American baby product makers

Every line below is a quote from the manufacturer, with the page it came from and the date it was read.

The newest shelf here, and the frankest

This shelf had no page until today, because it had no records. Seven arrived in one reading pass, and between them they say more about their own supply chains than most shelves twice the size.

Four of the seven put a number or a named building in the sentence. One of them says its products are made in Romania and China.

Two companies that gave the figure

Thirsties splits the question in half and answers both halves with a number:

100% of Thirsties products are manufactured in Denver, Colorado.

To date, over 90% of our fabric and components are manufactured domestically.

A hundred for the sewing and over ninety for the cloth. Over ninety means some is not, and Thirsties writes that down rather than rounding it away. The same passage names the hard one it solved, hemp jersey knitted in the USA, which is the sort of detail a company only mentions when it has actually chased it.

Tiny Tush gives the rule instead of the figure:

Not until we have searched everywhere in the U.S. for the components we need will we go overseas.

Its first sentence already says "a majority" rather than all. Having conceded that, it then describes the order it looks in, which is more useful than a percentage, because a percentage changes with the season and an order of search does not.

A company that says where it is not made

AU Baby:

Our products are produced at a small luxury factory in Romania and in an OEKO-TEX certified factory in China, each chosen for their expertise, quality standards, and responsible working conditions.

That is on an about page, volunteered, not extracted from a compliance notice. The American part of AU Baby's operation is stated just as plainly and it is small: embroidery done by hand in a Portland studio, and shipping boxes made in the USA.

The row is here because the question this site asks is where a thing is made, and a clear answer of "not here" is an answer. A shopper looking for an American-made merino blanket has learned something.

A door you can walk through

Bambino's Baby Food places production in its own Anchorage plant and then adds a sentence almost nobody writes:

Production facility is open to families to see and learn about our process.

An open door is not evidence of anything by itself. It is, though, a claim that can be falsified by one visitor, and most origin copy cannot be.

What the quote covers, and what it does not

Keekaroo names its products rather than waving at a catalogue:

Keekaroo Cafe' Boosters, Peanut Changers, Infant Inserts and Comfort Cushions are made in Dolgeville, NY.

That is the strength of the sentence and also its limit. Four lines are placed. Anything Keekaroo sells that is not one of those four is not covered by it, and this page does not stretch the quote to cover them.

What this page does not cover

Every row here is a company-level claim. None of these makers has yet been read on a page describing a single product, so no row should be taken as a statement about the particular diaper, carrier or jar in a basket.

Six more baby leads were refused or unreachable on the day this shelf was read, including Lansinoh and Kissaluvs, and one more turned out to be a dead brand domain now serving an unrelated site. They are not absent because they say nothing. They are absent because nothing has been read yet.