SCF, French weaver, braider, knitter and lacemaker
Since 1969, Société Choletaise de Fabrication (SCF) designs and manufactures narrow textile accessories in France for customers all over the world.
Cords, laces, straps, braids, ribbons, laces, ropes, braids, piping, princesses, soutaches, picots, strands... are manufactured in our factories in the heart of the Choletais region, in Andrezé, in Maine et Loire.
Know-how for multiple applications: from ready-to-wear to haute couture, to luxury goods and fashion accessories
Weaver, braider, knitter and lace-maker, SCF, a certified Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company), creates, innovates and manufactures in its own ateliers in France.
Combining tradition and innovation, SCF offers its know-how and expertise to fashion markets (jacquard braids, lace ribbons, piping, satin, grosgrain, twill, tartan ... ), sports (technical cords, boot pulls, technical straps, elastics), packaging (multicolored ribbons, patterned ribbons, elastic cords), household linen (woven piping, braided piping, lace, entre-deux, elastic laces, cordonnets), interior decoration (trimmings), footwear, jewelry, as well as for embroiderers and upholsterers.
A customized and personalized offer
Its customized offer, with no minimum quantity, and its 2,000-machine park, including around 900 modern machines, 1,107 wooden braiding looms (Europe's largest park still in operation) and 70 mechanical bobbin looms (for lace ribbon production), enable production volumes ranging from samples to industrial quantities. Each month, SCF manufactures up to 4 million meters of products, and develops up to 150 made-to-measure samples for its customers. SCF also has a reference catalog of over 10,000 products and 2,500 colors in stock. As a result, SCF is able to meet its customers' specifications by manufacturing fully customized items: from materials to colors, from dimensions to finishes (end caps, sublimation, silk-screening).
Société Choletaise de Fabrication is certified OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 - Class I for its cotton, linen, textured, glossy or fiber polyester, polyamide, acrylic, polypropylene and Lyocell products, as well as for its brass end caps, and zamak open and closed, galvanized metal end caps and acetates.
