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How do you plan to encourage fabric and textile companies to invest in your project, since I believe they're the ones you need to work with?
We are excited by ongoing conversations and partnerships with ski, outerwear, high performance and city wear brands. Plenty of folks are adventuring into e-textiles, but lucky for our line of business, having created meaningful B2B solutions allows us to potentially supply Apple or Nike. Our technology will not drastically change the costs for the brands that adopt TILE. Naturally, tech has a value, but we are cognizant of brand core price points. We are very familiar with the unfortunate conditions found in many apparel factories. LOOMIA produces its LEL in OSHA approved facilities nearly completely domestically with one international partner in Germany. We take human rights seriously. That being said, the tag can be sewn in, since the circuitry is in the textile, and requires no special training besides the typical skill set a seamstress has. One of the many benefits of optimizing a technological solution for the industry that you are serving. In addition, LOOMIA is engaging with brands that are not chasing margin to the penny, as the race to the bottom has gutted the industry. The apparel industry as a whole has many internal and international initiatives and mandates to improve conditions in their facilities, many are taken active steps to do so now and in the future. We have great manufacturing partners- been at this with them from the beginning. TILE is universal platform, brand agnostic.
We are working with a fantastic insulation manufacturer to refine and further customize our insulations to ensure any garment with an LEL can survive the conditions they are exposed to. For TILE, as we move along the product refinement and development cycle with our brands and manufacturing partners- an important consideration to keep in mind is that TILE's LEL will have a different set of insulation requirements to ensure proper transfer of the data.
