AEC Narrow Fabrics

Welcome new SEAMS Association member AEC Narrow Fabrics! Based in Asheboro, N.C., AEC is a complete source for exclusive narrow fabrics custom designed to support performance needs, with a responsive R&D team dedicated to providing real-time solutions, ideas and quick samples for any project. Their knit & woven fabrics provide a custom and competitive advantage for their customers.?AEC's main area of expertise is within the Apparel sector, developing fabrics which support garment constructions from underware/intimates, to outerwear, athletic wear and hosiery. Products regularly manufactured are elastics for uniforms, waistbands for underware, shapewear elastics for women's intimates, button elastics, suspender elastics, elastics with drawcords, silicones, fire retardents and Antimicrobals. Additional industries served include Furniture, Medical, Automotive, Industrial, Aviation, Marine, Military, Contract, Mattress/Bedding/Top of Bed, Footwear and Accessories. www.aecnarrowfabrics.com #AmericanTextiles #WeMakeAmazing #Yarns #Fibers #Fabric #Fashion #Knitting #Weaving #Apparel #Sustainability #Sourcing #SupplyChain #CutAndSew #Textiles #FashionDesign #PatternMaking #Collaboration #BuildingASupplyChainBridge #Automation #Nearshoring #Onshoring #MadeInAmerica #MadeInUSA #EmpoweringTheMadeInAmericaMovement

INDUSTRY?NETWORKING:?People?Who?Changed?My?Life?– Keith Crisco ? Who have?you?met that?changed?your?life, your career, even your very?being? I met?my?list at AAPN events. For example: ? Keith Crisco?- Harvard MBA, White House Fellow, Founder of Asheboro Elastics, NC Secretary of Commerce and SO much more is the member who re-invented the AAPN.? ? I first met Keith at the 2000 AAFA Annual Conference. I was matched up blind to a golf foursome with Keith. We had SO MUCH fun together. He joined AAPN and initiated a major change to our format. ? In 2003, at our conference in Montreal, someone asked a question about China. Keith said, “Mike, I just got back from 2 weeks in China, can I address this question?”. He did … for two hours. That was when we realized the best speakers in the?industry?were our own members.? ? In 2005, Keith helped organize our delegation to Hong Kong. He took us under his wing. He never missed a meeting, in fact he helped plan all of them. He invited us to El Salvador when he opened a new elastic factory there. He was high profile across everything we did.? ? In 2014, Keith passed away suddenly during his run for US Congress, to represent NC. His legacy continues with our agendas packed with experts - our members.? ? The Change??There is bottomless wisdom everywhere. You just have to ask, then listen. Keith showed us that we are all story tellers, and that we can all learn forward together. Keith was a?life?force, and he made us better. ? #ProAmericas?#AmericasTextiles?#WesternHemisphere?#Fibers?#Yarns?#Fabrics?#SewnProducts?#Apparel?#Fashion?#Knitting #Weaving?#Sustainability?#ApparelIQ #SupplyChain #Reshoring #Nearshoring #WesternHemisphere #CAFTADR #USMCA