Liedtke: US apparel manufacturing requires milling domestic cotton in Korea
Eric Liedtke · HIBT Lab! UNLESS Collective: Eric Liedtke · May 16, 2022 · at 23:30
Eric Liedtke, co-founder of UNLESS Collective and former Adidas executive, breaks down the domestic and international supply chain steps for his plant-based apparel brand.
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“Cotton is the cotton we're sourcing for our cut and sew is grown in North Carolina. It is then unfortunately having to ship to Korea to be milled because there's no more mills in America. And then it's brought back to America where we can do the cut and sew and we do the dyeing. So, so I would say 80% of manufacturing is here.”
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