First of three shoe innovation centres opens in Mexico
22/04/2016
The federal government provided around $300,000 in funding for the new facility, located in San Mateo Atenco, near Mexico City. Similar facilities will open in the important footwear-producing states of Jalisco, later this year, and Guanajuato next year.
This first innovation centre will serve the 1,400 footwear companies active in the region around San Mateo Atenco, employing a combined total of 10,000 people. The new equipment available to these companies includes a laser cutter, access to specialist footwear design software, a 3D scanner and printer and a high-tech camera to allow designers to take and share advanced images of their shoe concepts. National footwear industry body Canaical has said only two such cameras are in use in the whole of Mexico at the moment.
Canaical president, José Ignacio Irurita, said of the new facility: “Thanks to all this technology, manufacturers will be able to produce samples, prototypes, digital designs and so on in lesss than two days. In contrast, it takes a month to complete the same tasks using artisanal methods.”
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