Safer Textile Processing Corp. of Newark, New Jersey, is a vertical circular knitter specialising in polyester, polyester/cotton and polyester/spandex fabrications. It performs surface enhancements and finishings in-house and all forms of fabric printing — pigment and rotary screen, paper/heat transfer and wet printing — on knits including interlock, fleece, French terry and jacquard.
Verticality is the offer: knitting, finishing and printing in one Newark plant means a printed polyester program does not travel between a knitter, a finisher and a printer. The product list spans interlock, circular knit, flame retardant, French terry, fleece, jacquard, jersey, mesh, ottoman, pique, printed and stretch fabrics, all in man-made fibres, with product weighed in ounces per linear yard and interlock available up to 76 inches. For US garment makers, a domestic vertical supplier shortens the replenishment cycle that printed and finished knits usually suffer from.
What separates one knitter from another is rarely the fabric list — most lists overlap — and usually the finishing and consistency behind it. Knitted cloth leaves the machine in a relaxed, unfinished state, and its final weight, width and shrinkage are created in finishing, so a mill's finishing control is its real product. With Safer Textile Processing, as with any knitter of 'Circular knitted polyester fabrics and fabric printing —', the useful questions concern tolerances: how tightly weight is held lot to lot, what residual shrinkage the finished cloth carries, and how those figures are measured and reported.
Use the one-roof structure: specify base knit, finish and print method in a single brief, and ask which print route — rotary screen, heat transfer, wet or pigment — the plant recommends for your design's colour count and yardage, since each suits different volumes. Confirm the width and weight basis (ounces per linear yard) in the quotation. The marketing director in the record is Peter E. Raneri; confirm current capabilities, as plant equipment changes over time.
Capacity questions are fair questions. Ask Safer Textile Processing which months are its peak season, what a realistic production slot looks like for your volume, and whether your program would run on dedicated equipment or shared capacity. Small buyers often get better service by ordering against a mill's quieter months than by demanding peak-season urgency. Whatever the slot, agree a dispatch window rather than a single date, and define what 'ready' means — packed, documented and available for collection — so logistics on both sides plan against the same event.
Reading a knitted range like this one starts with construction families. Jersey-family cloths are the volume basics — light, draping and quick to knit — while interlock and double knits trade some drape for opacity and stability, rib brings crosswise stretch for cuffs, bands and fitted styles, and fleece and terry add a raised or looped back that changes warmth and hand feel completely. When a mill lists several families together, as Safer Textile Processing does, the practical question is which of them run on the same yarn and gauge platform, because those are the qualities that can share shades, minimums and delivery slots most easily in a combined order.
Safer Textile Processing Corp. : Vertical Circular Knitter - Specializing in Polyester, Polyester/cotton and Polyester/spandex fabrications. They do surface enhancements as well as surface finishings. They do all forms of fabric printing; Pigment & Rotary Screen and Paper / Heat Transfer and Wet Printing. Address: 1875 Mc Carter Highway Newark, New Jersey 07104 USA Phone: 973.482.6400 x 2290 Fax: 973.481.7773 Email: marketing@safertextiles.com Contact: Peter E. Raneri - Marketing Director Fabric Classification: Knit Fabric 1: Interlock Fabric 2: Circular Fabric 3: Flame Retardant Fabric 4: French Terry Fabric 5: Fleece Fabric 6: Jacquard Fabric 7: Jersey Fabric 8: Mesh Fabric 9: Ottoman Fabric 10: Pique Fabric 11: Printed Fabric 12: Stretch Fiber Classification: Man Made Fiber 1: POLYESTER Fiber 2: POLY/cOTTON Fiber 3: POLY/sPANDEX Capabilities: All of our products are weighed in a ounce per linear yard Up to 76" - Interlock fabric Available
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Vertical circular knitting of polyester, polyester/cotton and polyester/spandex fabrics, with in-house surface finishing and all forms of fabric printing.
Pigment and rotary screen printing, paper/heat transfer printing and wet printing.
The record lists 1875 McCarter Highway, Newark, NJ 07104, phone 973.482.6400 ext. 2290, email marketing@safertextiles.com and Marketing Director Peter E. Raneri.
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