Just Style Excellence Awards 2025: CreateMe
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CreateMe, an apparel technology company reimagining how clothes are made, has won the Innovation and Product Launches awards in the 2025 Just Style Excellence Awards for advancing garment assembly in ways that reset expectations for performance, sustainability, and speed. The company’s Thermo(re)set thermoreversible adhesive, developed with the University of Warwick, and its MeRA (Modular Engineering Robotic Assembly) platform reflect a cohesive vision: assemble garments with precision at scale, then enable disassembly to support material separation and recyclability—without compromising comfort, fit, or unit economics. Together, these achievements signal a rethinking of how apparel is designed, produced, and managed across its lifecycle.
CreateMe won the Innovation award in the Adhesive Technology category for pioneering a thermoreversible bonding system with integrated automation that supports apparel designed for disassembly and recycling. The company won the Product Launches award in the Bonded Intimates category for debuting a commercial, fully bonded intimates line produced autonomously with precision, speed, and onshore scalability.
CreateMe’s thermoreversible adhesive program is notable for its materials science depth, deployment readiness, and direct link to circularity. Rather than treating bonding as a niche alternative to sewing, CreateMe positions adhesion as a core manufacturing method with its own performance envelope—stretch, softness, and durability—engineered from the chemistry up. Thermo(re)set behaves like a permanent bond in use but unlocks on command for end-of-life disassembly, enabling separation and recyclability pathways at scale.
This is an integrated body of work underpinned by robust intellectual property. The company’s portfolio includes 77 granted utility patents across 58 distinct inventions, with 95+ patents overall spanning adhesives, automation, inspection, and soft-material handling. Adhesion alone does not deliver a circular system; automation, sensing, and process control make industrial-scale disassembly and recovery plausible.
CreateMe’s approach combines thermoreversible adhesive chemistry (Thermo(re)set) with its Pixel microadhesive platform and AI-driven robotics to preserve the comfort and stretch consumers expect while enabling precise, repeatable joins. Traditional sewn construction introduces variability for automation and complicates disassembly; the bonded approach aims to deliver controlled joins suitable for automated assembly and end-of-life separation. In embracing adhesives as a foundational technology supported by automation and protected by patents, CreateMe is setting more rigorous standards for garment lifecycle management.
CreateMe’s launch of the first fully bonded intimates produced autonomously validates its platform with a commercial-grade product. Built on the MeRA system, the intimates line delivers high-throughput bonding with sub-millimeter accuracy and consistency that is difficult to achieve with manual sewing. In performance terms, the shift is substantial: up to 20 times faster than traditional sewing within a 1,200-square-foot cell, and twice the precision of manual sewing. The intimates module reaches up to 250 units per hour.
This launch reduces the production time and complexity typical of intimates by replacing sewing-intensive steps with robotic bonding. The result is shorter lead times and the ability to manufacture onshore with competitive unit economics. Because these garments are designed from the outset with adhesive disassembly in mind, the commercial release aligns production with recyclability objectives rather than treating sustainability as a separate initiative.
Importantly, this was not a lab trial. The company released commercial-grade garments supported by a comprehensive IP base and process validation: more than 95 patents across automation, adhesives, and inspection; over 1,000 process tests; and 200 prototypes. MeRA’s machine learning and computer vision toolkit for deformable materials, combined with specialized tooling, establishes a pathway from intimates (commercial ready) into adjacent categories already in development—T-shirts at 75% development with a reported 220 units per hour—without compromising quality or fit.
“CreateMe is honored to be recognized by the Just Style Excellence Awards for our achievements in both Innovation (Adhesive Technology) and Product Launches (Bonded Intimates). This award affirms our bold vision to redefine how all apparel is made — placing apparel manufacturing on par with the world’s most advanced automated industries. Born out of our mission, MeRA and Pixel fuse digital design, material science, and automation into a modular robotic assembly platform and precision microadhesive technology that bond fabrics without thread — making apparel production faster, cleaner, and infinitely more adaptable. Our launch of fully bonded intimates marks just the beginning. Over the next decade, we see Physical AI transforming how clothing is designed, produced, and experienced — replacing traditional sewing with smarter, more sustainable processes. CreateMe is rebuilding the future of apparel: faster, cleaner, and more adaptable than anything before it.”
Company Profile
CreateMe is a category-defining apparel technology company reimagining the way clothes are made. Leveraging cutting-edge robotics, digitally applied adhesives, and proprietary AI/ML software, CreateMe enables on-demand, sustainable production that reduces waste, enhances efficiency and recyclability, and sets a new standard for innovation in fashion. As application experts in digitally applied adhesives and material compatibility, CreateMe holds one of the industry’s largest IP portfolios in apparel automation with 95+ patents.
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