(NNPA Newswire) – The craft of shoemaking was at one time difficult and manual work. But with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, cobblers and cordwainers cut, sewed, and tacked shoes with ...

New Balance is turning to new technology for its latest sneaker designs. The Boston-based shoemaker is using 3D-printed soles for two new models, it announced on Friday. The 3D-printed components ...

Shoe manufacturing used to be a pretty big deal in the United States. In 1932, International Shoe was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. By the early 1940s, nearly a quarter-million Americans ...

Shoemakers have been flirting with 3D printing for years. The biggest names in footwear and fashion — Adidas, Nike NKE, New Balance, Dior, Reebok, Fendi — have all launched 3D-printed limited-edition ...

Look down at your feet. Your shoes might seem an innocuous, but they contain lots of forms of plastic, and often leather, giving them their own sizeable carbon footprint. As all companies try to limit ...

Dozens of workers at a shoe factory in southern China’s Dongguan city glue, sew and buff foam slippers and canvas shoes. They punch every hole and lace every shoe by hand. “Every lacing is [done] ...

At 14, William Lee Collins liked the looks of the shoe business. His father was foreman in a shoe factory and St. Louis was a shoe town. So Willie Collins left school after the eighth grade and went ...

The Next Stride project seeks to expedite the industry’s transition toward scalable, circular solutions. Credit: Fashion For Good. The Next Stride: Bio-Based Materials for Footwear Soles project will ...