Coats Technical Services experts will help manufacturers, retailers and brands in the design and manufacture of apparel, footwear and other sewn products and textiles to improve productivity, efficiency and compliance.

The design concept stage of product development is where we evaluate a garment, assess the seams and give any necessary recommendations in regards to its strength or elongation to the customer. The Coats expert would give the corrective measures necessary to make sure that it meets the minimum requirement.

An example of this would be if manufacturing a rugby shirt where it had to have a breaking force of 400 newtons on the back neck, we would analyse what sewing threads are proposed. Then if required we would recommend a switch to a more suitable thread, to ensure it met the minimum seam strength..