Newsletter 19 ENG

Erratum

Nimco Portugal will be closed during the following periods: th April, 14 to 17 - Easter period th April, 25 - Revolu�on day in Portugal st May 1 - Interna�onal Workers Day th June 10 - Na�onal Day of Portugal th June 15 - Corpus Chris�

Our new catalogue is amazing and we are so proud. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

In the first edi�on of our catalogue, we did find some mistakes, that we want to inform you about: Children: - Page 12 - Herbie J846: correct sole is A06 - Page 16/17 should be Children - Page 36 - Vincent: referencess Y1508/1 and Y692/1 have switched photos Adults: Page 55 - bo�om part the model is always Edith - Page 58 – New Boa closure with is Sharon not Erin.

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When we do print new catalogues, these mistakes will be corrected.

Students of Shoe Technology major from Fontys, Applied Sciences College, visit NM4Y every year for a field training trip. This year we welcomed 12 students from the 3rd and 4th year and their two teachers.

During this visit the group not only got to know all about our 113 years of experience in shoemaking but also the latest developments in our produc�on and industrial methods. NM4Y allies the tradi�onal know how with state of the art technology.

Currently going through a Lean Management Process, NM4Y believes technology must be the ally for making be�er, faster, more efficient shoes with a lot more value to the clients.

The Fontys visitors also got a taste of measuring semi-orthopedic shoes using a 3D scanner. This is connected to the Nimco APP. Fontys and all the visitors consider this trip to be very special because as now almost all companies are outsourcing their produc�on. This visit garantees the students an intensively contact with the industry, and in our case with a global company.

NM4Y would like to thank Fontys and look forward to welcoming a new group of students next year. Our invita�on has already been send to Fontys.

NM4Y COO, Olav Toornend and the class during the passage on the Modelling Department.

NM4Y is an official partner of:

> COMMUNICATION CENTRE

PT GERMANY

Anabela Carvalho: +351 256 810 472 E: anabela.carvalho@nm4y.com NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM & SCANDINAVIA

Miguel Tavares: +351 256 810 476 E: miguel.tavares@nm4y.com

NIMCO MADE4YOU NETHERLANDS

Olav Toornend: +31 6 534 13 252 E-mail: o.toornend@nm4y.com Frans Kruitwagen: +31 6 225 62 966 E-mail: f.kruitwagen@nm4y.com Stephan Kruitwagen: +31 6 233 31 941 E-mail: s.kruitwagen@nm4y.com

Copy and photography: Mariska Van Vondelen, Olav Toornend and Dionísia Pereira Design concept: Dionísia Pereira Art: Dionísia Pereira 500 copies: printed in Inaset recycled paper Copyright: are property or under licence of Nimco Made4You and are protected under copyright law.

We are overwhelmed and as much as we’d like to talk about NM4Y’s new collec�on we are speechless!

A�er an extended period of market research and product development, Nimco launched on March 1 its new collec�on. We are now able to provide Modular Concept Orthopaedics (MCO) in different styles and all the latest market and fashion trends. Besides what you are used to receive from us, beau�fully made shoes that fit perfectly, now you and your shoes can get even more personal. Our website provides visualiza�ons of millions of new color combina�ons. A private client can virtually make his own shoe combina�on, register in our website

and get a list of the closest retailers in just 3 steps: create, save and go to his store.

‘Personalize your shoe in 3 steps’ is the moto of NM4Y’s new website and also the unique selling proposi�on of our web strategy. The new website is just a part of our new web presence plan that includes the increase of brand awareness, web visitors and finally, we wish to direct the poten�al costumers to our sales retailers.

NM4Y is the most modern and by far the best orthopaedic solu�ons provider, and now the world will know it!

Contents New collec�on - 1 The MCO experience - 2 Interview Emiel Kistemaker - 3 Masterclass NM4Y - 4 A true story about shoes - 5 Children’s soles - 6 Adult´s soles - 7 Calendar, Fontys, Erratum - 8

> A true story about shoes

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NEW CHILDREN’S SOLES

> the MCO experience

The rectangle designs represent the different layers of elements. From the bo�om up, sole, midsole and welt, if applicable.

> Update on NM4Y’s new system

A

In the last half year NM4Y has been working with its MCO (Modular Concept Orthopaedics) concept.

The MCO concept is a new way of looking at custom made shoes, made on standard semi-orthopaedic last. It is an evolu�on from the Personal Pair with some new features.

The MCO concept divides the last (or foot) in zones which represent modules of the shoe. These modules can be changed as in the following manner:

PU + Leather welt

Type of Module

From sizes 16 to 34

From size 35 to 54 in children and adult sizes

1 - Hallux Valgus

Op�on between 5 and 8 mm

Op�on between 5 and 8 mm

2 - Hammertoes

Op�on between 5 and 8 mm

Op�on between 5 and 8 mm

3 - Extra dorsal space

Up to 5 mm

Up to 5 mm

4 - Extra volume on Cone

Up to 10 mm

Up to 10 mm

5 - Extra width on lateral

Up to 5 mm

Up to 5 mm

6 - Extra width on base V

Up to 5 mm

Up to 5 mm

Select loca�on. Axis on the middle of heel, devia�on of up to 20 mm

8 – Extra space for foot plantair

5 mm

Up to 5 mm

9 - Overall extra space

5 mm

5 mm

10 - Extra space medial side mid foot

Up to 10 mm

5 mm

11 - Extra width medial

Up to 10 mm

5 mm

5

4

C

11 1

> Plas�c shoes with altera�ons

Rubber + Rubber welt

The last alterations requested by the clients are made over a plastic shoe. This happens for two reasons:

10 6

7 Loca�on of the new modules

- to preserve the last against constant alterations - to keep stored the evidence of the alterations Starting April 18th we will send you the plastic shoe back with your shoes. This way you will be able to keep a complete archive of your patients.

B

B

B

B

PU + Micro + Leather welt

PU + Micro + Leather welt

Rubber + Micro + Micro welt

3 2

PU

B

PU + Micro welt

7 - Haglund module

B

Rubber + Micro + Micro welt

D

Rubber + Rubber welt

Rubber + Micro + Leather welt

Rubber

Rubber + Rubber welt

Erratum

ADULT SOLES - WOMAN

E

F

G

PU + Micro + Leather welt

Welt: Rubber + Rubber welt

Rubber + Leather heel + Rubber

Rubber + Micro + Rubber Welt

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Emiel Kistemaker

Rubber + Micro heel + Rubber

Rubber + Micro heel + Micro wedge

H

J

M Rubber + Micro + Micro welt

Rubber + Micro + Rubber welt

Rubber + Micro + Micro welt

K PU + Micro + Micro welt

P

L

Rubber + Micro + Leather welt

Rubber + Leather heel + Leather welt

Crepe + Cork

ADULT SOLES - MAN

N

E

Rubber w/ bumper + Micro

Rubber + Rubber welt

R Eva GIG: PU light + Leather welt

PU light

P

S PU light + Leather welt

Crepe + Cork

T Leather + Leather heel + Leather welt

Q Cross: Rubber + Leather heel + Leather welt

MasterClass the future of Shoemaking MCO

Join the unique Masterclass

Olav Toornend, COO of Nimco and cer�fied NVOS-Orthobanda teacher Emiel Kistemaker will organize a masterclass about Modular Concept Orthopaedisc at May 16th and May 30st at the headoffice of Nimco at Berg en Dal, the Netherlands. The teached knowledge will directly be prac�ced. The choices made during the first mee�ng will be judged by the students and clients during the second mee�ng when the actual shoes will be delivered. There is place for 15 students. Join this unique masterclass.

The Modular Concept Orthopaedics system has a lot of advantages. In contrast with semi-orthopedic shoes, the MCO provides much more choices in measures, leather, s�tching, soles, insoles, closures and embroideries and so on. “This is especially for the client a major advantage. The shoes have the appearance of confec�on shoes. And that is what the consumer wants,” Emiel Kistemaker, owner of Maatwerk in Opleiden, who wrote the masterclass with Olav Toornend, explains.

“The health insurances companies demand cheaper solu�ons for people with mobility problems. For the orthopedic shoemaker the MCO is much more cheaper, it increases the capacity of produc�on of the orthopedic shoemaker and the product is quality wise very good. Time profit and increasing margins are real benefits for the entrepreneur in our line of business in order to spend the �me he has le� to people who need real orthopedic shoes.”

The masterclass contains two a�ernoons from 16 un�l 20 hours, a meal and beverages are included. During the first a�ernoon it is all about adults. The students measure a pair of shoes and during the second mee�ng the shoes will be delivered and will be judged by the students and the clients.

Also the second mee�ng the teachers will teach about the children’s’ shoes using MCO. Also the applica�ons of MCO within our line of business and how to administrate the orders within the MCO are part of the masterclass.

> A true story about shoes > A true story about shoes

MasterClass the future of Shoemaking MCO Olav Toornend Emiel Kistemaker

May 16 and 30 Berg en Dal Limited access Subscribe now: info@nm4y.com

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Aram, a nine-year-old, Syrian refugee living in Germany wears Nimco shoes The shoe order was made by German orthopeadic store Lohmeier Orthopedics, from Bad Lippspringe, a small town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwest Germany.

Aram have lived in Germany with his parents and older brother since December 2014, a�er a long fleeing process.

In Hasska, the north Syrian town where they used to live, the daily rou�ne became too dangerous and the life risk a harsh reality. The family decided to flee, first on foot towards Turkey, then in the cargo space of a truck to Bulgaria. There they were captured by the police and placed in a refugee camp, where they waited five months for documents that allowed them to travel to Germany. Once in Germany, they were placed in temporary facili�es des�ned to refugees, then moved to southern Germany and later to the city of Detmold, where they live nowadays.

Aram was born on the 16th of March 2008 with Spina Bifida, a birth health condi�on that consists in an incomplete closing of the backbone and the membranes around the spinal cord. Without treatment, the condi�on can lead to paralysis and orthopedic abnormali�es, among other problems. Aram had a backbone surgery at the early age of only two months and again at 10 months due to a foot

malposi�on, and has worn orthopedic footwear since then.

The need for orthopedic footwear remains. But now Aram wears Nimco. The Lohmeier Orthopedics placed the urgent order early this year, making Nimco aware that the child had no proper shoes to wear in the peak of the German winter.

Two weeks later, Aram received a pair of black and red boots, with waterproof leather, special lining, exterior rubber protec�ons and a very special embroidery on the quarter: his name and a football, since the child is a big fan of this sport. A success, reports the orthopedist Stephan Lohmeier: “The broidery has pleased the child and also the parents, who happily stared at their son running around the house wearing his new shoes. It was a huge success that made me also very happy”.

Aram and his brother a�end school and already speak fluent German. The parents, a sports teacher and a housewife, learn the language steady and are currently looking for work. The family looks op�mis�cally into the future, whether in Germany or back in Syria, where they may return when the children are older.