100% export knitwear manufacturing · Tongi, Gazipur, Bangladesh
MSL/05/FLOW
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Knitting, linking, washing, finishing, inspection and packing all happen in the same building. Nothing is quietly subcontracted to a floor you have not seen — which is why a fault found on Tuesday is a fault fixed on Tuesday.
2 – 4 days
You send a sketch, a tech pack or a physical garment. We come back with a knitted-weight based cost, not a guess: yarn count and consumption, machine time by gauge, linking operations, wash recipe and trims are each priced separately so you can see what is driving the number and where it can move.
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Merchandising
You receive
7 – 14 days
Yarn is sourced against the approved quality and count, from domestic spinners for standard acrylic and cotton counts and from overseas suppliers where a specialist blend is required. Lab dips are raised against your standard and assessed in the colour cabinet under controlled light before anything is committed.
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Sourcing
You receive
10 – 21 days
The sampling and design department has run since January 2007 — six months before the factory itself. Charts are built per size rather than scaled, blocks are graded, and the proto is knitted on the same gauge and machine type that will run the bulk, so what you approve is what the floor can repeat.
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Design & sampling
You receive
Programme dependent
Panels are knitted on 490 machines across 3GG, 5GG, 7GG and 12GG — 420 hand-driven flat beds for intarsia, texture and short runs, and 70 auto jacquard machines for all-over colourwork and fine gauge volume. Panels are counted off the bed, weighed against the approved sample weight and lamp-inspected before they leave knitting.
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Knitting floor
You receive
Programme dependent
Shoulders, sleeves, side seams and necklines are joined on 180 dial linking machines at 14G, 8G and 6G to match the panel gauge. Overlock, flatbed interlock, buttonhole and snap operations follow. This is where a sweater becomes a garment, and where most of the labour hours actually sit.
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Linking floor
You receive
3 – 6 days
Garments are washed to a written recipe per quality on four automatic washers, extracted, tumble dried and pressed on 44 vacuum iron tables. Handle and shrinkage are both set here, so the recipe is locked at sample approval and is not adjusted for bulk without a re-approval.
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Finishing
You receive
Runs with production
Quality is checked during production rather than after it. Inspectors work under ten dedicated lamps at panel, assembly and final stages, and a remedy is issued on the spot where one exists. Every finished garment passes a conveyor metal detector before packing. Final inspection is offered to AQL 2.5 or to your own protocol.
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Quality assurance
You receive
3 – 5 days
Folded or hanging, poly-bagged to your specification, cartoned and strapped on an automatic PP belting machine. Export documentation is prepared against the L/C terms, and shipment status is reported against the agreed shipping window rather than on request.
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Commercial
You receive
Indicative and honest. The variable that moves them most is not the factory — it is how long yarn approval takes on your side. Colour sign-off is almost always the critical path.
| Stage | Lead time | Measured from |
|---|---|---|
| Proto sample | 10 – 21 days | From receipt of tech pack and approved yarn |
| Size set | 7 – 10 days | After proto approval |
| Pre-production sample | 10 – 14 days | Against bulk yarn and bulk trims |
| Bulk production | 60 – 95 days | Ex-yarn, by construction and colour count |
| Final inspection | Runs with production | AQL 2.5 or your own protocol |
Where a programme needs capacity beyond our own floor, allied production units are enlisted against a written evaluation guideline built to international standard — the same document a buyer would use on us. Our QA team visits on a regular cycle rather than on order. You are told which unit is running your goods before it starts, not after.
