LYCRA Fiber Value in Use Case Studies

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VALUE IN USE
# 1
LYCRA ® FIBRE
TYPE166L
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THE CONTEXT
• Customer C is one of our CSY/Denim mill with 500,000
spindles and 200 weaving machines in north China
• Customer C wants to replace some of their current price
sensitive orders and also expand their product offering of
middle-high stretch/recovery without heavy capital
investment.
• We aligned with Customer C to develop fabric with Type
166L 44dtex and do the comparison with Type162L 44dtex
in their existing process
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VALUE DELIVERED
1. Excellent break performance contributed on high tenacity in
core spinning process
2. Fabric with Type166L 44/5dtex showed higher recovery
power than Type162L 44/3dtex
3. Improved chlorine resistance during denim bleaching
process.
4. Less slippage risk with good recovery power
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OUTCOME
• CSY with T166L 44/5dtex is a new offering of
Customer C for middle-high stretch denim
application
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VALUE IN USE
# 2
LYCRA® BLACK FIBRE

CONTEXT
• North American Yoga Brand, a key Canadian AO retailer, was
looking for nylon stretch CK fabric for yoga pants.
• The required fabric performances were cottony hand feel,
good moisture management, good pilling performance and no
grin-through/glittering effect.
• Grin-through effect was observed when knitted with
Type162B and glittering effect when knitted through with
Type162C in dark shades (black, dark coffee, dark green).
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FABRIC DEVELOPMENT
• T&MD/sales engaged Marketing team to introduce the
benefits of LYCRA® BLACK fiber in terms of grin-through
& glittering elimination to the Brand.
• T&MD suggested to used Type 275Z for black/dark color
and Type 162B for pale shade for excellent fabric
appearance.
• T&MD worked with texturizer to adjust air jet texturing
conditions to improve pilling performance and exclusively
for this program.
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VALUE DELIVERED
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Type 275Z fabric shows no grin-through effect on
the fabric vs Type 162B fabric.
T275Z fabric
at 60% stretch(yarn dye)
T162B fabric
at 60% stretch(yarn dye)
T162B fabric
at 60% stretch(piece dye)

OUTCOME
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• The Brand/CK mill conducted the scale-up trial of CK fabric
with 78dtex 275Z and 162B and came out with similar results.
All performance met acceptance norms
• The Brand/CK mill adopted 78dtex 275Z for yoga programs
and have also extended the development with 44/61/117dtex
275Z for other yoga/pant garments

VALUE IN USE
# 3
LYCRA® FIBER TYPE
902C

OUTCOME
• Brand A is the leading brand in Hosiery in China market. Brand A
is interested to use LYCRA® fiber for it’s differentiated product in
their product line, especially for our Hosiery innovation package.
• The SOFT COMFORT concept is a good idea accepted by
Brand A, they wanted to develop some sample in Hosiery, but the
price of LYCRA® Fibre vs. generic spandex made them hesitate
for initiating development.
• The comparison test of LYCRA® Fibre vs. generic spandex in
waistband was conducted at Brand A in order to understand the
cost gap in hosiery garment.
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VALUE DELIVERED
1. LYCRA® fibre performance is acceptable in hosiery waistband from
knitting, D&F and boarding.
2. The waistband with LYCRA® Fibre showed better soft comfort stretch
compared with generic spandex; Brand A liked its stretch properties.
3. Improved the slippage issue in waistband.
4. LYCRA® Fibre used in Hosiery improved hosiery garment fit
flexibility, which improved the consumer comfort in waistband and
panty part.
5. The cost gap of LYCRA® Fibre vs. generic spandex in hosiery
waistband is acceptable based on the value delivered above.
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OUTCOME
1. Soft comfort stretch of Type 902C in waistband was highly valued
by Brand A, they decided to use Type 902C for the hosiery
garment which is positioned as premium product.
2. Brand A converted from generic spandex156dtex to Type 902C
200dtex single covered yarn for their high end brand.
3. T902C in waistband and panty was designed in the 1st concept
garment of All-in-One Shaping hosiery. Brand A launched in 2014
AW in the market, and will continue to be adopted in their product
line in 2015 SS.
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VALUE IN USE
# 4
EASY SET LYCRA®
FIBRE

