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In response to the ensuing demand within a fashion activewear introduces
Santoni
market that continues to heat up, Santoni, together with its
Automated
partners, is introducing Den/IM 2.0, an innovation in athleisure that
Whats New Sewbot to make The I am DENIM athleisure collection, made with stretch indigo evolution Whats New
brings body-mapping technology to an already innovative denim
denim
jean.
800,000 Adidas
denim on seamless circular knitting machines, debuted last year.
Lenzing, Tonello, Santoni and Unitin partnered to create Den/IM, a
T-shirts daily
studio-to-street collection designed to show knit denim’s potential
as a viable alternative and competitor to traditional activewear
bottoms and to classic woven denim.
Body-mapping seamless sportswear involves just one piece of
Technology developed in the USA will be used by a
comfort by adjusting local body heat exchanges. “Associated with
Chinese company to supply European sports brand
Using cameras to map the fabric and robots to
Adidas with T-shirts made in the US by robots. This is
this collection you will hear terms such as compression, ventilation,
steer it through the sewing needles, the system will
a major breakthrough in the automation of garment Little Rock, AR, China Daily reports. multiple-knit structure fabric, which provides improved wear
moisture control, thermal conductivity and body mapping, and
assembly by the global partnership. handle soft fabrics and make the T-shirts for adidas these are used alongside traditional denim terms such as indigo
on the system which is scheduled to be fully shade, fade-down and laser marking,” explained Patrick Silva,
Leading sportswear brand adidas is planning to operational by the end of next year. Santoni Marketing Manager. “With its roots in seamless sportswear,
produce 800,000 T-shirts per day using fully Santoni’s knitting technologies are creating a new category in the
automated Sewbot Workline’s supplied by "From fabric cutting and sewing to finished constantly fragmenting athleisure wear market.” The seamless
SoftWear Automation, of Atlanta, GA. Tianyuan product, it takes roughly four minutes," said Tang functional features of Den/IM 2.0 aim to provide superior moisture
Garments Company, of Suzhou, China, the largest Xinhong, chairman of Tianyuan Garments. "We will wicking by incorporating Tencel in a unique two-layer construction.
producer of apparel for adidas worldwide, has install 21 production lines. When fully operational, These high-performance yarns are said to provide superior
partnered with SoftWear Automation to produce the system will make one T-shirt every 22 seconds. temperature regulation and a perfect microclimate for the skin.said.
the T-shirts at Tianyuan's newly acquired plant in We will produce 800,000 T-shirts a day for Adidas." This increases the voltage associated with the charge stored in the
yarn, enabling the harvesting of electricity.

Gerber’s new Yuniqueplm 7.1 Introducing new

features new options baby Thermal

An increase in personalisation has become an expectation with today’s technological advancements. With
the new release of YuniquePLM 7.1, Gerber used customer feedback to develop the upgrades, which Manikin
include artboard support within YunquiePLM Design Suite Plugin for Adobe Illustrator CC17 on both Mac
and PC, allowing customers to work with 1 multi-paged Adobe Illustrator doc and assign pages to different
sections within a product in YuniquePLM.
After a longer than expected gestation period, the neck, shoulders, and hips, with single-flexure
“Bringing the power of the configurability to the user of a YuniquePLM workspace is at the heart of this Thermetrics, a manufacturer of testing and joints at the knees and elbows. Cable connections
release,” said Clayton Parker, PLM product manager, Gerber Technology. measurement instrumentation systems, is are at the eyes to minimise any interference with the
introducing the latest custom thermal manikin – a garment being tested, the company explains.
New options also include improvements to Configurability that was released with v7.0 and the ability to new 11-zone baby sweating model that the company The Baby Manikin also includes Thermetrics
group pages when editing, allowing you to edit pages en masse. Finally, six new PANTONE libraries have named “Baby Ruth.” exclusive sweating skin system, which utilises a
been added. matrix of pores over the active surface of the manikin
The 11-zone Baby Manikin is designed to be coupled with computerised fluid delivery and a
Gerber Technology has enhanced the performance of YuniquePLM enabling the continuous delivery of new approximately the size of a nine-month old child. It is wicking fabric skin layer to distribute water over the
features requested by the customers, the company explains. This means new features can be delivered to constructed from a thermally conductive surface of the manikin. “This method allows for
the core product in a shorter development timeframe so customers don’t have to wait for major software carbon-epoxy shell with internal heater elements and precise control of the sweating rate, selectable by
releases to reap the benefit of new functionality. temperature sensors. Spherical ball joints are used at manikin region,” the manufacturer reports.

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