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Lectra unveils cutting room

4.0 at 'Fashion Goes Digital'

Lectra has unveiled the cutting room 4.0 at the recently held Fashion Goes Digital event in France. The latest
cutting room 4.0 is an innovative combination of digital platform and brand new state of the art single ply
cutting machine. This advance technology enables maximum advantages to industry 4.0 principles to provide
greater agility, cost efficiency and particularly scalability to respond seamlessly to small batch orders and
shorter lead times.

The Lectra Cutting Room 4.0 facilitates fashion & apparel and furniture industries with abilities in on-demand
manufacturing and made-to-order. The made-to-order solution is available commercially for furniture market
and in late 2018 will be available for the fashion & apparel market.

Lectra has identified industry 4.0 and digitalization as its key drivers. The goal for this event was to show that
Lectra is based on industry 4.0 and will do whatever it takes to help the customers succeed in this
technologically fast paced era. The latest cutting room 4.0 is the demonstration of Lectra living the future of fashion.

HeiQ Smart Temp HeiQ, a Swiss textile innovator has announced that for a full CREOL introduces user controlled color
range of activated cooling technology, new products will be
added to the HeiQ Smart Temp product family with
provides instant customizable cooling performance and fabric type. and pattern changing fabrics

and long lasting The recently launched dynamic thermoregulation
technology enables instant cooling as well as long lasting
cooling on fabric activated by own body heat. HeiQ
cooling effects Adaptive AC-03 activates cooling only when the body is CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics at University of Central Florida (UCF), has introduced an
active user controlled color changing fabric, developed by a team of UCF scientists which allows the
hot and sweaty and is deactivated when the wearer’s body
heat or the surrounding temperature drops. But apart from wearer/user to change the pattern or color of the fabric using their smartphone.
the long lasting dynamic cooling effect of vaporizing
action, its launch has disruptive the market since it confers This fabric tech is different from other similar technology fabrics on the market. CREOL’s ChroMorphous
an instant cool sensation via a melting action when body technology enables innovative capabilities of user control, pattern change and dynamic color in large
heat rises, independent from moisture, and increasing woven fabrics as well as sewn textile products.
cooling efficiency by delaying the build-up of body heat
and sweat. Each woven thread of fabric incorporates a thin metal micro wire in which an electrical current flows that
raises the threads temperature. Embedded pigments in the thread respond to the modified temperature
The new products will share the dynamic temperature by changing its color.
control feature and provide either instant cooling, long
lasting cooling effect or both effects to the wearer. Using an app the user can control both when the pattern to appear and when the color change
happens on the fabric. For example, a solid purple tote bag now has the ability to gradually add blue
Both cooling actions will work independently, one or both stripes when you press a “stripe” button on your smartphone or computer, or switch to a solid blue.
effects can be added depending on each fabric type and
the intended usage of the final product in order to achieve
the optimal cooling effect.

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