Products and Services: The NEW AIMS360 offers a more robust and fully integrated apparel ERP software solution for manufacturers, wholesalers, and importers of apparel, footwear, and accessories. AIMS360’s product suite is comprehensive, feature-rich, user-friendly, easy to implement, and is compatible on a laptop, PC, Mac, and iPad. Solutions are available for on-site and in the Cloud. The Cloud-based AIMS360 is now on the latest .NET and Microsoft SQL platforms and is hosted on Windows Azure servers. A Gold Level Microsoft ISV Partner and Gold Level QuickBooks developer, AIMS360’s inventory-management system provides the most professional and up-to-date applications 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 delivers all of this at affordable prices. For more information, please visit our website or call us today!
Products and Services: Asher Fabric Concepts stands alone as the innovative trend-driven domestic textile supplier to the contemporary apparel market. Producing high end, luxurious fabrics in the USA and offering a fully searchable online inventory with easy swatch ordering and sampling, they are a designer’s dream. With an extensive library and constant new line development in basic PFD, Novelties, Stripes, and Prints, they are always on trend. By supporting customized product development they facilitate the manufacturer’s ability to achieve a unique look and brand identity. Set up to produce large and small orders with equal consideration and care, they are your trusted partner in building and growing your business from the ground up.
Products and Services: Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. – Get more than just yarn. In addition to the industry’s best yarn, we provide unsurpassed technical support, transparency, and 20+ years of supply chain partnerships. Our US-based facilities allow for quicker delivery and agile responsiveness to market trends. Known throughout the industry for consistency, our products are certified safe by Oeko-Tex Standard 100, which include Supima Cotton, MicroModal® Edelweiss, Micro TENCEL®, Supima Outlast, and various blends.
Products and Services: California Label Products has been servicing the apparel industry for 20 years. The design team at our In-House Art Department can help you create a new look for your tags and labels or just get you pricing for your current items! We are constantly changing our designs, as we follow the fashion trends. Come to our showroom and see the latest tags and labels for every season. Our product list not only consists of woven labels, printed labels and custom hang tags, but we also have care labels, size tabs, integrated hangtags, and many other novelty items, including leather patches, heat transfers, buttons and snaps. Check our website for a full product list, or call or email us.
Products and Services: Warehouse-style 60,000-square-foot store with thousands of styles and millions of yards of fashion and decorator fabrics in stock including leather, silk, denim, technical, swim, stretch, prints, knits, linen, cotton, high-end couture, tapestry, chenille, and more. A wholesale and to-the-trade source with great prices and low minimums for garment manufacturers, fashion designers, decorative designers, event planners, set decorators, and students. Easy to shop with friendly attentive staff and located minutes outside of downtown LA. Just look for the big red door. Open Monday to Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. No appointment necessary.
Products: Designer and better contemporary knit fabrics from sheer to heavyweight.
What’s New: New items include novelty sweater knits for cut and sew using specialty yarns. Variety of knits made from cashmere, silk, wool, rayon, Modal blends, Supima/micro-Modal, Supima blends, Tencel, MicroTencel, proModal, linen blends, garment dyeable stripes, as well as yarn-dye solids and stripes. Specializing in 3 ends French terrys and fleece knits using a variety of yarn blends. Large selection of fabrics made with streaky and tri-blends yarns. Customized auto stripes single knits. Visit us at Texworld USA, July 16–18, Lenzing Pavilion, Booth #2414, Javits Center, New York.
Custom Work: Yes
Inventory: Knit to order
Minimum: Varies by fabric
Price Points: Moderate to high
Competitive Edge: We offer new and innovative fabrics every season. Custom developments also available.
Products and Services: Emsig Manufacturing Corporation was founded in 1928 in America. Ownership and management remain with the founding family. Now managed by a third and fourth generation who are proud of their international reputation and guided by their commitment to integrity, quality, and developments of new materials, ideas, and services. This continuing commitment keeps Emsig a world leader in the manufacturing of buttons for the apparel industry. We have buttons that are U.L approved, as well as OKEO-Tex approved. Besides its factory in the USA, Emsig also operates factories in China and India. All operated with the same ethical and moral standards of a company dedicated to the safety of the environment and the well-being of its employees. Some of our most recent innovations include buttons that are bio tech in that they resist the growth of viral and bacterial organisms. We have introduced the world’s first truly unbreakable shirt buttons. Our melamine buttons are all made in our USA factory. Our glow-in-the-dark buttons are unique. Many of our products are fire-proof and will not support combustion. As makers from the raw resins to the finished products, we are innovative and creative in our industry. We truly make a difference.
