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How to partner with a Clothing Manufacturer Company, Best way to approach a Clothing Manufacturer Factory

5/11/2022

For a Clothing importer or a Clothing retailer or Clothing brand that is looking to establish a long term relationship with overseas clothing manufacturers, There are basically 3 steps involved in this process of finding, establishing a long term relationship with clothing manufacturing company or a factory, those are:-

Process of finding the right overseas clothing manufacturer
Process on approaching the clothing manufacturer with your requirements
Process of Establishing a long term partnership with that clothing company

I have written a detailed article about the 1st process on How to find clothing manufacturers. You can read this article here. I have also written a detailed article on the 2nd process explaining best way to approach a clothing manufacturer using email and what initial questions to ask them. You can read this article here. I have also written article about the information that you need to communicate effectively to the clothing manufacturers. You can read this article here.

In this blog post, we will discuss on the methods of establishing a long term partnership with an overseas clothing manufacturer factory or a company. Once you find the right clothing manufacturer for your product and have placed initial orders with them, the next step is to establish a long term partnership with the clothing company.

First step to establishing a good partnership with the clothing manufacturer is to visit them in person. Usually our buyers, after placing their first orders, visit our offices and clothing factories to know more about each other. After a day's visit we go for dinner together.
You can also ask your clothing manufacturer to visit your office abroad, if he is travelling to your country. After an official meeting, you can take them out for a dinner and get to know each other better. To establish a long term partnership, it is good strategy to be a good friend with the clothing manufacturer. Some of my buyers take me to their homes and introduce me to their family - this create an long lasting friendship.

These are the few possible steps involved in creating a good partnership with a clothing manufacturer.

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Basic Clothing Manufacturer Vs Fashion Luxury Clothing Manufacturer - Who finds it more difficult to manufacture in Tirupur, India?

5/7/2022

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Both Basics clothing manufacturing process and luxury fashion apparel manufacturing process has its own difficulties and advantages. In this article, we will explore the practical difficulties and advantages faced by both basic clothing manufacturer and luxury clothing manufacturers especially in Tirupur, South India, Asia. Basics clothes can be defined as men's and women's underwear, pajamas, nightwear, sleepwear, mens and womens's plain t-shirt. Luxury fashion clothing can be defined as Embroidered, Embellished, Washed tees & dressess & hoodies for mens, women and children.

Advantages for a Basic Clothing Manufacturers:-

The greatest advantage for a basic clothing manufacturer is that they have very less process in the manufacturing process. Once the fabric is knit & dyed, then the fabric can be Cut and sewn in to a garment. Due to this they can complete the clothing production quickly and get paid quickly.
Once fits, colors and accessories are approved then this process need not be repeated for subsequent orders hence substantial saving of time and money.
Basics clothing factory can set up line production, which means that due to the repetitive nature of manufacturing, they can semi-automate the manufacturing process again saving substantial amount of time and money.

Disadvantages for a Basic Clothing Manufacturer:-

Pricing for all basic clothing will almost always be of tight profit margins, hence even if one mistake occurs in the manufacturing process, the factory will incur huge losses.
If your clothing buyer or importer chooses to change the manufacturing to other factories, it will be very difficult for the factory to find an alternate bulk clothing buyer, hence the clothing factory can become idle.

Advantages for Fashion Clothing Manufacturer:-

Usually Value added garments comes with higher profit margin, hence a clothing factory enjoys higher profit margin for luxury fashion apparel.
By manufacturing a luxury fashion value added clothing, that particular clothing factory becomes knowledgeable about various complicated manufacturing techniques, which might help that clothing company to covert more clothing importers and buyers.

Disadvantage for Luxury Clothing Manufacturer:-

Quantities per color per style for a luxury fashion clothing is usually low hence resulting in less profits for the clothing factory.
Certain value added process such as washing involves heavy wastage because of the nature of the process. If the clothing factories are not careful enough, they might incur heavy losses in the luxury fashion clothing manufacturing process.

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How to contact & email a clothing manufacturer in Tirupur India, What are the right questions to ask a apparel manufacturer?

