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Antique brass MAM slider and puller on black tape
MAM · Shenzhen

The closure customers touch.

Metal, coil and moulded chain in seven series — hand-finished pullers, plated to your finish, supplied in India.

The MAM logo in polished bronze on a slate wall
Since 1991 · two generations

A family-owned zipper house.

Thirty-plus years of manufacture, vertically integrated from tape webbing to surface treatment.

Coil and moulded zippers in blue, lime, red, yellow, orange and grey on black
Colour & size

Every colour, every size.

#3 to #10 in coil, moulded and metal — dyed to match under your specified light source.

A MAM inspector examining a zipper through a loupe
Quality

Checked by eye, then by lab.

An in-house laboratory and a complete set of global quality systems, with certificates per article.

A zipper slider photographed as a boat cutting through turquoise water
Innovation

Built for the journey.

Patented tooling and 5% of turnover in R&D — water-repellent, sealed and technical constructions.

MAM logoMAM · Shenzhen · zippers & closures since 1991
01The seven series

Seven series.
Every closure.

Metal, coil and moulded — across seven engineered series, from jewellery-grade luxury to water-repellent technical. The YRX Green Series — nylon, plastic and metal — has used recycled polyester from post-consumer bottles since 2015.

MAM Advanced Series
AdvancedEconomical metal · “Y” teeth · two-way from #5
Rolls of MAM coil zipper chain in cream, yellow, pink, red, blue and sage
CoilCoiled nylon monofilament · luggage workhorse
MAM Diamond Series
DiamondPremium metal · symmetrical dense teeth · two-way
MAM Zellix Series
ZellixLuxury effect · smaller teeth · smoothest slide
MAM moulded and metal zipper tapes in white, grey, navy, yellow and lime
PlasticBurr-free moulded resin · either-direction slider · metallic finish
MAM Delicato Series
DelicatoThe finest teeth · luxury bags & small leather goods
MAM water-repellent zippers in red, teal, navy and grey with sealed tape
Water RepellentTPU-laminated sealed tape · two-way · high strength
Silver metal zipper opening over green palm leaves on black tape
Green SeriesRecycled polyester tape · nylon, plastic & metal

Scope note — the Delicato series is for bags and small leather goods, not luggage. The Zellix series was previously catalogued as Excelsia. Sizes run #3 and #5 for apparel, internal pockets and wallets; #5 and #8 for bag openings and premium luggage; #10 for heavy luggage and statement closures.

02Colours · Diamond Series

Colour is the brand's affirmation.

MAM keeps a comprehensive colour library for clients to match against, and develops custom colour where the library doesn't hold the shade. Metal finishing runs from antique through to current-season. The Diamond Series — premium metal, symmetrical dense teeth — is catalogued in eighteen finishes, shown here on black tape.

Diamond Series finishes: Shiny Silver, Light Gold, Shiny Gold H65, K Gold, Champagne Gold, Rose Gold, Tea Gold, Gunmetal, Light Gunmetal, Matt Gunmetal, Matt Black, Matt Silver, Brass, Gold Brass, Antique Brass, Dark Antique Brass, Antique Silver, Antique Copper

Diamond Series · eighteen standard finishes. Screen colour is indicative — sign off against the MAM colour card or a physical sample.

03Water repellent

Sealed against the weather.

TPU-laminated tapes in a tightly sealed construction block moisture while keeping high strength, smooth slide and two-way function under load. Suited to bags, footwear and outdoor gear — and to ski and down jackets, nautical and diving suits, raincoats, tents, waterproof shoes and firefighting kit.

Laminated tapes are catalogued as MAM-ZTFJ and MAM-ZPFJ references, matt or shiny, dyed-to-match or black. Slider bodies for the range are listed in the next section.

TPU lamination references: MAM-ZTFJ-MATT-DTM, MAM-ZTFJ-SHINY-DTM, MAM-ZPFJ-MATT-DTM, MAM-ZPFJ-SHINY-DTM, MAM-ZTFJ-MATT-BLACK, MAM-ZPFJ-SHINY-BLACK, MAM-ZTFJ-SHINY-BLACK, MAM-ZPFJ-MATT-BLACK

Eight standard references; custom widths and dyed-to-match shades on request.

04Sliders & pullers

The chain is half the specification.

Zipper types, colours and styles are diverse — a slider is chosen not only to match the chain size but for its function and its shape. MAM catalogues slider bodies by material, and any body can carry a bespoke puller.

Nylon sliders

N001 – N012. Twelve bodies for coil and water-repellent chain. Non-lock, auto-lock and semi-lock function.

Plastic sliders

P001 – P004. Moulded bodies for the Plastic series — burr-free, running in either direction, available in a metallic finish.

Metal sliders

M001 – M006. Die-cast bodies for Advanced, Diamond, Zellix and Delicato — the range where a custom puller shape, engraving or logo is usually specified.

Finishes on the hardware

Sliders and pullers carry a wider finish range than the teeth — shiny, matt, brushed and pearl variants of each metal, plus the black, coffee and brown families. A puller can be finished to contrast with the teeth deliberately, or matched exactly.

Finishes for slider and puller: shiny, matt, brushed and pearl variants of silver, gold, brass, copper, gunmetal and rose gold, plus rubber, plated, matt and shiny black, coffee, brown, tumbled silver, old gold, OEBP

Brushed and pearl finishes read very differently in the hand — always sign off on a physical slider.

