Clothing Manufacturers seek the perfect solution
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Brazil is moving toward a standardization of sizes of clothing is not new. Several manufacturers of socks, for example, already follow the new rules, and parts for babies and children and young people are the next on the list, followed by other segments. However, even though nothing has yet been set for the most part, companies have started to move to avoid being caught by surprise by the new standards.
In Imbituva in the region of Campos Gerais, the knitting, famous for pieces in knitting and other winter clothes, they should start in next weekend to understand how the standardization. Even with the new standard measures yet to be defined. The initiative was the Local Productive Arrangement (APL) of knitting, and has the support of the Brazilian Service of Support to Micro and Small Enterprises of Paraná (Sebrae / PR).
According to the coordinator of the knitting of APL Imbituva and owner of a company in the industry, Ariel Neiverth, the idea is to anticipate the new rules and at the same time, ensure competitiveness and expand markets. For now, the whole region's output is sold only in the states of the South, and part of Sao Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul The intention, going forward, there is also abroad.
"We're anxious to get ahead," says Neiverth. "From the winter collection 2010 in knitting for a buyer, you will find the same measures," says. Until then, the work will be intense in the 42 companies involved in the project. Back in September, they start planning the next collection, and the intention is that, in October, the plants are producing at full throttle, with the clothing in standard sizes.
For the consultant Sebrae / PR responsible for the design of standardization in Imbituva, Gilberto Keserle, the expansion of markets will be one of the greatest benefits. "If the companies placing products with standard modeling, will reach more markets, whether national or international," he says. The investment, he says, is not high. If Imbituva, will be around $ 3 per company. "The first collection, the amount already returns, estimates.
Training
According Keserle, work for the standardization involve, in addition to lectures, consulting on business and a lot of training, so that all the patterns can be redone. "We hope that, no later than the end of September, the knitting already in place," he predicts. He believes that, on average, it takes about 60 days from the beginning of the project for a company to begin producing parts in standard size.
The consultant Sebrae / PR ensures that there are problems in standardizing sizes just before the new standards arrive. "There are already guidelines of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) and the National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (Inmetro), there is a law and we are doing the project on that basis. If there are changes to the knitting will adapt easier than to start from scratch, "he says.
Wait
In Imbituva the idea was to provide standards in the region of Maringá entrepreneurs, aware that new rules are coming, have preferred to wait for definitions. The president of the Union of the Clothing Industry (Sindivest) of the city, Carlos Pechek, says companies are aware but have preferred to await a final position by the ABNT and Inmetro. "Although there is nothing concrete about it," he says.
The manager believes that the wait will be better, since the changes do not only depend on the mills. Suppliers will have to adapt the materials to prevent, for example, factors such as shrinkage of tissues take a number of bank default. "For now, this issue is a little scary for businesses. But in the end will be better for everyone, especially for the consumer," said Pechek.
Current rules are not enforceable
Currently, the main rule in effect for most of the garments is the NBR 13,377 (Human Body Measurements for apparel, reference standards), established in 1995 by the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT). The rule, however, to not be mandatory, it is then, despite efforts to the contrary of organizations like the Brazilian Association of Clothing (Abravest). A new action from government agencies and manufacturers began in 2007 with the approval of a pattern for socks. Still, the 15,525 rule is not followed by all manufacturers.
But the new rules, which should begin to come into force gradually in accordance with the segment, are coming after further discussion, through public consultations, especially, and even the use of advanced technologies, as a body-scanner, purchased by National Service of Industrial Learning (Senai) and the Technology Center of Chemical and Textile (Cetiqt) of Rio de Janeiro. The unit is doing a sort of x-ray measurements of the Brazilian and feeding a database that is being used by ABNT.
The flavor of the month, now is the children's and youth clothing. In July, the ABNT opened a public consultation to receive suggestions on the standardization of measurements of the clothing in children and babies. Any citizen, is designer, manufacturer, retailer or consumer, can provide feedback on the website of the agency (http://www.abntonline.com.br/ consultanacional / projetodet.aspx? ProjetoID = 3195), until 29 September. It has only one register (free) to access the system.
According to the consultant Senai de Maringá, Adilson Jenck, the issue of standardization is far more complex than originally thought. "It's not a problem just for us. Are also being discussed in Europe and the United States, for example," informs. "In the end, the company will still have to know what your audience is, and what are the measures that public," he recalls, citing examples such as
fashion "oversize".
To Jenck, standardization also involves other issues, such as international trade. With stricter rules, he believes that the Brazilian industry can promote a kind of filtering of imported, manufactured or templates based on different bodies of Brazil, and worse, that arrive in Brazil at prices much lower than domestic companies can produce. "Without standardization, a machine would not get in Brazil," he says.
Source: California Online
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