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Textile Solutions Group appoints Anton Hofmeier as Group CEO
TSG strengthens Group-level coordination and aligns ERP, CAD, MES and shop-floor execution to deliver faster, lower-risk improvements for textile manufacturers.
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Embee International Selects Coats Digital’s GSDCost Solution to Drive Accuracy, Efficiency, and Global Competitiveness
Coats Digital is pleased to announce that leading global apparel manufacturer, Embee International Industries, has implemented Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution across its operations to eliminate inaccurate costing, streamline production processes, and boost competitiveness in international markets. The move forms a key part of Embee International’s digital transformation strategy to drive greater efficiency, improve quality, and strengthen partnerships with its portfolio of top global brands.
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Style3D launches Moda – the first fashion-first AI platform
Style3D has introduced Style3D Moda, the first AI platform designed exclusively for the fashion industry. The solution integrates all Style3D AI tools for design, development, marketing, showrooms, and merchandising into one business platform – fully GDPR-compliant.
#Knitting & Hosiery
Mayer & Cie makes circular knitting machines IoT-ready
Albstadt, Germany, May 20, 2025 – The new machine control system Control 5.0 from Mayer & Cie. is now available. It makes the company’s circular knitting machines Internet- and knitlink-ready, preparing them for the digital future of textile production. Control 5.0 is the prerequisite for accessing knitlink, Mayer & Cie.’s digital platform. The new machine control system is available as an upgrade kit for all machines built from 2001 onward. From now on, every newly delivered mechanical circular knitting machine will be equipped with Control 5.0 as standard.
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Style3D Studio unveils groundbreaking V7.2 update
Style3D Studio has launched its highly anticipated version 7.2, introducing a suite of innovative features aimed at redefining workflows in 3D design and fashion technology. This latest update promises a transformative experience for users, with enhanced tools for real-time rendering, advanced grading, and industry-leading GPU-powered simulation capabilities.
#Texprocess 2024
AI plus 3D/2D at Texprocess 2024
At Texprocess, Style3D | ASSYST presents the power of Artificial Intelligence in a fully digital fashion workflow. Brands and manufacturers benefit from fast, high-quality designs, reliable fit across products, and precise cost calculations and savings.
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Sportswear Powerhouse improves cross-factory capacity
Coats Digital is delighted to announce that following the implementation of Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan, leading sportswear manufacturer, Hojeon Limited Corp. has achieved a remarkable 90 percent improvement in capacity scheduling accuracy across its three factories in Indonesia. The solution has enabled Hojeon to seamlessly connect and consolidate information from various sources, creating one highly visual and unified system.
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Aptean expands apparel industry leadership through acquisition of Momentis
Aptean, a global provider of mission-critical enterprise software solutions, announced the acquisition of Momentis, a provider of purpose-built software solutions designed for the fashion, apparel, footwear, textile and accessories industries.
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Thai textile powerhouse, Nan Yang Textile Group, reducing planning time by 66% and boosting efficiency
By streamlining critical planning information in a single platform, FastReactPlan has optimised data visibility across relevant teams; increased production efficiencies by reducing planning time from three days to one and improved its On-Time Delivery Performance (OTDP) by 10%.
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TextileGenesis now enables the fashion industry to trace the origin of all materials, sustainable or generic, via its platform
TextileGenesis, a Lectra Group company, announces the integration of a new Supply Chain Discovery module into its SaaS platform. The traceability solution developed by TextileGenesis has already played a pioneering role in providing the fashion ecosystem, thanks to its Fiber to Retail module, with reliable, secure and fully digitized chain of custody of sustainable materials. The new Supply Chain Discovery module completes this offering by identifying the origin of conventional materials. TextileGenesis users can now meet the traceability requirements for all the materials they use on a single platform.
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Energy Management module upgraded with new features
EnergyMaster, BMSvision's Energy Management solution, not only monitors the various energy flows, it also shows the slumbering consumption and energy peaks so that it quickly becomes clear where energy efficiency measures need to be taken. The latest EnergyMaster software upgrade sees two new features: the implementation of Sankey diagrams and the possibility of logging and analyzing energy consumption on declaration level.
