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Karl Mayer has developed a new line of functional, warp-knitted textiles and smart, on-trend lingerie and clothing. An ECG shirt for measuring vital signs features integrated sensor technology. The electrically conductive material required is incorporated directly into the textile on the warp knitting machine in the desired arrangement. Warp-knitted textiles have been especially developed to meet the requirements of the sports sector. These include lightweight, stable mesh linings, hardwearing shoe fabrics, stylish four-way-stretch fabrics with breathability and compression characteristics, a variety of tricot fabrics with decorative, striped patterns, and warp-knitted spacer textiles for a range of end uses.
Karl Mayer has developed a warp knitted alternative to conventional knitted fabrics for sportswear manufacturers who rely on jersey fabrics. The soft textiles offer a high degree of elasticity with good recovery, smooth, stable edges with no tendency to curl for free-cut style and a wonderful, flowing fall – just like their knitted counterparts. And 4D knit solutions illustrate what can be achieved with double-bar raschel technology for 3D warp-knitted textiles. With their unique, three-dimensional, cushioning construction, these voluminous fabrics offer a new level of design potential. Readymade panels, e.g. entire back components for use in midlayer jackets, can be produced, as well as imaginative designs with pronounced sculptured effects, and combinations of 4D effects and breathable openings.
Levi’s recently launched a capsule collection through its eco-friendly line Wellthread designed to be easily processed by an industrial fabric-recycling plant. The collection was made in collaboration with surf brand Outerknown. It comprises graphic tees, Western-style shirts, jeans, and even a trucker jacket. Each of its clothing item is made from a single material.
For instance, the T-shirts are made entirely from cotton (including 25 per cent recycled cotton from jeans and other scraps). There is also a fleece-lined trucker jacket whose design enables the user to take out polyester fleece lining to recycle it separately from hemp denim. The liner is made entirely with polyester from the thread to label, and the shell is made out of cottonised hemp. When they’re separated, they are ideal input into both the cotton, cellulosic or polyester recycling system.
Miss Sixty is working to strengthen its presence in Europe. The brand’s most important retail market is Italy, followed by the UK with two monobrand stores and Russia with five direct franchising stores. For wholesale revenues, Russia is the most important market, followed by Greece, Portugal and East Europe. The brand has registered significant progress in Spain and Russia. It operates through nine monobrand stores (including outlets) in Europe. It also operates through a total of 165 multi brand stores–50 in Greece, 46 in Spain, 37 in Portugal and 12 in Russia. The Milan flagship is the hub of its international e-commerce for its omnichannel distribution and from where all pieces are shipped. The company is always very active in looking for new partners for increasing visibility and distribution of its products through multibrand online shop-in-shops. E-commerce, where the brand has been operating since August 2018, is registering a 132 per cent growth.
The plan is to increase wholesale distribution in Germany and operate via wholesale in the UK. Expansion in Spain and Italy has begun. Every year it launches some special capsule. Among the capsules planned are with Emoji and Buff Monster, iconic images of Marilyn Monroe and a special collaboration with US artist Wrdsmth.
Clothing exports from the Philippines in Q3 declined over six per cent compared to the same period last year. Last year’s exports plunged 15.57 per cent from 2017. Because of labor and power costs, Philippine prices are high compared to prices of Lao, Myanmar and Vietnam. This leads to problems with international buyers. Therefore, garment makers in the Philippines want subsidies that can help them lower export prices of clothing products.
Besides tough competition at the global level, garments makers are faced with uncertainty at the domestic level over the move to rationalize fiscal incentives. Mostly located in economic zones, garments firms will need to give up their incentives once the Corporate Income Tax and Incentives Rationalization Act is passed into law. The measure will bring down corporate income tax to 20 per cent by 2029, from 30 per cent at present but will overhaul the set of tax perks granted to firms operating in economic zones. Among those that will be rationalized is the five per cent tax on gross income earned paid in lieu of all local and national taxes, which investors find crucial in maintaining operations in the Philippines.
Tommy Hilfiger is using 3D design technology. This will allow the company to meet consumer needs faster and in a more sustainable way and has the potential to significantly accelerate its speed to market and replace traditional product photography entirely. For fall 2020, the brand’s dress shirts will be 100 per cent 3D designed and require no sample production. The difference will be almost indistinguishable from styles designed and presented historically. The company wants to digitize its end-to-end value chain.
