FAM. Future Apparel Manufacturing. Tiruppur.
FAM, Future Apparel Manufacturing
Future Apparel Manufacturing  /  Tiruppur, India

Someone has to be in the room.

A buying house is usually a name on an email chain. We are the people who owned the factory, stood on the line and shipped the container. For twenty two years, in Tiruppur, we were the ones being audited. Now we do it for you.

Sourcing. Fabric. Production.
India. Vietnam. Indonesia. China.
For the US, Europe and Australia.
Follow the thread
Why we exist
India rebuilt itself. The buying never caught up. The factories here got better fabric, better dyeing, better people and better finishing, while the world kept buying through agents who have never stood in a dyehouse. So the good factories never meet the good brands. Both sides pay for it, in samples, in delays, in margin.
What we actually sell

Judgement. Which unit can hold a 160 GSM organic jersey through a 40 degree wash. Which one is honest about its effluent. Which one will quietly substitute your yarn in the second run. That knowledge cannot be emailed to you. It has to be earned on a floor, over twenty two years.

Who we do it for

Brands in the United States, Europe and Australia who want the new India and cannot see it from where they are standing. If you already have a factory you trust, you do not need us. If you are tired of explaining the same fabric three times, you do.

The line

From your brief
to the container.

Six stations. One thread. Scroll, and you walk the floor with us.

01

The brief

Product, price, volume, market, standards. On the first call we tell you whether it is buildable at your number, and if it is not, what has to change.

Answered in 24 hours
02

The fabric

Yarn, knit, shade, hand feel, shrinkage. We develop the cloth with the mill before a factory is even chosen, because the fabric decides the costing, not the other way round.

Lab dips in 10 days
03

The cost

An open sheet. Fabric, trim, CMT, freight and our fee, every line visible. If you cannot see how a price was built, you cannot argue with it.

Open costing, always
04

The sample

Proto, fit, size set, pre production. One calendar, one owner, no surprises in week nine.

Named person per style
05

The floor

Yarn booked, line loaded, inline inspection from cutting to packing. Photographs from the machine every week, not one final audit that finds the problem too late.

We are physically there
06

The container

Final AQL, packing, documents, dispatch. Everything your customs officer will ask for, before they ask.

Sealed and shipped
Origins

We place work
where it belongs.

Home floor

Tiruppur

Cotton knits, jersey, fleece, kidswear. Vertical units from yarn to pack and the deepest organic cotton chain in India. Twenty two years of relationships, and the shortest development loop anywhere we work.

From 300 pcs / colour
Technical

Vietnam

Performance wear, synthetics, outerwear. Precision on technical fabric, bonded and taped construction, plus duty advantage into the EU and Australia.

From 800 pcs / colour
Fluid

Indonesia

Viscose, rayon, resort and womenswear. Strong on drape, print and fluid fabric, with a mature certified viscose supply.

From 600 pcs / colour
Components

China

Trims, hardware, accessories and the complex fabric nobody else can hold to price at speed. Used with intent, never by default.

On request
Proof

Evidence,
not adjectives.

GOTSGRSOEKO-TEXBCISEDEXHigg FEM
Held at partner mill and unit level
01

Traceable to the bale

Organic and recycled programmes documented from the ginner forward, with transaction certificates that survive an audit rather than a website.

02

Water and chemistry

Zero liquid discharge dyeing, which in Tiruppur is not a marketing line but the legal condition of operating at all. Chemical inventories screened against your restricted substance list.

03

The people on the line

Audited wages, hours and housing, revisited rather than certified once and forgotten. If a unit will not open a door to us, it does not make your product.

04

Fewer, better samples

Most of the waste in this industry is created before an order is even placed. Getting the fabric right in the first round is the most sustainable thing a buying house can do.

Start

Send us the hardest one.

Not the easy repeat order. Send the style you cannot get made at your price, or the fabric claim you cannot get evidenced. That is the fastest way to see what we are.

[email protected]
Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, India
We reply within one working day

YOU ARE PRECIOUS

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

SISTERHOOD ENTERPRISE

WITH LOVE FROM MUM

SMELLS LIKE YOU

SPRAYING HAPPINESS

DESIGN IS IN PURPOSE

ISLAND OF GODS

SELF CARE

STREET WORKSHOP

YOU ARE PRECIOUS

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

SISTERHOOD ENTERPRISE

WITH LOVE FROM MUM

SMELLS LIKE YOU

SPRAYING HAPPINESS

DESIGN IS IN PURPOSE

ISLAND OF GODS

SELF CARE

STREET WORKSHOP