As for many industries, these have been challenging years for manufacturers of sewing and apparel technology and machinery for processing technical textiles. But the Texprocess Innovation Award 2022, which was presented for the first time in three years, showed impressively that the industry has made intensive use of the time. Ronny Eckert Read more...
Returns are a huge problem in the online fashion trade with horrific figures of up to 70 percent for the proportion of articles sent back. One of the most common reasons for returns: the wrong size. A Munich-based start-up now aims to solve the problem with artificial intelligence. Ronny Eckert Read more...
With an export ratio of 73 percent, the manufacture of machinery for sewing and clothing technology is one of the strongest export branches in the German mechanical-engineering and plant-construction sector. In 2019 almost 6,700 employees produced machinery and accessories with a value of around € 644 million. The forecasts for 2020 looked good. Then came ... Read more...
Production outages, closed shops, collapsed delivery chains and sales losses in the billions – Corona threatens to tear the textile industry to shreds like a shirt in recycling. Yet one of the most ancient industries has already survived many crises – and always taken up the threads again. How the same thing can be done ... Read more...
Just about everybody has received them: many of us have positively hundreds of them in the wardrobe: tiny message tags, fixed inside items of clothing, carrying information on how to protect the textiles concerned. But how do they get there? And who decides on what they say? Ronny Eckert Read more...
Experts are in agreement: digitalisation will turn the analogue industry upside down. The textile and fashion industry also needs to confront the digital transformation, as digital printing expert Joachim Rees warns. Ronny Eckert Read more...
There is something of a tradition of melting things in Switzerland: snow on the Alps turns to water, chocolate becomes chocolate fondue, cheese melts for raclette. The Swiss engineering firm Maschinenbau-AG Leister Technologies has continued the tradition – and is now getting industrial fabrics to melt with their Seamtek welding machines. Ronny Eckert Read more...
