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Header Text: Technology & Process
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Body Text: <p>Ozone treatment is a resource friendly alternative to water and chemical fabric post treatments. Primarily used in the denim industry, it is also used on knits and non denim wovens in both yarn dyes and solids, to give a fabric an aged appearance.</p> <p>On denim the ozone treatment is generally used in conjunction with lazer treatment, to remove colour in engineered areas of the garment.</p> <p><strong>How does it work?</strong><br /> Air from the atmosphere is transformed into a blend of active oxygen and ozone and called plasma. Once the process has been completed the plasma is transformed back into a purified air before being returned to the atmosphere.</p> <p><strong>What effect does it provide?</strong><br /> Effects such as, casting, cleaning, bleach (with no bleaching) are possible as well as the ability to improve crocking on dark colours. The <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/3568985/"target="_blank">G2 Ozone Machine</a> from Jeanologia is an example of a machine being used in a commercial environment today. </p>
Level: 121
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Body Text: <p>Ozone treatment is a resource friendly alternative to water and chemical fabric post treatments. Primarily used in the denim industry, it is also used on knits and non denim wovens in both yarn dyes and solids, to give a fabric an aged appearance.</p> <p>On denim the ozone treatment is generally used in conjunction with lazer treatment, to remove colour in engineered areas of the garment.</p> <p><strong>How does it work?</strong><br /> Air from the atmosphere is transformed into a blend of active oxygen and ozone and called plasma. Once the process has been completed the plasma is transformed back into a purified air before being returned to the atmosphere.</p> <p><strong>What effect does it provide?</strong><br /> Effects such as, casting, cleaning, bleach (with no bleaching) are possible as well as the ability to improve crocking on dark colours. The <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/3568985/"target="_blank">G2 Ozone Machine</a> from Jeanologia is an example of a machine being used in a commercial environment today. </p>
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122
Level: 122
Header Text: Tools
Video Path: https://www.youtube.com/embed/74_3loJgx8M
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Body Text: <p>Jeanologia use a variety of novel tools to reach out at the brands, retail and supplier level.</p> <p><b>Environmental Impact Measuring Software</b><br> EIM is a tool to measure the impacts of denim production, as it relates to water, energy, chemicals and worker safety. </p> <p><i>"You must be able to measure and monitor the actions. No measurement. No improvements"</i></p>
Level: 122
Header Text: Tools
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Body Text: <p>Jeanologia use a variety of novel tools to reach out at the brands, retail and supplier level.</p> <p><b>Environmental Impact Measuring Software</b><br> EIM is a tool to measure the impacts of denim production, as it relates to water, energy, chemicals and worker safety. </p> <p><i>"You must be able to measure and monitor the actions. No measurement. No improvements"</i></p>
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123
Level: 123
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>Scientists involved in an EU textiles project indicated that atmospheric plasma treatments provide energy and water savings [1]. However, public life cycle assessments of Jeanologia's ozone treatment (atmospheric plasma) technology appear to be unavailable, although the company provides an environmental performance calculator on its website [2].</p> <p>Jeanologia claim that its G2 Plus ozone treatment, which uses atmospheric plasma, provides process energy savings of 51% compared to a conventional approach, which will translate into carbon savings [3]. It also claims 50% water and 57% chemical savings.</p>
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Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>Scientists involved in an EU textiles project indicated that atmospheric plasma treatments provide energy and water savings [1]. However, public life cycle assessments of Jeanologia's ozone treatment (atmospheric plasma) technology appear to be unavailable, although the company provides an environmental performance calculator on its website [2].</p> <p>Jeanologia claim that its G2 Plus ozone treatment, which uses atmospheric plasma, provides process energy savings of 51% compared to a conventional approach, which will translate into carbon savings [3]. It also claims 50% water and 57% chemical savings.</p>
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Level: 124
Header Text: Zero Waste patterns
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Body Text: <p>The growing discipline of 'Zero Waste' design aims to engineer and create patterns to eliminate fabric waste by utilising every part of the material.</p> <p><a href="http://zerofabricwastefashion.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/hoodie-attempt-to-explain.html" target="_blank">Timo Rissanen’s</a> on-going research investigates ‘Fashion Creation without Fabric Waste Creation’.</p>
Level: 124
Header Text: Zero Waste patterns
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Body Text: <p>The growing discipline of 'Zero Waste' design aims to engineer and create patterns to eliminate fabric waste by utilising every part of the material.</p> <p><a href="http://zerofabricwastefashion.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/hoodie-attempt-to-explain.html" target="_blank">Timo Rissanen’s</a> on-going research investigates ‘Fashion Creation without Fabric Waste Creation’.</p>
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Level: 125
Header Text: Fabric optimisation
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Body Text: <p>Exploring creative ways of developing fabric optimisation concepts can have aesthetic as well as resource efficiency benefits.</p> <p>By redefining the aesthetics and construction of the basic t-shirt through the use of digital tools, The T-Shirt Issue have created highly unusual and individual shapes and silhouettes, while enabling the optimisation of the use of fabric to a zero-waste level.</p>
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Header Text: Fabric optimisation
