California Apparel News

American & EfirdLLC
24 American St. Mt. Holly,NC28120 
www.amefird.com
Contact: Mark Hatton, Global Marketing Director

Products and Services: 
(A&E)— one of the world’s leading manufacturers of sewing thread, embroidery thread and technical textiles for worldwide industrial markets—is proud to share their campaign (T.H.R.E.A.D.), Technology to Help Reduce Early Apparel Demise, a global initiative being launched throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas. With a tagline of “Help preserve the lives of innocent apparel around the world,” the focus is to bring to light the advantages of using premium sewing thread. With 122 years’ worth of experience under their belt, A&E’s premium thread helps make garments that look better and last longer. The campaign also highlights A&E’s commitment to environmental and social responsibility.

Antex Knitting Mills/div. of Matchmaster Dyeing & Finishing Inc.
3750 S. Broadway Place Los Angeles, CA 90007
(323) 232-2061 Fax: (323) 233-7751
annat@antexknitting.com
Contact: Bill or Anna Tenenblatt

Products and Services:
Antex Knitting Mills, a privately owned vertical knitting, dyeing, and printing company in Los Angeles, announces capability of providing full-package garments produced in California or Central America to meet your varied needs. Antex’s product line includes Antex Premier Performance—a line of high-performance, technical fabrics with moisture management, anti-microbial, stain resistant, or UV finishes; Pyrosafe by Antex™, a line of flame-resistant cotton knits; Green Line˙ by Antex™, offering a variety of organic fabrics; and Matchmaster Prints by Antex California, offering design and development of custom prints. Please contact sales@antexknitting.com

ApparelWorks International, LLC
707 Skokie Blvd., Suite 100
Northbrook, IL 60062
sales@apparelworksllc.com
(847) 778-9559
gregg@apparelworksllc.com

Products and Services:
Apparel Works (AWI) is a U.S. company specializing in Western Hemisphere–based private-label sourcing, manufacturing, and design. Key items include premium-denim, shorts, jackets, skirts, industrial workwear and uniforms (pants, shirts, coveralls), embellished knit tops, T-shirts, and sleepwear. Production is currently being sewn in Guatemala, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Gregg Pavalon, president of AWI, has 23 years of experience manufacturing apparel in the region. Average lead times are 6-8 weeks max. Prices are drastically lower than what it costs to produce domestically, and with Asian prices on increase, the region is experiencing a lot of new activity. Delivery averages three days by boat to ports in Miami, Los Angeles, or Houston. AWI offers its customers several manufacturing options, including Full Package, CMT, 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 finishes product as specified; and then delivers back to the customer’s U.S. warehouse. For more information, call (847) 778-9559, www.apparelworksllc.com, sales@apparelworksllc.com or visit us at Sourcing@Magic in the America’s area booth #66410.

Asher Fabric Concepts
2301 E. Seventh St., #F107 Los Angeles, CA90023 
(323) 268-1218 Fax: (323) 268-2737 
www.asherconcepts.com sales@asherconcepts.com

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.

BlueCherry
www.bluecherry.com
(212) 408-3833
bluecherry@cgsinc.com

Products and Services:
Built specifically to address the needs of the fashion, apparel, footwear, and sewn-goods industries, BlueCherry gives companies the power to manage the entire concept-to-consumer product lifecycle and delivers unparalleled features to streamline operations, gain visibility, reduce costs, increase productivity, and better integrate the entire supply chain on a global scale. BlueCherry delivers best-in-class Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Warehouse Management (WMS), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Merchandise Planning, and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, all designed to make you productive from day one and provide the scalability to deliver as your needs grow. Our Leadtec Shop Floor Control solution has set the standard for running lean, efficient sewn-products manufacturing operations. With robust production balancing, real-time cost management, and operator motivation functions, Leadtec has been shown to deliver a positive return on investment in record time, often in less than a year.

Buhler Quality Yarns Corp.
1881 Athens Highway
Jefferson, GA 30549
(706) 367-9834
www.buhleryarns.com
sales@buhleryarns.com
Contact: Werner Bieri

Products and Services:
Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. ensures the highest-quality products backed by environmental sensitivity and around-the-clock support throughout your supply chain. Our distinctive portfolio offers Supima, MicroTencel®, MicroModal®, Supima Outlast, and various blends, all certified by Oeko-Tex 100, which ensures they are safe for all applications. Additional yarns include Siro Spun and fashion slub yarns in Supima and Supima MicroModal; all offer comfort, durability, and strength. Bring your product to market backed by decades of experience, dependable industry relationships, and unsurpassed technical support.

Cinergy Textiles
1422 Griffith Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
(213) 748-4400
Fax: (213) 748-3400
www.cinergytextiles.com

Products and Services:
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.

Design Knit, Inc.
1636 Staunton Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
(213) 742-1234
Fax: (213) 748-7110
www.designknit.com
shalat@designknit.com
Contact: Shala Tabassi

Products: Designer and better contemporary knit fabrics from sheer to heavyweight.

What’s New: New items include lightweight sweater knits, novelty and basic fabrics with cashmere, silk, wool, rayon, Modal blends, organic cotton, organic Supima cotton, organic Supima/micro-Modal, Supima blends, tencel, microtencel, proModal, rayon hemp, recycled poly, linen blends, rayon bamboo/cotton, garment dyeable stripes, as well as yarn-dye solids and stripes.

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.

Emsig Manufacturing
253 W. 35 St.
New York, NY 10001
(800) 364-8003, Ext. 301, 308, 309, or 312
sales@emsig.com
www.emsig.com

Products and Services:
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. We are the manufacturers of the unbreakable shirt button, and we made urea horn buttons in our U.S.A. factory.

