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Made in the USA
All soft goods start with technical drawings. These drawings provide the necessary information to your white label manufacturing team. Discover the importance of these documents and the steps to create them for precision soft good manufacturing solutions.
Emergency Medical Services Individual First Aid Kits serve to render aid to a person in need of emergency medical attention. Among the most common type of IFAKs are those that are combat medics and First Responders. In addition, these kits can also be found on airliners and cruise ships.
Explores the history of luggage and how contract sewing can help luggage innovators realize their ideal products.
Learn more about what knit and woven fabrics are, how they are made, what benefits each one offers, and what you should know if you want to learn how to manufacture soft goods.
All soft goods start with technical drawings. These drawings provide the necessary information to your white label manufacturing team. Discover the importance of these documents and the steps to create them for precision soft good manufacturing solutions.
To pay homage to the industry that is our passion and lifestyle, we developed blog posts to assist those on the verge of taking their products from small and medium scale production to industrial scale, addressing some of the pitfalls, hacks, and textile idiosyncrasies along the way.
The COVID-19 global pandemic caused a disruption in oversea supply chains, resulting in a shortage of Protective Personal Equipment. To answer the call, many soft-good manufacturing companies shifted efforts to make face masks with whatever materials were available, with some companies, such as CustomFab USA, investing in the industrialized machinery and resources to manufacture true medical-grade face masks here on American shores.
Sewing machine sales are on the rise, and while some of the increase is due to DIY projects gaining in popularity, the main cause is coming from an emerging overseas industrial sector that hopes to become more automated, pushing prices up higher in regions where they were once low.
The genesis of industrial contract sewing can be traced to those foundational people who were searching for ways to make sewing accessible to the masses and, by extension, build a more lucrative industry. While inventors such as Elias Howe and Isaac Merritt Singer may not be directly involved in the advent of the initial version of the sewing machine, both men played a major part in improving the sewing machine and shaping the landscape of industrial contract sewing.
The consumers in the report listed many compelling reasons for wanting to buy American-made wares…
Information such as figuring out how to design a prototype, to finding the right manufacturing partner, and knowing the necessary steps along the way are all essential to that dream’s success. To better understand the challenges, CustomFab USA speaks with Jake Van Vorhis, the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of the Airo Collective…
This year as we take a moment to celebrate the industry we at CustomFab USA hold so near and dear, we’ve developed a riveting series of articles and informative content around the people, production processes, trends, and technologies that make contract sewing, sew great!
Sewing machine sales are on the rise, and while some of the increase is due to DIY projects gaining in popularity, the main cause is coming from an emerging overseas industrial sector that hopes to become more automated, pushing prices up higher in regions where they were once low.
This January, CustomFab USA cheered along with the American textile industry, celebrating a significant United States trade victory that will create new domestic jobs and opportunities in the coming decade.
As one of America’s leading cut and sew manufacturers, we took note of a few significant trends that impacted our business and we expect will have a greater impact upon the industry as a whole in 2018 and the years to come.
...we’d like to share some of the surprising benefits that come with practicing gratitude, how to cultivate more of it, along with some examples of our own.
When our forces find themselves in a foreign land, something as simple as a tag that reads “Made in the USA” is a great reminder of the quality of life and freedom they are fighting for.
