Over the last 30 years, Interloop Limited has maintained its position as one of the largest suppliers of socks to international brands and retailers globally, including Nike, adidas, STICHD, Target, H&M, C&A, Amazon, and Uniqlo, to name a few. With 5 vertically integrated manufacturing facilities spread across Pakistan. Interloop Hosiery is equipped with the latest Italian & Chinese Knitting Machines, Spanish Processing Machines, and Italian Dyeing Machines, having quick changeover capability and highly skilled staff to produce high volumes of multi types and complex products.

Interloop Hosiery Plant 4, located at Interloop Industrial Park, is Pakistan’s & Region’s First LEED Gold Certified Socks Production Facility, and the recently established Hosiery Plant 5 at Interloop Apparel Park is also a LEED Gold Certified Socks Manufacturing Facility.

Interloop has the capacity to produce 795 million pairs of socks annually, including athletic, performance, fashion, and casual wear for all genders and sizes, and one of the largest capacities for infant socks. The company is on a responsible manufacturing trajectory, ensuring sustainable production from farm to factory and the customers. As Interloop works towards becoming a full-service company for its customers, it has the edge of having in-house end-to-end services for product development, quality assurance, research & innovation, and digital sampling. It is aggressively investing in its digital capabilities to transform its way of working across product design and development, manufacturing, and customer services. Interloop is in the process of expanding its capacity to 7,502 knitting machines at its manufacturing locations across Pakistan.

PRODUCTS

Socks

Interloop is an international market leader in producing a wide range of finest quality Socks for world’s top brands & retailers. Our products are engineered with true possession of Fit & Sizing, Comfort, Performance and Aesthetics by using premium quality raw materials, advanced manufacturing techniques and stringent quality assurance systems. We use natural and man-made fibers to produce socks which are unique due to their numerous functional properties, availability in myriad colors and patterns, covering all sizes from adults to infants, genders, silhouettes, and multiple fabrications.

Major Socks Categories

  • Athletic Socks (basic, walking, running, sports)
  • Casual Socks (basic, lifestyle)
  • Formal Socks (dress, boot)
  • Specialty Socks (compression, wellness, work, outdoor, comfort)

Special Applications

  • Anti-Skid
  • Elastic Stitching
  • 360 Degree Printing
  • Twill Tape
  • Heat transfer
  • Embroidery
  • Pom-pom
  • Motif/Accessory/Pearl
  • Frill
  • Lace
  • Applique
  • Ribbon
  • Fur

Tights & Leggings

Interloop produces top quality tights & leggings for women, kids and infants in flat knit & terry fabrications, ranging from 120 to 200 Needles.. Our technical developers strongly focus on graduated knitting patterns, cross stretches, elongations, stitching and volumetric fitting in order to produce the best quality, sizing and fit, as per end-user requirement, for top international customers.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

The Product Development (PD) Department takes care of customer requirements, development of products as per customer specifications, recording parameters for costing and bulk execution and improving processes through Kaizan activities. A dedicated Vertical Sampling Facility (VSF) at Interloop Industrial Park, Faisalabad comprising a Yarn Library, Dyeing, 100 Machines Knitting capacity and Linking to Finishing capabilities develops premium quality products for customers. The Product Development Lab houses a complete range of latest colour development machines.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Quality Department (QD) looks after Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Testing Labs & QMS. The Quality Policy refers the way our teams follow the working processes to produce quality products and deliver excellent services to our valued customers. QD has five product & raw material testing labs; a central development lab at VSF for testing of new developments and four production labs for product testing. Three labs are ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited from PNAC (Pakistan National Accreditation Council). The central development lab is also ISO / IEC – 17043 accredited which makes Interloop the First Textile Company in Pakistan to provide Local Proficiency Testing (PT).

Customer Confidence in Interloop Limited’s Quality Assurance

  • Inspection Free Status awarded by Target Sourcing Services, Nike, Primark, JCPenny, C&A, etc.
  • Designated Quality Auditors for Tesco, JCPenny, Adidas, Target, C&A, PUMA, etc.
  • Customer Certified Labs Status by H&M, JCPenny, TESCO, NIKE & C&A
  • VSF QA Lab – 32 accredited Tests approved by PNAC
  • QA Production Lab – 14 Tests approved by PNAC

INNOVATION

Research & Innovation Center

A dedicated Research & Innovation (R&I) Centre at the Global Headquarters – Pakistan, is a self-sufficient facility with hi-tech knitting, processing and finishing operations, a modern lab, and is looked after by an extremely competent team. A Global Innovation Forum having representation from our worldwide teams and R&I Centre, works as the heart of entire innovation process. From raw concepts to testing and commercialization, multiple commercial concepts have been launched including innovative knitting constructions, processing treatments, specialty yarns and finishing operations. Three Patents; Arikool (Utility) registered in Europe & Pakistan and in-process in other regions, Toebox (Utility) registered in US & Pakistan and in-process in other regions and Toebox (Design) registered in Europe & US, have been granted to Interloop and patents for two products; Moisture Wicking and Flexigrow are in the application process.