4/30/2022

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How to Contact a Clothing Manufacturer in Tirupur, India:-

I have written a detailed article on How to find the best clothing manufacturers in tirupur in India, you can read my linkedin article here:- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-find-clothing-manufacturers-india-karthik-shan/ - This method to find the clothing manufacturers can be applied to finding clothing manufacturer in Europe and also clothing manufacturers in USA as well as the method is very common.

How & What to Email a Clothing manufacturer company:-

Once you find the right clothing manufacturer, you need to find out their email address either using their website or B2B websites so that you can send an introduction email with the following details and in a neat email format so that the email looks professional and the clothing manufacturer replies to your query quickly.

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Give a brief introduction to your company and about yourself.
Clearly communicate about your requirements (i.e) - Designs required, Measurement specs, Quantities per color.
If you have tech pack ready, attached the tech pack with the email.
Also give details about the accessories required, extra charges thats needs to be added and whether the accessories can be locally sourced.
Email about your approval procedures, deliveries and also be clear about payment terms.

What questions to ask a Clothing Apparel Manufacturer Company?

Ask them about their manufacturing capacity (i.e) how many pieces of garments they can manufacture per day from their clothing factory.
Ask them about their Social compliances (i.e) whether they have any third party social compliance audits like SA8000, Sedex or WRAP and whether these audits are upto date and valid for the current year.
Also check with them about their Minimum order quantities. Some clothing manufacturers will not accept low MOQ's hence if this does not match you can take a quick decision whether to proceed or not.
Give them a sample tech pack and ask them to cost and see if the pricing is workable.
Ask them to send some samples from their current production so that you can check their product quality and if it matches your expectation.

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Clothing & apparel factories, companies in India, South Asia, are there any benefits under Make in India Initiative?

4/26/2022

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Yes, Make in India program from the Government of India offers many such schemes for the clothing factories and apparel companies that makes clothes in India, south Asia and also for the Indian textile industry as a whole.

If you are Overseas Clothing Maker, Importer or a Retailer:-

Government of India under the Make in India initiative has opened up 100% FDI Investment in the clothing sector, which means that if you are clothing importer or retailer and if you want to own a direct factory in India to make production of clothing easy for your brand, then you can invest 100% in the clothing factories through the Automatic route, which means there is no bureaucratic approval process to set up the clothing factories in India, south Asia.

If you want to set up a Clothing factory in North East India:-

Since North East India is one the major part of India, which is underdeveloped in terms of economy, Government of India under the Make in India Initiative is providing subsidies under the North East Region Textile Promotion Scheme (NERTPS), and Geotechnical Textiles in North East Region (NER). Through these subsidies clothing factories and companies will be provided financial and technical assistance if they choose to setup clothing factories and companies in this region.

If you are a Youth and interested in Clothing Innovation:-

Under the Make in India initiative, government of India has set up Focus Incubation Center (FIB) through which the youth of India can get trained and help in innovating technical textiles. These youths, when employed by the clothing factories will help in raising the clothing exports of India.

If you are a Existing & Large Clothing company or a factory owner:-

Under the Make in India initiative, GOI has introduced Production-linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. Under this scheme, concerned clothing factory or a company becomes eligible for an Incentive by the government if they achieve a minimum turnover set up by the government.

These are the few of the benefits for a clothing and apparel factory in the textile industry of India, south Asia under Make in India Initiative.

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Clothing Manufacturers in India, Asia - Will we able to Mitigate Climate Change & Global Warming?

4/21/2022

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Clothing manufacturing process is one of the worst pollution making process in the world. Clothing manufacturing companies and factories emit up to 10% of human's carbon emissions through usage of coal based electricity, which emits carbon-dioxide to the environment directly resulting in Global warming & Climate change. Clothing manufacturers also gobble up millions of litres of fresh water, ground water resources and pollutes rivers and streams.

