The short answer is yes! 

The long answer is below...

We believe that a high tide raises all ships. If you succeed, we succeed. The same goes for out employees.
Here is how are business model and profit margins to support this structure.Wages for a Triple Bottom Line Company
When NMU was started we wanted it to put people first. We use the “piecework model”.
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How to determine their wage?The first step is to develop a LEAN manufacturing product. This means getting our hands dirty. Michael Klepacz develops each manufacturing step. He determine where the bottlenecks are and what improvements to make. Then he performs the tasks at a moderate pace and determine how many units I can produce in a 7 hour period. Then we adjust that for 8 hours, 8 hours because of break times and to reduce the pace over the work day.
Let’s say I am able to create 300 items in 7 hours. I want a "moderate pace" with time for breaks and lunch - I bump that to 8 hours from 7. In manufacturing, cycle times are an important KPI to track.300/8 = 37.5 units per hour. A cycle time of 1.6 minutes per unit.If I want my employee to earn $15 per hour that means they will get paid $0.40 per unit.In 8 hours a person should be able to make at least 300 units per day at 40 cents per unit. This comes out to $120 per day working at a moderate pace.
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Training at NMU is based on an hourly wage. We want employees to learn how to make a product properly, not how to make a product “fast”. We remind them that speed comes with efficiency and muscle memory. When we are training people they are made aware of the median cycle time for the product.
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This model works well in the flexible manufacturing model that we created. In fact, because of how flexible we are COVID did not make any impact on our output. NMU is a "Decentralized Factory". We encourage the top quality performers to work from home and we construct machines for them. Our employees are happy. Life is good.

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Yes, you can try us for free for 30 days. Our friendly team will work with you to get you up and running as soon as possible.

White label manufacturing is also known as contract manufacturing. In the most simple way a company or person that has a product idea to be manufactured finds a factory to make it on their behalf and put their information on it. This is actually one of the most popular models in the world. Even apple goes not make most of the components and sub-components that go into making their phones.

Our job as manufacturer is to work with you, our client, to determine what your needs are and create a product that your clients want. We will never agree to make a product that we think will not function well in the market. Why so? Because typically for the first production run we are not able to break even on the investment that we put into designing and producing your product. We need your product to be a winner so you can be a winner. This leads to you reordering with us. A win-win for all.

This wildly depends, especially after COVID. We are a Just In Time (JIT) manufacturer. This quite simply means that we only stock the materials that we need for an order when the order is active. We do not generally keep stock above and beyond what we need for an order.

Lead times vary greatly between suppliers. A few real world examples. The metal hardware that we use for for accessories is generally readily available. However some of the buckles that we use from YKK can have a lead time of 6 weeks or more.

Rope generally has a very short lead time as well because the mills try to maintain certain stock levels, but the problem with natural rope can be availability. For example hemp rope is generally not available in the spring because it is sold out from the harvest of the previous year. That said, linen rope does not have these issues because the supply for linen fibers is huge.

Webbing also depends. If we are importing the webbing from outside of Poland it can take 3-6 weeks for delivery. This is one of the reasons that we started to make webbing for ourselves. The only catch 22 with making our own webbing is that it really only makes sense financially at larger quantities. It is out goal in the future to be able to keep stock of the most popular webbings and in different colors as well.