Since Tommy Hilfiger’s 3D design journey began in 2017, teams of software engineers, 3D design experts, and transformation specialists have developed an ecosystem of proprietary tools that enable a fully digital design workflow. This includes a digital fabric, pattern and color asset library, digital 3D presentation tools and rendering technology. While the digital showroom technology revolutionized the company’s sell-in methods, the bottom-up approach of its ongoing 3D design transformation will further expand the digitalization of Tommy Hilfiger’s end-to-end value chain. In fall 2020, Tommy Hilfiger will launch a capsule collection designed, developed and sold digitally, including products modeled on virtual avatars. The initiative is the next step in uncovering the full potential of sample reduction, time savings, cost savings and sustainability by leveraging 3D design.
Xaar will showcase its Ultra High Viscosity capability inkjet printing machine at Inprint Munich 2019.
The launch at InPrint is the first part of Xaar’s strategy to focus the printhead business on its Bulk platform, including its Xaar 2001+ printhead and High Laydown Technology.
Ultra-High Viscosity jetting opens up a wide range of new inkjet capabilities and applications for OEMs and manufacturers using Xaar technology. The ability to lay down fluids with higher particle loading and particle sizes offers advantages such as an increased colour gamut, opacity, and special effects. In addition, jetting higher molecular weight photopolymers for Advanced Manufacturing and 3D printing applications is made possible.
The announcement of Ultra High Viscosity capability across printhead platform is, therefore, an exciting moment for the business and clearly demonstrates the continued relevance of Xaar technology in leading inkjet printing across the latest market applications.
India ITME Society has decided to facilitate the honorable service that multiple associations are providing to the textile industry. Working to make their venture successful, India ITME Society had called for open nominations from all the associations of the industry through mailers, website and social media campaigns. The award nominations were called for three main categories consisting of Outstanding Association, Digital Adoption, Emerging Association and Women Leadership.
With channelising the campaign for more than 2 months and after collecting successful applications in the tenure, from November 4, a panel of jury met at Business Center, The Oberoi Mumbai’ Nariman Point, for finalisation of winners. The jury discussed on the nomination received for various categories and after fine discussions and scrutinising the fine-tuned applications, the jury individually ranked the shortlisted nominations. The compiled result of all the jury rankings were discussed and the final winner names where sealed and stamped by the jury.
The panel of jury consisted of textile stalwarts of the industry comprising of Suresh Kotak, Gurudas Aras and Suresh Vaidya along with S Hari Shankar, chairman, ITME Society, Ketan Sanghvi, Narendra L Shah, GT Dembla, Sanjiv Lathia and R S Bachkaniwala.
The announcement of the winner will be done on the ‘Global Networking Program for Associations’ to be organised on December 20, 2019 at Taj Mahal Palace, Rendezvous in Mumbai.
Prior to the jury meeting, India ITME Society along with their knowledge partners Suvin Advisors had contacted the various associations and women leaders to submit their applications and later fine-tuned all the applications received and presented shortlisted nominations in front of the Jury to make the final decision. Few of the well-known associations who are part of India ITME Society, were not allowed to take part in this contest in order to maintain the unbiased nature while selection.
Piave Maitex will participate in the Performance Days show with its extended collection Again. The event will be held from November 13-14, 2019 in Munich, Germany. The collection has a technically advanced line that balances performances, functionality and sustainable features form of highly performing jerseys.
Three premium global recycled standard certified sustainable ingredients have been involved in the production of Again. These include the premium stretch fiber ROICA EF part of Roica Eco-Smart Family constructed out with more than 50% pre-consumer recycled content, perpetual high-quality sustainable polyester born from a cost-effective process that reverses engineer consumer waste PET bottles and Reco Nylon yarn by NUREL from 100 per cent made of pre-consumer waste revalorising the discarded nylon material, which is diverted from the waste stream during our manufacturing process thus closing the nylon life cycle. Lastly, Piave selected the NILIT Ecocare recycled nylon 6.6 with deep, uniform color that is certified as a pre-consumer recycled fiber by Scientific Certification Systems.
