The Innovations in Manufacturing journey took the Finalists to visit one of the world’s largest shirt manufacturers, TAL Apparel, located in the heart of Northern Vietnam’s expansive manufacturing region. Here they learned how this pioneering shirt manufacturer manages its environmentally-conscious business in order to reduce textile, energy and water waste throughout the production process, including their use of advanced technologies and new business models such as 3D body scanning, virtual sampling and made-to-measure. They also explored the importance of a symbiotic partnership between designers and manufacturers and gained ‘hands-on’ experience of how sustainable practices can be applied along the entire supply chain.
