The partnership between ICOL Group, an international group of companies, and ELSE Corp, a virtual retail and cloud manufacturing company has been confirmed. ELSE Corp looks forward to becoming an AI R&D Lab for ICOL Group. This relationship between ICOL Group, a high-technology company based in Barcelona, and the Milanese start-up represents a fundamental step towards having an integrated and fully automated, robotic solution for the production of footwear and leather goods, factory logistics processes.

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From December 2019 ELSE Corp became the technological partner for ICOL Group in Italy, thanks to its innovative products and services such as 3D Virtual Sampling, and ELSE.ai, now the basis of ICOL’s “PLM & Digital Twins” project, and also especially for its research team and development, which has gained a good experience in the last 2 years with projects based on artificial intelligence for design, retail and manufacturing.

The link between the two partners took place through the brand and retailer Belwest, already a customer of both, ELSE Corp and ICOL Group, where there was a great deal of coherence between the vision of Dmitry Gontsov (founder and CEO of ICOL Group) and that of Andrey Golub ( ELSE Corp, now also the General Manager of ICOL Italia).