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Global Textiles & Apparels, Mumbai, 20 June 2018
L. L. Bean Launch Outdoor Coworking Space
Mumbai: L. L. Bean has partnered with leading coworking provider, Industrious, to launch an initiative to bring more outdoor time into the workday with the introduction of“ Be an Outsider at Work.
The initiative will launch in New York City’ s Madison Square Park on Thursday, June 21st with the first-ever outdoor coworking space, complete with individual workspaces, collaborative conference areas, cycling desks and outdoor teambuilding activities— giving new meaning to being“ Out of Office.”
A new survey from L. L. Bean found that while most people enjoy the outdoors, many of them rarely take time to work outside.
In fact, 87 percent of indoor workers consider themselves someone who enjoys the outdoors but 75 percent of indoor workers rarely or never take time to work outside.
That’ s why L. L. Bean has partnered with coworking leader Industrious, and leveraged its well-established expertise in design, productivity and the coworking industry to create the first-ever outdoor coworking space that provides an opportunity for people to experience the benefits of working outdoors.
Le Col unveils 100 % recycled fabric
Mumbai: Le Col’ s World first in producing a recycled Leaders’ Jersey for a major professional race, for The Tour’ s events; The OVO Energy Tour Series, The OVO Energy Women’ s Tour and The OVO Energy Tour of Britain, Le Col is now launching an official supporters’ Tour jersey with 100 % recycled fabric.
The Company said that the all-new jersey shares an affinity with The OVO Energy Women’ s Tour organiser SweetSpot’ s values, as they say they wish to make their races more environmentally sustainable in the coming years.
The jersey is based on Le Col’ s SS18’ s Pro Air range, which offers a range of eyecatching designs in combination with enhanced materials and new designs.“ Like all of Le Col’ s range, The Tour jersey will be constructed at its factory in Treviso, Italy, ensuring that Le Col has total control of everything that bears the logo.
Levi’ s launch its collection
Mumbai: Levi’ s has launched a capsule collection in celebration of Pride month-- the fifth time the iconic jeans brand creates clothing inspired by the LGBTQ community. 100 percent of the collection’ s proceeds will be donated to the Harvey Milk Foundation and the Stonewall Community Foundation.
The 2018 Levi’ s Pride collection includes customizable T-shirts featuring the words“ I am”. The sentence can then be completed by customer with words such as“ gay”,“ proud”, and“ unique”.
In addition to the T-shirts, the collection also features baseball caps, socks, bandanas, underwear, belts, shorts, jackets, tote bags and suspenders.
The pieces are sold worldwide at the Levi’ s website and select retailers. Prices range from 18 US dollars( 13. 5 pounds) to 148 US dollars( 112 pounds).
NDA honours Bryan Haynes with Lifetime Achievement Award
Mumbai: INDA has recognised Bryan Haynes, Ph. D., senior technical director in global nonwovens, Kimberly- Clark Corporation with its prestigious 2017 Lifetime Technical Achievement Award. INDA president, Dave Rousse, presented the award at the association’ s annual World of Wipes International Conference, which was held from June 5 to 8, 2018, in Chicago, IL. INDA’ s Lifetime Technical Achievement Award honours those individuals with long established technical careers in the nonwovens industry and a history of technical innovation.
Haynes was recognised for his career involvement and commitment to bringing innovative science-based polymer process approaches and process issues to the nonwovens industry. Haynes serves on the Industrial Advisory Board and Strategic Scientific Advisory Board for The Nonwovens Institute at North Carolina University; the External Advisory Board for the School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and on the Board of Directors as Secretary for Georgia FIRST, a nonprofit organisation supporting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education programmes in Georgia.
Associations & Company affairs
My Size to Launch QSize™
Mumbai: My Size Inc., had announced its plans to launch QSize™, a mobile measurement solution for retailers to ensure quality control throughout the apparel manufacturing process.
The current process for quality control within apparel manufacturing includes measurement of each garment by hand, followed by manual entry of such measurement into the manufacturer’ s back office system, creating a significant possibility for human error.
My Size’ s QSize will enable a retailer to fully automate its quality control process by utilizing a mobile-based measurement and data logging system.
To use QSize, the user will first scan the apparel’ s barcode utilizing their mobile device, and is then shown a graphic illustration of how to measure the garment. The user will then measure the garment with a few easy movements of the mobile device, and the data is then accurately and automatically uploaded into the retailer’ s back office system each and every time.
Reliance Retail plans aggressive expansion
Mumbai: Reliance Retail plans to capture a lion’ s share of the organised Indian retail market.
The Mukesh Ambani-led retail giant is charting aggressive expansion plans.
It will consolidate its leadership position through a four-pronged strategy— expanding geographical reach into smaller towns, innovating more concept stores, going omni-channel and leveraging technology and data analytics.
Reliance Retail operates over 7,573 brick-and-mortar stores across 4,400 cities.
The company also plans to converge its offline and online business through an omni-channel strategy to offer a seamless experience to their customers.
It is already operating a connected store concept providing anytime, anywhere, any deviceseamless customer experience.
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Kentwool Celebrates 175th Anniversary
Mumbai: Kentwool has been celebrating its 175th anniversary this year.
Though many of its peers has moved operations abroad, the company continues to make its premium products entirely in the United States; Kentwool boasts 81 employees between its Pickens manufacturing facility and Greenville offices.
Kentwool utilizes its nearly twocentury-old heritage of superiority in textiles to create socks which draw upon wool’ s natural and cool performance fibers for moisture management, sheer comfort and other performance-enhancing benefits.
Arvind launch New Denim Fabric
Mumbai: Arvind, has launched its new Gravity fabric collection at its Festive 2018 trade events in New Delhi and Mumbai this spring.
Invista was there to support its Indian partner in a business segment that shows no signs of slowing. All Arvind stretch denims are powered by Invista’ s Lycra fibre. Zones at both events focused on the comfort, fit and durability benefits Lycra dualFX and Lycra Shaping technologies bring to denim. The temperature management properties of fabrics incorporating Coolmax Core and Coolmax All Season technologies were a further attraction for visiting brands and retailers.
Simply Be debuts new line of sustainable jeans
Mumbai: Simply Be, becomes the first UK retailer to stock pairs made from a blend of cotton and recycled bottles. Simply Be has just launched the new range, its first performance denim range with Coolmax EcoMade technology, which is made from 97 % recycled sources. Each pair of the special relaxed slim-leg jeans is created using cotton together with fibre made from recycled plastic equivalent to about 18 plastic bottles. Plastic PET bottles are diverted from landfills, cleaned and ground into flakes and after a multi-step process, are transformed into yarn. This yarn is combined with cotton to make breathable denim with an authentic look and feel.