Our stock is not for sale, and we therefore have no trading symbol. We appreciate your interest in YKK. Where is YKK Headquarters? Administrative headquarters are in Tokyo, and manufacturing headquarters are located where the company was originally founded, in Kurobe, on the far side of the big island of Japan. A slider sometimes catches on a piece of cloth when opened or closed. Is there any way to free the slider without causing damage to the cloth? Remove the trapped cloth by moving the slider back while pulling the cloth outward.
Take care to avoid the possibility of the zipper getting caught when opening and closing it. The slider does not open or close smoothly. Trying to forcibly close a zipper in a bag that has been overfilled will cause an excess load on the elements. This stress may cause the elements to slip out from the tape.
This is a fatal problem with a zipper. YKK produces zippers throughout the world, but are their quality and function of an equal standard globally?
All the zippers produced and sold throughout the world by YKK meet the quality standards set by YKK, so there is no difference in quality and function. However, special care should be taken regarding the existence of counterfeit zippers. Details on our brand protection activities can be found here. A zipper made of or coated with nickel caused an allergic reaction on direct contact with skin. How can I avoid it? When a silver-colored metal zipper is required, choose an aluminum zipper.
Are YKK products treated for needle detection machines? YKK has researched and developed materials, surface treatments, strengths, and zipper designs to prevent false needle detection. What are the points to be noted when using zippers in baby wear? Special zippers, such as zippers with plastic top and bottom stops, are offered for infants and kids wear. Please ask your YKK sales agent for more details.
What type of zipper works best with garments made of a thick material? Example: If a garment is made with a piece of material that has a weight of 12 oz. If you use a number three size zipper or smaller with this type of material, the zipper elements may break. What should you do when material gets caught in a slider? Please leave enough room for the slider to move smoothly when sewing the zipper onto the fabric. If the slider gets caught, pull back the slider slowly before moving the fabric.
Do not use excessive force to move the slider to avoid damaging pull-tab or fabric. How can manufacturers prevent a zipper tape from becoming discolored and worn by chemicals found in detergents? Kabushiki gaisha refers to the kind of company the YKK group is. Under the Companies Act of Japan, KK are classic joint-stock companies, in which the shareholders are able to buy and sell their stock in a company.
The entire group is actually an umbrella corporation for several other companies — YKK Fastening is just the most famous one.
YKK group also manufactures architectural products, plastic hardware, other fastening products, and even industrial machinery.
But our focus in this guide will remain on their zippers! In fact, they continued operating under their initial name until , when the company was renamed to YKK. In the company was reorganized as a limited corporation, and in the YKK trademark was registered.
Anyway, in YKK opened their second manufacturing plant in Kurobe, Toyama, which marks the beginnings of their worldwide expansion. November of sees the opening of their first overseas plant in New Zealand, and in the following decades the company also expanded to Canada, Kagawa and Swaziland.
But how did they go from a small Japanese company to a zipper magnate in such a short time -and yes, a few decades is a short time in any company history.
Well, was a crucial year for the company, and it preceded many of their other worldwide expansions. In that year, the company invented the YZip — and extra durable high-quality zipper for jeans.
And that same decade, jeans manufactured worldwide were designed to have zippers in the front. Plus, it was the sixties — men, women and children were wearing jeans, and people liked having the zippers on the front. After the YZip was such a huge hit, the invention of a YZip machine followed. How did YKK come to dominate this quirky corner of industry? YKK even makes the boxes it ships its zippers in.
And of course it still manufactures its own zipper-manufacturing machines—which it carefully hides from the eyes of competitors. When the Japanese earthquake hit last year many supply chains were shredded, but YKK kept rolling along. How to make a felled seam into tent fabric or canvas How to remove stains on tent canvas Maintenance of a tent zipper Manufacturing of tent canvas Stormsure Repair Sets Sunbrella Plus boat canvas.
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That keeps our pants up. Our backpacks closed. Gervis Byron has made zippers at YKK for 38 years. I ask her how it feels to know that she had a hand in making the zippers we use every day.
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