AJOT Digital Edition #639

In October, Chinese apparel maker Suzhou Tianyuan Garments Co. announced it would invest $20 million in an old, Arkansas metals fabrication plant and convert the facility into a state-of-the-art garments factory. Tianyuan said it would begin to make clothes in the plant in late 2017, marking the first time a Chinese garments manufacturer would be producing its wares in the US.