From the Sector

• “Fashion Goes Digital” takes the Lead in Fashion Technology
• Customers get Industry 4.0-ready as Lectra unveiled latest product offerings and shared insights at annual fashion VIP event

Lectra, the technological partner for companies using fabrics and leather, put theory into practice at its recent fashion event by unveiling their latest 4.0 Cutting Room to more than 100 privileged industry professionals.

“Fashion Goes Digital” drew industry stakeholders and market experts from 20 countries, who gathered at Lectra’s International Advanced Technology Center (IATC) in Bordeaux-Cestas, France, to examine the real-life application of digitalization in fashion.

While the topic of digitalization served as a backdrop for the event, there was a recurring theme at the forefront: fashion companies need Industry 4.0 technology and support in order to be more precise in meeting the evolving needs of their digitally savvy consumers.
Nick Chiarelli, Client Partner of Foresight Factory, shed light on new business opportunities for fashion, Nora Kühner, founder of Nora Kühner Fashion Design Consulting, used her designer perspective to decode the digital future of product development, and Fabrizio Fantini, founder of Evo Pricing, showed participants how machine learning could help fashion companies predict consumer demand and avoid waste.

“While speaking about the future challenges and trends in fashion and luxury, the trend now is to use analytics to drive the entire production process,” highlighted Stephen Taylor, Principal Director of Kurt Salmon.

Waruna Tennakoon, General Manager of Group Cutting, Brandix, and Ajith Perera General Manager of Mathliya Plant, MAS Kreeda, also shared their Lectra customer experience. Based in Sri Lanka, both companies have established themselves as the country’s largest apparel exporters, with Brandix specializing in producing intimate and activewear, and MAS Kreeda in sportswear.

“Thanks to the digital revolution, consumers are now more specific in their demands. This will cause a shift in mass manufacturing where there will be smaller-volume orders coming in at a faster rate. As a result, manufacturing models have to be more agile in the immediate future,” explained Ajith Perera, “I am happy to see that Lectra is already spearheading this change by providing us with the necessary technology to help us meet market demand.”

There was no better time to put digitalization into context than during “Fashion Goes Digital”.
VIP guests got a sneak preview of the brand new, fully automated cutting room solution for fashion and apparel. Lectra’s Cutting Room 4.0 is an embodiment of Lectra’s commitment to empowering its customers with the best solutions to thrive in this new digital era. This avant-garde technology leverages industry 4.0 principles to provide greater agility, throughput, cost efficiency and in particular scalability in order to respond seamlessly to small batches orders and shorter lead times.

Jean-Yves Collet, CEO of Treize Roches Couture, a high-end French womenswear manufacturer, provided a testimonial on why his company chose to be one of the first to adopt this new solution. He explained how Lectra’s latest technology would help Treize Roches speed up their artisanal production process to bring products faster to market.

“When we discussed the possibility of a made-to-order production project, we could really foresee the benefits both in terms of quality and productivity. Industry 4.0 solutions do not yet exist in garment manufacturing. This is why we have decided to develop an Industry 4.0 cutting room. This will allow us, in the preparatory stages to automate the processes as much as possible and improve quality, productivity and training time.”

“We have unveiled our strategy last year where we have identified Industry 4.0 and digitalization as our key drivers. Our goal for this event is to show that we are, indeed, living and breathing Industry 4.0 and we do have what it takes to help our customers succeed in this era. Our latest cutting room 4.0 shows that we are not just talking about the future of fashion anymore, we are living in it right now as we speak,” concluded Céline Choussy Bedouet, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Lectra.

Als erstes Mode- und Technik-Event seiner Art in Bangladesch, dem zweitgrößten Exporteur der Welt für Konfektionskleidung, präsentierte sich der BANGLADESH FASHIONOLOGY SUMMIT am 12. Februar 2018 in der Hauptstadt Dhaka.

Mostafiz Uddin, Gründer & CEO der international hoch angesehenen Bangladesh Denim Expo, hat den Gipfel unter dem Thema "Trete heute in die Zukunft ein" organisiert.
Wie können sich die Bekleidungsfabriken in Bangladesch auf die Transformation hin zu Industrie 4.0 vorbereiten? Welche Fähigkeiten und Erfahrungen werden benötigt, um den Übergang von Industrie 3.0 zu Industrie 4.0 erfolgreich zu schaffen? Herausfordernde Themen wie diese wurden beim ersten Fashion-Technologie-Event dieser Art im Land diskutiert, um eine Brücke zu schlagen zwischen der Gegenwart und Zukunft von Bangladeschs Bekleidungs- und Textilindustrie.  

