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products. Our proven quality procedure is also integral to delivering garments with the correct fit and function according to their intended use, to give our customers confidence when offering Chadwick Teamwear over more famous name brands.
Quality assured
Quality is rigorously controlled at every stage of manufacturing with the help of our own full time ‘Chadwick’ QCs (not third parties) employees based in our China office. One or more of our eight strong team will visit our factories on an almost weekly basis, reporting back to the UK regularly. This enables us to make informed decisions quickly or solve an issue much faster than just waiting for samples to arrive in our UK office to make a decision. Travelling to China and spending time with our staff allows us to offer them invaluable training, product updates, problem solving sessions and continue to build their awareness of our expectations and business operations. It’s hard for us to imagine that many Chinese have never travelled outside China – their perception of ‘the western world’ is a little different from the reality and helping them to understand why we insist on high quality is an education. That said, Chinese people are without doubt some of the most hardworking, honest and clever people you will find in the world – their naturally respectful and gentle culture means they are happy to listen and learn.
Environmental impact and sustainability
Environmental impact and sustainability factors are now becoming just as important to China as it is in Europe and the rest of the world and in some respects, China has overtaken us in terms of implementation.
A key part of our development here at Chadwick’s is to ensure we and our suppliers follow a sustainable code of practice, this was a key discussion point whilst in China with all suppliers. OEKOTEX is an independent testing certification for fabrics and trims is specified by Chadwick’s wherever possible and we have recently carried out full independent factory
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assessments in conjunction with ITS Intertek. In addition, all our vendors adhere to the Amfori / BSCI (business social compliance initiative) and we encourage all suppliers to follow a positive working culture for all workers and seek to continuously improve. The addition of recycled packaging has recently been achieved and we are seeking to convert fabrics to recycled polyester step by step as long as the science is telling us this is the right thing to do. There is still much to do, but, we have already planned the next trip later this year by which time many of our new exciting new products will have arrived into UK stock.
We’re already looking at what next as well as looking forward to sampling yet more of that famous Chinese cuisine.
About:
Chadwick Teamwear offer a premium range of more than 50+ garment styles, with in excess of half a million garments in stock available for immediate delivery from its Altrincham based warehouse.
Chadwick Textiles fabric division holds stock of 250,000m of specialist fabrics for sublimation offering teamkit sports brands and manufacturers in the UK and Europe a fast, efficient service with expert advice and customer support.
The company continues to build its team of sportswear garment specialists both in the UK and China, designing and developing all its own products.
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