05Stoppers

Where the slider has to stop.

MAM's zipper-chain slider stop was developed to comply with European Union requirements — six catalogued types in #3 through #10, specified with the chain size rather than improvised on the assembly line. Top and bottom stops, and box stops for open-end constructions.

The stop is the part that fails first when it is chosen loosely: a slider that overruns damages the tape end and the article is rejected at final QC.

MAM stoppers in sizes #3, #4, #5, #7, #8 and #10 in silver, gold and gunmetal finishes

Sizes #3 · #4 · #5 · #7 · #8 · #10 — shown in silver, gold and gunmetal.

MAM zipper stopper Type 01
Type 01
MAM zipper stopper Type 02
Type 02
MAM zipper stopper Type 04
Type 04
MAM zipper stopper Type 05
Type 05
MAM zipper stopper Type 07
Type 07

Type and size are confirmed against your chain and slider body at sampling; all types comply with EU requirements.

06Inside the brand

A family-owned zipper house.

MAM is a family-owned manufacturer with 34+ years and two generations of leadership — precision-manufactured in Shenzhen with Swiss CNC tooling. Hand-finished pulls. Plated metals that don't dull. Tapes dyed to Pantone match. Custom logos on the slider, custom shapes on the pull.

It's a closure, but it's also jewellery. And in a premium handbag, it's the piece the customer engages with every single day.

OriginChina · Shenzhen — Songbai Industrial Park, Baoan District
SpecialtyLuxury closures for bags, luggage and leather goods
Used byPremium leather houses, globally
07Development · Production · Lab

Everything on the zipper, made in one house.

MAM makes the whole article — zip-tape webbing, dyeing, teeth assembly, die casting, over-injection and surface treatment — on patented key technology, high-precision machines and tailor-made tooling, jigs and fixtures. Nothing critical is bought in.

MAM development and R&D
Development

5% of annual turnover reinvested in R&D, with a team of more than fifty technicians and a portfolio of patents on both products and MAM's own tailor-made equipment.

New technologies, product lines, colours and materials are developed to a client's exact requirement.

MAM zipper production floor in Shenzhen
Production

Songbai Industrial Park, Baoan District, Shenzhen. Every inch of the chain is made in-house so tolerances hold across the length of the zipper.

Obsessive on detail: die casting, over-injection and surface treatment under one roof.

MAM in-house testing laboratory
Lab

An in-house laboratory with current testing equipment, backed by a complete set of global quality systems and third-party certificates supplied per article.

Cycle, pull and salt-spray data available for brand RSL and QA files.

08Services around the article

Dye-to-match, moulds, 3D before tooling.

MAM dye-to-match colour laboratory
Dye-to-match

MAM's own dyeing house matches your exact colour under a specified light source, using high-quality dyes and a spectrophotometer-based matching system — so colour is measured and communicated digitally, not argued over sample cards.

Standardised production is also supported: any industry colour-card standard, or MAM's own colour card.

MAM in-house mould creation
Mould creation & 3D

An in-house mould department, so bespoke pull and slider tooling stays under MAM's control.

3D design and printing is offered upstream of tooling, so a custom pull can be held in the hand before a die is cut.

The MAM mark beside a double helix formed from fern fronds
09Green Series

Recycled polyester, as the standard.

MAM uses recycled polyester for its zip tapes as standard — recycled by default, not offered as an upcharge option. The Green Series runs across nylon, plastic and metal.

For its tape range MAM also offers GOTS-certified organic cotton, and treats environmental sustainability as a condition of technical development rather than a marketing line.

TapesRecycled polyester · GOTS-certified organic cotton
AcrossNylon · plastic · metal
CertifiedGlobal Recycled Standard · GOTS cotton
Global Recycled Standard (GRS) certification mark

Global Recycled Standard — the recycled content of the tape is verified through the supply chain, and certification is issued per article for your own compliance file.

10Care for the environment

Bottles into zipper tape.

The process that turns used plastic into zipper tape: recyclable plastic is collected and flaked; the flake is reprocessed into chips; chips are extruded into recycled polyester; the polyester is woven into zipper tape — and the finished product carries Global Recycled Standard certification.

Recycling process — plastic, chips, polyester, zippers and Global Recycled Standard certificate
11Why MAM

A closure that lasts the bag.

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Quality

Hand-finished pulls

Each pull is hand-finished — no flash lines, no pad-print smudges. The detail customers notice.

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Longevity

Cycle-tested

Tested to thousands of open/close cycles. The slider doesn't fatigue, the teeth don't separate.

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Customisation

Logos, shapes, colours

Custom slider logos, bespoke pull shapes, Pantone-matched tape — MAM treats the zipper as a brand surface.

RSL
Compliance

Brand-aligned

Nickel-free options. REACH-compliant plating. Documentation per article.

Testing

Every product is tested against requirement before it ships — MAM's in-house laboratory runs the current test equipment on chain, slider and tape, so cycle, pull-strength and colour-fastness data comes with the article rather than on request.

Certification

A complete set of global quality systems, with certificates issued per article and available for brand QA and RSL files. Patented key technology on both product and equipment underwrites the tolerances.

Specify the closure at the source.

Tell us the size and the finish — we’ll send a sample card plated to your specified finish.