ImagesMagUK_March_2022

www.images-magazine.com 18 images MARCH 2022 INDUSTRY NEWS 1992-2022 Images is such a fantastic industry magazine. It’s brilliantly written and superbly laid out, it’s fully engaging and hugely successful in bringing the clothing decorator’s industry to life! All the writers are experts in their field, making them knowledgeable and approachable and I love how they reach out and are genuinely interested in what we have to say. I look forward to it arriving and having a good look at what everyone else is up to, as well as looking for us being mentioned! We really appreciate its existence as it just helps to cement us as a serious player in what we do. – Jemma Brown, OHM Clothing Stay in the picture with our Instagram feed: @imagesmaguk A good-looking embroidered bag is always a winner, which is why we were so delighted to spot this Quadra Jumbo Sports Holdall (QD80) decorated with attention-grabbing yellow thread by Upload Printing for Soul Kickboxing. The Hampshire-based garment decorator, which has a retail shop on Romsey high street as well as a warehouse facility nearby and celebrates its first anniversary this month, created the order for a regular customer who has a kickboxing business, explains director Rachel Jones. “Their logo is bold and therefore always works really well for embroidery! We did an initial order of eight bags and we ran them all together on our eight- head embroidery machine, which took approximately 45 minutes.” The logo was stitched on a SWF machine using Madeira threads and Madeira backing. It was digitised in such a way as to produce the raised effect at the sides, with an infill for the centre of the text. “Our customer was delighted with the embroidery and also the quality of the bags,” reports Rachel. The company also offers direct- to-garment, transfer, screen and sublimation printing for its customers, who range from corporate and workwear clients to individuals looking for just one T-shirt. In addition, it produces merchandise for social media influencers and YouTubers via Upload Merchandise, another business also owned by Rachel and her husband and co-director, Stuart. www.uploadprinting.com imagesmag.uk/upload-soul DECORATED PRODUCT OF THE MONTH Soul Kickboxing was delighted with the embroidery and quality of the bags, reports Rachel of Upload Printing Gildan publishes new environmental and social pledges Gildan Activewear has pledged to cut carbon emissions and water use and shift to more sustainable materials as part of its new strategy on the environment and social responsibility. It has made a commitment to make “meaningful advancements” by 2030 in the areas of climate, energy and water, circularity, human capital management, long-term value creation, and transparency and disclosure. Its goals are set out in its Next Generation environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy across all its operations including the manufacture and supply of printable blank garments for decoration. The company seeks to tackle global environmental and social priorities aimed at improving the lives of people who make Gildan garments, at further protecting the environment, at empowering neighbouring communities, and at increasing the sustainability of products delivered to customers worldwide. imagesmag.uk/gildan-esg Product development at Gildan’s Innovation Centre in Honduras A Quadra Jumbo Sports Holdall being embroidered with Soul Kickboxing’s bold logo by Upload Printing on the company’s eight-head SWF embroidery machine