Not Crystal but "Kris-taal" in the local tongue. In our tour of the top Textiles and Apparel factories in Medellin, Crystal is hands down one of the finest. As we line up the right suppliers in Latin America for the MFG.com Textiles marketplace, we had a fabulous face to face meeting with Crystal's President Mr. Luis Fernando Restrepo followed by a tour of the facilities by plant manager Santiago that was a lesson in how to do it right. Crystal has several of their own important brands and is a supplier to major retailers such as Target back in the USA. There are several divisions and the one we visited specializes in socks. You would not believe how much goes into making socks and how incredible automated and technical this factory is. For example, this factory uses state-of-the-art machines that know in real time when a thread breaks and automatically fixes the situation. Look carefully at the images to try and get an idea of the scale of the production. On a curious note, Crystal keeps a fairly large collection of rare and beautiful birds on the premises such as Guacamayas because the original founder of the company was passionate about them. Here are the shots and look for Crystal in the MFG.com supplier network soon:
