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REHANCE Advantages
A Winning Opportunity for You and the Environment!
Discover how REHANCE can enable you to:
Extend the
life of your brand
If you’re
using plastisol printing on your tees, its only a matter of a
few washes before your promotional item becomes part of the
weekend yard routine or worse yet, the local landfill, rather
than doing what you want it to do—being worn by your
customers, promoting your brand. Most screenprinting methods
utilize plastisol ink which not only contain harmful PVC, but
leave a “hand print”, a visible crusty coating that feels
unnatural.
REHANCE
gives your brand an extended life, increased promotion
opportunities, and a product integrated with your
environmental values!
Give
your brand lasting value, Get REHANCE!
Be more
responsive to your market
What
if your marketing concepts and designs could be in your
customers’ hands in a couple of weeks?
REHANCE
has turned the apparel supply chain on its head! While
imports from third world countries continue to grow in demand
from many apparel manufactures, their lower, upfront costs
have significant time-to-market disadvantages as well as final
higher costs when products do not sell. A typical
apparel production timeline is 12 to 15 weeks minimum.
With
REHANCE, we’ve reinvented how apparel is produced, giving
you opportunities to market your products faster and be more
responsive to your customers. The REHANCE process
can be accomplished in as little as 2 weeks.
Pink
didn’t turn out to be the “hot” color we thought it would be…
REHANCE
ensures you can minimize your inventory exposure and meet
market demand for specific styles, colors, and textures with
minimal lead-time. Working with your market plans and our
manufacturing partners, we ensure a sufficient quantity of
“blanks” or naturally dyed cotton shirts are ready and
available. You select the design, which is imprinted using
REHANCE technology and then the garment is dyed to
specific colors.
Garment
dyeing finished apparel products has many advantages over
typical pieced dyed goods, which is how most apparel is
produced. By garment dyeing, an apparel product is
pre-stressed to eliminate the holes or open seams that can
appear after a piece-dyed product is taken home by the
consumer and washed. Although some apparel manufacturers
have experienced difficulty in achieving high quality products
with garment dyeing, we have had much success because of our
quality control processes and operational techniques. We
certify all of the REHANCE garment dyers and the fabric
that is used in a REHANCE apparel product. With
certification, we can assure color consistency and fastness
that would be obtained in piece dyed fabric.
You can
easily “test” your retail placements with particular colors
and styles and if sales aren’t meeting expectations, or your
sales in particular colors exceed your expectations, you can
easily modify your remaining inventory to quickly replenish
your stores or channel stores’ shelves!
Make a positive impact
on the environment
If you’re
a responsible corporate citizen, you probably already have a
number of environmental or “green” initiatives in place. You
may even be choosing or incorporating organic cotton into your
production and marketing efforts, thus doing your best to be
environmentally responsible. If however, you are still using
plastisol ink in your logos and screenprinted images, you’re
overlooking a key area to be further responsible to your
environment.
REHANCE
offers you a unique opportunity to promote your products while
integrating your brand values. It pays to show your customers
your commitment to the environment—not only will you prevent a
few less dioxins from being produced, you’ll give your
promotion projects longer life!
Be more
socially responsible
When you
buy a REHANCE product, you can be assured of a product
that is socially responsible. At T. S. Designs, we
take seriously our commitment to
sustainability, both to the environment, community, and people
we employ. We are committed to fair trade with all the people,
companies and suppliers we work or associate with to provide
fair wages and good employment opportunities. We believe in
treating people with respect and honor our employees’ and
manufacturing partners’ creative and active participation in
our decisions. We believe in providing a high quality life
for all of our employees; to that end, we:
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Provide a healthful, enjoyable, and safe workplace
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Pay a livable wage with good benefits
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Provide training in a variety of areas: operational,
sustainability practices, and personal development, just to
name a few
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Provide an open forum for discussion for every employee
Furthermore, we do not use fair trade as an excuse to produce
poorer or more expensive products just because of being "Fair
Trade." We understand the importance of providing jobs and
opportunities both in our local community and also in the
global marketplace.
What REHANCE offers that plastisol does not:
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A print that does not contain PVC,
phthalates, or solvents (base technology).
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A print that is completely breathable and
does not have any “hand.”
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A print that will not crack or peel over
time, REHANCE is not a surface coating but actually
changes the cotton molecular structure in how it responds to
dyes.
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A print that will not significantly change
after multiple home launderings.
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A garment that will not shrink, REHANCE
products are garment dyed which eliminates shrinkage. Most
plastisol screen printing is done in a piece dyed
environment and the customer
can expect between a 5 to 10% shrinkage when
the product is washed at
home.
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A print that will work on fabrics with
stretch and / or textures.
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A perfect
color tone on tone match.
The
Bigger Picture:
With
REHANCE we control the entire manufacturing procedures and
chemicals from start to finish, i.e.
from fabric finishing to the fabric softener used in the final
process of garment dyeing
making it easier to measure and control the total
environmental impact of the process.
With garment
dyeing compared to piece dyeing, color selection is one of the
last choices so this allows
the customer to offer the client more color options
without committing to extra inventory. Keep in mind we can
maintain the same color consistency from dye lot to dye lot.
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