Military gear manufacturer Tactical Tailor has gone from being one guy with a sewing machine in a barracks to a 55,000-square-foot design and manufacturing operation employing hundreds of people. Everything from big-ass Sumitomo injection molding machines (with re-grinders to re-integrate the sprue, eliminating waste), Gerber cutting machines and a veritable army of seamsters and seamstresses populate the space, processing the $2.5 million of raw materials constantly on hand to fulfill the never-ending flow of orders.
In this meaty 18-minute video, Director of Sales G.W. Ayers shows us "where the sausage is made," and points the way towards the future success of American manufacturing: Make affordable, useful and high-quality products that people need, and don't rest on your laurels--continue to innovate and refine the product (as seen with their lightweighting Fight Light initiative).
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