Kidswear Manufacturer

There are three floors, and which one you land on is decided by how the garment is made rather than what it is called. Knit kidswear — tees, bodysuits, joggers, sweatshirts, hoodies, leggings — starts at 50 pieces per style, rising to 100 in peak season. Woven kidswear such as shirting and dresses starts at 300 pieces per style, because a woven run has to cover its own fabric and marker set. Sweater-knit pieces — cable knits, cardigans and fine-gauge pullovers — start at 500 pieces per style: they are knitted to shape on flat-bed machines with linking and hand finishing, not cut from jersey, and that setup only amortises over a much longer run. Note that a sweatshirt is cut-and-sew fleece and runs on the 50-piece floor — the two words look alike and mean very different minimums. Sizes count toward one style, not against it: a 50-piece knit order can be split across an age curve rather than being 50 of one size.

No — and no overseas factory can. Under the CPSIA the CPC is issued by the US importer or the domestic manufacturer, not by the supplier, and it has to rest on testing done at a CPSC-accepted third-party laboratory. What we do is the part that makes your certificate possible: manufacture to the specification you sign off, pull production samples for your nominated lab, and give you the manufacturing date and place, the material declarations, and the production records the CPC has to cite. Since 8 July 2026 US importers also have to file certificates electronically with Customs, so budget testing time into the schedule rather than treating it as a formality at the end. Any supplier telling you they are "CPSIA certified" is describing something that does not exist.

Yes — we can source OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified fabric for your programme, and for a children’s range it is worth asking for. What we do not hold is a certificate of our own: our facility is BSCI certified, which is a social-compliance audit covering labour conditions, safety and working hours and says nothing about chemical content. We do not hold OEKO-TEX, GOTS, GRS, WRAP or ISO. Be careful with the difference, because it is where this claim usually goes wrong: certified fabric is not the same as a certified garment. Under OEKO-TEX rules a ready-made article needs its own dedicated certificate, and every component has to be certified — sewing thread, ribbing, buttons, zips, prints and labels, not just the body fabric. So we can build your kidswear in certified fabric and give you the mill’s certificate for it, but neither we nor you can put the STANDARD 100 label on the finished garment until that article itself is certified. If your retailer is asking for the label rather than the fabric, tell us at enquiry and we will map out what certifying the article would take, or say plainly that an already-certified supplier is the better route for you.

To EN 14682:2014, which is the harmonised European standard for cords and drawstrings on children’s clothing up to age 14 and the one your buyer or retailer will audit against. In practice that means no drawstrings or functional cords in the hood or neck area on garments for younger children, controlled cord lengths elsewhere, and attention to loops, toggles, zip pullers and adjusting tabs — the details that fail an inspection long after the fabric has passed. The rules tighten below roughly 134 cm, so we need the age range at quotation, not at sampling: it changes the pattern, not just the trim.

Either way round — a standard age curve or your own graded size chart, whichever suits you. If you have graded specs from an existing range we work to those directly. If you are starting from scratch we grade to a standard age curve and send you the measurement chart to approve before anything is cut, so you are never approving a size run you have not seen in numbers. Custom grading is not an upcharge or an exception; plenty of kidswear brands fit narrower or wider than a standard curve and that is a spec decision, not a special request. Grading rules stay locked across repeat orders, so a child moving up a size gets the same fit they had before — the failure mode in kidswear is not a wrong measurement on one size but a curve that drifts between production runs.

You are, and the rules changed recently enough that it catches people out. Under the EU General Product Safety Regulation, fully applicable since 13 December 2024, a product cannot be placed on the EU market unless an economic operator established in the Union is responsible for it — an EU importer, an EU manufacturer, or an appointed authorised representative. That responsible person’s name and contact details have to appear on the product, its packaging or an accompanying document, alongside ours. We are a Bangladeshi manufacturer and cannot be your EU responsible person. Tell us what has to appear on the label and we will apply it at production; deciding who that party is has to happen before your first order ships.