Stafford Textiles Limited - Garment Divsion

Stafford Textiles Limited head office is located in Toronto, Ontario, just minutes from downtown and from Pearson International Airport. The two divisions – Textile and Apparel – provide to world major brands a dynamic and integrated sourcing strategy and solutions for apparel manufacturing of technical waterproof/breathable apparel, performance sports wear, work wear products, fire retardant work wear, denim jeans, corporate apparel, and “green” products such as Ingeo.
 
The Toronto office is the gateway to overseas offices and factories. Product merchandisers, logistics, and accounting are located here to facilitate smooth product development and shipping the finished product to our customers. Colombo is the centre for overseas operations.

 

Some of our products include:

Technical Outerwear

  • Ski/snowboarding wear
  • Seam sealed garments (rainwear, sports, extreme)

Sports Outerwear

  • sports (golf, running, ski)
  • corporate apparel
  • licensed apparel

Casual Apparel

  • Kids clothing
  • Fashion apparel (shirts, pants, jackets-seasonal, shorts)
  • Swimwear

 

Company Profile

APPAREL DIVISION

HEAD OFFICE: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Sales, Merchandising, Traffic / Import, Accounting)

SHOW ROOMS: Toronto, Shanghai, Paris, Colombo

OVERSEAS OFFICES: Shanghai, Taiwan, Colombo, Paris, Dhaka

Colombo staff 84- management, production planning, merchandising, logistics, product development, QA

PRODUCTION UNITS: Colombo, Sri Lanka - Stafford Boyagone; Stafford Favorites
Dhaka Bangladesh- Stafford Shaas Garments

FACTORY AND PARTNER LOCATIONS: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Taiwan, Tanzania
PARTNERS: 20 units over 140 production lines

MAJOR CLIENTS: Nike; Nike ACG; Nike Golf; Cabela’s; Dicks, Gander Mountain, Sierra Designs; Sessions; Billabong; Oxbow; Ripcurl; Polaris; Sanmar; Stormtech; Authentic Fitness ( Warnaco ); Hammill

HUMAN RIGHTS: Full and legal compliance to all North American and European standards

DEVELOPMENT: In house CAD/CAM System Lectra Pattern and Design / PDM
In house sample rooms with over 30 workers

QUALITY: Follow AQL 1.0, 2.5 or 4.0.
In line QA for all production.

QUOTA: USA 340; 347/348/847; 648; 634; 635; 638/639; 334/335; 640; 341/641
Canada Cat 1/ 2 / 5/12
Europe Unlimited

QUOTA AND DUTY FREE TO USA- Tanzania ( Africa Growth Opportunity Act )

QUOTA AND DUTY FREE TO CANADA- Bangladesh, Cambodia ( Least Developed Countries- LDC )

FINANCING: Stafford Textiles Limited and its operating units and partners are fully financed to accept major programs from North American and European customers.
Bank Reference: HSBC

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Policies and Terms


DELIVERY:

Bulk order 120 days ex factory after complete development and acceptance of purchasers purchase order

PRODUCTION MINIMUMS:

2400 units per style, 600 per color way. Subject to Mill fabric minimums.

PROTOTYPES:

No charge. Prototypes are made with available fabric to purchaser’s specifications after purchaser has accepted quotation price. Lead times approximately 14 - 21 days.

SALES SAMPLES:

  • 90 days ex factory after development and costs approved by purchaser
  • Costs: 2 X FOB. Freight and courier on purchaser’s account
  • Fabric: Not billed for sales samples; any excess fabric required to cover dye lot minimums will be billed. Payment required prior to fabric delivery

PRE-PRODUCTION SAMPLES: Full size set in production fabric and trims

SHIPPING: Prices FOB, CIF port of entry, or LDP to port of entry.

TERMS:

Irrevocable letter of credit at sight with first purchase order. Subsequent orders L/C 60 days prior to ex factory date. All prices in US$.

 

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TEXTILE DIVISION

Stafford Textiles Limited is located in Toronto, and has been in business for over 70 years.

Stafford Textiles supplies performance, anti-microbial, odor neutralizing, and fashion woven, bonded, coated, laminated, and knitted apparel textiles to many international wearable brands. In addition Stafford Textiles produces and supplies industrial fabrics for hospital, recreational, marine, safety supply, hi-visibility, tarpaulins, signs, architectural, and general service applications. These fabrics are coated with rubber either PVC, acrylic, or polyurethane.

