3rd August 2017, Beijing
Automated Sewbot to make 800,000 adidas T-shirts daily
Technology developed in the USA will be used by a Chinese company to supply European sports brand adidas with T-shirts made in the US by robots. This is a major breakthrough in the automation of garment assembly by the global partnership.
Leading sportswear brand adidas is planning to produce 800,000 T-shirts per day using fully automated Sewbot Workline’s supplied by SoftWear Automation, of Atlanta, GA. Tianyuan Garments Company, of Suzhou, China, the largest producer of apparel for adidas worldwide, has partnered with SoftWear Automation to produce the T-shirts at Tianyuan's newly acquired plant in Little Rock, AR, China Daily reports.
