Business supports local sports | The Galion Inquirer

By Matt Echelberry

Inquirer Reporter

MyPro Apparel is a local busi?ness that offers cus?tom cloth?ing rang?ing from shirts and sweaters, to jack?ets, hats and other acces?sories. Every?thing is done in-house with MyPro?s seven employ?ees, includ?ing design?ing the graph?ics, screen print?ing, embroi?der?ing, fold?ing and ship?ping the product.

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It offers cor?po?rate, ath?letic and out?door apparel for all ages. Cus?tomers may indi?vid?u?al?ize orders as much as their cre?ativ?ity allows. The com?pany, which once oper?ated out of a church base?ment, has a new head?quar?ters across from Galion Com?mu?nity Air?port after a suc?cess?ful merger with Dye?n?amo Cloth?ing Company.

Allen Con?nor, direc?tor of sales for MyPro, said the merger has ben?e?fited both busi?nesses, as they now have more effi?cient oper?a?tions and can ser?vice more area. ?It has allowed us to grow,? he com?mented, adding that the qual?ity of Dye?n?amo is still?there.

MyPro also received upgraded equip?ment and tech?nol?ogy to use at the new facil?ity, which is housed within the build?ing of AM Com?mu?ni?ca?tions, a con?trac?tor for Time Warner. Allen Miller, CEO of AM Com?mu?ni?ca?tions, is the new owner of?MyPro.

The cloth?ing pro?duc?ers may not have an Uptowne store?front, but Con?nor said that is does need one: In addi?tion to local youth teams, MyPro receives orders from schools in the Mans?field, Mar?ion and Delaware areas, as far south as Colum?bus and as far north as Findlay.

It also sup?plies cor?po?rate wear for local busi?nesses such as Prints and Paints, Covert Man?u?fac?tur?ing, Galion Com?mu?nity Hos?pi?tal, Life?touch and Elliot Machine. Con?nor noted that they will com?plete an order from Mary?land this week and have another from Texas on the?books.

MyPro is not inter?na?tional, but it can ship to any?where in the coun?try. ?The world is so small,? Con?nor joked about the company?s reach. Cur?rently it is at the thresh?old of a busy sea?son, with spring sports start?ing soon. While they can still accom?mo?date sin?gle orders, Con?nor explained that it mostly serves larger orders of 24?100 pieces.

Most orders are fin?ished within one week, which is impres?sive con?sid?er?ing the lim?ited staff. ?We have a tal?ented group of core peo?ple,? Con?nor empha?sized. He added that some?times sea?sonal work?ers are uti?lized, but those core peo?ple are inter?change?able amongst the dif?fer?ent departments.

[Matt Echelberry/media-credit] Jar?rod Man?ley presses a graphic onto shirts at MyPro Apparel. The press holds eight shirts at one time, and screens are man?u?ally pressed onto them, then the shirts are sent through a cure dryer to per?manantly embed the graphic into the fabric.

The process begins with the design. Con?nor explained a cus?tomer will bring in a sketch or sub?mit an elec?tronic image. The art depart?ment then ?cleans it up? and the graphic is sent to the cus?tomer for final approval. After the design and graphic work is com?plete, the pro?duc?tion depart?ment begins to make the actual product.

There are sev?eral stages in the pro?duc?tion phase, includ?ing mak?ing the screen, man?u?ally press the graphic onto the apparel item and using a cure dryer to per?ma?nently embed the graphic onto the fabric.

If an item needs embroi?dered, MyPro has a sep?a?rate room in its facil?ity, full of auto?mated embroi?dery machines. Each of these machines pro?duces 600 stitches per minute and the thread that runs through them needs to be kept at a con?stant tem?per?a?ture or it will?break.

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Con?nor added that all of these oper?a?tions are a simul?ta?ne?ous effort in the rush to com?plete numer?ous orders. He attrib?utes suc?cess to MyPro?s focus on cus?tomer ser?vice. The com?pany tries to give the best price and stay com?pet?i?tive, never tack?ing on hid?den?fees.

?Over-promise and under-delivery is what you see a lot in this type of busi?ness. We try to avoid that by doing busi?ness with integrity and hon?esty. Over the years, cus?tomers have appre?ci?ated that phi?los?o?phy,? Con?nor stated.

Another aspect that sep?a?rates MyPro from other cus?tomized cloth?ing pro?duc?ers is its ?Spirit Wear Pro?gram.? Any club or group can con?tact the com?pany to get started with the pro?gram, a fundrais?ing oppor?tu?nity to profit that club or group. Most recently, a Girl Scout troop ben?e?fit?ted from Spirit Wear.

Con?nor noted that MyPro has already part?nered with the Galion Booster Club as well as Uptowne Out?fit?ters for the pro?gram, which he said is the begin?ning of many partnerships.

MyPro Apparel is located at 5707 State Route 309, across from Galion Com?mu?nity Air?port. It accepts online orders or paper forms and the office is open Mon?day through Fri?day, 9 a.m. ? 5 p.m. Call at 419?462-9464 or visit its web?site, www.myproapparel.com.

Source: http://galioninquirer.com/2013/02/business-supports-local-sports/

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