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Manchester Met opens robotics lab to fashion businesses seeking local manufacturing

Manchester Met’s Manchester Fashion Institute (MFI) has opened its doors to its Robotics Living Lab (RoLL), a manufacturing lab where fashion businesses and researchers can access modernised and sustainable production methods. Here, it will be possible to utilise the site’s collaborative robotic technology, also known as ‘cobots’, which MFI said...

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GFW24: Liverpool John Moores University, LCDF Hanoi, Manchester Fashion Institute present graduates

Final-year students of the fashion design programmes at three UK institutions, John Moores University in Liverpool, the London College for Design and Fashion Vietnam (LCDF Hanoi) and the Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University, have presented their designs at Graduate Fashion Week London, which kicked off on Monday....

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Manchester Fashion Institute partners with Coats Digital

The Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) has announced that it has partnered with Coats Digital, the software company of industrial thread manufacturer Coats Group, to help students better understand the fashion value chain. Coats Digital joined forces with the educators of Manchester Metropolitan University...