CONTEXT
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• Two top intimate wear brands in India were in the process of
developing cotton molded bras for Indian market.
• The Indian intimate apparel market is currently transitioning from
sewn to molded bra and there are not many quality fabrics to meet
the cotton fabric molding requirements; facing two major issues:
 Unable get the required mold depth even with 200 to 220
degree centigrade & highest possible dwelling time
 Fabric turns yellow when exposed to temperature more than
200 Deg C

FABRIC DEVELOPMENT
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• India domestic marketing & T&MD identified this issue as an
opportunity to demonstrate Type 562B value in use and provide
solution to the issues raised.
• Convinced both Brands to conduct fabric development using Type
562B 44dtex to demonstrate its value in use for molding
application.
• Fabric development was conducted in a CK mill in India and the
molding tests were conducted at the brands’ preferred facilities.

• Type 562B used fabric shows better and required molding depth
vs H350 with 20 degree centigrade lower molding temp or 50%
dwelling time reduction.
• Type 562B used fabric retains molding shape & depth after three
washes, H350 used fabric lost its mold shape & depth after three
washes.
• Type 562B used fabric’s shade retention was better after the
molding and did not show any yellowing whereas H350 used
fabric shows yellowing .
VALUE DELIVERED

562B 6% -
180Deg C 10Sec
Generic Spandex 6% -
180Deg C 30Sec
180Deg C 30Sec
562B 6% -
200Deg C 06Sec
200Deg C 06Sec
200 Deg C 18Sec

OUTCOME
1. Both intimate wear brands did the scale-up tests by
themselves at their preferred facilities including wash
test and found similar results.
2. Both intimate wear brands are adopting Type 562B for
their bra molding programs and they are considering
extension of this program to other heat sensitive fabric
ranges like modal/rayon etc.
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VALUE IN USE
# 5
DENIM PERFORMANCE

CONTEXT
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• Top Denim brand with strong focus on Innovation
• Committed to improving the everyday functionality of
their jeans
• INVISTA™ Team shared Research data and Consumer
insights on what is needed from a pair of jeans in the
21st Century – Performance Denim
• Brand showed strong interest for innovative INVISTA™
Fabric Technology Platforms for Performance Denims

OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES
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The fabric constructions were re-
engineered with help of Technical
Team to meet quality standards
INVISTA™ US Lab immediately
undertook wash trials and
provided Technical guidelines for
garment wet process to meet
quality standards
Technical support provided to
streamline Spinning and Core
Spinning with THERMOLITE® fiber
to achieve good yarn quality
To be more cost-effective and
have better control on yarns,
Arvind needed to work on
inhouse Spinning
INVISTA™ US Lab tested the
garments and they did not have
good wicking i.e. moisture
management
Fabrics developed within timeline
but some fabrics did not meet
TOUGH MAX™ LYCRA® fabric
quality standards
Fiber had to be air-shipped due to
tight timeline
The yarn spinner, RSWM, had to
make yarns within 2 weeks
Arvind had to make the fabrics in
less than a week
Sample garments had to be
prepared within a week at
Kenpark in Bangladesh
INVISTA Europe Marketing Team was continuously working with VF Europe, closing gaps and helping them to
develop Value proposition for consumers
INITIAL CHALLENGE - URGENCY DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES SOLUTION - SUPPORT PROVIDED

VALUE DELIVERED
1. Global Technical Organization - With Technical support all fabrics and
garments could meet performance standards.
2. Value Chain Service and Market knowledge- We worked across the Value Chain,
across Regions
3. Trend & Consumer Insights - Research data and consumer insights shared with
Wrangler helped them to understand that consumers now were looking for
Performance Denims
4. Breakthrough Innovations - COOLMAX® fabric, THERMOLITE® fabric & TOUGH
MAX™ LYCRA® fabric were the solution that the Brand was looking for “everyday
functionality”
5. Brand Value -Brand identified the garments with Hangtags
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