On this World Earth Day, as the clothing manufacturers in India, Asia, here are the pledges we can take to help mitigate Global warming & Climate Change and be a part of Sustainable and Eco-friendly clothing manufacturing process and help to build a better world for our future generations,

We can suggest our clothing buyers & consumers to move on to Cotton based clothing from Man-made fibre clothing. Man-made fibre clothing such as polyester, nylon and acrylic is one of biggest polluter as just washing these clothing, millions of micro plastics and are sent in to the ocean, which results in heating up of ocean thus directly causing Global Warming & Climate change.
We can also suggest our customers to opt for OEKO-tex certified Organic cotton based clothing. Organic cotton is grown from Soil without the usage of chemical fertilisers. Healthy soil can mitigate global warming and thus help in reducing the climate change.
If available, Opt for Renewable energy such as Wind energy & Solar Energy for your clothing manufacturing process.
Donate a part of your profits to plant more trees through non-profits near you location because Trees is one of the cheapest ways to tackle global warming as trees stores the excess carbon in the atmosphere and releases oxygen. For Example:- Eastman exports, one of the largest exporters of knitting clothing in tirupur, India, has pledged to support "Cauvery calling" initiative by donating Rs.5,00,000 per year for the next 12 years. This will help in planting 150,000 trees.
Be a part of the Save soil movement, which is requesting the governments of the world to create policies that helps in protecting and nurturing our soil. Soil degradation & desertification is a major issue in causing Global Warming & Climate change. Healthy soil can suck back the carbon emissions from the atmosphere thus mitigating the climate change effect.

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10% Cotton Import duty waiver - Will it help the cotton clothing manufacturers in India?

4/18/2022

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Cotton Yarn prices are soaring like never before mainly due to cotton availability - demand for cotton clothing is exceeding the supply of cotton yarn. Demand for cotton clothing has gone up because of Covid-19 pandemic forced people to stay home, due to this, clothing consumers needed comfortable clothing like t-shirts, pajamas, cotton sleepwear and loungewear. Moreover, global clothing consumers had extra income at their disposal because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, did not allow them to spend money on holidays - which was one of the main expenses for a family.

On one hand, demand for cotton clothing went up, on the other hand, cotton yield has come down especially in India for a variety of reasons. This has caused raise in cotton prices, ultimately resulting in garment price increase and a great disadvantage for cotton clothing apparel exporters of India because countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh has zero duty to their cotton imports and also enjoy duty free access to the European markets.

Now that Government of India has completely waived off 10% duty for cotton imports, this is an great advantage for cotton clothing apparel manufacturers in India especially in tirupur because the duty waiver has the possibility to curtail the monthly price increase resulting clothing buyers confirming more orders to the cotton clothing manufacturing factories in tirupur in India.

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What is a Clothing manufacturing company & Who is a Clothing manufacturer?

4/15/2022

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A Clothing manufacturer is an organisation, which is run by groups of skilled individuals, who come together to create an synergy in manufacturing bulk clothing combining human skills, machines and latest technologies. Clothing manufacturers can be classified according to the type of clothing they manufacture and also by the process that they are involved in the apparel manufacturing process.

Types of Fashion Clothing & Apparel, a clothing manufacturer can manufacture:-

Silk Sarees, Cotton Sarees and Churidhar
Knit tops, Woven tops, T-shirts & Sweatshirts using varieties of Printing & Washing techniques
Knit tops & Woven Tops, T-shirts in 100% Viscose, 50% Cotton / 50% Viscose, 95% Viscose / 5% Spandex.
Knit tops, Woven tops & Tee shirts in 95 / 5 Cotton Lycra and Viscose Lycra.
Knit tops, Woven tops and T-shirts using 100% linen, 100% modal, 50% Cotton / 50% modal fabrics.
Knit tops, Woven tops, T-shirts using 100% Bamboo, 50% Cotton / 50% Bamboo fabrics.
Knit tops, Woven tops, & Tee shirts in 100% Organic cotton with Organic certification.
Knit tops, Woven tops, Tee shirts & Sweatshirts in 50% Polyester / 45% Cotton / 5% Lycra.
Knit tops, Woven tops, T-shirts & Sweatshirts using special yarn such as neppy or marl yarn.
PK polo shirts with Yarn Dyed Auto Stripes.
Casual fashion clothing such as Jeans, Denim shorts.
Men’s, Ladies, Boys & Girls Sleepwear, pajamas and loungewear.
Streetwear T-shirts in Jersey, Interlock and Rib fabric in varied GSM's
Baby rompers, Baby bags & Baby bibs using jersey and interlock fabric.
Undergarments such as Brassiere, Panties and Boxershorts
Other Tradional dress such as Japanese or African.
Formal clothing such as Suits, Trousers and Shirts.
Sports clothing such as yoga wear and athleisure apparel.
Outwears such as hoodies and Jackets.
All kinds of Menswear, Womenswear, Childrenswear and Babywear.