Insgesamt 17 Redner aus der ganzen Welt, darunter die USA, die Niederlande, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Japan und Indien, diskutierten auf dem Gipfel über die aktuellsten Produktentwicklungen, Technologien und Innovationen - mit dem Ziel, die Zukunft der Industrie zu gestalten.
Vier Vortragsreihen wurden während des Gipfels abgehalten: "Die Fabrik der Zukunft", "Virtuelles Prototyping und die Digitalisierung der Lieferkette in der Textilindustrie", "Fashion-Technologie & nachhaltige Innovationen" und "Massen-Maßanfertigung & On-Demand-Fertigung".
Etwa 450 Entscheider aus den Interessensvertretungen der Schlüsselindustrien wie Hersteller, Käufer, Handelsorganisationen, Entwicklungspartner und andere nahmen am Gipfel teil.

Organisator Mostafiz Uddin: "Unser Ziel war, die inspirierendsten und innovativsten Denker und Unternehmen aus der ganzen Welt unter einem Dach zusammenzubringen, um den dringend notwendigen Austausch über Technologie, Digitalisierung und Innovation in der Bekleidungs- und Fashionindustrie anzustoßen."

Zu den Teilnehmern gehörten die Botschafterin des Königreichs der Niederlande in Bangladesch, Leoni Cuelenaere, der Präsident der Föderation der Kammern für Handel und Industrie (FBCCI) in Bangladesch, Md. Shafiul Islam (Mohiuddin), der soeben ausgeschiedene Präsident der Vereinigung von Bangladeschs Bekleidungsherstellern und Exporteuren ( BGMEA), Md. Atiqul Islam und der Geschäftführer von Pacific Jeans, dem Titel-Sponsor des Events, Syed Mohammed Tanvir. Er lobte den BANGLADESH FASHIONOLOGY SUMMIT in seiner Rede auf der Abschlussveranstaltung als längst überfällige und effektive Initiative, um Bangladesch in einen Bekleidungsindustrie-Standort der nächsten Generation umzuwandeln.

Die allererste Tech Runway Show des Landes wurde ebenfalls während des BANGLADESH FASHIONOLOGY SUMMIT abgehalten.
Designer aus den Niederlanden, Spanien, Frankreich/Paris, Großbritannien und Indien führten ihre neuesten digitalen Tech-Kollektionen auf der Veranstaltung vor. Smart wearable, 3D printed, LED embedded glow show collections waren nur einige der futuristischen Fashion-Tech-Kreationen, die auf dem Laufsteg zu sehen waren.

“Smarte Kleidung mit integrierter Technik ist die Zukunft der Mode. Weil man das gesehen haben muss, um es zu verstehen, haben wir die Fashion Tech Runway Show organisiert, mit dem Ziel, die Industrie zu inspirieren, den Schritt in die Zukunft zu wagen." erklärt Mostafiz Uddin.

TINTEX is pleased to present its latest fabric innovations at the above salons with a new range of more than 80 qualities and styles designed for the Sportswear, Athleisure, Fashion and Underwear market sectors. The collection focusses on three jersey fabric concepts: TIMELESS, FASHIONABLE & INNOVATIVE.

TINTEX is a modern industrial company based in the Porto region since 1998, producing market savvy fabrics for global designers and brands. TINTEX makes a truly sustainable range of precision, modern hybrid jersey fabrics that offer a better, Naturally Advanced choices to all its customers.

The new ‘Naturally Advanced’ position means “advancing beautiful, organic and natural materials to the next level combined with unique, hybrid ‘nature-tech’ smarts, with advanced, added value and creativity, thanks to dedicated investments that serve and secure our customer demands both now and in the seasons to come” says CEO Mario Jorge. New innovations, which include the ISPO Best Product Award i (SOFT EQUIPMENT category) in TexTrends for fall winter 19/20, maintain and upgrade the honest but hi-tech sustainable organics that is at the heart of the TINTEX DNA to create better, smarter eco-materials, always with new levels of performance and hi-tech smarts, thanks to its expertise in specialist dyeing and finishing techniques, coatings and applications. These are all researched, designed and made using the latest equipment and processes. This season the new TINTEX collection plays with new colour balance techniques that deploy the benefits of chromotherapy for welbeing alongside skin safe materials and finishings.

