Goodwill South Florida’s Ryder Apparel Manufacturing Division produces over 1,000,000 apparel and textile items each year for commercial and military clients.
James A. Ryder Manufacturing Facility
Goodwill South Florida’s Ryder Apparel Manufacturing Division encompasses three buildings totaling over 170,000 square feet of available manufacturing space. The facility was dedicated in 2018.
This facility has over 2,000 light and heavy-duty sewing machines and related equipment, such as Gerber cutters, embroidery machines, etc., to support your large-scale manufacturing needs.
Our Apparel Manufacturing Division serves a variety of military, government, and commercial customers.
Take Pride
in doing business with Goodwill South Florida
knowing that your product is made of the utmost quality in the United States and by people who are disabled or have other barriers to employment.
Explore Ways to GiveWe are committed to providing the highest quality products to our customer while striving to meet and exceed customer’s expectations and requirements. Our goal is to achieve the highest industry standards.
We focus on quality through our certified Quality Management System and as a result, we are ISO 9001:2015 certified. This demonstrates our ability to consistently provide products that meet customer and other regulatory requirements. It allows us to increase our customer’s satisfaction by providing an effective Quality Management System that meets the most recent, stringent ISO 9001 guidelines.
Goodwill South Florida On-shoring for your production with is competitive with overseas production. We understand your market and what drives your business stateside as a local partner.
Benefits of working with Goodwill South Florida include:
- Reduction of your time to market.
- Decreasing your shipping and logistics costs and footprint, including offering direct-to-store shipping.
- Allows you to be more reactive to changes in trends and product sales.
- An easily accessible production facility located ten minutes from a major air hub, the Miami airport, and closely located to a major U.S. shipping hub, the Port of Miami.
You can feel good about supporting our mission when you partner with us!
- Goodwill South Florida employs over 700 people in the Miami area in our Ryder Apparel Manufacturing Facility, most having a documented disability or a barrier to employment that we help them to overcome.
- A majority of our employees are also single parents providing for their families, which we are proud to support.
Goodwill South Florida assists its workforce in attaining their goals.
- We accomplish this through an engineering and mechanical department that focuses on routine machine maintenance and modifying workstations.
- These accommodations for an individual’s specific needs allows them to perform their job functions as part of the manufacturing team.
- Due to these modifications for accommodations, we can manufacture complex items with high quality at a competitive price for our partners while meeting our social mission of providing job training and employment opportunities to those with disabilities and barriers to employment.
Our Customers
Military and Government Customer
Goodwill South Florida is a leading manufacturer of complex military clothing, equipment, gear and associated items for the US Military.
- Each item requires multiple sequential production operations with different complexities.
- Quality is of the utmost importance to the military, and we take that challenge to heart.
