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When the time comes for your company to develop new last styles you have several choices. However,
most of those choices limit you to working with a model room that is connected to one or more
specific last factories. In addition to developing models myself using both Romans CAD™ and
traditional bench methods, I work with some of the most experienced and talented model makers in
the world. These master craftsmen come from Italy, Brazil, Mexico, and right here in the USA. While
some are still in their home countries, others are working full time in Asia so there's a good chance
they are very close to where you need the lasts produced.

I can transfer the digital data to one of the last factories I work with regularly or to a last factory of your
own choosing, even one who may be a competitor of mine in the last development business. Once
your last is created the decision is yours and yours alone as to who produces the production pairs.

When the time comes for your company to develop new last styles you have several choices. However,
most of those choices limit you to working with a model room that is connected to one or more
specific last factories. With Global Footwear Solutions your new last style will be developed quickly
and accurately and you will be free to have the last manufactured by any last factory in the world. I can
transfer the digital data to one of the last factories I work with regularly or to a last factory of your own
choosing, even one who may be a competitor of mine in the last development business. Once your
last is created the decision is yours and yours alone as to who produces the production pairs.

By allowing me to help you develop your new last styles your company can take advantage of the
following:

REDUCED COSTS: Reduced annual last development costs.
EXPERIENCE: My 33+ years fit expertise in the American market plus the decades of experience
the  model makers I work with have.
GLOBAL SOURCING: My network of last manufacturing partners throughout Europe, Asia,
Mexico, and Brazil.
QUALITY ASSURANCE: Follow up consulting, templates, and bottom patterns are available .
HIGH TECH TOOLS: Using the most powerful 3D footwear application that exists, Romans
CAD™, your data will be accurate and consistent and can be used far beyond just last
development, but also for upper and sole engineering.
SAVE TIME: Last drafts (forms) flattened directly from the 3D last data can be sent to you even
before the last arrives so that the pattern engineering process is well on its way or completed
before the sample lasts arrive.
3D PROTOTYPES: Extremely realistic 3D prototypes of the shoes can be created on the last
data for Internet or catalog use.
SOLE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: Material allowance and "shrink" lasts data can be sent to any
mold shop in the world for use in developing the sole molds.

Why pay exorbitant prices for last development to subsidize an infrastructure you only use a part of?
Lasts and last development have been my passion and priority throughout my professional career. I
can have your lasts fitting better and costing less they do now. This is the
real "future" of last
development. Contact me and let me walk you through it.

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GLOBAL FOOTWEAR SOLUTIONS
"The LAST specialist that you will need."

2025 Zumbehl Road, #41
St. Charles, MO 63303 USA
(P) 636-896-0768
(F) 636-896-0777
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LAST DEVELOPMENT - NEW STYLES
Our recommended global
last production partners
are in the list below.
HORMA S.A - MEXICO -
NORTH AMERICA
JIANFA - CHINA - ASIA
FORMIFICIO MILANESE
TEAM - ITALY - EUROPE
GRUPO FARIA e IRMÃO -
PORTUGAL - EUROPE
FORMAS KUNZ - BRAZIL -
SOUTH AMERICA
Click above to read an article I
wrote about digital last making
which appeared in the Sep/Oct
issue of World Footwear entitled:
"Making The Grade"
Click above to see a
video of a CNC last
lathe manufactured ad
sold  by TRL - Germany
Click above to see a
video of a last digitizer
manufactured and sold
by Palser - Italy