Indian-Origin B2B Sourcing Platform ‘SOWTEX’ Joins Hands with USA -based Fashion Tech provider ‘TUKATECH’

- Together Sowtex & Tukatech as active customer-base of 20000+ B2B Textile business users in Asia & globally, to Revolutionize the Global Fashion & Textile Industry

Delhi NCR, 9th July: Today, in an online media event, SOWTEX the fast growing B2B platform for global fashion and textile businesses, and TUKATECH, the leading fashion technology solution provider, announced their partnership to provide an integrated solution for buyers, designers, manufacturers and suppliers in Asia.

SOWTEX & TUKATECH, have over 20,000 global fashion & textile businesses, already using the digital platform. “Through this collaboration with TUKATECH, we aim to reduce the sampling turnaround time for designers and manufacturers from3 weeks to just 3 hours,” said Sonil Jain, Founder & CEO SOWTEX. He further added,“With a sophisticated cloud-based solution, the development cost for Apparel manufacturers will reduce from an average $5,000 to just $49 a month.”

Along with this partnership with TUKATECH, SOWTEX also announced the launch of SOWTEX Design Lab.  It’s a unique platform that will give ready access to buyers and manufacturers, to a large collection of high-resolution images of Fabrics and Trims; along with specifications, ready inventory and prices. “The SOWTEX’s Design Lab will have 30,000+ swatches from global Fabric mills and textile manufacturers; This combined with TUKATECH’s 3-D visualizer will bring much needed Speed for rapidly changing fashion industry,” said Mr. Jain. Early adopter of this technology will differentiate themselves in the current pandemic environment, by shifting from physical to online sampling, reducing shipments and getting the iterations done significantly faster.

“We are excited to partner with disruptive technologists & innovative solution provider SOWTEX for Asian region,” said Ram Sareen, the founder of Los Angeles-based TUKATECH, a company spanning six continents and 42 countries.

Mr. Sareen, a long-time fashion waste crusader, also pointed out that the SOWTEX-TUKATECH alliance will lessen the enormous amounts of wastage during the sampling process. “Since the industry’s average adoption rate is around 15%¹, large number of physical samples end up in the landfill,” Mr. Sareen added.

 About SOWTEX

Founded in New Delhi, SOWTEX is amongst Asia’s fastest-growing B2B marketplace with offices in India, Bangladesh and Dubai.  Awarded as ‘the Startup of the Year 2020’ Textile Platform by Silicon India, SOWTEX offers the Digital platform with cutting edge tools, making Fashion & Textile industry globally more efficient.  With solutions ranging from Product & client discovery to Industry specific training & knowledge sharing, SOWTEX has established itself as the end-to-end digital solution provider for the $1.4 Trillion global Fashion & Textile industry².  Despite being a young platform, SOWTEX has generated over US$70 Mn of business opportunity for its platform subscribers.  SOWTEX current user base spans across India, Bangladesh, China, Srilanka, Vietnam and Middle East.  

About TUKATECH

Founded in 1995 with the objective to have pattern makers create patterns digitally on the computer, TUKATECH is an influential fashion technology company known worldwide for innovative solutions and superior technical support. They are the industry's leading provider of fashion design software (2D CAD), virtual product development (3D virtual sampling and fit with real-time motion simulation), cloud collaboration, the most advanced marker making system, and cutting room machinery for garment manufacturing.

¹15% of Average Industry cost is spent on research & development.

²Global Apparel Fashion Industry is estimated to be US$ 1.4 Trillion and US$70 Billion for India (Statista.com).