Our Mission:
At Chalfant Sewing Fabricators, Inc. we strive to provide quality, cost- and customer-friendly service for Loading Dock Equipment and associated products. Whether it's for 1 unit or hundreds, you will be treated like family and know that you are diligently cared for by our devoted staff. Chalfant has a history of "Quality Made, Built To Last" service by providing three (3) generations of quality, value and service since 1940.
"Quality Made, Built To Last" is not just a slogan at Chalfant. We strive to turn advances into valuable products for our customers, through our extensive dealer network with products that create solutions and provide the lowest lifetime cost of ownership. Above all, we are committed to provide dealers with fast, responsive and reliable service for their application needs. Chalfant wants to prove to you it understands that each and every day, the customer comes first.

Our Values:
• Exceed customer expectations
• Employee empowerment
• Continual improvement
• Supplier involvement
• Make service matter

Harvey W. Chalfant founded Chalfant Sewing Fabricators, Inc. on April 1, 1940. He made the sales, sewed the awnings and installed them himself. His first place of business was at 11510 Madison Avenue. During the 2nd World War, he made many top-secret items for our government. In 1950, he saw the need to make dock seals, which is the majority of our Sewing business today. He decided he did not want to be associated with the “Blue Suede Shoe” type of people involved in metal awnings. However, he now had all the machinery to work with metals, so he formed the Chalfant Manufacturing Co. This new company custom fabricated steel and aluminum per the customer’s blueprints. When the Ford Motor Company was building their “new” plant in Brookpark, they asked if Chalfant could make them a custom tray to hold their electrical cables. We did. That was the beginning of the cabletray industry. In 1956, Thomas W. Chalfant came on board, and in 1958, became President. Today, Jeff Chalfant presides as both the President and CEO of Chalfant Sewing Fabricators, Inc.

Jeff Chalfant, seeking to expand the scope of products and services Chalfant Sewing Fabricators is able to offer, acquired Ellis Industries Corporation in late 2006. Now a division of Chalfant Sewing Fabricators, Ellis Industries is the second-oldest company specializing in loading dock equipment in Southern California, and as the only manufacturer of dock levelers in the West, has provided these products for the majority of Southern California's new construction since 1969. With an expansive history of innovation and service, Ellis has used these values to build a strong reputation over the course of the last 38 years. Manufacturing only the highest quality of loading dock equipment, Ellis Industries is the innovator of designs now being copied by other companies- The push-pull edge-of-dock leveler in particular, which after its initial conception began to see production by other companies world-wide. We are also the manufacturer of the only mechanical edge-mounted dock leveler that can be operated with a mere twenty pounds of force, being the only one without a back injury on its record. Ellis Industries Corporation also stocks repair parts for the other brands of dock levelers available to consumers, service companies and dealers of other brands. Additionally, we manufacture replacement parts for the equipment that other major manufacturers have discontinued, and for which they no longer have parts available. As a good example of the trend toward practical innovation driving the company, Ellis long ago convinced architects and clients to use two 24" dock bumpers spaced at 7'6" centers, as opposed to three 36" bumpers. Our competitors are now copying us; most don't even know why.