Smart Stitch and Smart Disassembly provide a rapid and cost-effective solution for dealing with unsold inventory.
During the Dornbirn Global Fiber Conference (GFC) held in Austria from September 13-15, Acerina Trejo-Machin outlined how her company, Brussels-based Resortecs, is making recycling easier and more actionable for fashion brands, recyclers and supply chain partners through two simple but highly effective design-for-disassembly technologies.
The company’s Smart Stitch is a heat dissolvable sewing thread that is suitable for a variety of applications, from apparel to workwear, and has been exhaustively tested on various production line configurations.
It is also compatible with every stitching machine available on the market and in different colours and tenacities to enable full creativity in design and high quality in manufacturing.
“Smart Stitch sewing thread is engineered to dissolve at various temperatures between 150 and 190 degrees depending on fibre type,” said Trejo-Machin. “If widely employed at the design stage, it would be highly advantageous for disassembling fabrics, especially in dealing with unsold inventory. The garments can be washed, ironed and laundered without problem during their lifetime.”