FRENCH EXPERTISE
INNOVATE TO DEVELOP OUR FRENCH INDUSTRIAL EXPERTISE
Our French industrial know-how is essential to develop and innovate around our circular economy projects.
It will enable us to contribute to the construction of a genuine circular industrial sector, through a centre of excellence, bringing together four major areas of expertise:
- MANUFACTURING
- SHARING EXPERTISE
- INNOVATION
- SERVICES
Our innovative actions
A SHOE MANUFACTURING PLANT
Since 1927, the Eram Group has always maintained its expertise in shoe manufacturing. It still has a workshop: La Manufacture, in Montjean-sur-Loire (49), which uses two distinct manufacturing processes: injection molding and welding. To develop our shoes, our workshop has its own design office with teams dedicated to eco-designing products.
La Manufacture makes its expertise available to the Eram Group brands, as well as to external brands such as 1083, le Coq Sportif, Jules & Jenn, Berthe Aux Grands Pieds, Veets… and is labeled ‘Bonus Réparation,’ an initiative by the eco-organization Refashion that supports the repair of clothing and shoes.
La Manufacture was labeled “Linving Heritage Company” in 2023. This label celebrates and distinguishes French companies that combine tradition, innovation and excellence in their businesses and products.
SHARING EXPERTISE:
In 2014, the Group opened its École de la Chaussure: every year, young recruits take up the torch and discover the complexity and diversity of artisan shoemaking. A person who joins our shoe school is accompanied throughout their apprenticeship and trained by experienced employees. Four new apprentices have joined our training programme in 2021.
A TEXTILE PLANT
In 2019, TBS transformed its prototyping workshop, located at its headquarters in Saint-Pierre-Montlimart in Maine-et-Loire, into a textile production unit. Today, TBS manufactures polo shirts, swim shorts, sailor shirts, t-shirts, sleeveless fleeces, boxer shorts, and more for its consumer brand and TBS Pro, as well as for Montlimart and other external clients with whom the TBS workshop aims to collaborate increasingly actively.
As part of its workshop development strategy, TBS plans to expand its production capacity by acquiring new machines and integrating new garment mechanics (cutting, stitching, finishing, and quality control) to meet the growing demand from its clients.
The TBS workshop in numbers:
- 7,900 items produced in 2024
- A true expertise ranging from design to fittings, including development, material research, pattern making, and prototyping
AN INNOVATION LAB
Our innovation lab aims to develop circular solutions and associated services to design, reuse and recycle low impact footwear. Our challenges:
- Measuring product performance: the Group has developed its own tools to measure and analyse the environmental impact of its products: environmental calculators
- Identifying and developing component and product innovations”: the Innovation Lab teams are constantly looking for new materials to experiment with in order to reduce environmental impact and improve the comfort and durability of products
- Develop technological solutions that can be industrialised to promote circular fashion: the Group is collaborating closely with CETIA (Europe’s leading innovation platform, dedicated to the automated sorting and disassembly of textile and footwear items) to support the environmental and technological shift of the textile and fashion industry.
A SERVICES HUB
Our industrial hub incorporates a range of trades and skills. We have developed a services hub that brings together different areas of expertise:
- A patented reconditioning process to give shoes a second life
- A team of experts in life cycle and carbon footprint assessment
- Transparent sourcing to ensure Euromed and India supply chain traceability (materials, components and shoes)