Products and Services: FDM4 is a multi-company, and multi-warehouse, multi-currency software solution that integrates your entire organization—including procurement, inventory, sales, accounting and customer service—while taking advantage of the benefits of apparel-based software. With increasing pressure to reduce time to market, you need the right product at the right time. With our forecast module you can anticipate demand at the style, color, and size level, utilizing color and size percentages. The FDM4 suite also offers purchasing, import management, intelligent allocations, CRM, order processing, E-commerce, SEO, mobile apps, freight calculation, integrated EDI, ASN’s, RF warehouse management, financials, customizable pre-packs, customer-specific packing rules, and dynamic line sheets. FDM4’s solutions are modular and can be acquired individually either through a licensed model or a SaaS (subscription model) in a hosted environment. 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.
Gerber Technology
24 Industrial Park Road West
Tolland, CT 06084
(800) 826-3243
(860) 871-8082 (outside USA)
www.gerbertechnology.com
Contact: Jill Powers
jill.powers@gerbertechnology.com
(760) 473-4593
Products and Services: Gerber Technology offers a complete suite of computer-aided design and manufacturing systems for the apparel and sewn-goods industries. These include the industry-leading AccuMark® pattern design, grading, and marker-making software, Vstitcher™ 3D pattern draping software, automated nesting, and textile spreading systems, as well as single- and multi-ply GERBERcutters. Gerber also offers YuniquePLM™ product lifecycle management software, which helps retailers, brand owners, and manufacturers manage all of the details associated with their products from concept to consumer and enables them to communicate and collaborate more effectively with their global partners. Gerber Technology supports 25,000 customers, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, in 130 countries around the world.
Products and Services: 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.
Products and Services: 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.
Products and Services: Progressive Label is dedicated to helping companies develop and showcase their brand identity. From logo labels and hangtags to care/content labels and price tickets, we will develop, produce, and distribute your trim items worldwide. We specialize in producing custom products that will meet your design and merchandising needs. Our mission is to deliver high-quality products at competitive prices, wherever they are needed for production. We understand the rush nature of this industry and strive to meet the tight deadlines facing our customers. Another important part of our business is FLASHTRAK, our online ordering system for price tickets. It’s a great tool for placing and tracking price ticket orders and will soon be expanded to include custom products and carelabels.
Products and Services: 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.
Products and Services: SHOL Textiles’ premium soft and stable interlinings can go through aggressive washes and still give you the look and feel on the inside to make you look good on the ouside. Services include full-service testing of fabrics with SHOL Textiles’ premium fusibles for any apparel needs. We offer excellent quality, service, and price! We will visit you or send samples or receive your fabric to make fuse tests to recommend the proper fusible for your fabric.
Services: SOURCING at MAGIC is North America’s largest, most comprehensive sourcing event, reflecting the fashion supply chain at its most complete. Offering unmatched access to over 40 countries representing the world’s most important markets, SOURCING at MAGIC showcases more than 1,000 apparel, accessories, and footwear resources, conveniently merchandised by country and category: apparel and footwear contract and original design manufacturers; fabric, trim and component suppliers; and service and technology providers. Upcoming show dates are Aug. 18–21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Products and Services: Under the stewardship of Kevin and Heather Maldonado, Studio Bert Forma strives for “French style, Italian creativity, Spanish craftsmanship, and German efficiency.” The Maldonados have scoured the fashion centers of the globe for the latest and best fabrics from the most reliable mills to service American manufacturers from Abercrombie to J Brand. They select mills that best cover the needs of the market—organizing, coding, and displaying their collections in their art-filled showroom. They receive pre-collections one to two months before Premiere Vision and Milano Unica to review with customers who start their sourcing early and to assist in inspiring the season. As it cruises steadily toward its 50th year in business, Studio Bert Forma, with showrooms in Los Angeles and New York, is happily profitable and expanding.
Products and Services: Union Knopf is the innovative global partner providing fashionable and economic solutions for buttons, buckles, snaps and accessories for jeans, suits and jackets, shirts, and knitwear for the leading designers and international manufacturers in all segments of men’s and women’s fashion from elegant to sporty. Our proven fashion expertise and the local integration of design, production, and customer support allow multiple customer-specific solutions with high aesthetic and qualitative claims. We work with our international partners to assist our customers and are on the spot with our own offices in Germany, Poland, Shanghai, Hong Kong, India, and Turkey to accompany and support them in their global activities.
Products and Services: Rayon, cotton, silk, Tencel, and polyester—prints / solids. Varun has been an industry leader for prints on its trademark Rayon/ Viscose and cotton fabrics since 1960. It is one of the few companies that also offers dye discharge method of printing. Varun’s library has over 7,000 individual designs using Rotary and Flatbed printing machines. Since then it has introduced quality silk, polyester, and Tencel blends under black label Vaaritex. Varun Textiles has been responsible for supporting the growth of several fashion labels that have grown exponentially and left their mark in the industry having it as their main, if not sole, suppliers for their customized line. Varun offers a variety of printed, dyed, and PFD fabrics using high-quality yarn, dyestuff, machinery, and finishing processes. It is a regular supplier to several majors, ranging to small boutiques across the country. The company offers sourcing solutions for a variety of fabrics with flexible options, low minimums, and a quick turnaround time.
