AAPNetwork Opens MembershipThe Atlanta-based American Apparel Producers Network (AAPNetwork) has removed all geographic restrictions to membership in the organization.Im working in Nicaragua with a Philippine manager of an AAPNetwork member plant owned by the Taiwanese factory, with another plant in S. Africa, who is sewing Asian fabric for my American customers, said Joe Stephenson of Rocedes S.A., Nicaragua, an AAPNetwork board member. Were already a global organization because of realities like this.AAPNetwork will hold its Fall Meeting 02 October 4-6 in Miami Beach, Fla., in conjunction with Material World. A number of AAPNetwork members will exhibit at the show in the AAPNetwork Aisle and the Contractors Network areas (See Apparel Supply Chain: Forging New Links, TW, this issue).August 2002
