Antex Knitting Mills

Company Profile

Antex is one of the substantial domestic knitters in this directory: a weekly output of about 1.5 million yards, knitting machines ranging from 14 to 38 cut (gauge), and dyeing, printing and finishing kept in the same vertical operation. Gauge range matters commercially — it is what lets one mill cover fabrics from coarser fleece and sweatshirt weights at the low-cut end to fine jersey for contemporary tops at the high-cut end.

The company's stated markets — junior, contemporary and children's — are the fashion-sensitive end of the Los Angeles apparel industry, where speed to market is the domestic mill's answer to offshore prices. A vertical LA knitter can turn a printed knit program in weeks rather than the months an imported fabric pipeline needs, and the record's emphasis on fashionable knitted fabrics, rather than basics alone, reflects that quick-response role.

Two numbers carry Antex's record: 300 high-speed, multi-feed knitting machines, and a gauge (cut) range from 14 to 38. Multi-feed machines knit faster and allow more patterning; the cut range decides the fabric weights and fineness the mill can offer, from coarse fleece at 14 cut to fine-gauge jersey at 38. A weekly output around 1.5 million yards on that machine park, with dyeing, printing and finishing in the same vertical company, is what 'vertical' means in the Los Angeles context — a garment maker can place a printed junior knit program and have every process after yarn handled by one supplier in one city.

Sourcing and Working With Antex Knitting Mills

Buying fashion knits from a vertical domestic mill starts with development: bring the target fabric's weight, fiber content and print or colour story, and let the mill match it on its own machine park — the 14 to 38 cut range means most jersey, fleece, rib and novelty constructions are realistic candidates. Confirm whether dyeing and printing are quoted on the same ticket, since vertical pricing bundles processes that buyers otherwise cost separately.

For children's fabrics, add the compliance questions early: fiber content accuracy, flammability where applicable and any restricted-substance requirements your brand carries are easier to engineer at sampling than to retrofit at bulk. And because domestic fashion knitting is a quick-turn business, agree the calendar honestly — lab dip, print strike-off and bulk yardage dates belong in the first conversation, not after the purchase order.

Understanding the Range

Knitted fabrics — the family Antex Knitting Mills works in — are built from interlocking loops rather than interlaced yarns, which is why they stretch, recover and feel soft against the skin. Buyers comparing knitters should look past the headline fabric name to the machine gauge, the yarn count and the finishing route, because two fabrics both sold as 'Knitted fabrics' can differ in all three. A well-run knit program also fixes how fabric is measured and paid for — by weight or by length — at the very first order, since knitted cloth relaxes, grows and shrinks in ways woven cloth does not, and most disputes in this trade are measurement disputes wearing a quality costume.

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