St. ALBANS, England – June 24, 2021 – Zund UK has partnered with Fashion-Enter to demonstrate a sustainable micro-factory concept in London, the Zünd D3 virtual cutting technology.
Fashion-Enter is a non-profit social enterprise, which strives to be a center of excellence for sampling, sorting, production and learning and skills progression within the textile and fashion industry.
The trend for sustainable and on-demand production is developing in the fashion industry. Whether in fast fashion or sportswear, digitization and automation are the long-term path in garment manufacturing, with the single-layer cut offering the solution for conversion. In an increasingly virtual production environment, orders are smaller, order cycles shorter, and the degree of customization continues to increase. 1 Lot sizes, fast fashion, and mass customization are among the top style trends. Virtual cutting systems, combined with highly complex but intuitive software, enable fully automated virtual cutting with minimal manual intervention.
The Zund UK partnership and Fashion-Enter will showcase a sustainable micro-factory concept in the UK that uses the newest technologies and complex workflow processes. Dean Ashworth, Head of Sales and Marketing at Zund UK said: “The allocation is aimed at brands and retailers; we need to show them how they can create a sustainable production plant in the UK. We believe that the relocation of clothing production will help the developing trend towards orderly and moral production. In addition, generation and production methods are being developed to supply the functions needed to reshape the fashion industry. Zünd single-layer cutters set new criteria for speed, power and accuracy. The Zünd D3 cutter offers optimal functionality and productivity with two cutting beams that work with complicated nesting algorithms that increase the power of the curtains and help keep production prices low.
Jenny Holloway, chief executive of Fashion-Enter, added: “Despite the recent unprecedented call for brands in the UK, the timing of our exclusive partnership is excellent. In the following week alone, five main stores and online stores have contacted FEL for a quick reaction and now, thanks to Zund’s extraordinary cutting technology, we can focus on easier and more efficient production. Zund is especially effective in the batch flow, which is the long-term production of apparel through execution within the parameters of a micro-factory that we will eventually expand to our site in Wales in Newtown Powys. We would like to sincerely thank the amazing Zund team that spent last week installing and calibrating the G3 cutter. Now it’s actually a production.
Posted on June 29, 2021
Source: Zund
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