Facemate Corporation
Facemate Weaves cotton and blended fabrics in flat and tubular constructions in Greenwood, SC. We weave 7.5's through 40's yarns in a wide range of weights of cloth on shuttle and air jet looms. Designing and weaving special application materials for demanding end uses is our strength.
Facemate Bleaches, Dyes, Finishes, Naps, And Coats a wide variety of woven and Non-woven materials in Chicopee, MA and in Somersworth, NH. Our plants produce and almost limitless array of products using these processes to impart required properties in natural, blended, and Synthetic fabrics. We manufacture our own proprietary products as well as finishing customers' goods to your specifications.
Facemate Cuts textile parts for assembly by Our customers on a just-in-time response from Collierville, TN, Greenville, SC, Choloma, Honduras and Aguascalientes, Mexico. We use die cutting, table cutting, and slitting and we act as the cutting room for many manufacturing customers who use our services to allow them to focus their resources on their critical capabilities. Special assembly, warehousing, and packaging are also done in our service locations.
Our Markets
The apparel industry is where Facemate started life as Chicopee Manufacturing. Interlining products developed and produced in the Chicopee plant have been the industry standard for garment manufacturing for many years.
Other markets include:
- Home furnishing products use our construction fabrics in such applications a buckram in pleated drapes, decking under cushions in upholstered furniture, light weight backing on quilts and comforters, pads under table cloths and even tarnish resistant linings in silverware cases.
- Processing for automotive end use includes convertible top components, speakers cover cloth and base cloth for flocked trim fabrics.
- Bookbinders use our starched fabrics in the spines.
The coating industry uses our flat and seamless bias coating substrates.
- Tape products for sports, medical and structural applications use fabrics we weave and finish for base cloth.
- Filters for materials from synthetic fiber slurry to dust particles incorporate our fabrics. The yellow wrap around the lemon in finer restaurants is a seed filter; we weave, finish and cut the cloth pieces.
Our Customers
Facemate is managed on the central principle that we are in partnership with our customers. The integrity of this rule allows us to sell directly to some segments of the apparel industry and to serve other segments of that industry through distributors who buy product from us, store it in our warehouses and instruct us to drop ship it to their customers to fill orders.
The principle also allows us to produce approximately half the yardage through our finishing plants on our own fabrics as proprietary products and the other half as commission finishers using fabrics and/or specialty finishes provided by our customers. We follow their instructions for required finished properties, packaging, marking, shipping
methods and destinations, etc. Systems for information control and reliability are solidly in place to support this commitment.
We have built our business on our responsibility to add value to the raw materials, products, and business processes of our customers.