Many apparel customers source their fabrics for apparel production through Stafford Textiles. The Apparel Division inputs the fabrics at mill cost when providing quotes to customers. This eliminates the up charge from an agent or distributor and thereby provides cost savings. Customers, however, are always free to nominate suppliers of their choice in the production of an apparel item.

Stafford Textiles is a direct supplier of apparel textiles, and through the Apparel Division manufactures for our name brand customer’s full package apparel items. The Apparel Division can provide the right strategy for lead times and duty and quota needs of our customers. Quota and duty free options are available from Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Tanzania.
In addition to regular sewing, the Apparel Division is offering, “ no sew “ technology using proprietary technology to make board shorts, under wear and jackets.

 

FABRICS THAT CAN HAVE THE EFFECT
OF REDUCING CARBON FOOTPRINT


This means that such fabrics will require less energy to produce and, therefore, emit less greenhouse gases.

Solution-dyed nylon and polyester fabrics, as compared to piece-dyed fabrics, will achieve this goal.

Traditional fabric dyeing is perhaps the most polluting stage in the textile industry. Heavy oil is used in dyeing, which produces CO2 gases. Also, the dye process consumes a lot of water. For example, to piece-dye 1 ton of fabric, it requires 100 tons to 150 tons of water.

The discharge waste water in fabric dyeing is high in COD (chemical oxygen demand).

Solution-dyed fabrics eliminate most of the above because the color is added at the melt (extrusion) stage so the yarn itself emerges in its final color from the nozzle and never has to be dyed.

Solution-dyed fabrics, as compared to regular dyed fabrics, have the following reductions:

Solution-dyed fabrics, as compared to regular dyed fabrics, have the following reductions:

 

 

 

CO2

(Ton/104y)

 

 

Water

(KL/104y)

 

 

Chemical

(Kg/104y)

 

 

COD

(Kg.COD/104y)

 

 

Energy Use

(KWH/104y)

 

Regular fabric

5.769

280

600

154

8825

Solution-Dyed

2.143

30

221

49.95

3245

Reduction

3.626

(62.85%)

250

(89.29%)

379

(63.17%)

104.05

(67.56%)

-5580

(-63.23%)

 

 

 

 

Performance

 

Solution-dyed fabrics have superior performance as compared to traditional dyed, as per the following:

 

     NO.                    TEST ITEM:                                                                             TEST CONDUCTED         UNIT

 

        1                  Color Fastness to Washing                     Change in Shade                             4

STANDARD         (AATCC 61 2A 49C)                               Staining of Acetate                         4

NOTE:                                                                                  Staining of Cotton                            4

                            (45 min – Mechanical wash at 49ēC -     Staining of Nylon                             4

                             in 1.5 g/L WOB detergent +with 50        Staining of Polyester                       4

                             steel balls – 150 ml liquor volume)         Staining of Acrylic                           4

                                                                                            Staining of Wool                              4

 

        2                  Color Fastness to Water                         Change in Shade                             4

STANDARD         (AATCC 107, 18 HRS AT 37C)               Staining of Acetate                         4

NOTE:                                                                                  Staining of Cotton                            4

                                                                                            Staining of Nylon                             4

                                                                                            Staining of Polyester                       4

                                                                                            Staining of Acrylic                           4

                                                                                            Staining of Wool                              4

 

        3                  Color Fastness to Perspiration                Change in Shade                             4

STANDARD         (AATCC 15, 6 HRS AT 37C)                   Staining of Acetate                         4

NOTE:                                                                                  Staining of Cotton                            4

                                                                                            Staining of Nylon                             4

                                                                                            Staining of Polyester                       4

                                                                                            Staining of Acrylic                           4

                                                                                            Staining of Wool                              4

 

        4                  Color Fastness to Light                           50 hrs                                              4

STANDARD         (AATCC 16 -1998, Option E)                   100 hrs                                            4

NOTE:                                                                                  150 hrs                                            3/4

                            (Water cooled – Xenon Arc Lamp          200 hrs                                            3

                             Fading Test)                                           250 hrs                                            3

                                                                                            300 hrs                                            3

                                                                                            350 hrs                                            3

                                                                                            400 hrs                                            3

 

The ability of solution-dye to resist color change in sunlight is its most special feature.  Most piece-dyed fabrics will fail before 40 hrs.  Some solution-dye colors can actually reach 1,200 hrs before failure.

 

 

                                                                                                              

 

 

 

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