Myant Announces New US Division to Support Growth of Partnerships in the United States
TORONTO, ON – November 24, 2020 – Myant Inc., global pioneer and leader in textile computing, has announced the opening of a new business division in the United States to support the growth of its American partnerships. This new division, Myant USA (myant.ca), will leverage both local expertise in textile design, engineering and manufacturing as well as Myant’s interdisciplinary team of experts at its Toronto-based headquarters to better serve its US-based partners.
Textile Computing: Enabling Manufacturers of Textile Products to Radically Redefine their Value Proposition
Myant’s pioneering work in textile computing is enabling a reality where textiles across daily life become bidirectional interfaces to the human body. This enables a new type of connectedness between people and their bodies, their communities, and their environments. By knitting sensors and actuators into ordinary objects (e.g. your clothes, the seats in your car or home, and other textile surfaces in life), Myant is empowering companies across industries to radically redefine the value that their products can deliver. For example, an automotive company can now make a car seat with integrated pressure-sensing to measure fatigue, provide feedback to the driver to improve alertness at the wheel, and use actual behavioral data to justify better rates with their insurance company. An apparel manufacturer that makes base layers can now use biometric data like ECG to create a new way to optimize performance and monitor the well-being of first responders. This ability to connect to the human body creates a way for more traditional industries to create value and become key players in the digital ecosystem.
Myant USA: Strategically Situated to Better Serve Clients Across Key Industries
By choosing New York as home for Myant USA, the company is now strategically situated in a region that allows more seamless collaboration with partners in the Health, Fitness, Automotive, Defence, Home & Commercial Furnishings industries. The US facility will be staffed by experts complementing Myant’s world-class textile research & development team and allowing the company to expand its scope to include smart textiles for industrial, agricultural, and construction use cases. The opening of this new facility also supports the company’s efforts to bring more partners on to DTX (www.digitaltextileexchange.com), a cloud-based manufacturing platform that aims to democratize access to textile manufacturing capacity by dynamically connecting manufacturers with idle knitting machines to apparel brands. Partners leveraging DTX will be better able to access the advanced manufacturing necessary to innovate in textile computing and be better positioned to satisfy local production needs.
“Myant is the global leader in textile computing, and I feel that this is the right time for us to facilitate access to textile computing for current and future partners south of the border,” said Tony Chahine, founder and CEO of Myant. “In order for transformative change to occur, we believe that companies need to have easier access to innovation and to be better connected to their partners. The Myant USA facility aims to do just that.”
For more information, please contact:
Markus Kirwald
DTX Business Development @ Myant
markus.kirwald@myantusa.com
Ilaria Varoli
Executive Vice President @ Myant
ilaria.varoli@myantusa.com
About Myant Inc.
Myant has created the world’s first textile computing platform that continuously and ambiently connects people to their bodies, to each other, and to the world around them. Using connected textiles that can sense and react to the human body and a platform that enables machine learning driven health and performance outcomes, Myant is on a mission to transform human connectedness. With an extensive patent portfolio, key exclusive relationships within the textile computing industry, a multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, data scientists, fashion designers and knitting specialists, plus over 80,000 ft² of manufacturing capacity, Myant is changing the way people across society connect. Connect with us to find out how we can help you create innovative solutions powered by connected textiles and the Myant Platform.
Visit myant.ca to learn more.
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