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Denimville unlocks synergies with the adoption of Coats Digital’s GSDCost
Coats Digital is pleased to announce that leading global jeans and sportswear manufacturer, Denimville, is expanding Coats Digital’s ecosystem of industry-leading digital tools with the adoption of GSDCost, to optimise its production efficiencies, improve costs and standardise its cost-to-make processes. Denimville is on target to improve its method-time-cost efficiencies by between 4% and 7%, depending on the garment, following its rigorous GSDCost training with Coats Digital’s experts during the first phase of the solution roll out.
#Software
Lectra with weaker figures for the 3rd quarter and first 9 months
Today, Lectra’s Board of Directors, chaired by Daniel Harari, reviewed the consolidated financial statements for the third quarter and first nine months of 2023, which have not been reviewed by the Statutory Auditors.
#Software
Kardem adopts Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to accelerate production efficiencies and support newbusiness growth
Coats Digital is delighted to announce that leading Turkish ready-made garment manufacturer, Kardem, has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to digitally transform its manual planning processes and drive production efficiencies. By consolidating capacity planning data into a single source, Kardem will be in a position to capitalise on more systematic and efficient line scheduling to respond to more complex, last minute order requests in an agile way.
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Lectra goes one step further in its CSR commitment with the appointment of Anne Borfiga as General Secretary
Leader in technology solutions accelerating the transition to Industry 4.0 for the fashion, automotive and furniture industries, Lectra announces the appointment of Anne Borfiga to the position of General Secretary and her entry into the Group's Executive Committee. This appointment marks a new stage in Lectra's transformation and confirms the Group's commitment to CSR. In addition to her duties as Secretary to Lectra's Board of Directors, Anne Borfiga will act as CSR referent and will be responsible for Human Resources, IT, Legal and Facility Management.
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Avalution and Human Solution become one: Humanetics Digital Europe combined innovation for best-in-class-solutions
Avalution and Human Solutions are pleased to announce that Avalution and Human Solutions are coming together as one cohesive operating unit under the new name "Humanetics Digital Europe."
#Software
BMSvision at Fakuma 2023 (17 - 21 October)
With BMSvision towards a green and digital transition.
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Lectra appoints Frédéric Morel as President of the Asia-Pacific region
Lectra, leader in technology solutions for the fashion, automotive and furniture industries, announces the appointment of Frédéric Morel as President of the Asia-Pacific region and as a member of the Group's Executive Committee, where he replaces Edward Wang, who previously held the same position. This nomination comes as Lectra prepares to present its latest software and connected equipment offers at the CISMA (China International Sewing Machinery and Accessories) trade show in Shanghai, China, to enable Asian industry players to accelerate their transition to Industry 4.0.
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Lectra reveals its latest boundary-pushing solutions at 2023 CISMA
Lectra unveils its newest range of intelligent, connected solutions -- Automotive Cutting Room 4.0, VectorFashion iC70, and Gerber Atria 70 -- at the CISMA (China International Sewing Machinery & Accessories) show in Shanghai. From September 25-28, Lectra will demonstrate how the newest offerings will empower its customers to embrace the future of smart, Industry 4.0 manufacturing.
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Coats Digital’s GSDCost scoops four awards at this year’s International SaaS Awards
Coats Digital is delighted to announce that its unique, industry-changing time-cost benchmarking solution, GSDCost, has been declared a winner in four award categories at this year’s prestigious 2023 InternationalSaaS Awards. Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution was awarded the top accolades on the basis of its innovative features, seamless integration, ability to significantly revolutionise the fashion industry, and for delivering real ROI, whilst supporting a more collaborative, transparent and sustainable global fashion supply chain.
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Propper International™, boosts production efficiencies with Coats Digital’s GSDCost
Coats Digital is pleased to announce that Propper International Inc™. one of the largest suppliers to the United States armed forces, has adopted Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution to provide accurate, detailed, scientific methods across its production operations so it can optimise efficiencies, streamline line balancing effectively on the production floor and significantly improve its capacity planning processes. GSDCost is projected to improve efficiencies at Propper by between 3% and 7%, depending on the garment, in the first year of roll out.
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Coats Digital attains SOC 2 Type II Compliance - achieving global gold standard in security validation
Coats Digital - the leading digital transformation partner for the fashion supply chain - is delighted to announce its accreditation of SOC 2 Type II compliance, in accordance with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) standards for SOC for Service Organisations.
