YKK Corporation

And.

So when he was governor of Georgia back in the, oh, I don't even know when it was, the 60s or 70s or whatever, he was the one that got YKK, the zipper company from Japan, to put a factory in Georgia.

So in 1980, so he's had it.

He was, which was one of the first factories the Japanese ever put in the United States.

No, it's, uh, it's two things.

The existing K4 YKK buckle we use, the standard one is, is quite frankly terrible.

Um, that's why we have to have the, you have to have a locking buckle for it.

There's just so much tolerance built into how the webbing weaves through there, um, that, uh, they just don't bite well.

Not, not that it won't-- It will slip at a certain angle.

I believe it's 38 degrees, um, in our testing that we did.

Uh, but that's like compared to like 15 degrees of the YKK buckle.

Um, so yeah, they work awesome, which was-

So Riri is one of the best, if not the best zippers in the world.

YKK are the most common.

They are very good.

They are quite common.

And you have in YKK a premium part of them.

So YKK can make very, very good zippers.

But the ones that are famously known to be the best, or some of the best, but probably the best, are Riri.

And those are Riri zippers.

It's a fantastic product.

It's a fully YKK zip down the front.

We've got kangaroo pouches, fleece lined either side of the zip.

And the zip is a little bit longer than what you get on the average market.

So we went to go visit a few mills.

We went to go visit YKK and other, you know, the thread company that I use.

We just visit them all, you know, bought a bunch of stuff, make some connections.

Yeah,

take you there.

No, that's YKK.

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Cordura

and YKK.

Daniel wants to move past the broad strokes and get into what those two names actually mean at the specification level, what we're buying when we buy them, and what else belongs in the

same sentence.

What's the rest of the ecosystem? What are the other components where there's a similarly specific right answer? And he's right, that

those two names dominate the conversation, almost to the exclusion of everything else.

You see a bag listed online, and the seller leads with genuine Cordura and YKK zippers.

Like, that's the whole story.

I feel like you're in prestigious movies.

I fucking love YKK, by the way.

Oh, that's very nice of you, sir.

I really did.

And there are so many reasons why it can also have a delay in the first level or your supplier side.

For example, a YKK zipper... that support 50% of the requirement of the entire world for zippers, they made an entire vertical production of their YKK zippers.

They produce their own machines.

So only their machines can do it.

They dye their own fabrics as well.

And so when something happened, like a sudden volume of orders with YKK, production, delivery will be delayed as well.

And so if there's also a special requirement of YKK, because now they have been doing more different types of specialized types of zipper, like waterproof zipper, something like that.

So just with one zipper, all of the bag production can delay many, many, many, many months.