Fabdesigns, Inc.

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What we do makes us who we are.

Fabdesings' Core Values:

Quality in Service Excellence: We exceed the expectations of our clients by delivering exceptional results and simultaneously building their knowledge pool.

Stewardship of The Planet: We build highly efficient projects with nearly zero waste and effective cradle to cradle effective products that positively change the world. "With the ability to make so many millions of things comes the equally essential responsibility of making them environmentally and socially responsibly. " - Connie Huffa

We're Committed to Positive Relationships: We build and maintain relationships of trust, respect, and integrity in our industry, with our clients, vendors, and among our staff,

Passion for Innovation: We are continuously exploring new ideas and sharing knowledge, skill-building, and constant learning in promoting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Integrity: We stand behind our work and our team by establishing best practices in conducting our work ethically, honestly, and by earning and sustaining the trust of our clients, vendors, the industry, and our staff.

Inclusion and Engagement: There are no stupid questions. Everyone has the right to contribute and be heard. We give voice to the broad range of creative human knowledge, recognize value, and encourage participation, inclusion, collaboration, community, respect, and camaraderie that feeds our culture where we all thrive.

Ownership: We embrace failure as an opportunity to learn, think differently, problem solve, and improve.

Fabdesigns' Mission:

With less than 14% of textiles recycled, and more than 15 million tons of used textile waste choking landfills in the US each year, our planet can no longer wait. For three decades, Fabdesigns has stemmed the tide of waste, innovating, scaling, and teaching many a better way to manufacture utilizing 3D knitting as additive manufacturing that is kinder to our environment and closes the recycling loop.

Fabdesigns empowers brands to revolutionize industries with extraordinarily light-weight, sustainable, and multifunctional products by utilizing our innovative techniques of modifying textile machinery and creating our own take on digital machine code to robotize computerized knitting into customized hyper-efficient additive manufacturing platforms. Developing and scaling 3D products with nearly zero waste, and using recycled materials to create products with an easy assembly that are most times cradle to cradle, we eliminate the warehousing of perishable rolls of fashion fabric, and instead precisely engineer strands of material and fabric variations solely where they are needed for creating load, comfort, strength, or performance mapped features with no cutting, minimal sewing, and nearly zero waste.

Fabdesigns' Vision:

The future of manufacturing is reducing material waste, closing the recycling loop, and accurately meeting consumer preferences by making just what is needed through digital control of materials, processes, and the manufacturing environment. Digitally building fabric at the same time as building the product by leveraging this technology and stocking only raw material strands that can be combined in an exponential number of product configurations creates an agile production environment where there is no need to produce an excess inventory of products.

Digital control of machinery in real-time maintains efficient, repeatable, and consistent production with no cutting, minimal sewing, and finishing, Optimizing machine program code minimizes excess materials and features only the essentials required to make the product or component with completely finished edges. Automating specific processes such as button-holes, channels, pockets, darts, padding, rigid areas, and other fabric variations, mitigates assembly damage factors caused by human error, fatigue, skill variances, and alleviates concern for repetitive motion injuries and cutting room accidents.

- Saves 20% to 80% of post-production waste

- Reduces assembly time of finished product

- Reduces the risk of production overruns and deadstock

- Hyper efficient production results in increased production capacity and reduced carbon footprint.

- Jobs are safer, less repetitive, and offer an advancement of skill sets with experience

Fabdesigns' Achievements:

Revolutionizing 3D knitted Footwear (more than 30 patents)
Next-Gen 3D Footwear (more than 5 patents)
Game-Changing Sporting Goods (More than 10 patents)
3D Medical Devices & Bracing (3 patents and several pending)
Advanced Aerospace Composites ( 3 patents)
Innovative 3D Automotive & Vehicle Structures (Patents pending)
Ligamental Supported Sportswear (Patents pending)
Reinvigorating the Knitting industry with a combination feeder ( Several Patents and patents pending)
Smart Textile Device for Embedding Multiple Wires and Conductive Materials (Patents pending)
And More

Bruce Huffa LCG

CEO, Principal and Co-Founder of Fabdesigns, Inc.

By now, we've all heard about 3D knitting, right? Well, this is the man who brought 3D technical knitting to the mainstream with the FIRST 3D knit running shoe in 2008, to win awards all over the globe for world-class design, engineering, sustainability, and using our Fabdesigns game-changing technology. Numerous patents bear his name in many industries. An alumnus from Hinckley Poly-Tech in the UK and a world-class certified Stoll flat knitting master engineer, trained in Reutlingen Germany, Bruce is one of the privileged few who claim the mentor-ship of the late Mr. Thomas Stoll, a brilliant man who saw the future of technical 3D knit textiles in 1978, and who built the infrastructure to create almost anything with knitting as additive manufacturing.

His forte is building complete manufacturing platforms for 2D and 3 D shaped structures with minimal or no sewing, which integrate multiple yarns and strategic functions. Ahead of his time, he wrote a digital automated software for customized on-demand knit manufacturing of 2D, 3D and shaped knit structures in 1989 which has been used and employed by such companies as Rand Designs, Jelyn-Old Glory, French Rags, most recently reported by Variant, now Variantbrand, and many others under confidential MNDAs,

He is internationally known for inventing the Flyknit shoe using his own foot dimensions, machinery, and materials, and is named on more than a hundred patents in footwear alone, though he contends vehemently that he nor Fabdesigns has ever assigned any patent, nor transferred any Fabdesigns' pre-existing technology. This rift is what caused Fabdesigns to cancel the relationship the footwear giant.

His focus is the most difficult complex, where the impossible is made possible including the several patents pending on the next generation of knitted footwear, complex composte structures with carbon fiber and ceramics, as well as new devices for feeding challenging materials into machinery.

Connie Huffa

Principal and Co-Founder of Fabdesigns, Inc.

Connie's textile engineering background spans, automotive, medical devices, designer apparel, and consumer products. She graduated with a BSc from Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, where she also wrote and taught product development in the Masters of textiles program for several years. Connie has designed and engineered knits, wovens, and nonwovens for top apparel brands including PhillipsVanHeusen and Tricots St Raphael in NYC, and their manufacturing facilities around the globe - as well as extreme aftermarket automotive brands for Shell Oil US in California. If you've seen the Hawaiin seat covers, interior products, and dolphin air fresheners over the last 20 years, she is the key person responsible for bringing fashion to a dying industry through material science and innovative product development infrastructure, reviving the Shell aftermarket division from a waning $100 million business unit into a $450 million powerhouse in less than 3 years and later Kraco Enterprises. She speaks marketing, design, risk analysis, operations, and EBITDA fluently. It is with this zeal and passion for materials that she pays knowledge forward, speaking at prominent conferences and creating the on-line Learn With Leaders program.

Knit background: At Somerset Knitting Mills in '80's Philadelphia, she learned and programmed Shima Seiki SEC machines, Universal, Jumberca and Mecmore as well as designed for many other types of knitting equipment for top brnads around the world.

She is an industry contributor to (Knitting Trade Journal, Knitting Industry, Textile World, Advanced Textiles Source, Specialty Fabrics Review, WTin, Textile innovations), and International Consultant and Conference Speaker on innovation and textile technology (IFAI, Techtextile, ANPIC, CITME, TTI Vanguard), and has developed customized in-house technical workshops for many fortune 100 brands around the world. She is also a mentor in the Make it In LA program in Los Angeles and has been written about in Forbes, Voyage LA, IFAI, and others.

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