Workers at Utah Contract Sewing complete work on apparel products in the company's Salt Lake City facility, one of 120 such Utah establishments, twice as many as 20 years ago.

Brice Wallace 

While perhaps not bursting at the seams, Utah’s cut-and-sew industry has seen significant growth in recent years and could continue to do so with a few alterations.

A study by the Utah Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Initiative indicates that the industry accounted for $58 million in GDP in 2022, up by more than $25 million since 2018.

“It is feasible for the Utah C&S industry to not only continue as a viable industry in Utah, but it could leverage its current strengths to grow the industry and become a more prominent component of the national C&S industry,” the 28-page study report says.

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