Hemp & Company

We manufacture our own clothes using hemp and organic cotton blends and we manufacture in Vancouver, Canada. Hemp and Company is proud to carry Nomads and Efforts brands clothing. They are responsible companies who have generously provided information about their manufacturing processes in the spirit of full disclosure and transparency. We feel we have benefited from this information and we would like to pass it onto you, our valued and loyal customer.

Manufacturing Information - Efforts

by Robert Greenwald, Efforts Industries Inc. "While most of our woven clothing production is done locally in Toronto, our knit production is out of China. The partners at Efforts Industries Inc. have personally been, on two separate occasions, to view the facility on behalf of clientele with concerns similar to yours. It is privately owned and employs close to 200 skilled local residents. We are impressed with the working conditions(better than most in Toronto and Montreal) and the employees' attitude, so much so that we have applied with the Fair Trade Committee for a fair trade certificate. At this time, however, they would require $15,000 to send a team over from Madrid. We are also paying a fair wage for the manufacture of our goods, which is the best way to help. Some food for thought: The majority of all the Made in Canada clothing that people are seeking requires two main ingredients-fabric and labour.. Just about any Made in Canada clothing that contains any cotton uses cotton from a cotton producing country such as China, India, Korea, or Pakistan. Almost all sewing in Canada is done by people born anywhere in the world except Canada. Running away from a third world nation to try to improve their standard of living will, in no way, solve our concerns for fair trade. The answer is to pay them more- to pay them a fair and decent wage for their effort no matter what country they live in. The biggest problem, in general, lies with our North American consumer who under no circumstances wants to pay these people a decent dollar for their finished goods. There is very little future in the domestic clothing industry in Canada , yet we still produce in Toronto, Canada and, as long as we have a domestic labour pool, we will continue to produce domestically our woven goods of hemp such as various styles of drrawstring pants, shorts, skirts, Capri pants, etc."

Manufacturing Information - Nomads Hemp Wear

"We have been getting some important concerns from our friends and our customers since we moved our sewing production to China. We are very pleased to realize just how much our clientele is conscious and caring. We took your concerns seriously and underwent a trip to the factory that is producing our products. Here you will find some information and pictures on how our products are made." READ THE FULL ARTICLE