Five Oceans Garment

Bottom Line: Custom-molded hardware typically adds 3 to 4 weeks to your production lead time and requires a one-time NRE molding fee of $100 to $300. For small batches, this can significantly impact your unit price due to hardware supplier MOQs, which is why we often recommend a ‘Semi-Custom’ trim strategy to balance premium branding with speed to market.

Bottom Line: For hassle-free logistics, we highly recommend our DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) service, where we manage all freight, customs clearance, and import duties for seamless door-to-door delivery. We also fully support FOB and EXW terms for brands using their own forwarders.

Bottom Line: We safeguard your brand’s intellectual property through a rigorous, multi-layered security protocol that mandates upfront Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) before file sharing, ensures restricted access to your digital Tech Packs and proprietary paper patterns, maintains supply chain confidentiality, and enforces a strict zero-tolerance policy against reselling or white-labeling any branded rejects or overstock.

The Bottom Line: Our standard payment terms for bulk custom manufacturing follow a transparent 50/50 structure: a 50% deposit is required upon Pre-Production Sample (PPS) approval to lock in your specific materials, and the remaining 50% balance is due only after the completed garments successfully pass a rigorous AQL 2.5 final quality inspection prior to shipment.

Bottom Line: We provide expert in-house pattern grading services to accurately translate your base design into full US, EU, or UK size ranges, ensuring consistent fit and technical proportions across all international markets through the precision of our master pattern makers.

Bottom Line: Rather than relying on a single final check, our bulk production quality control is a rigorous, multi-stage engineering process that mandates a Top of Production (TOP) sample, continuous in-line inspections during assembly, and strict AQL 2.5 final audits, while openly welcoming independent third-party testing.

Bottom Line: A Fit Sample is used to verify pattern geometry and sizing proportions using substitute materials, whereas the Pre-Production Sample (PPS) is the final functional rehearsal using exact bulk fabrics and custom trims to serve as the definitive “green light” for mass manufacturing.

Bottom Line: A complete tech pack for technical outerwear is an industrial blueprint that must include four essentials: precise 2D flat sketches, a detailed Bill of Materials (BOM), graded measurement charts, and explicit engineering instructions like PU seam-taping.

Bottom Line: Producing 3,000 pieces of custom sportswear typically takes 8 to 11 weeks in total, split between sample development (3–5 weeks) and bulk production (4–6 weeks), with the official manufacturing clock starting only after you approve the final Pre-Production Sample (PPS).

Bottom Line: Because we operate strictly as a custom, made-to-order facility, our Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) is not a fixed arbitrary number; while our baseline typically starts between 100 to 500 pieces per style and color for technical garments, your exact MOQ is determined entirely by the specific fabric sourcing minimums and construction complexities outlined in your Tech Pack.