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Silla led me to the lab to see the system in action. In the laser room, in 10 or 11 seconds, the jeans were as faded and destroyed as my old shrink-to-fit 501s after three years of hard living.
西拉帶我去了實驗室，看看這個系統是如何運作的。在激光室里，在10或11秒內，牛仔褲被褪色、磨損，就像我的舊的經過三年不停穿著的收縮到合適尺寸的501牛仔褲一樣。
Next, a dryer-like tumbler uses ozone to fade jeans. Using stratospheric ozone, or "good ozone," in finishing is "like putting a garment in the sun for a month, except we can do it in 20 minutes," Silla explained, and with a fraction of the energy or water the old process required.
接下來，一個干式滾筒利用臭氧使牛仔褲褪色。新羅解釋說，使用平流層臭氧，或稱“良好臭氧”，在整理過程中，“就像把一件衣服在太陽下曬一個月，只不過我們可以在20分鐘內完成，” 只需消耗舊工藝所需能量或水的一小部分。
Finally, we visited the washroom, where the e-Flow machine washes jeans among microscopic bubbles. "Nanobubbles do the softening, tinting and stonewash without the stones, all at once," Silla said. There is no water treatment afterward and the water that is used can be recycled for 30 days. "We are not at zero water stage yet," he said. "But we are getting there."
最后，我們參觀了洗手間，那里的e-Flow洗衣機在微小的氣泡中清洗牛仔褲。“納米氣泡在沒有石頭的情況下進行軟化、著色和石磨，”新羅說。之后沒有水處理，使用的水可以循環30天。“我們還沒有達到零水位。”他說。“但我們正在接近目標。”
While in Ho Chi Minh City, I toured a Jeanologia-equipped washhouse to see the process on a commercial scale. Jeanologia, my host told me, had "totally transformed production."
在胡志明市的時候，我參觀了一個配備了牛仔褲的洗衣房，以便在商業規模上看到這一過程。我的主人告訴我，Jeanologia“徹底改變了生產”。
The factory processed about half of what the big Chinese factories churn out—all without the frenetic grabbing and flinging of garments, screeching sanders, sweltering heat or stress.
這家工廠加工了中國大型工廠大約一半的產品|——所有這些都沒有瘋狂地抓著和甩著衣服，沒有刺耳的摩擦聲，沒有酷熱或壓力。
When I asked about job loss, my guide conceded that "eventually everything will be robotic." But instead of waves of layoffs, this factory retrains workers to use "more sophisticated machinery, or to manage," he said. And back in Valencia, after a four-month course to teach workers how to run the laser distressing machines, newly minted "laser design experts" are dispatched throughout the world.
當我問及失業問題時，我的向導承認，“最終一切都會變得機械化。”但他說，這家工廠沒有進行大規模裁員，而是對工人進行再培訓，讓他們使用“更復雜的機器，或者進行管理”。回到巴倫西亞后，在為期四個月的課程中，工人們學習如何操作激光脫模機，新一代的“激光設計專家”被派往世界各地。
Even with all these pluses, Jeanologia has had a tough time breaking into the jeans finishing market. What would really change the game, would be to win over the majors: Gap, H&M, Zara, Uniqlo, PVH, VF Corp and Levi's.
盡管有這些優勢，Jeanologia還是很難打入牛仔褲精加工市場。真正改變比賽的，將是贏過牛仔褲巨頭；Gap, H&M, Zara，優衣庫，PVH, VF Corp和Levi's。
"If we transform the way these people produce," he said, "that would be immense."
“如果我們改變這些生產商的生產方式，”他說，“那將是巨大的。”
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