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ApparelTech improves annual productivity by 9% and increases OTDP by 7% with Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan
Coats Digital is delighted to announce that following the implementation of Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution, leading outdoor garment manufacturer, ApparelTech Co.Ltd. has realised an annual productivity improvement of 9% and increased its on-time delivery performance by a further 7% since its adoption of FastReactPlan. The solution has enabled the company to connect and consolidate its planning and scheduling information across disparate sources into one highly visual unified system, significantly reducing the people hours required on time consuming manual tasks so that more time can be spent on enhancing customer service and driving new business growth.
#Software
Sizekick launches AI for size recommendations
The Munich-based startup Sizekick launches a new technology and attracts well-known brands and retailers to reduce size-related returns in e-commerce. With the apparel technology know-how of the strategic partner and investor Hohenstein and the AI-based technology of Sizekick, more sustainable shopping in e-commerce with less CO2 emissions will be made possible.
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Turkish textile powerhouse, Aster Textiles, to digitize production planning processes with FastReactPlan from Coats Digital
Coats Digital is pleased to announce that one of the world’s most diverse textile and ready-made garment manufactures, Aster Textiles, has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution to digitally transform its manual planning processes by connecting more accurate planning and forecasting data across departments, in a bid to improve efficiencies, optimise its On-Time Delivery Performance (OTDP) and significantly reduce lead times.
#Textile processing
Discover VectorFashion iX2 and VectorFashion Q2
Transition quickly from small series to significant volumes with the Vector iX2 and Vector Q2 range of cutters to keep up with fluctuating order volumes. Seize opportunities as they arise and achieve profitability without relying on traditional economies of scale.
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Leading global sock producer, Thai Sock adopts Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution
Coats Digital is pleased to announce that leading, global sock producer, Thai Sock Co. Ltd., has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to connect and consolidate capacity planning information across disparate sources into one highly visual and unified system. FastReactPlan will enable the company to effectively synchronise its yarn and knitting capacity plans so it can accurately track sock production on the factory floor, assess and mitigate challenges quickly and improve decision making on the fly, so that it can capitalise on a growing market trend for smaller, more varied order assortments.
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Lectra is committed to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
Three months after making its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy one of its new strategic pillars, Lectra joins the United Nations Global Compact to contribute to a more sustainable future.
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Sapphire Finishing Mills adopts Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to underpin its digital transformation roadmap
Coats Digital is pleased to announce that leading innovative, vertically integrated textile specialist, Sapphire Finishing Mills Ltd. has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan as a crucial component of its digital agenda, to connect and consolidate capacity planning information across disparate sources into one highly visual and unified system. FastReactPlan will enable the company to significantly reduce low efficiencies, improve On-Time Delivery targets and facilitate additional business growth by helping to eliminate under- and over-capacity bookings, firefighting on later order change requests and unnecessary overtime and material cost overheads.
#Recycling / Circular Economy
Boer Group advances sorting capabilities with innovative trinamiX solution for textile identification
Boer Group, an international textile recycling organization, is working with trinamiX GmbH, a leading provider of mobile spectroscopy solutions, to advance its textile sorting capabilities. With the introduction of trinamiX Mobile NIR Spectroscopy Solution at first sorting centers in the Netherlands, Boer Group further enhances the efficiency of identifying and sorting textile material streams.
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Cerie International improves on-time delivery by 10% with Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan
Coats Digital is delighted to announce that following the implementation of Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution, leading Chinese Original Design garment manufacturer, Cerie International, has realised a 10% improvement in OTDP; reduced its monthly capacity planning time by 67%; eliminated unnecessary staff overtime costs and significantly improved production efficiencies, as a result of its planning team’s full visibility into possible challenges early on. The company initially chose FastReactPlan to enable it to implement best practice processes and significantly increase capacity at a new production facility in Cambodia, as part of its international expansion programme.
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Karine Calvet and Pierre-Yves Roussel join Lectra’s Board of Directors
Lectra’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held on April 28 appointed two new Directors, Karine Calvet and Pierre-Yves Roussel for a four-year term. They both will become members of the Strategic Committee, replacing Bernard Jourdan, Lead Director, and Anne Binder. Karine Calvet also becomes a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee.