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Body Text: <p>Exploring creative ways of developing fabric optimisation concepts can have aesthetic as well as resource efficiency benefits.</p> <p>By redefining the aesthetics and construction of the basic t-shirt through the use of digital tools, The T-Shirt Issue have created highly unusual and individual shapes and silhouettes, while enabling the optimisation of the use of fabric to a zero-waste level.</p>
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Level: 126
Header Text: Pattern optimisation software
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Body Text: <p>Creative pattern engineering and fabric optimisation at the design stage can further be supported through the use of pattern and marker making software. </p> <p>Software programs such Optitex Digitizer allow the designer to visualise their design on a 3D view, which is simultaneously displayed in 2D pattern pieces. </p>
Level: 126
Header Text: Pattern optimisation software
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Body Text: <p>Creative pattern engineering and fabric optimisation at the design stage can further be supported through the use of pattern and marker making software. </p> <p>Software programs such Optitex Digitizer allow the designer to visualise their design on a 3D view, which is simultaneously displayed in 2D pattern pieces. </p>
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Level: 127
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>Research by WRAP [1] has estimated that around 200,000 tonnes of waste are produced at the garment manufacturing stage for clothing in use each year in the UK. The research provides detail on the combined losses during finishing and making up of cotton and polyester garments; cotton data is summarised on the figure to the left. Losses can clearly be significant, and hence so too is the potential for design efficiency improvements to reduce waste and material use.</p>
Level: 127
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Body Text: <p>Research by WRAP [1] has estimated that around 200,000 tonnes of waste are produced at the garment manufacturing stage for clothing in use each year in the UK. The research provides detail on the combined losses during finishing and making up of cotton and polyester garments; cotton data is summarised on the figure to the left. Losses can clearly be significant, and hence so too is the potential for design efficiency improvements to reduce waste and material use.</p>
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Level: 128
Header Text: 3-D textile printing
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Body Text: <p>3-D printing technologies have improved dramatically in recent years and substantial material savings could be achieved in the future, as this technology only produces the material actually needed for the product, thus eliminating waste.</p> <p>Designed by <a href="http://www.continuumfashion.com/N12.php" target="_blank">Continuum Fashion</a>, the bikini was the first fully 3-D printed, ready to wear and available for purchase item of clothing. Made with thousands of tiny circular nylon plates connected by thin springs, the textile stays flexible and holds its form.</p>
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Header Text: 3-D textile printing
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Body Text: <p>3-D printing technologies have improved dramatically in recent years and substantial material savings could be achieved in the future, as this technology only produces the material actually needed for the product, thus eliminating waste.</p> <p>Designed by <a href="http://www.continuumfashion.com/N12.php" target="_blank">Continuum Fashion</a>, the bikini was the first fully 3-D printed, ready to wear and available for purchase item of clothing. Made with thousands of tiny circular nylon plates connected by thin springs, the textile stays flexible and holds its form.</p>
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Level: 129
Header Text: Seamless engineering
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Body Text: <p>Re-thinking the traditional cut & sew approach to the creation of fashion has been a focus of many research projects and conceptual developments recently.</p> <p><a href="http://mds.isseymiyake.com/mds/en/collection/#" target="_blank">Issey Miyake's A-POC collection</a> utilises computer-enabled manufacturing to produce knitted or woven continuous tubes of fabric, which can be cut into the desired silhouette by the consumer by following a faint outline indicating embedded seams already woven or knitted into the fabric, thus reducing material waste in production while providing custom-made clothing.</p>
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Header Text: Seamless engineering
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Body Text: <p>Re-thinking the traditional cut & sew approach to the creation of fashion has been a focus of many research projects and conceptual developments recently.</p> <p><a href="http://mds.isseymiyake.com/mds/en/collection/#" target="_blank">Issey Miyake's A-POC collection</a> utilises computer-enabled manufacturing to produce knitted or woven continuous tubes of fabric, which can be cut into the desired silhouette by the consumer by following a faint outline indicating embedded seams already woven or knitted into the fabric, thus reducing material waste in production while providing custom-made clothing.</p>
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Level: 130
Header Text: Minimal waste manufacturing
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Body Text: <p>Waste reducing knit technologies are currently being explored across a broad spectrum of research and commercial textile products including clothing such as Designer Sandy Black's 'Knit to Fit' concept.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nike.com/gb/en_gb/c/innovation/flyknit" target="_blank">Nike's Flyknit</a> technology for footwear is described as the lightest and one of the most supportive materials created by Nike and further reduces waste through the one-piece knitted upper construction.</p>
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Body Text: <p>Waste reducing knit technologies are currently being explored across a broad spectrum of research and commercial textile products including clothing such as Designer Sandy Black's 'Knit to Fit' concept.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nike.com/gb/en_gb/c/innovation/flyknit" target="_blank">Nike's Flyknit</a> technology for footwear is described as the lightest and one of the most supportive materials created by Nike and further reduces waste through the one-piece knitted upper construction.</p>