FDM4 America Inc.
11500 S. Eastern Ave.,
Suite 150 Henderson, NV 89052
(866) 676-3364
sales@fdm4.com
Contact: Mike Cutsey, President

Products and Services:
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.

Intertek
www.iTradegood.com
Contact: Renee Payton, Vice President, Business Development, New York, NY
Intertek Supplier Management
(212) 803-5313

Services:
Tradegood, the new online community, is a dynamic platform designed to not just introduce buyers to an enormous range of suppliers—some 20,000 in more than 100 countries—but also to make solid matches based on multiple points of compatibility. Suppliers are authenticated and verified by an army of more than 1,000 inspectors and auditors, who are on the ground inspecting more than 800 facilities a day, sometimes five or six times in a month. These extraordinary resources are made possible by Tradegood’s renowned parent company, Intertek. With 127 years of history and a worldwide network of laboratories, Intertek is a premier testing, inspection, and certification facility for a slew of products, ranging from textiles to toys, petroleum to chemicals. This experienced company saw the need for organizations across industries, including the apparel industry.

NGC Software
2234 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107
(800) 690-0642 Fax: (305) 828-6358
www.ngcsoftware.com info@ngcsoftware.com

Products and Services:
Excelled Sheepskin & Leather Coat Corporation has rolled out NGC’s Extended PLM software, which includes PLM and supply chain management/global sourcing. Excelled implemented NGC’s software throughout all the company’s brands, including Reilly Olmes and Rogue, a contemporary menswear brand worn by numerous actors, rock stars, and other celebrities. “The fact that NGC’s Extended PLM is Web-based was a big plus for us,” said Enrico Bozzetti, IT director for Excelled Sheepskin & Leather Coat Corporation. “We needed a solution that would allow us to communicate in real-time to factories in the middle of nowhere.” With NGC’s software, Excelled has streamlined its design/production processes and improved communication with its factories, resulting in faster speed to market and better supply-chain collaboration.

PAD System Technologies Inc.
110 E. Ninth St., Suite B-721 Los Angeles, CA 90079
(855) PAD-4USA Fax (450) 641-5276
Contact: Kristine Gloviak or Daniel Uribe
supportusa@padsystem.com
www.padsystem.com

Product Line: Intelligent Made-To-Measure Patternmaking, Grading, Auto-Grading, and Marker Making with top-preforming AUTOMARK Engine software at very cost-effective price.

What’s New: V.5.0 has new features to work with any other apparel CAD system, automatic walking, easier arrow grading, and more.

Services: Time-study audits of current processes in pattern rooms, pattern through-put studies (digitize, grade, style design, costing marker, production marker), import-export services.

Custom Orders: Yes

Inventory: Yes

Minimum: No

Price Points: $1,500–$10,000

Turnaround Time: 2 weeks

Competitive Edge: Global leaders in apparel production based on the methodology of the developers, who came from the apparel industry and made the process of putting artificial intelligence into the pattern-development process within a finely tuned software. In all time-study audits implemented by our customers, PAD System outperforms its competition.

Proexport Contact: Sylvia Reyes, Apparel and Textiles Sourcing Director (212) 922–9114 sreyes@proexport.com.co

Services: Proexport Colombia provides you with reliable information about the industry and facilitates your business transactions with Colombian sourcing companies.

We can help prepare information tailored to your needs, organize personalized agendas with potential suppliers in Colombia, and walk you through the entire process of connecting you with the country. We invite you to learn more about the Colombian textile and garment companies that showcase new trends. Learn more about trade opportunities featuring competitive advantages and benefit from the Free Trade Agreement: 0% duty on products imported from Colombia.

S & J USA Inc.
843 E. 31st St. Los Angeles, CA 90011
(323) 231-0811 Fax: (323) 231-3820
snjusa@snjusa.com

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.

Sekuworks
www.sekuworks.com
info@sekuworks.com
Contact: Robert Sherwood (513) 673-1576 Desiree Feese (714) 887-7710

Products and Services:
Sekuworks sits on the cutting edge of global brand protection and anti-counterfeit solutions. Sekuworks authentication, verification, and track and trace systems are produced under a Class 1 Security Certification from the North American Security Products Organization (NASPO), the first company to achieve this status. Sekuworks is making a big push into apparel now, offering the StratOmark™ multi-level anti-counterfeit protection system that combines nicely with state-of-the-art information-gathering systems technology.It all begins with the “quick response” or QR codes.Sekuworks has applied the QR code as an interface to identify individual products, giving every unit of every product its own unique, randomized code.Marked in this way, each product can be individually tracked, through shipping, distribution, and sales. Consumers can verify the product is authentic; manufacturers can control their inventories, check warranties, and institute recalls; and marketers can adapt sales and marketing information to the individual consumer.

Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP)
10850 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1250
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 474-6861
Contact: Head of Trade Division/ Commercial Counselor, Pakistan Consulate, Los Angeles
www.tdap.gov.pk, www.pakconsulatela.org, pakcomm@aol.com, and pakcom.loa@tdap.gov.pk

Product Line: Apparel, textile (all categories, i.e., towels, home furnishing, denim, fabric, sports uniforms, knits, T-shirts, etc.)

What’s New: Home textile products being displayed in MAGIC for the first time

Services: TDAP, through its Trade Division at the Pakistan Consulate, provides facilitative B2B services to both Pakistani exporters and American Importers Division

Competitive Edge: In the world trading market, our ranking is No. 1 in cotton, cotton yarn, and cotton woven fabric; No. 2 in cotton knitted shirts; and No. 3 in rice exports.