How can we transfer from a design-make-sell mannequin in style, to design-sell-make? Danish provide chain startup Rodinia Technology thinks it has the reply. The corporate has raised €3 million to fund the creation of a world community of ‘microfactories’ — beginning in Europe then increasing to the US — that may present quick, nearshore, low-impact manufacturing, turning style’s present bloated manufacturing mannequin on its head.
Manufacturers have lengthy employed small nearshore producers to trial new types and reply shortly to traits. What the most recent technology of microfactories — together with Rodinia — brings to the desk is extra subtle automation, and technology-driven, low-impact manufacturing strategies akin to waterless digital printing and 3D weaving. It’s a promising mannequin however limitations stay, finds Sophie Benson.
Then, Laure Guilbault sits down with Matteo De Rosa, CEO of LVMH Métiers d’Artwork, the holding firm for the group’s key suppliers, to learn how he goes about securing supplies like leather-based, unique skins and metals for each the group and the broader luxurious sector.
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Are microfactories the reply to creating style on demand?
By Sophie Benson
Small, extremely automated and related microfactories might assist shrink style’s manufacturing impression. Now, startups are exploring how tech might assist to beat the mannequin’s limitations.
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Meet the person answerable for securing sought-after supplies for LVMH
By Laure Guilbault
As CEO of LVMH Métiers d’Artwork, Matteo De Rosa is concentrated on the availability of supplies like leather-based, unique skins and metals for each the group and the broader luxurious sector.
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