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Future Fashion Factory Announces Interactive Futures Sustainable Fashion (IFSF) Challenge

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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.

AWH – a Tool to Digitally Communicate Aesthetics

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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.

Durability meets Innovation in Conductive Printing Technology

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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.  

Laxtons – Bespoke Training at its Finest

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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. 

Frugi: Sustainable Durability testing to Guarantee Children’s Clothing

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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.

UKFT leads £4m recycling project for waste textiles

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We're thrilled to share that Future Fashion Factory Core Partners and Chairs, the UKFT is leading a £4 million project to develop and pilot a pioneering fully-integrated, automated sorting and pre-processing plant for waste textiles (ATSP), which could eventually divert thousands of tonnes from landfill each year.