Utah Apparel Maker, T-shirt Printer SanSegal Closes Doors

A Utah company that only a year ago said it was hoping to help lead a rebirth of the American clothing manufacturing industry is out of business.

SanSegal Sportswear, a 35-year-old Sandy-based enterprise that made branded products for the Sundance Film Festival and other noteworthy customers that included the Smithsonian Institution and U.S. national parks, closed its doors late last week.

The reasons for the closure were unclear Thursday. Company owner Macon Rudick didn’t return messages left with one of the few remaining employees at its 75,000-square-foot plant in Sandy, where a year ago about 225 people worked.