Features

Natural dye alternatives are at the forefront of textile industry’s sustainability, with companies such as BioDye’s natural innovations and The Woolmark Company’s wool dyeing education and sourcing platform.

In an exhaustive and freewheeling conversation with Team Apparel Resources recently, Sunil Arora, a renowned fashion technologist and Co-Founder of Trace Network Labs touched upon key topics within fashion metaverse, NFTs, blockchain, trends and future outlook of virtual and physical clothing industry.

Being extraordinary in his approach to execute an ambitious growth plan across the world in an ever-evolving fashion value chain environment is something that has helped Umesh Gaur – the new Managing Director (International) of Tukatech – to a level where he has reached today. Since Umesh belongs to a technical background, he was well-suited to sit with Team Apparel Resources for a freewheeling discussion recently that unfolded a plethora of topics right from his personal achievements to Tukatech’s technology’s business model.

Issues in quality have become even more salient in the last two years, with fashion brands facing congested ports, factory closures, long lead times, and volatile consumer habits. These factors, coupled with transportation restrictions, have compromised quality inspection processes at factories and distribution centres. Let’s read how QIMAone – a quality inspection and compliance SaaS platform – is addressing these issues.

Even if a company – brand or vendor – already has mature QMS in place, they always tend to work more diligently under rapidly evolving fashion business. The feature highlights four practices/ways that will help the companies to continuously improve their QMS with the use of data collection, transparent methods and digital tools.

It’s true that lean tools are proven method for waste reduction of all types (D.O.W.N.T.I.M.E.) but most garment factories fail to identify wastages. This happens when they try to adopt lean for audits and paperwork, and not for process improvement. There are several reasons for lean failure and Team Apparel Resources has identified the most crucial ones here by talking to the industry experts....

Before 2020, the market grew by an average annual rate of 4.70 per cent from 2016 to 2019 and experts project that the EU is slowly crawling back to this growth rate despite continuous setbacks by the cycle of Covid that is holding the world at ransom. So what can the industry expect from the EU market as it regains lost ground?

Akash Shah, Managing Director, Coats Digital in an exclusive conversation with Team Apparel Resources, shared the strategy that differentiates the company in a market crowded with multiple digital transformation options. What’s very unique and interesting is its business model, which is built on the strong pillars of deep industry talent and technology expertise built through a foundation of M&A and ecosystem collaborations, then organically step-changing it to create a whole new synergy between complementary solutions, connected technology providers and end-users to make the sum greater than the parts.