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SHAPING THE FUTURE OF FOOTWEAR

Coats Footwear was formed in 2022 from the existing footwear thread business, Texon and Rhenoflex. Coats Footwear becomes the global market leader in supplying highly engineered structural components and performance threads to the footwear industry.

 

From carefully engineered structural components to lifestyle and luxury materials, threads and yarns, our technologies lead the way. Committed to innovation in design, performance, comfort, and sustainability, we strive to shape the future of footwear industry.

Coats Footwear Solutions

We are proud to enable the world’s leading footwear and lifestyle brands and manufacturers to create high-performance products.
Footwear

Coats Lifestyle brings the best of Coats, Texon and Rhenoflex, presenting an extensive range of product portfolios that elevate the structure and style of lifestyle products.

Lifestyle

Coats Lifestyle brings the best of Coats, Texon and Rhenoflex, presenting an extensive range of product portfolios that elevate the structure and style of lifestyle products.

How we Innovate

Applications

As the world’s largest provider of industrial sewing threads, we offer a comprehensive product offering for a wide range of industrial end uses.

Hero Solutions

For many years, our products have been pivotal to shaping the latest footwear and lifestyle designs – empowering world-leading brands to improve aesthetics, comfort, and performance, while enhancing quality, productivity, and sustainability. Now, our experts have assembled a cohesive Solutions proposition that reinforces the journey we are on with our footwear and lifestyle customers.

Running Solutions
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Running Solutions
Lifestyle Solutions
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Lifestyle Solutions

Select a topic below to see related 'Frequently Asked Questions'. If you don’t find the answers you're looking for, use our contact form to e-mail your information request to the appropriate Coats contact.

  1. Check your presser foot has enough pressure applied to the fabric to give positive feed.
  2. Check and clear your feed dogs of any lint that may have built up.
  3. Check and adjust the height of the feed dogs.
  4. Check your stitch length regulator as it may be set to zero stitch length.
  5. Check the thread tension as it may be loose and the thread may be clogging under the presser foot.
  6. Check your needle plate to ensure it is fixed securely.

Coats does not recommend adding any additional lubricant / silicone on thread. Thread colour may change, it can create large variation of frictions and cause oil staining. Atomised silicone may also become a health issue if breathed by operators / machinists.

The dye uptake depends on many parameters such as cotton type, quality, finish etc. and any difference in these parameters between the fabric and thread will result in shade difference.

To improve seam elongation it is possible to increase the stitch rating per cm or inch, increase the bite, reduce the needle / looper tensions on affected seams or change thread types used.