

ARE MICROFACTORIES THE ANSWER TO MAKING FASHION ON DEMAND? Vogue Business: Are microfactories the answer to making fashion on demand? Small, highly automated and connected microfactories could help shrink fashion’s production impact. Now, startups are exploring how tech could help to overcome the model’s limitations. 🌽 How can we move from a design-make-sell model in fashion, to design-sell-make? Danish supply chain startup Rodinia Generation thinks it has the answer. The company has raised €3 million to fund the creation of a global network of ‘microfactories’ — starting in Europe then expanding to the US — that will provide fast, nearshore, low-impact production, turning fashion’s current bloated production model on its head. 🌮 Rodinia is not the only one exploring the potential of microfactories, which it defines as having a small floor space, a water-free process, a ‘brain’ (the software to run the operation) and automated data harvesting. Others include Teemill Tech Ltd, unspun™, SON Supply and Fashion-Enter Ltd/ FashionCapital, while tech companies such as GERBER and Kornit Digital are packaging the concept up as a product. What Rodinia hopes to do, with the new funding, is scale the model. Depending on the product categories in production, Rodinia’s microfactory can operate at a capacity of approximately 700,000 to 1 million garments per year. As the figures highlighted via The Or Foundation’s ‘Speak Volumes’ campaign demonstrate, this is more than enough to cover the needs of smaller brands yet represents a drop in the ocean when it comes to the production volumes of larger brands. 🥒 Trine Y., CEO of Rodinia Generation, though confident in the potential of microfactories to “make exactly what people want and not a single garment more”, concurs that microfactories are not the sole solution. Rather she hopes to forge partnerships along the way to push industry-wide change. “These are all pieces of the supply chain puzzle, and Rodinia is just a part of it,” she says. 🍄 learn more: https://lnkd.in/d_PJDexS #ai #metaverse #fashion #investments

Unspun—founded in 2015 by Stanford alums Beth Esponnette, Walden Lam, and Kevin Martin—wants to transform the system. It has developed technology that allows brands to set up machines in existing factories that will weave yarns into garments within minutes. The founders’ broader vision is to encourage companies to invest in domestic manufacturing, so they can make products closer to their customer. This will allow them to be more agile, deciding what styles to make just weeks, or months, in advance. This, the founders believe, will radically decrease overproduction, slashing global carbon emissions by 1%. #fabrics #fabric #manufacturing #industry #tech #design #innovation #textile #factories #technology #brands #sustainability

We were happy to have Prof. Valérie Moatti at our recent Plug and Play Tech Center webinar "On-demand Production in Fashion" In her recent The Conversation France article she questioned "Is the fashion world doomed to waste and overproduction?" The answer is On-demand #manufacturing. Unlike traditional mass-production methods, on-demand manufacturing tailors production to actual demand, eliminating #excess inventory and #waste. During the webinar, innovative startups showcased disruptive solutions reshaping fashion production: 🔹 unspun™: pioneers micro-batch production with 3D weaving technology. 🔹 silana: introduces robotics to automate garment sewing, reducing reliance on manual labor. 🔹 Pattern Project: utilizes AI-powered software for agile and responsive micro-batch manufacturing. Let's embrace these innovations for a greener future! 🌿 👇Click below to read the full The Conversation France article by Valérie Moatti https://lnkd.in/eSxfPqeA Zoë Chrysostom Yoobin Jung Shruti Grover Michael Hofmannrichter Jess Zhu Patricia Ahufinger Yassin Shaker #OnDemandManufacturing #Sustainability Plug and Play Sustainability

Is the rise of microfactories the future of sustainability in the fashion industry? In an article with Vogue Business, Quantis Fashion + Sporting Goods Lead Philipp Meister highlights an opportunity to collaborate with microfactories and material innovation companies to increase agility, efficiency and sustainability through micro-supply chains. 💬 "Lots of those innovators are still in the incubation phase. And that's an interesting phase to then collaborate with microfactories, because they don't need to set up large-scale material production." Read the full article in Vogue Business >> https://lnkd.in/d_PJDexS #fashion #supplychain #materialinnovation