The Impact
A different supply chain changes more than cost.
Removing cut-and-sew resets the economics of apparel: where garments get made, how resilient that capacity is, and how much gets wasted along the way.
of COGS is cut & sew labor
of production steps can be removed by on loom production
of garments clog transportation channels only to never get sold
The problem & the solution
Four reasons this matters.
Reshoring is now viable
Advanced manufacturing + shifting labor to finishing makes it affordable to produce wovens in the US again; cutting supply chain complexity, pollution, and exposure to geopolitical risk.
National security
The US offshored so much textile capacity it could not scale mask production during COVID. Onshore weaving is a resilience issue, not just a cost issue.
Ending overproduction and waste
Long lead times, the result of global supply chains, force brands to overproduce. LOOM3D compresses the supply chain by weeks, enabling just-in-time production instead of guesswork.
Escaping the wage-chasing treadmill
Chasing low cost labor destroys predictability, puts control in the hands of far flung production partners and reduces production quality and quantity controls. By reducing lower impact production steps and focusing manual efforts on high impact finishing steps, labor resources can be optimized for maximum impact.
For investors & partners
Want the full picture?
Our team can share the technical, market, and national-security case for rethinking woven production. We want to bring the wovens market to the 21st century and need partners to make that happen.