Researchers, businesses and other organisations are invited to apply for funding to run targeted research projects that will provide new insights, evidence and data to help inform the current and future baseline position of sustainable practice in the UK’s Fashion and Textile industry.
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Laxtons is a name that has been synonymous with the spinning of fancy and worsted yarns for over a century, with roots dating back to 1907. Enjoying a long-standing reputation of being innovators in the sector, the fancy and worsted spinner specialists make a natural fit for collaborative partners in what was one of Future Fashion Factory’s earliest R&D projects.
Sportswear is intrinsically composed of a range of polymeric substances (polyamide and elastane for example), i.e., different fibres with different chemical and morphological properties, which are processed individually via melt or wet spinning.
A B2B software platform, Aistetic uses state of art technology to help customers make informed purchase decisions.
Working with Professor Ningtao Mao at the University of Leeds, Moon and Future Fashion Factory projected the usability of software that would allow the user to define performance requirements, whether this be machine efficiency, customer service levels or a blend of both.
Collaborating with Future Fashion Factory, DP Dyers and the University of Leeds’ Professor Stephen Westland, led a R&D project that introduced modern control systems, which can significantly reduce some of the challenges experienced in the dyehouses of today.
Researchers, businesses and other organisations are invited to apply for funding to run targeted research projects that will provide new insights, evidence and data to help inform the current and future baseline position of sustainable practice in the UK’s Fashion and Textile industry.
The Interactive Futures Sustainable Fashion Challenge from Future Fashion Factory – in association with the Applied Games Lab (an InGame spinout application)– is an ambitious competition to harness the potential of game design and game technologies to innovate novel solutions to a global societal challenge: empowering fashion consumers to encourage the fashion and textile industries to develop more robust sustainability practices and credentials.
In a funded collaborative R&D project, AW Hainsworth, working alongside Professor Ningtao Mao at the University of Leeds, have been able to successfully develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven software tool that can effectively predict both the tactile and aesthetic properties (or drape) of new fabric designs before the fabrics made.
Led by the University of Leeds’ Professor Stephen Westland, the Call 6 DP Dyers project employs the use of computational modelling to analyse inconsistencies between lab and mass dyed fabrics to improve results.
Conductive Transfers Ltd has developed a new process for screen-printing circuits with a high level of durability, ideal for developing innovative wearable solutions. This ground-breaking approach eliminates the wires and plastic substrates that are commonly found in contemporary wearables, all while preserving the benefits of printing onto a plastic sheet.
Working with Future Fashion Factory, Mary Lawrence the Product Development Manager at Frugi has formed a collaborative team with Dr Mark Taylor a Research Fellow from Leeds University and Eurofins Modern Testing Services with the mission to develop a new sophisticated method to generate a more streamlined testing protocol, the project was able to examine the impacts of repeated washing and wear and tear testing on childrenswear.