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Company Profile Creative Apparel’s key activities are garment processing and finishing. A constant investment in information technology and modern manufacturing equipment has helped triple turnover over three years to €8M in 2020. The owner’s vision is to revolutionise the sector through a continued focus on eco-friendly technology which will lower the company’s carbon footprint, reduce waste, increase productivity and capacity and create sustainable new jobs. The Project The aim of the project is to carry out research into new automated production processes that have never before been used in the textile industry. The company’s strategy is to use robotics and sensors to create leaner production that is fully digitalised and data driven so that efficiency and energy savings can be measured, to increase output while striving to reduce energy requirements, resulting in a lower carbon cost per product and improving profitability and productivity. This development will underpin Creative Apparel's clean environmental agenda and will be embedded into a new 'green' factory unit that they are relocating to in 2022. Ahmed Al-Irhayim Ahmed Al-Irhayim has an MEng in Mechatronics and Robotics Systems Engineering from the University of Liverpool. He has previously worked with Unilever, Meggitt Avionics and BAE Systems on projects in prosthesis, robotics and wireless charging. Now working with Creative Apparel and the University of Liverpool tackling sustainability and automation in textiles production. Academic Supervisors Dr Sebastiano Fichera Dr Paulo Paoletti Dr Shan Luo Creative Apparel Ltd