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Productivity

Dependable products and innovative solutions that increase your productivity and speed to market.

Reduce repairs, avoid thread breakages and gain productivity with our high quality sewing threads and zips for denim pieces.
  • Superior sewing performance and increased productivity on your denim sewing lines
  • Reduced thread damage and thread breakages during industrial wash processes

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Improve productivity at every stage of the denim process

Design

Close collaboration and innovative solutions to support a range of design requirements.

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Supply Chain

Coats EcoVerde has a significantly lower carbon footprint than virgin fibres, delivering a versatile fit for purpose, premium sewing threads with no compromise on quality or performance.

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Manufacturing

Innovative products and solutions for superior sewing performance and increased productivity on denim sewing lines

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Washing

Solutions, tools and technical support to reduce thread damage and thread breakages during industrial wash processes

Hidden cost of thread

Although thread is not an expensive component, it has a significant impact on output and sewing productivity. The wrong choice of thread hampers production and can result in problems such as thread breakage, sewing stoppages, slower machine speeds, and higher repair rates after denim wash programmes.
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The hidden cost of choosing the wrong thread

  • Thread breakage
  • Skipped stitches
  • Sewing stoppages
  • Needle breakage
  • Slower machine speeds
  • Higher repair rates
  • Poorer quality garments
When a thread breaks, rethreading takes 7 seconds in a lockstitch machine, and up to 2 minutes in an overlock or cover seam machine. These interruptions in the production line could cost you 30 to 45 minutes of productive time each day.
When choosing the right thread for denim production, qualities including their impact on machine performance, seam strength and durability are crucial. Corespun threads, like Coats Epic and Dual Duty, have been developed for modern day factories. Due to their construction and specially formulated lubrication, these high tenacity and versatile threads are ideal for denim production. They deliver excellent sewing performance in the most demanding applications such as automatic pocket setting, and provide outstanding abrasion resistance.

Key considerations when selecting sewing threads for denim production

  • Impact on machine speed and performance
  • Seam strength to keep the seam secure
  • Seam stretch to provide the elongation required
  • Durability and toughness to withstand the washdown processes
  • Qualities to create the desired appearance, including colour fastness or fade, and thickness for stich definition
Take advantage of the benefits that Coats sewing threads can bring to your denim production process – fewer repairs and higher optimum running speeds.

How much is denim washing costing you?

Are you washing your dollars down the drain? Using the wrong thread can result in post- washing repair rates as high as 40%. With Coats’ proven denim solutions you can banish costly after wash repairs and focus on creating high performance iconic denim pieces which will last a lifetime.

Denim washing processes are many and varied. Often the objective is to distress the
garment to achieve a desired appearance and to soften an otherwise harsh fabric.
However, denim washing can have a devastating effect on sewing threads and therefore
seams if care is not taken in their selection and application.

Coats’ range of sewing threads have been designed specifically to withstand the rigours of
denim washing and to create distinctive denim pieces through contrast colours and other
decorative applications.

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Common denim washing challenges

Include: 

  • Undesired colour changing after bleach washes
  • Seam weakening and broken stitches after pumice stone washing
  • Seam abrasion and poor seam appearance after enzyme washing

The benefits of using Coats’ sewing threads to withstand denim washing

Include:

  • Colour fastness
  • Unique faded effects and washdown characteristics
  • Protection against thread breakages and seam abrasion
  • Excellent seam appearance after washing
With our tried and tested denim solutions and expert technical advisory team, Coats can support you in selecting the optimal threads and denim wash process to meet your unique denim needs.

Use the Coats denim calculator to improve your denim productivity

Use the Coats denim calculator to calculate the savings you can incur by using Coats
corespun threads for denim sewing. Using data from productivity and wash studies and
your own data for reduced repair rates, the Coats denim calculator can save you a small
fortune. We’ll support you to make your denim washing process durable, reliable, fast and
cost effective.


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Tap into our expertise to solve your denim problems

Our unique tools and expert technical support can help you optimise your processes at every stage of the denim process, from design to sourcing, manufacturing and consumption.
We can work with you to address your denim problems, from reducing thread breakages in stretch denim fabrics to preventing the melting of polyester threads during the laser process. Our technical advisory experts are at hand wherever you are located in the world.
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Coats can work with you to address a whole range of denim problems

Include: 

  • looper thread breakages in chain stitching after washing
  • thread breakages after scraping
  • melting of polyester threads during the laser process

How it works

Our technical experts will review your operations to:
  • identify which styles and processes have issues
  • carry out thread audits on each of your sewing operations
  • provide thread recommendations to reduce your repair rates and offer advice at the needle point
  • monitor these corrective actions and establish their effectiveness
  • provide a financial summary of savings incurred

Epic

Epic

High quality, polyester corespun that is precisely engineered to create durable, attractive seams on a wide range of fabrics across many applications.

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Dual Duty

Dual Duty

Premium quality corespun thread which offers high strength and durablity and is ideal for the manufacture of denim and jeans.

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Nylbond

Nylbond

Bonded nylon thread provides superior abrasion resistance in the sewn product

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Sewing Post Dyed Garments

Sewing Post Dyed Garments

In the world of fast fashion when time to market is paramount, garment dyeing post make up is increasingly adopted by manufacturers.

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Denim Wash

Denim Wash

In this technical bulletin we will explain how denim apparel is wet processed and highlight the parameters associated which need to be controlled in denim manufacturing and subsequent wash processes.

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The Importance of Fly Bartack

The Importance of Fly Bartack

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Epic EcoVerde

Epic EcoVerde

Precisely engineered to create durable, attractive seams across a wide range of recycled fabrics and materials.

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When blue jeans turn green

When blue jeans turn green

The sustainable benefits of laser technology; impressive environmental and worker safety benefits as well as increasing production.

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Productivity Calculator

Productivity Calculator

The productivity calculator highlights the impact of poor quality thread on your sewing costs.

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Epic Rugged appearance after heavy bleach wash

Epic Rugged appearance after heavy bleach wash

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Wash-down effects <p> of Coats Dual Duty True Indigo vs Fake Indigo shades</p>

Wash-down effects of Coats Dual Duty True Indigo vs Fake Indigo shades

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Coats Epic Wash Performance

Coats Epic Wash Performance

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Wash Performance for Metal Zips

Wash Performance for Metal Zips

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Coats Permess Denim

Coats Permess Denim

Increases garments durability, preventing fraying of belt loops whilst keeping the shape of waistbands and small parts on jeans.

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