The KX LAB in Los Angeles is our prototype for a radically more humane, technologically advanced and beautiful knit manufacturing facility that brings consumers, products and the people that make them closer together. Focused specifically on knit footwear and apparel, our 36,000sf facility combines production, R&D, showroom and retail all under one roof. We have a garden too.
Los Angeles is the ideal setting for our bold new experiment. In this, the ‘City of Dreams’, we imagine a new kind of factory. A disruption not just of the manufacturing industry, but of the way things are made, sold, experienced and valued.
A Knit Collaboration Laboratory
The Lab is envisioned as a habitat that endues work-life with a radically new, more natural sense of togetherness. An environment that is humane, nurturing, sensible, productive and enlightened in a way very much akin to temple communities and Oxbridge universities.
Manufacturing The Future
Our proprietary equipment and automated processes incorporate artificial intelligence and machine-learning. Our people lovingly tend to these advanced technologies in the first llight-weight, flexible, ‘all-in-one’ vertically integrated production facility that produces knitted goods right here in the USA.
From Experiments To Products
The Studio is a fluid space where guests and workers experience exhibition, design and production as one lively, transparent and interconnected entity. Our ‘front of house’ dissolves traditional barriers to bring consumers, customers, products and the people that make them closer together.
A Garden Emerges In Chinatown
We imagine our garden as a 'Hortus Conclusus' or ‘Tsuboniwa’, a space that gives a sense of enclosure and full immersion. An oasis in an otherwise industrial desert, it becomes an extension of the values and aesthetics of the interior experience, helping to support the techno-ritual nature of the factory itself.
Automated Knitting
We like to imagine KX Lab as a temple to automated knitting. Our master knit engineers and designers use the most advanced, beautiful, and environmentally-friendly yarns on Shima Seiki’s state-of-the-art computerized knitting machines to create footwear uppers and finished garments with virtually no marginal waste.
Knits an entire shoe upper in less than 25 minutes
Requires only a fraction of the amount of glue or adhesives
Nam at leo eros. Sed lacinia vulputate mauris at bibendum. Sed dictum semper dictum.
ALEX SMITH
SED DICTUM SEMPER
Nam at leo eros. Sed lacinia vulputate mauris at bibendum. Sed dictum semper dictum.
Benedikt Safiyur
SED DICTUM SEMPER
Nam at leo eros. Sed lacinia vulputate mauris at bibendum. Sed dictum semper dictum.
Rahul Malviya
SED DICTUM SEMPER
Nam at leo eros. Sed lacinia vulputate mauris at bibendum. Sed dictum semper dictum.
Nado Husa
SED DICTUM SEMPER
Nam at leo eros. Sed lacinia vulputate mauris at bibendum. Sed dictum semper dictum.
Jontray Arnold
SED DICTUM SEMPER
Nam at leo eros. Sed lacinia vulputate mauris at bibendum. Sed dictum semper dictum.
Careers At KX LAB
01
Software Engineer
A smart, skilled & highly collaborative software engineer to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate the software technology stack that supports our manufacturing operations. Visit our LinkedIn page or send resume to careers@kxlab.la.
01
Cost Accountant
Combines their experience in manufacturing operations with their entrepreneurial mindset to help us establish, implement and continuously improve all aspects of KX Inc. costing processes. Visit our LinkedIn page or send resume to careers@kxlab.la.
01
Supply Chain Manager
This experienced & motivated person will be responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring the company’s overall supply chain strategy in order to maximize efficiency and productivity. Visit our LinkedIn page or send resume to careers@kxlab.la.
KX Inc Company vision
Powered by technology
Technology
01
This is what enables us. Always a means to an end rather than the end itself, our advanced technologies help us make a range of superior products faster, cheaper, and more sustainably. The'K'in our name stands for knit, the technique/technology that we are best know for.
(1)
and culture
Culture
02
This is what inspires us. By opening our 'kitchen' (and consciousness) to the community at large, we stay connected to the ideas and issues that move our society forward.
(2)
in equal parts, we will be the first human-centered
Human-centered
03
We are proposing a new social contract premised on transparency, empowerment and shared purpose. By putting humans at the center of everything we do, we inspire stakeholdership in our employees as well as our customers, consumers and communities.
(3)
manufacturing company in the USA
USA
04
Our company gathers talent, technology and inspiration from around the globe and directs it towards our 'version 2.0' of Made In The USA manufacturing. Our first stop is Los Angeles. From there, we will seek out additional, equally vibrant cities as homes for our new way of making things.
(4)
to transparently build products for the next generation
Next generation
05
Millennials and GenZs value experiences over products, sharing over sole ownership, and entrepreneurship over employment. For this new consumer class, the old way of doing business simply won't work. That's why we are radically reinventing not just how products are marketed but also how they are designed, developed and sold.