The collection uses up to 90% of new smart and sustainable materials and include: Tencel, Modal & Micromodal, Organic Cottons, Supima cottons, Seacell fibres, Natural organic linens and the new, full colour ECOTEC® yarns by Marchi & Fildi, a smarter cotton made from pre-consumer clippings that in manufacture save up to 79% water. This season TINTEX is also introducing the new ECOTEC® yarn Phoenix (50% ECOTEC®, 50% recycled polyester, NM1/50 GRS-certified) for open, light and dry textures. Wellbeing credentials are guaranteed with Tessile e Salute certifications, TINTEX also presents new developments using the ROICA™ Eco Smart family of ecosustainable stretch yarns with certificated credentials. This family of yarns claim the world-first GRS certified ROICA™ premium stretch yarn that comes at least 50% from recycled pre-consumer waste.

The newest introduction for second skin qualities and for products to the athleisure market within TINTEX collection is ROICA™ Feel Good family that promises a new level of performance with ‘feelgood comfort’ and freshness.

For colouration effects, we can use the ROICA™ Colour Perfect family of yarns to create a flawless and responsible finish to dyed performance stretch assortments. Colours to Tranquilize, to Activate the Senses, to Recharge, to Energize.

Key highlights include: changeant effects (yarn and dyeing solutions), thermosensitive (reds/ blues) coatings, UV sensitive coatings and colourful coated patterns, extra fine and semi-transparent jerseys, but also, compact and fluid qualities.

Bobingen - On the 4th October 2017 a new brand was introduced at Trevira: Trevira SINFINECO®. This label may be carried by all textiles that contain sustainable Trevira products. Sustainable, innovative, high-value and responsible – these are the values the new brand stands for.

As an industrial enterprise, Trevira is conscious of its special responsibility for an intact environment and has long advocated the recycling of valuable raw materials and waste products. Trevira CEO Klaus Holz: “We at Trevira wish to preserve the environment and at the same time work to create value. These are the criteria of our sustainability concept.“

Creation of the new brand is therefore only a logical step, one that enables customers to label their sustainable Trevira products as such. Trevira is known for the high quality of its products. In every way recycled products are as good as the original materials in terms of quality and performance.

Two vital elements in Pre-Consumer Recycling and an important concept in Post-Consumer Recycling form part of the sustainability strategy of Trevira to conserve resources and maintain value. :

In the area of Pre-Consumer Recycling, on the one hand, residual materials resulting from the manufacture of polyester fibres and filaments in Bobingen and Guben, dependent on the manufacturing step, are processed in the agglomeration plant and restored to become serviceable primary material. The recyclates are then fed back to our fibre and filament spinning mills, to be made into new top-quality products.

On the other hand, in fibre production there occurs in the manufacture of tow a small proportion of tow that cannot be used for converting and has to be cut out. Instead of selling this material as waste, it is cut up, pressed into balls and then carded / combed by a partner, resulting in a 1A quality product. The GRS certification (Global Recycled Standard) is requested for this. As with converter tow from new material, the recycled tow is mostly incorporated into polyester wool blends (55 % PET / 45 % wool), which are used primarily in corporate wear and uniforms.

In the area of Post-Consumer Recycling, Trevira offers filament yarns consisting of 100 % recycled PET bottles. Our parent company Indorama manufactures very high quality recycled chips from PET bottles. Since only transparent PET bottles are used in Thailand, the flakes and chips are of a particularly good and very uniform quality. The recycled chips, fibres and filaments from Indorama bear the GRS certificates (Global Recycled Standard) and RCS-NL (Recycled Claim Standard). Trevira processes the regranulate made by Indorama from bottle flakes into filament yarns consisting 100 % of recycled material. The filament yarns are available in titres 167 and 76 dtex normal polyester. Alongside technical applications, they are used in the automotive and apparel sectors. In addition, many promising developments with the recycled material are on their way.