Production
Ten stations, strip to container.
Scroll the line below to follow a snap button cap through the plant. Nothing here is a stock photograph — it is the same geometry we cut dies to, moving through the sequence the floor actually runs.
02On the floor
Strip goes in one end. A fastener comes out the other.
01 / 10 · Raw material
Brass strip arrives on the coil
Material lands as coiled strip in the gauge the part calls for. The alloy and thickness are fixed at this point — everything downstream assumes them.
Brass / steel strip, 0.3 – 1.2 mm
The same thing, in words
- 01
Brass strip arrives on the coil
Material lands as coiled strip in the gauge the part calls for. The alloy and thickness are fixed at this point — everything downstream assumes them.
Raw material
Brass / steel strip, 0.3 – 1.2 mm
- 02
The press blanks and draws the part
The strip feeds through a progressive die. Each stroke blanks the disc and draws it into shape — a cap, a socket curl, a rivet dome — at a few hundred strokes a minute.
Stamping
180 – 400 strokes / min
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Edges are tumbled smooth
Freshly stamped parts carry a burr that would cut thread or skin. They are tumbled with ceramic media until the edge is radiused and the surface is even enough to take plating.
Deburring
4 – 8 h vibratory tumble
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The finish is laid down in the bath
Parts are barrel-plated. The finish is built in layers — a base, then the colour layer, then a passivate — and the chemistry can be run lead-free and nickel-free throughout.
Electroplating
Lead-free, EN 1811 compliant
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Force and corrosion are measured
Lots are sampled on the tensile tester and sent to salt spray. Finishes are checked against the approved standard under controlled light, not by eye at a bench.
Quality control
Per-lot sampling
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Four parts become one fastener
Cap, socket, stud and post are brought together and the spring is set. This is where tolerance shows: a socket curl out by hundredths either will not close or will not hold.
Assembly
Tolerance ± 0.05 mm
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The press sets it into the cloth
At the garment factory a die press drives the post through the fabric and curls it over inside the cap. We supply the matching dies so the setting is right the first time.
In the garment
Matched dies supplied
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Counted, bagged and cartoned
Trim is counted into poly bags, labelled per the buyer’s carton marking, and boxed. Every carton passes the needle detector before it is sealed.
Packing
Needle-detected, buyer-marked
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Stacked, strapped and labelled
Cartons are built onto pallets, strapped and labelled with the buyer’s marks and the order reference. A packing list travels with the stack so the goods can be checked without opening a box.
Dispatch
Palletised, buyer-marked
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Out of Karachi — or direct from the partner plant
Goods leave by sea or air depending on the delivery date. Orders produced at the partner factories in China can ship direct to the buyer instead of routing through Karachi, which takes two weeks out of the lead time. Export documentation is prepared in-house either way.
Export
Sea or air · Karachi or China
From your tech pack to the carton
Eight steps, and nothing starts until the one before it is signed off. The slow part is always sample approval — everything after it runs to a schedule.
We start by gathering detailed information about the client’s requirements through meetings, tech packs, or physical samples provided by the client.
Based on the client’s specifications, our design team creates designs tailored to their needs.
Samples are meticulously developed to reflect the desired design and specifications.
Clients review and approve the samples before we proceed to the next step.
Once approval is received, we finalise the quantity and other details required for production.
A proforma invoice is issued to confirm the order and the payment terms.
Production begins, adhering to quality and environmental standards to deliver products that meet client expectations.
The final products are carefully packed and shipped according to the client’s delivery requirements or arrangements.
What we can put in writing
Four standards, held continuously rather than tested once. Certificates and current test reports go out with the sample — ask and they are attached.
EN 71-3
Part 3 : 1994Heavy metal content
Caps the amount of certain elements — lead, cadmium, chromium VI and others — that can migrate out of a part if a child mouths it.
Required for any trim going onto childrenswear sold in the EU, and increasingly asked for on adult garments too.
Scope · All plated metal trim
EN 1811
Nickel-freeNickel release
Measures how much nickel leaches from a part over a week of simulated sweat contact, against the European limit for prolonged skin contact.
Nickel allergy is the most common contact allergy in Europe. A failing snap button means a recalled garment.
Scope · Items in prolonged skin contact
OEKO-TEX 100
Standard 100Harmful substances in textiles
A whole-article test against a list of regulated and unregulated substances, renewed annually rather than issued once.
Most European and Japanese buyers treat it as the entry ticket. Without it the trim has to be tested again at the garment stage.
Scope · Full accessory range, Appendix 6
Lead-free
On requestPlating chemistry
Products can be manufactured lead-free and nickel-free throughout, rather than on the childrenswear lines alone.
It means one chemistry to control, so a buyer never has to ask which line their order ran on.
Scope · Every production line
And what we check before it leaves
- Needle detector
- In-line, on finished goods
- Finished trim passes a needle detector before packing, so no ferrous fragment travels with the carton into a garment factory.
- Salt spray tester
- Neutral salt spray cabinet
- Plated samples sit in a salt fog cabinet and are then graded for white rust and base-metal exposure — the test that separates a finish that lasts from one that looks right only on the day.
- Tensile tester
- Pull and opening force, per lot
- Snap opening force and rivet pull-off are measured in newtons against the range agreed for the style, sampled from each production lot rather than each shipment.
Send us the spec. We will send back a sample.
Artwork, the ligne size, the finish and the fabric weight are enough to start. Samples take about six working days from approved artwork; if you are not sure what to specify, say what the garment is and we will come back with options.
- Phone
- +92 322 2436826
- Sampling
- 6 working days
- Bulk lead time
- 10 – 25 days