California Apparel News

3A Products of America is a symbol of quality, serving you since 1975. Send your samples to us. We will help you save money. Custom orders to meet your needs: snaps, knitted elastic, zippers, webbing, buckles, and buttons with your logo. We offer threads, labels, accessories, interlining, display equipment, fabric and product sourcing, website design, printing, and promotional items. Fast services are our first priority. (213) 749-0103 www.us3a.com

AIMS 360 offers a fully integrated software solution for importers, distributors, and manufacturers of apparel, footwear, handbags, accessories, jewelry, home furnishings, and other fashion goods. AIMS 360’s product suite is comprehensive, feature-rich, user-friendly, easy to implement, and is compatible on a laptop, PC, Mac, or iPad®. Solutions are available for on-site applications or on the cloud. A Gold Level Microsoft ISV Partner and Gold Level QuickBooks developer, AIMS 360 provides the most professional, up-to-date program possible, including AIMS GL Integration˙/POS Integration with QuickBooks, AIMS EasyShop˙ online retail shopping cart, AIMS WebLink˙ online wholesale shopping cart, UPS/FedEx/USPS shipping integration, AIMS RemoteLink˙ order taking on the go for iPad and Windows, Business Analytics reporting for iPad and simple EDI integration.  AIMS 360 delivers all of this at affordable prices. Call (310) 243-6652, email info@aims360.com, or visit www.aims360.com 

Apparel Works (AWI) is a Chicago-area company specializing in Western Hemisphere–based private-label design, sourcing, and manufacturing. Key items include premium-denim jeans, shorts, jackets, skirts, industrial workwear and uniforms (pants, shirts, coveralls), embellished knit tops, T-shirts, and sleepwear. Production is currently being sewn in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. Gregg Pavalon, president of AWI, has 22 years of experience manufacturing apparel in the region. Prices are drastically lower than what it costs to produce domestically. AWI offers its customers several manufacturing options, including Full Package, Cmt, CM, or their signature service, called CMT Plus. (CMT Plus is when AWI picks up the customer’s fabric at a U.S. mill; sends it to the factory; supplies all trim, assembles, and washed product; and then delivers back to the customer’s U.S. warehouse.) (847) 778-9559, www.apparelworksllc.com or gregg@apparelworksllc.com

Asher Fabric Concepts makes sophisticated fabrics from luxurious fibers in California for the contemporary market. The company can accommodate both small- and big-lot orders and offers the most fashion-forward fabrics, PFGD solid colors, and prints made in the USA. Contact Asher Shalom at (323) 268-1218 or email asher@asherconcepts.com for more information. www.asherconcepts.com

California Label Products has been servicing the apparel industry for 20 years. With our full-service in-house Art Department, we can create your branding identity from design to delivery. Our product list consists of woven labels, printed labels, care labels, size tabs, custom hangtags, integrated hangtags, and novelty items, as well as buttons and snaps. We have price tickets, self-adhesive labels, thermal transfer labels, printers, and ribbons. Our service bureau for care labels, price tickets, and bar-coding can give you product in 48 to 72 hours. We are always concerned about quality, service, price, and creativity. And we are here to serve all your label needs! (310) 523-5800 or info@californialabel.com

Cinergy Textiles specializes in stock and order-based programs on over 500 fabrics, consisting of knits,  wovens, basics, novelties, and linings. We have been servicing our clients throughout the United States and around the world for over 15 years. We cater to domestic manufacturers and provide drop shipments for off-shore production. Our product line provides piece goods for all markets, including childrenswear, women’s, juniors, contemporary, misses, maternity, men’s sportswear, uniforms, and special-occasion items. The majority of our product line is imported from Asia and stocked in Los Angeles.  One roll stock minimum (approx 100-125 yds). Orders are generally processed on the same business day and ship out within one or two days, depending on the size of the order and availability of the particular style ordered. Call (213) 748-4400 or visit www.cinergytextiles.com.

Back in 1928, the Emsig family started a new business, Emsig Manufacturing. The initial market strategy, as it remains today, was to produce the highest-quality button products for their customers.  From the humble beginnings, complicated with the very difficult financial times of the early 1930s, Emsig emerged as a formidable button-manufacturing company over the ensuing years. Today, Emsig Manufacturing is managed by third- and fourth-generation family members, and through all the years of innovation and expansion, The Emsig Group has maintained its initial family friendliness, trust, and market integrity. Some of the company’s recent innovations include the Bio-Tech Melamine product, which restricts the growth of viral and bacterial organisms, as well as introducing the first 100 percent recycled button (Melamine) made from recycled factory materials. Our Melamine buttons are made in our USA factory. Call (800) 364-8003, Ext. 301, 308, 309, or 312, email sales@emsig.com, or visit www.emsig.com.

