FOB. Full Package. Full Service. The clothing manufacturing world loves its acronyms, and for a new brand, they can make a simple decision feel complicated. Let’s strip the most useful one back to basics: FOB, full service manufacturing, and look at how your clothing gets made this way at Kizen Lab.
What FOB Actually Means
FOB stands for Free on Board, and in garment work it has come to mean something bigger: the factory runs the whole job. We source and inspect the fabric, build the pattern, cut and sew the garments, run quality control at every stage, and finish with packing and export documents. You bring the design and the quantity, and one all-in price covers the rest.
It is the simplest way to put garments into cartons. You see one price for the finished piece, and one team stays accountable from fabric order to shipped carton.
What You Bring, What We Do
You bring: your styles, a tech pack or a reference garment, your quantity and your deadline.
We handle: fabric sourcing and inspection, precision cutting, sewing by experienced operators, quality control at every stage, finishing, packing and export docs.
Minimums start at 500 pieces per style, with lead times typically four to six weeks.
Why Full Service Suits New Brands
One price, no surprises. Fabric, trims, labour and overhead sit inside a single figure, so you can compare quotes between factories on the same finish line and budget without guesswork.
One accountable team. There is no split between your fabric supplier and our sewing floor, so nothing gets lost between them. Fabric is sourced and inspected by our own team, roll by roll.
Your time stays on your brand. Sourcing fabric, chasing trim suppliers and juggling freight are jobs in themselves. Full service takes them off your desk, so your week goes into design, marketing and customers.
How a Full-Service Run Moves
- You send styles, quantities and a deadline, and we quote a single per-piece price
- Fabric options come back with the quote, sourced and priced by our merchandisers
- Patterns are built on Lectra digital systems and proven in sampling
- Bulk production runs with QC at every stage, then final audit, packing and export docs
Run FOB With Kizen Lab
We manufacture FOB (full service): we source the fabric and trims, run production and quality control, and deliver finished garments. Every run, from a first 500-piece pilot to repeat orders, gets the same treatment: our fabric, our patterns, our floor, our QC. Kizen Lab produces in Bandung as the subsidiary of World KNK, whose enterprise-scale factory has produced millions of woven garments since 2000, including the gamis, the Indonesian women’s occasion dress. Smaller quantities, same factory DNA. Contact Kizen Lab with your style and quantity, and we will confirm fit, price and timeline.