The brand will showcase its unique and an innovative combination of two Again articles to obtain an entirely sustainable bonded fabric with the possibility of personalised color combinations. The range of functional fabrics, dyeable and transfer printable perfectly combines creativity, innovation, real performance, and sustainability all at once offering unparalleled comfort, performance, and tenacity. Lastly, two brand new developments will be presented a mesh combining transparency and performance features, made with Reco Nylon yarn by NUREL and ROICA EF premium stretch yarn and a high gauge microfiber with nice a handful, fine compression and sustainable credentials being made with NILIT Ecocare and ROICA EF.
The new development, 4D-Knit.Solutions was illustrating what can be achieved with double-bar raschel technology for 3D warp-knitted textiles. With their unique, three-dimensional, cushioning construction, these voluminous fabrics offer a new level of design potential. Ready-made panels, e.g. entire back components for use in mid-layer jackets, can be produced, as well as imaginative designs with pronounced sculptured effects, and combinations of 4D effects and breathable openings.
Following its first successful time exhibiting at ISPO Munich 2019, Karl Mayer will attend the next edition of fair that will take place from January 26-29, 2020. The company will showcase functional, warp-knitted textiles and smart, on-trend lingerie and clothing items for its visitors.
Textile solutions for sportswear
The highlights of Karl Mayer’s stand include an ECG shirt for measuring vital signs. This garment, which features integrated sensor technology, was developed under the concept of Textile Circuit in the company’s Textile Makerspace and was premiered at ITMA 2019 to a highly interested audience. The sensors have been upgraded for the ISPO show. One of the reasons for doing this was to improve the wear comfort. The electrically conductive material required is incorporated directly into the textile on the warp knitting machine in the desired arrangement.
Simultaneously there will be a presentation of warp-knitted textiles that have been especially developed to meet the requirements of the sports sector. These include lightweight, stable mesh linings, hardwearing shoe fabrics, stylish 4-way-stretch fabrics with breathability and compression characteristics, a variety of tricot fabrics with decorative, striped patterns, and warp-knitted spacer textiles for a range of end-uses.
The new development, 4D-Knit.Solutions was illustrating what can be achieved with double-bar raschel technology for 3D warp-knitted textiles. With their unique, three-dimensional, cushioning construction, these voluminous fabrics offer a new level of design potential. Ready-made panels, e.g. entire back components for use in mid-layer jackets, can be produced, as well as imaginative designs with pronounced sculptured effects, and combinations of 4D effects and breathable openings. Different fabric weights can also be produced. Thanks to the internal cushioning, the cuddlesome fabrics provide good insulation, without any micro-particles being produced – performance characteristics that are tailor-made for functional garments and shoes.
Design aesthetics of Karl Mayer’s machines can be exploited optimally by linking them to KM.ON’s digital systems. The digital products and software of this Karl Mayer start-up will also be at the center of the ISPO presentation. In particular, the features of the k. The innovation product category is revolutionising warp knitting with an intuitive design tool, which reduces the time-to-market considerably. A special feature of k. Innovation is the possibility of web-based collaboration between different partners involved in the project. All the designers, customers and suppliers involved in producing the sample patterns have access to the same data – enabling them to engage easily with the development process.
Under the concept of Body Mapping Revolution, Karl Mayer will be showing the potential of The Rascheltronic for producing new, virtually seamless, comfortable clothing for wearing during active sports or for every day. Design edges and hems, as well as functional zones can be worked during actual production on this versatile machine. Breathable mesh designs, stable areas, and zones with different elastic moduli for providing support and a perfect fit can be placed wherever they are needed.
Cutting Edge Classic, the new capsule collection created by Carvico and Jersey Lomellina, in collaboration with The Lycra, was showcased at Mare di Moda on November 5, 2019.
The collection, designed in collaboration with designer Angelo Figus, has been transformed into a collection dedicated to the world of beachwear and water sports.
Lightness, fluidity and dynamism, Cutting-Edge Classics is a collection created to inspire designers, brands and garment makers that perfectly combines 17 of the most famous and performing fabrics by Carvico and Jersey Lomellina, all powered by the best in class & fiber Lycra Xtra Life™.
Cutting-edge fabrics that recall the fluidity of water and classic elegance, enriched with hi-tech details and sporty suggestions. The iconic and versatile Aqua wear proposals, is perfect for every type of activity from water sports to the coolest of beach parties.
The stand of Carvico and Jersey Lomellina, inspired by a Hollywood pool, is the backdrop to the exhibition of a crew of fashion dancers who, wearing the garments of the capsule-collection, which interpreted the essence of glamour and exclusive performances, enchanting the public of the fair.
