3.13GG · 5GG · 7GG · 12GG
Pullovers & Crewnecks
The volume core of the floor. Crew, V, funnel and half-zip bodies in 3GG to 12GG, fully fashioned or cut-and-link.
SpecificationsMinimum 300 pcs
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100% export sweater factory · Tongi, Gazipur, Bangladesh
We knit sweaters.
Nothing else.
Pullovers, cardigans, intarsia and fine gauge knitwear from 3GG to 12GG, on 490 machines in Tongi — shipping to Europe, Australia and North America since 2007.
Shipment capacity
5,500dozen a month
The floor, in figures
- Knitting capacity
- 490machinesKnitting capacity420 hand-driven flat beds and 70 auto jacquard.
- Linking capacity
- 180machinesLinking capacity14G, 8G and 6G dial linkers.
- Staff and workers
- 450peopleStaff and workersAcross six departments, one building.
- Gauge range
- 3–12gaugeGauge rangeChunky through to fine, all in-house.
03What we knit
Six ways of building a sweater.
We organise the range by construction rather than by season, because construction is what sets the machine, the labour hours and the price.
3.23GG · 5GG · 7GG
Cardigans & Button-Throughs
Placket-led constructions: button-through, shawl collar, zip-through and belted. The most trim-heavy thing we make.
SpecificationsMinimum 300 pcs
3.35GG · 7GG · 12GG
Intarsia & Jacquard
Colourwork at scale — intarsia motifs on hand flats, all-over jacquard on 12GG auto machines. Our oldest speciality.
SpecificationsMinimum 500 pcs
3.43GG · 5GG · 7GG
Cable, Aran & Texture
Structure knitted in rather than printed on: cables, bobbles, moss and links-links, mostly 3GG and 5GG.
SpecificationsMinimum 300 pcs
3.57GG · 12GG
Fine Gauge & Cashmere-like
12GG fine knits with a soft handle — cashmere-like blends, lightweight layers and next-to-skin qualities.
SpecificationsMinimum 500 pcs
3.63GG · 5GG · 7GG · 12GG
Kidswear
Newborn to 14 years, built to children's safety requirements — trim pull tests, no loose ends, metal-free bagging.
SpecificationsMinimum 300 pcs
02Gauge, and what backs it
Every gauge, with the machines behind it.
Gauge is the first question you will ask and the last thing a factory website usually answers. Move the dial: the structure redraws at that stitch density, next to the machine count and the monthly output it is backed by.
Handle
The everyday knitwear weight
- Monthly output
- 1,000dz
- Machines
- 60 + 20
- Necklines linked on
- 8G dial linker
12,000 pieces
hand flats plus multi-gauge auto jacquard
Typically used for
- Core pullovers
- Cardigans
- Kidswear
00.2Why buyers stay
Four things that are true here and are not true everywhere.
420 hand beds is a commercial decision, not a legacy one
Intarsia with eight colours and no float on the reverse cannot be automated cheaply at this volume. Keeping a large hand-driven floor is what lets us quote real colourwork at a price that survives a buying meeting — and take short runs that an all-automatic factory has to decline.
Costed on knitted weight, not on a guess
Every quotation breaks out yarn count and consumption, machine time by gauge, linking operations, wash recipe and trims. You can see which line is carrying the price, and we can both see what happens if the gauge, the yarn or the neckline changes.
Quality is checked during production, not after it
Inspectors work at panel, assembly and final stage under ten dedicated lamps, and issue the remedy on the spot where one exists. Catching a tension fault at course 40 costs an hour. Catching it at final inspection costs a shipment.
The wash recipe is part of the approved sample
Handle and shrinkage are set in finishing, not in yarn. We lock the recipe at sample approval and do not adjust it for bulk without re-approval, which is why a re-order in month nine matches the shipment from month two.
05 · Enquiry to export
Eight stages, one floor.
Nothing is subcontracted out of sight. Knitting, linking, washing, finishing, inspection and packing all happen in the same building, which is why a fault found on Tuesday is a fault fixed on Tuesday.
- 012 – 4 days
Enquiry & costing
Merchandising
- 027 – 14 days
Yarn & trim sourcing
Sourcing
- 0310 – 21 days
Design & sampling
Design & sampling
- 04Programme dependent
Knitting
Knitting floor
- 05Programme dependent
Linking & making-up
Linking floor
- 063 – 6 days
Wash & finishing
Finishing
- 07Runs with production
Inspection
Quality assurance
- 083 – 5 days
Packing & export
Commercial
07Where it goes
Shipping to three continents since 2007.
Founded in November 2007, six months after the sampling and design department it grew out of. Since then the floor has run export programmes for domestic and overseas branded suppliers as well as directly for buyers.
- Europe
- Autumn/winter programmes, tight measurement tolerances, buyer-nominated compliance. Our largest destination by volume.
- Australia
- Counter-seasonal shipping windows, which suits a floor that would otherwise run light through the European summer.
- North America
- Volume basics on repeat contract, plus placed-motif and jacquard programmes for seasonal drops.
Selected buyers
