German manufacturers of garment, leather technology and textile cleaning machinery are anticipating a slight drop in sales of 3 per cent in real terms for 2012 compared to 2011. A turnover increase of 4 per cent in real terms is forecast for 2013.

Me-Ality, a revolutionary body scanning machine that enables customers to find their best fitting jeans and pants through a 10-second body scan, announced an expansion of their technology to match shoppers for the upper body.

Print Unlimited has taken over the activities of fashion printer La Moda in the Netherlands, in a bid to offer customers greater flexibility in their printing while expanding its own operations.

Can New 'Technologically Assisted' Clothes Improve Your Workout?

Wouldn't life in general, and exercise in particular, be so much better if we didn't all have to work so hard? The Puritan work ethic is all well and good, but look where that's gotten us. A rigorous approach to working out has even been proven to be detrimental to our health.

Athletic apparel, footwear and equipment designer and marketer Nike Inc., Beaverton, Ore., is implementing the Netherlands-based DyeCoo Textile Systems BV's waterless textile dyeing technology in the production of a line of apparel for elite athletes that it plans to introduce later this year, with a long-term idea of scaling the implementation to include a much larger segment of its products.

To be unveiled this month, the fifth generation PLM solution adds important new fashion-specific capabilities and leverages the latest Microsoft development and cloud technologies to raise the bar for PLM usability and performance.

Centric Software is launching a new collection management module for its PLM system, to enable users to create customer-specific product catalogues and assortments.

Lectra is pleased to announce the successful implementation of Lectra Fashion PLM at La Jolla Group. La Jolla Group, Inc. (LJG) is one of the world’s biggest producers of surf, skate, motocross, and youth lifestyle apparel, whose portfolio includes iconic brands such as O’Neill Clothing USA, Rusty Clothing and Metal Mulisha Clothing.

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