How We Make It: We’re inventors, and we love learning how and where things are made. Manufacturing is such a critical part of great products, and are our means for translating design into real products. We wanted to share behind the scenes on how our product is made, and let you meet our incredibly innovative partners.
Facility
Blue Wave
Location
Fuzhou, China
What we make there
BlueWave produces our most technical cut-and-sew products. Specializing in performance fabrics and precision fit, this factory is committed to staying at the cutting edge of the industry. We currently work with them to produce Aero, Apollo, Hybrid, Momentum, Easier-than-Silk, Responsive and Composite, and Mercury.
Team
Elissa and Simon, family owners of Blue Wave, are dedicated to their workforce, which features a female-led leadership team and roughly 50/50 male/female split amongst employees. They provide a safe work environment, good wages, and development opportunities for women. By working at BlueWave, women are given opportunities that they may not have elsewhere.
Why we chose them
In the last year, BlueWave moved to a new factory and invested in new equipment, doubling production capacity and improving quality.
Their systems include:
• Robotic cutting that allows digital patterns to be directly cut to fabric.
• Large-scale laser cutting of technical components and laser perforations.
• Automated sewing with 2-axis sewing robots for intricate seam work.
• Ultrasonic bonding machines that create clean, stretchable stitch-free seams.
• Computerized production line that efficiently moves garments and enables better quality control through individual tracking of a garment.