A Clothing manufacturing company can also be defined by the varieties of process they do in the overall manufacturing of a garment. A clothing manufacturer can be a

Yarn mill - which only manufacturers the yarn required for clothing but does not involve in other part of the clothing manufacturing.
Knitting mill / Weaving mill, which only does the knitting or weaving process of the fabric. This is also an clothing manufacturing company.

Dyeing mill, which is purely involved in the dyeing process of apparel manufacturing process, is also a clothing manufacturing company.
Embroidery & Printing Companies, who are involved in printing and embroidery application to the garment, are also apparel manufacturing companies.

Stitching or CMT - Cut, Make & Time factories, which is the final process in the manufacturing the clothing, is also a clothing manufacturing factory, which completes the production of an apparel, packs it and ships it to the buyer.
Buying Agents or Apparel Sourcing companies or Buying office, is that part of clothing manufacturing company, which is involved in Marketing, Merchandising and Quality control of all the apparel manufacturing process.
All other companies such as washing mills, accessories manufacturers, which are directly or indirectly involved in the clothing manufacturing process is also an clothing manufacturing company.

A Clothing manufacturer is a person, who is either skilled or unskilled, contributes directly or indirectly to the overall clothing manufacturing process.

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How knitting manufacturers in tirupur in India, manufacture knitted clothing fabrics using automatic knitting machines?

4/12/2022

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Knitting is a very important process in the clothing manufacturing process of knitted apparel. During this process, cotton or viscose or polyester yarn gets converted in to different kinds of knitted fabric using these automated knitting machines. This article explains about the stages of knitting process using images.

Stage 1 involves arranging the yarn bags count wise in the Storage Area

Stage 2 involves inserting the yarn in to knitting machine feeder parts. It is from here the yarn will be feeded in to the central knitting machine.

Stage 3 involves ensuring the the threads are properly inserted in the main part of the knitting machine because even if one thread is cut off, the entire machine will come to a stand still.

Stage 4 involves inserting the lycra thread along with cotton yarn thread. Note that this step is required only if lycra is needed in the finished knitting fabric.

Stage 5 is again a checking stage where we have to ensure the threads are inserting in to the feeder properly.

Stage 6 involves programming the fabric knitting measure along with the type of knitting required to start the actual knitting process. Below is the video demonstrating the actual knitting process.

Stage 7 involves operating the cooler fan as shown in the video. This process ensures machines remains cool and also removes the dust formed by the yarn instantly.

Stage 9 involves folding the knitted fabric, keeping it ready for the next stages of clothing production.

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India Australia Economic Cooperation & Trade Agreement (IndAus ECTA)- Is it an Advantage for Australian Clothing Importers, buyers & Retailers?

4/6/2022

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11 years in the making - India Australia Economic Cooperation & Trade agreement took a decade to come to a successful conclusion, where in Australia enjoys a duty free access to 85% of its manufactured products to one of the largest consumer market in the world and in turn India enjoys a duty free access to 96% of its manufactured products including fashion clothing, apparel & textiles.

Before the agreement was signed, Indian clothing exported to Australia had a duty of 5%, which was a great disadvantage for Indian clothing manufacturers because Australia is in Free trade agreement with (a) China - ChAFTA, (b) Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam called Regional comprehensive Economic partnership - RCEP. Both these Free trade agreements meant that for Clothing retailers and importers of Australia, it would be a dis-advantage to buy fashion clothing from Indian Manufacturers. Because of this disadvantage, overall clothing exports from India to Australia was 2% of its total apparel exports.

