Manufacturing & Retail
The manufacturing and retail stage aims to reduce textile waste accumulation and over production, to optimise efficiency in the cut, make and trim of a garment through digital solutions and on-demand production, and to extend the life of products and packaging through circular business models. This supply chain step aims to reduce the overall waste to landfill at a factory, retail and consumer level.
Projects

Sourcing Journal Exclusive: Arvind, Fashion for Good’s ‘Near-Carbon-Neutral’ Factory Initiative Seeks to Break Industry Paralysis
What will it take for low-impact textile manufacturing innovation to operationalise and scale beyond the “blah blah blah” of good intentions but lethargic action that has locked the industry in action-plan paralysis?

Fashion For Good And Arvind Limited Launch Future Forward Factories India: Embedding Innovation In Manufacturing

Unpacking the Packaging Problem: Solutions and Strategies

The Home Compostable Polybag Project

VAT Tax Impact on Resale in the UK

In Conversation with Trove: The Innovator Powering the Resale Ecosystem For Brands

Meet the Innovator: Trove

What are circular business models?
Innovators

traceless
Traceless creates bio-based films and coats that are home compostable, do not compete with food production and are qualitatively a real alternative to conventional plastic – 100% biodegradable and compostable.

PoshaQ
PoshaQ is a computer vision AI startup focused on helping consumers discover and purchase products within the fashion and retail sector. They provide retail and warehouse automation, data intelligence and cataloging, as well as quality control with image processing.

RESPONSIBLE
RESPONSIBLE is a global circularity platform powered by advanced proprietary technology. The company is on a mission to scale circularity by offering solutions across the product life cycle and a premium take on reCommerce.

PreSize
PreSize is a 3D body scanning company that produces size and fit recommendations to consumers. By integrating the solution into a brand’s webshop or app, presize enables fashion eCommerce shops to reduce their return rate and increase their conversion rate by reducing sizing uncertainty to give emissions and waste savings.

Lizee
Lizee has developed a reuse management system, enabling any brand or retailer to launch, manage and scale their rental and second hand offer in just a couple of weeks through management of eCommerce and logistics flows through algorithmic processing of data. This contributes towards a circular society by facilitating the rent and redistribution of consumer goods, ultimately reducing demand for virgin materials.

Smartex
Smartex is an engineered solution to help textile manufacturers improve production yields and reduce waste. It uses a combination of IoT sensors and AI/machine learning software for the real-time inspection and detection of defects in fabric production before they damage a fabric roll, thus reducing waste in production processes.

The Fabricant
The Fabricant is a digital fashion house which specialises in photo-real 3D fashion design and animation which can be used in digital fashion editorials, digital clothing and occasional collections. Production and use of such digital garments significantly reduces CO2 emissions, nd use of digital samples during design and development phases reduces brand’s carbon footprint.

Reflaunt
Reflaunt is a technology company that connects retailers with the second hand market, allowing customers of retailers to resell, donate or recycle their past purchases in a click through various resell interphases. Their core product is the “smart button” (plug in) which integrates itself into customer accounts on a retailer’s e-commerce and allows customers to push products for resale on a network of third party platforms specialised in second hand resale to extend life of products and divert from landfill.
Latest

In Conversation with SEFF: Reengineering Hemp into high performance material

In Conversation with Pili: Reducing the impact of Indigo

Rethinking Denim: Designing Change From Fibre To Finish
