Coats the world’s leading industrial thread company, has opened three Innovation Hubs in EMEA and Asia. The Innovation Hub-EMEA in Bursa, Turkey was opened recently. It followed the opening of the Innovation Hub-Asia inShenzhen, China on March 28. The Innovation Hub-America the first of the series is in North Carolina, US and opened in October 2018.

These dedicated centres at key locations around the world enable Coats to collaborate with a range of innovation partners including customers, brands, suppliers, universities and start-ups. They will develop pioneering new products and processes in Apparel and Footwear and hi-tech products for end uses in automotive, Oil & Gas, protective wear and telecommunications by providing creative and inspiring spaces where an innovative idea can be developed collaboratively and rapidly worked up into a prototype design which is then manufactured in a stand alone pilot factory.