Zund Partners With Fashion-Enter For Micro Factory Concept

ST. ALBANS, UK 24 June 2021 Zund UK has partnered with Fashion-Enter to demonstrate the concept of a sustainable micro factory in London, using Znd D3 Digital Cutting technology.

Fashion-Enter is a not-for-profit social enterprise, seeking to be a center of excellence for sampling, assessment, production and for learning and skills development in the fashion and textile industries.

The pressure for sustainable and on-demand production is growing rapidly in the fashion industry. Whether it’s fast fashion or sportswear, digitization and automation are the way to the future in apparel manufacturing, with single-layer cutting providing a solution to changing demands across the textile industry. In an increasingly digital production environment, order sizes are smaller, order cycles are shorter, and customization rates are constantly increasing. Lot size 1, fast fashion and mass customization are among the hottest trends. Znd’s high-performance digital cutting system, combined with highly sophisticated yet intuitive software, enables fully automatic digital cutting with minimal manual intervention.

The Zund UK and Fashion-Enter partnership will showcase the concept of a sustainable micro factory in the UK using the latest technology and state-of-the-art workflow processes. Dean Ashworth, Director of Sales and Marketing at Zund UK said the project is aimed at brands and retailers; we wanted to show them how they could create a sustainable manufacturing facility in the UK. We believe onshore apparel manufacturing will support the growing trend for bespoke and ethical production. Furthermore, production technologies and strategies are evolving to provide the capabilities needed to reshape the fashion industry. Znd single-layer cutters set new standards in speed, efficiency and accuracy. The Znd D3 cutter provides the highest performance and productivity with two cutting blocks operating simultaneously with advanced backfilling algorithms that increase material yields and help keep manufacturing costs low.

Jenny Holloway, CEO of Fashion-Enter, added: “Given the unprecedented demand to make in the UK, the timing of our unique partnership is excellent. In the past week alone, we’ve had five major retailers and e-tails contact FEL for a quick response mode and now, thanks to Zund’s incredible cutting technology, we can commit to leaner, more efficient manufacturing. Zund is very effective on one piece flow which is the future of garment manufacturing working within micro mill parameters which we will in time expand to our Welsh site also in Newtown Powys. We would like to express our sincere thanks to the wonderful Zund team who spent the last week installing and calibrating the G3 cutter. Now it’s really state-of-the-art manufacturing.”

Posted June 29, 2021

Source: Zund