SoftWear Automation is a robotics company that wants to make T-shirts. The company launched in 2012 with help from the Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center. Two years later, a prototype was up and running. By 2017 work began on developing a production...
After 18 months of global supply chain disruption, workwear fabric manufacturer Carrington Textiles revealed the company’s challenges during this period and the growth its supply chain team has been through to be able to maintain the company’s high levels of service....
They just hung up. That was the reaction Rachel Patton experienced when she first took over for her father at Taylor's Leatherwear. Taylor's had been a family-run business for decades, and many such businesses are passed to the next generation. But in a niche...
Ralph Lauren will reimagine its most celebrated product with a new addition to the Create-Your-Own customization program: The Made-to-Order Polo. The Made-to-Order Polo is the company’s latest offering using its on-demand manufacturing model — with no pre-made...
Strong customer relationships are the hallmark of the uniform industry and are often built on the promise to deliver product on time and at the right price. Yet the manufacture of uniforms is notoriously labor-intensive, with much of the work on the shop floor done...
A strong piece of evidence in support of the many current calls to reshore American manufacturing is the tremendous performance by the many thousands of existing producers already working here. I already knew one such standout U.S. manufacturer: Carhartt, the maker of...
Safariland and Fechheimer Brothers Among Global Leaders Using Company’s AI-Powered Fit Solutions 3DLOOK, one of the global leaders in AI-first mobile body measuring and fit solutions, last week announced that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding, led by...
The Weinbrenner Shoe Company in Merrill hasn't stopped since its founding in 1892. Not even a global pandemic could keep them down for long. "A lot of our competitors stopped production, they laid people off. We didn't do either," said Jeff Burns, company president....
Textile testing partner Hohenstein will now help 3D designers and fabric suppliers create libraries of accurately digitized materials with a physical swatch book add on. The material parameters, based on Hohenstein’s universal translator approach, include data needed...
Paulie “Litt” Litowsky was chatting with a friend in New York City about high-end clothing and the quality of yarn required to make such garments. The friend told Litowsky, a former childhood actor and long-time producer, that no American-owned yarn company could...
The U.S. has moved from ‘America First’ under the Trump administration, to ‘Buy American’ under President Biden. While it is too soon to tell for sure how big a shift this will be in domestic and international trade, there are some strong indicators that the textiles...
Block Bindings & Interlinings announced last week the merger of its company with MSB Prestige, Inc. The consolidation became effective February 8. The two companies will continue under the name Block Bindings & Interlinings Ltd, MSB Prestige has a vast...
