EFS allows Mount Vernon to efficiently manage our inbound cotton, on hand inventory, and optimize laydowns for the spinning parameters that we must achieve. EFS replaced our legacy system which was increasingly expensive to maintain and for which we were losing critical support knowledge. EFS lets us rest well at night knowing that the Cotton Incorported team continues to maintain and develop the solution. EFS also has a lightweight hardware footprint and reasonable software costs.

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We have greatly benefited since we became EFS™ System licensees in 2013 and nowadays this is an essential tool in our operation. The EFS™ System has not only allowed us to guarantee consistent fiber quality to the opening lines of our different spinning mills, but it has helped us to spend considerably less time by automizing and optimizing the process of entering the bale quality data into the system, creating laydowns, storing and selecting bales for production as well as creating laydowns for each Blendomat to have a consistent quality from laydown to laydown.

I testify that the EFS™ team was challenged by Creditex with a complex and particular implementation with multiple opening lines, different cotton qualities and varieties and separate spinning mills. EFS™ System solved our solvency, flexibility and low-cost needs. No doubt, we are satisfied users that recognize the benefits that the EFS™ System permanently brings to our operation.

Thanh Cong has used EFS software for eight years. Previously, I managed the cotton mixing process using Excel. We mixed cottons by the ratio of lots together and it took a lot of time and effort. When fabric quality had issues, we could not access the data of the cotton blending plan to compare and analyze to find the cause.

Since using EFS, I feel the scientific way of measuring the mixture with specific data creates stable quality throughout the cotton mixing plan. We can know the CV% difference between cotton mixing laydowns. I can quickly and effectively retrieve data from the software.

I feel secure when applying this solution in using input materials at my factory.

Previously, warehouse staff only managed quantity and appearance. After using EFS, we trained warehouse staff to manage the quality of input materials and implement the cotton mixing plan according to the manager's direction.

Nuevo Mundo has been using the EFS system since 2016. We have found several significant benefits from using the system. It has enabled us to have better control over our cotton blends and spinning quality, resulting in a higher quality finished product. Additionally, during the global supply challenges in 2021-2023, the EFS system played a crucial role in our logistical operations by ensuring correct bale sorting for our multiple warehouse locations. It effectively managed excess inventory in multiple warehouses while ensuring the uninterrupted operation of the spinning mill.

EFS System software gives us a quick and comprehensive understanding of the quality and variances on cotton HVI properties in each shipment, facilitating our cost-effective positioning of cotton management strategy. The EFS system also provides information for warehouse zoning and stacking management by category. Through HVI data simulation, it ensures consistent mixing and quality stability throughout our entire mixing process.

EFS System software enabled us to have more confidence in signing annual bulk orders of 5,000 to 20,000 tons of yarn products for our important strategic customers. It ensured that the quality of our products and their price fluctuations are not caused by raw material issues. This lays a reliable foundation for our company to make consistent quality of all types of yarn on a long run.

Before using the EFS system, our mills used to take sampling on shipments, which was not good enough to know the quality of each shipment. The manual cotton mixing had limitations, leading to issues of unstable yarn quality. With the EFS system, each shipment of cotton can be categorized and stored by group of HVI properties, controlling important HVI properties like micronaire and length, ensuring quality stability and avoiding issues like barré in the end products

Regarding our issue of traceability on an each cotton bale basis, as requested by our downstream end-brand customers, such as the team of an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation who was visiting our mill (Renze Textile Co., Ltd. in Vietnam) in mid-March this year. This customer required our cotton origin tracing to each bale. With the guidance of EFS system supplier (Cotton Incorporated) and the EFS training, cotton traceability information is timely maintained in the EFS system. The EFS system generates traceability reports on laydowns, showing our cotton's origin of each bale, even at the gin code level.

Hankook CNT has successfully utilized the EFS system in its production process since March 2020, maintaining stability over the past four years. During this period, productivity has improved by approximately 7% compared to the previous years, and the quality has consistently been upheld, resulting in minimal quality claims.

Certainly, acquiring reliable data remains a crucial task. However, by accurately incorporating the obtained data, we have been able to achieve optimal combinations for our yarn production. This has played a significant role in enhancing the quality and reliability of our cotton yarn in the production process.

Based on the experiences gathered over the last four years, the effective utilization of the EFS system has made a substantial contribution to our company, providing us with better strategies and outcomes. This signifies that our production process is successfully advancing by actively incorporating modern and efficient technologies like EFS system. Mr. Heung Joo Lee Deputy Manager, Hankook Cement & Textile Co., Ltd.