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The team has also developed a separate app<\/a> that remotely scans a customer\u2019s body to design a custom-fit pair of pants. You can use it today to order custom jeans, though they are cut and sewn in the traditional way\u2014Unspun hasn\u2019t yet bolted the software onto the machines. Right now, machine operators choose Vega\u2019s settings to create the product. Unspun is working on software that would translate a design into direct commands to Vega, so retailers or fashion brands could feed their virtual creations into the machine and then get a wearable prototype in minutes.<\/p>\n

Unspun\u2019s vision is to one day have hundreds of Vega machines across the US. A customer of one of Unspun\u2019s retail clients would get a body scan, choose the type of garment they want, and as soon as they click purchase, send the design to the nearest Vega machine, which would output their order the same day. A custom fit means fewer returns, and because many returns are sent to the landfill or incinerated<\/a>, that means waste and emissions are reduced even more.<\/p>\n

Walmart does have a successful<\/a> program to curb its suppliers\u2019 emissions that involves energy efficiency and renewable energy projects at factories. But when Walmart VP of sourcing Kyle Carlyle visited Unspun\u2019s micro-factory last year, he was struck first by the giant American flag hanging above the machines. In 2021 Walmart announced<\/a> that it was committing $350 billion (in addition to a 2013 $250 billion commitment) to support US suppliers. The move wasn\u2019t just good marketing\u2014in a 2019 survey, 85 percent of its customers said it was important that Walmart carry American-made products\u2014but also one that would help future-proof Walmart\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy team takes care of what Walmart calls surety of supply\u2014essentially, building in resilience to how we source,\u201d he says. He\u2019s talking about a supply chain that can absorb shocks from natural disasters, pandemics, political unrest, and the like, and still deliver goods quickly enough to keep up with trends.<\/p>\n

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