Life Vest & Dry Suit Maker Kokatat Grows Business
It’s always nice to hear of a business doing well, especially in the outdoors community. Kokatat, makers of life vests and dry suits for canoeing and kayaking have expanded their U.S. business to continue their success.
Kokatat is about to celebrate their 50th anniversary and at the same time they have expanded their headquarters in Arcata, California to include 7,500 square feet of new factory production space and 3,000 square feet of new warehouse space.
“Our workforce has been growing over the last five years or so. The expansion on our factory floor means that we have more workstations, more sewing machines, and more sealing machines, so we have to fill those seats. We’ve engaged a pretty aggressive hiring strategy for the production floor to support this expansion. We had one of our biggest years ever last year and we’re also looking forward to continued growth so I think this [hiring] will be ongoing.
After 50 years, we have maintained one of the top specialty apparel manufacturing facilities in the country. We really take pride in that, because there aren’t many left.”
Evan Holt
