A Happy Chinese New Year!

First of all, to all those around the world celebrating, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Here in ABRIC's Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, everyone is in Chinese New Year mood, anticipating the Yee Sang which was gifted to Dato' and Datin earlier. Greeting cards flooded our cork board, and mandarin oranges filled our tables, and candies to go along with it as an invitation to the new year, the year of the Tiger.


All of us gathered in the pantry for the traditional Yee Sang. For some who don't know,  Yee Sang, is a Teochew-style raw fish salad. It usually consists of strips of raw fish (most commonly salmon), mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments, among other ingredients.

Mr Mike, Declan, and Michael.

We were also given 6 oranges, and 8 candies to be displayed on our table. What is the significance you ask? Well, oranges ("kam" in cantonese) represents gold ("kam" is also gold in cantonese). Why 6 you ask? To bring the wealth easily! And the candies you ask? Candies (or sweets) lets one have a happy (and sweet) year. Well, 8 candies makes it 8 times sweeter I guess. Arrange it like a pyramid (like Mary's) and you will grow steadily up the ladder. And the red packets you ask? Just to show you are a year older thats all.

Mary's

Mr Mike's

Declan's

Angie's Kissable

Yvonne's

Michael's

...and mine.

Signing out, once again wishing you a prosperous new year. Gong Xi Fatt Chai!

Mmm... oranges.

ABRIC's Seals Newsletter February 2010 (Issue 2) Released

Our Seals Newsletter has just been released, and is available for download here on our website.

Snapshot of our Seals newsletter Issue 2

In this issue, we look at the treats of cargo theft, our new products, and a new column featuring our leading security seals.


Also, I would like to thank those who have kindly contributed their time and effort into making this newsletter possible. Thank you all very much!

Be sure to stay tuned for our next issue of Seals Newsletter!

Cheap Seals Exposed

All businesses face a constant struggle in our everyday business on the right balance between quality and costs. We ask ourselves, "How is it possible for other manufacturers to produce seals that are cheaper than ours? Have they found a secret formula that we do not know about?" We therefore set forth on a quest to satisfy our curiosity by visiting some of the security seals manufacturers in the market.

So we came by few manufacturer whose products were being made and sold by contract for a few well-known international brands. This factory manufactures ISO17712-compliant bolt seals and variable length seals.

Other manufacturer's QC checkpoint

ABRIC's QC checkpoint

To our surprise, the working environments for these factories are so laid back! Parts of incomplete seals lying everywhere in the assembly area, working hazards in the material store, quality control without proper control of quality.

Other Manufacturer's Material Store

ABRIC's Material Store

We learn that these manufacturing working conditions is not what ABRIC intend to be, and we are shocked to find this type of manufacturing environments is considered by some international brands as an acceptable environment to manufacture security seals.

After all, a security seal is a high-quality customized "security" product used to ensure that your brand reputation and products, worth thousands of times more than the seal, is not compromised.