Now that IndAus ECTA or India Australia Economic cooperation and Trade agreement has been signed by both the countries, this immediately removes the 5% duty for clothing retailers, clothing importers and clothing buyers of Australia, if they choose to import men's, women's or children's clothing from India. Not only that, India is definitely an advantage for the Australian clothing importers, retailers and buyers because,

Under the leadership of Prime minister Narendra Modi, India has a stable and law-abiding democratic government.
Young and skilled labour force.
Stable supply of cotton as India is the second largest producer of cotton in the world.
Good infrastructure to manufacture all kinds of fashion clothing especially cotton knits, jerseys, pullovers
Possibility to manufacture low minimum order quantities.

So YES, it is an ADVANTAGE for Australian clothing importers, retailers and fashion buyers, if they choose to buy clothing from India.

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Men's T-shirts Vs Women's Clothing Vs Children's apparel - Which is most difficult to manufacture in Tirupur - the Knit capital of India.

4/1/2022

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Difficulty in manufacturing of a fashion clothing can be gauged by the following criteria,

Stitching
Fabric
Embellishments
Accessories

Stitching:-

As the title suggest difficulty to manufacture clothing can be determined by whether it is made for men's or women's or children's. If you look from the angle of stitching, then Men's t-shirt with a basic print is the most easiest to manufacture in the knitwear industry of tirupur in India. Women's dresses would be the second easiest to manufacture and the most difficult to stitch in tirupur would be baby clothing because of the intricacies involved in attaching romper buttons, needle detection etc.,

Fabric:-

Fabric is the most important part of a clothing and Tirupur can make large varieties of fabric ranging from 100% cotton jersey, interlock, rib and also in combinations of cotton, viscose, lycra, modal, linen, bamboo and polyester. Out of these 100% cotton jersey is the most common and most easiest to manufacture. The most difficult fabric to manufacture is 95% Viscose and 5% Spandex because the softness of viscose combined with elasticity of spandex makes the fabric vulnerable to damage during the manufacturing process.

Embellishments:-

Embellishments, such as various printing techniques, embroidery techniques, applique techniques, washing techniques also determines the difficulty in manufacturing an apparel. Tirupur knitwear industry consists of non-vertical manufacturing companies (i.e) majority of the factories depend on external companies that does embellishment works, therefore more the embellishments, more garments needs to be carried in and out from the factories. This makes clothing with more embellishment work difficult than the apparel with less embellishment works.

Accessories:-

A clothing can contain multiple accessories like printed buttons and sometimes it can also have complicated packing requirements. Some of these accessories might not be available in India, and the factories will need them to import from China, asia. This also determines the difficulty in manufacturing the clothing in tirupur in India.

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How to partner with a Clothing Manufacturer Company, Best way to approach a Clothing Manufacturer Factory

Basic Clothing Manufacturer Vs Fashion Luxury Clothing Manufacturer - Who finds it more difficult to manufacture in Tirupur, India?

How to contact & email a clothing manufacturer in Tirupur India, What are the right questions to ask a apparel manufacturer?

Clothing & apparel factories, companies in India, South Asia, are there any benefits under Make in India Initiative?

Clothing Manufacturers in India, Asia - Will we able to Mitigate Climate Change & Global Warming?

10% Cotton Import duty waiver - Will it help the cotton clothing manufacturers in India?

What is a Clothing manufacturing company & Who is a Clothing manufacturer?

How knitting manufacturers in tirupur in India, manufacture knitted clothing fabrics using automatic knitting machines?

India Australia Economic Cooperation & Trade Agreement (IndAus ECTA)- Is it an Advantage for Australian Clothing Importers, buyers & Retailers?

Men's T-shirts Vs Women's Clothing Vs Children's apparel - Which is most difficult to manufacture in Tirupur - the Knit capital of India.

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