Quadwrap offers novel way of making shoes
18/09/2014
The Quadwrap athletic shoe uses four layers of polyurethane injected around a textile sock, and can be made on a new version of its Amir machinery, with one pair ready in just three minutes.
Only one or two operatives are needed to work the machine: Instead of a typical shift of 200 workers that can produce 1,200 athletic shoes in an eight hour shift, 1,200 Quadwrap shoes could be made in 24 hours with a bare minimum of workers, said the German company.
The development, which Desma worked for a year on with chemical company Bayer, can offer a solution to rising labour costs in Asia and enable reshoring of manufacturing, said Karsten Stobener, Desma technology manager. The concept could be developed to suit a number of types of shoe.
We will look at this in more depth in the next issue of sister publication World Footwear.
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