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Our Services |
610-770-1090 | contact@comfortekapparel.com |
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At ComforTEK Apparel, we provide a wide range of value-added services. Our strong reputation reflects years of garment industry experience and a production process designed to produce knitwear that will offer fashion, fit, feel and function, consistently from one order to the next.
In addition, many of our customers rely on us for other post-production, value-added services such as embroidery, screen-printing, pressing, bagging, and tagging – whatever you need to make your garment retail ready.
A strong partnership with reputable suppliers allows ComforTEK Apparel to provide the following services: |
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Product Development |
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Fabric Manufacturing |
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Sewing Manufacturing |
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Dyeing |
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Piece Dyeing |
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Types of Dye |
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Embellishment (Screen Printing/Embroidery) |
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Tagless Labels (Pad Printing/Heat Transfer) |
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Custom Hang Tags |
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Retail Ready |
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Product Development |
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Some of ComforTEK Apparel's customers are department stores with a fully staffed in-house design team. Others are designers with leading-edge ideas, but no design staff to turn their concepts into production-ready garments. Most are somewhere in-between.
All need some level of design support, from prototypes to salesmen samples to production-ready garments.
Design support is the cornerstone of all customer relationships at ComforTEK Apparel. Our separately staffed group is independent from but closely linked to our production services group.
Your ComforTEK Apparel design support team can build prototypes from spec sheets or drawings, tech packs or existing patterns. They work from pictures or garments you provide, even from an idea that might exist only at your head.
Your team will include: |
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A Design Support Coordinator coordinates and facilitates all aspects of prototype and sample development. |
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A Gerber-trained Pattern Maker turns your concepts into production capable sample patterns that include shrink adjustments and grading. |
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A highly skilled Garment Engineer is responsible for garment construction engineered to meet your fashion and quality requirements, yet be production friendly. |
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A team of experienced sample Sewing Technicians, who bring your sample to life. |
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To continually improve the timing and quality of your samples, ComforTEK Apparel keeps pace with technology by investing in people and equipment. Our pattern makers continually receive advanced training to provide you with uncompromised service. |
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Dyeing |
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Dye types and processes are selected based on the fabric (or combination of fabrics) to be dyed, the garment type, and the desired color, consistency, texture, and feel of the finished garments. A lab dip approval is required for custom colors. |
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Piece Dyeing |
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process of dyeing fabric in roll form before cutting and sewing of garments |
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greige fabric is dyed, then the colored fabric is cut, sewn with matching thread into garments |
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recommended for customers wanting a “color blocked” look where the body is one color and the sleeves another color |
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minimums average between 600 to 800 units per color, depending on fabrication and garment style |
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Garment Dye |
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Reactive Dyes |
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most expensive dyes are absorbed “into” the fibers |
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are the best dyes to use for cotton and other knits |
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colors appear much brighter |
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most fade resistant after repeated washing |
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enhances colorfastness |
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may be used with both garment and piece dye processes |
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Direct |
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less expensive dyes |
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dyes adhere to the top of the fibers; “coat” them |
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work best with lighter and pastel colors |
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may be used with both garment and piece dye processes |
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Embellishment |
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ComforTEK Apparel offers a wide range of custom garment embellishments, including embroidery, screen prints, heat transfers and other custom applications. Minimums vary widely depending on the embellishment and the garment. |
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Retail Ready |
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ComforTEK Apparel garments are found in some of the most successful fashion-forward retailers and public safety departments in the USA. We provide a menu of services, depending on your needs and the expectations of your customers, so we can ship your garments ready for the shelf. |
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