Global Innovation Summit

A Global Innovation Summit is organized annually in our markets where our global teams get together to review progress on the research front and its transformation into commercial success, discuss market analysis data, emerging trends in raw materials and product innovation, etc. Regional teams share their success stories and how innovation paves the way for engaging new customers. Guest speakers share their thoughts and expertise on multiple subjects, including commercialization of innovative products, etc. New horizons are identified for Interloop’s innovation and sustainability drives.

Major Innovative Products & Applications Released

  • Sustainability: Biofill, Eco Dyamide
  • Silhouette:  Sandal Sock, Yoga Sock, Boat Crew
  • Aesthetic:  Silicon Gold, Braided Socks, Seersucker,
    360-digital printing, Chroma Crack
  • Performance: Endure, Moisture Channel Sock, Hyperdry, Tebial Tendon Sock, Toebox, Arikool

PATENTS & TRADEMARKS

Patents

Arikool

Feet can sweat up to 250 ml in a day causing various complications and the best way to avoid those is to KEEP THE FEET DRY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. Arikool Socks by Interloop are purely focused on the same ‘Dry Feet’ property. Arikool Socks use a specialized knitting technique to keep the next to skin layer of socks dry, and make a channel for moisture movement under natural stimulus

CONTENTS

Cotton, Polyester. Polypropylene,

Lycra

VARIATIONS

Patterns, colours and styles can be customized.

SELLING POINT

Innovative sweat management in socks with double faced fabric taking sweat away from skin and isolating it from wet outer side. Tested and proven to perform twice as good compared to conventional moisture management technology.

CONSTRAINTS

A maximum of 2 color pattern is possible.In 168 needle, arch support would not be possible.

ToeBox

The special toe is designed to wrap the toe tips to accommodate the entire finger toe volume for a more relaxed fit. Apart from the comfortable fit, Toe Box in terry absorbs the impact faced at toe tips against shoes. Aesthetically, Toe Box provides the option to add motif in the toe area.

CONTENTS

Polyester, Nylon, Lycra

VARIATIONS

All styles, and constructions are possible.

SELLING POINT

Patent pending technology, with more space and protection for toes, along with possibility of adding pattern in toe.

CONSTRAINTS

Too thick yarns at toe can cause dog ears

Trademarks

More than 20 trademarks have been granted to Interloop and affiliates:

AFFILIATES & ASSOCIATES

Interloop North America (ILNA)

ILNA is an associate company and exclusive representative of Interloop Limited in North America. ILNA team’s breadth of experience in private label and branded socks and hosiery is second to none. Management’s experience includes apparel and active wear, footwear, accessories and home textiles. Headquartered in Winston Salem, North Carolina, the team is dedicated to cultivating long term customer partnerships, and identifies emerging growth opportunities in the socks business in North America & provides trend analysis, design and product development, sales, marketing, warehousing & logistic services to customers.

In addition to private brands, ILNA is building a diverse portfolio of brands in strong and growing categories:

ILNA’s Licensed Brands

 

i.   ILNA is the exclusive licensee for Prince Socks in North America,

      Europe and South Asia.

ii.   ILNA is the exclusive socks licensee for BERKSHIRE in the U.S market

ILNA Owned Brands

 

i.    THE COMFORT SOCK

 

ii.    HIDDEN PEAK OUTDOOR™

All ILNA brands are featured on www.thecomfortsock.com where consumers discover our obsession for socks.

Euro Sox Plus (ESP)

Euro Sox Plus, an associate company of Interloop based in Netherlands, serves multiple Retailers in Europe and provides sales, marketing, market intelligence and design services to customers. ESP Head Office and Distribution Centre in Holten, Netherlands, offers fully integrated logistics, warehousing and distribution services to European and UK Customers.

Texlan Center (Pvt.) Limited

Interloop expanded its manufacturing affiliation to Sri Lanka through its associate – Texlan Center (Pvt.) Limited. Texlan produces a wide range of products including socks for all genders and sizes as well as tights for babies, children and ladies, for international customers. The diverse product range is complemented by the vertically integrated production operations including cutting-edge Italian Knitting machines, and advanced technology Processing & Boarding machines. Successful use of Nano-bubble technology in wet processing has helped reduce water, chemical & energy consumption by 95%, 71% and 48%, respectively. The Development Center at Texlan is developing multiple product samples for renowned international customers as per their specifications.