FDM4 specializes in the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions for apparel and footwear enterprises. Take advantage of FDM4 to streamline your operations and help improve the overall efficiency and profitability of your business. FDM4 is an integrated software solution, including Sourcing, Operations, Sales, E-commerce, Financials, WMS, CRM, and Mobile Solutions. As the software developer—not a reseller—FDM4 offers continual support throughout the entire implementation process and support cycle. Custom development ensures you get maximum value and return on your investment with software that changes and grows with you year after year. In business for over 30 years, FDM4 is a well-established company with the knowledge and expertise to provide a high level of customer satisfaction. Our industry-specific expertise ensures software and support is tailored to meet the demands of your industry and helps you improve the bottom line. (866) 676-3364 or salesinfo@fdm4.com

A company doesn’t become the world’s largest denim manufacturer by chance. This achievement is backed by an international vision that can adapt to different trends and markets, an ongoing strategy based on becoming brand partners and a source of inspiration for designers, and integrated production from yarn to finishing processes, with the flexibility needed to create made-to-measure products. And this is what iSKO™ does.  It’s the supreme denim specialist, with quality skills and expertise in super-stretch and more complex fabrics, right up to tailored solutions for special aesthetic requirements and technical performance. www.denimfriends.com

Keylin, Inc. is a company organized to design, manufacture, and market fasteners for the aviation, construction, garment, leather, medical, and oceanic industries. This Los Angeles–based company serves as a distribution center that provides immediate delivery of goods to customers.  Keylin offers a vast variety of hardware to the global market. The company specializes in custom-built, made-to-order product lines that satisfy the customers’ needs. Keylin is proud to become the Mid- and Western Regional Distributor of the world’s leading premium fashion zipper manufacturer, Riri Zippers of Switzerland. To date, Keylin has a stock collection of #4, #6, and #8 metal zippers available in 5-metal teeth colors and 7 tape colors. This provides a vast array of 105 different combinations of items to satisfy the customer’s creative demand. To enhance Keylin’s operation as Riri’s Regional Distribution Center, Keylin has an on-site Riri machine from Switzerland to allow on-site custom jobs enabling zipper customization that closely matches the original factory specification. Keylin may also accept orders for production from Riri’s Swiss plant that can be shipped anywhere in the world where customers may desire. The success of Keylin, Inc. as a leader in its line of trade is indicative of the effectiveness of the company’s philosophy and goal. (323) 232-6700 or www.KeylinInc.com

The Lenzing Group is a world leader in marketing and manufacturing man-made cellulose fibers. The portfolio of Lenzing Fibers includes TENCEL®, Lenzing Modal®, MicroModal®, ProModal®,  and  MicroTencel®. Supply-chain support through resource lists, technical support, and hangtag program. These ecologically responsible fibers with performance benefits are comfortable, sustainable, biodegradable, and derived from a renewable raw material, wood pulp. For more information, please visit www.lenzing.com/textile.

Philips-Boyne Corp. offers high-quality shirtings and fabric. The majority of the line consists of long staple Egyptian cotton that is woven and finished in Japan. Styles range from classic stripes, checks, and solids to novelties, Oxfords, dobbies, voiles, Swiss dots, seersuckers, ginghams, flannels, and more. Exclusive broadcloth qualities: Ultimo®, Corona®, and Superba®. Knowledgeable customer-service team, immediate shipping, and highest-quality textiles. Philips-Boyne serves everyone from at-home sewers and custom shirt-makers to couture designers and branded corporations. Call (631) 755-1230, visit www.philipsboyne.com or email sales@philipsboyne.com.

S & J USA, Inc. has been a major, authorized distributor of YKK zippers for over 25 years. We carry a vast array of zippers, and we have an in-house factory that allows us to complete orders quicker than our competitors. S & J USA, Inc. also specializes in snaps, tack buttons, eyelets, and elastics, among other trims. Our customers range from the U.S. to Asia, and we hope to expand even further in the future. We are known for great customer service and quality materials. (323) 231-0811 or snjusa@snjusa.com

The Woolmark Company is presenting The Wool Lab Autumn Winter 2013/14, a guide to the most interesting trends and wool products, created to inspire and inform fashion and textile professionals regarding the infinite potential of Merino wool. The Wool Lab has become an important tool for highlighting and inspiring the global apparel industry to source the best Merino wool fabrics and yarns in the world, identifying emerging trends in fashion and other fields from design to art, music, and pop culture. For the first time, the Fall/Winter highlights the urban market. The Wool Lab and its nine inspirational themes for Autumn Winter 2013/14 are interpreted by a selection of commercially available yarns and fabrics sourced from the best suppliers in the world. The “Urban” trend has generated the most amount of interest, presenting wool yarns and fabrics in a street, young, cosmopolitan way, whilst pushing the casual concept to a more refined and quality-oriented aesthetic. Please contact The Americas Woolmark office for more information or to arrange an appointment, or visit us at SpinExpo July 16–18 in New York. (347) 767-3160 or www.wool.com

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