Today, Origin sources all of its leather from Wisconsin’s Seidel Tanning Factory and its denim from Georgia’s Mount Vernon Mills for production in its Farmington, Maine factory employing nearly all of the company’s 600 workers.
Red Wing Heritage sources its materials from the U.S. as much as possible, scoring in the high 90 percent of FTC requirements to declare “Made in the USA.”
Shloop co-founder Rachel Hunt said the company sees a “huge opportunity” to potentially be America’s first domestic sustainable footwear manufacturer, help the community and the state, and support a “domestic innovation hub” for other brands. “We want that to go back into our economy instead of China’s,” she said.
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