The registered cooperative VORN – The Berlin Fashion Hub is using three ADF machines from STOLL and digital solutions from KM.ON – both brands of the KARL MAYER GROUP – to equip its microfactory currently under construction in Berlin's Bikinihaus.
The platform is intended to bring together academics, brands, research institutes, start-ups and SMEs to create new ways of achieving greater sustainability and ethos. The goal is a fashion industry with a positive balance sheet. The pixel-to-product microfactory offers innovative hardware and software solutions for the physical, digital or hybrid implementation and testing of promising concepts, products and processes.
“We are delighted to be involved in the Fashion Microfactory project, because with our machines, which are predestined for efficient customization thanks to their enormous patterning flexibility, and with our digital solutions, which significantly shorten lead times, we have been focusing on the topic of made-to-order for a long time and hope to gain new impetus and contacts.”
Michael Händel, Vice President Sales & Service at STOLL
The contracts for the delivery of the flat knitting machines were signed on July 9 at STOLL's headquarters in Reutlingen. my TEXTILE NEWS editor Ulrike Schlenker took advantage of the visit by the two co-CEOs of VORN, Prof. Marte Hentschel and Oliver Lange, to talk to them about their project.
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