OUR FACTORIES

We use a total of eight subcontractors in the form of knitting factories, woven factories and yarn factories. We work with three larger suppliers of yarn and a few smaller ones which can vary from season to season.

YARN FACTORY: NINGBO, ZHEJIANG

At this factory, the cashmere wool is being spun to yarn in different colors. This factory use modern Italian machines in their production. During our visit, we got the opportunity to speak to a couple of people working in the factory and they all gave us the impression that they enjoyed working at the factory. The average working hours are 8 h with 1 hour free for lunch and they work either 5 or 6 days per week. Overtime is voluntarily and payed.

Visited by the Soft Goat team in April 2018.

YARN FACTORY: ORDOS, INNER MONGOLIA

At this factory, the cashmere wool is being spun too yarn in different colors. There are around 500 people working at this factory and they produce up to 10 000 ton of cashmere per year.

Visited by the Soft Goat team in January 2020.

YARN FACTORY: XINGTAI, QINGHE

At this factory, the cashmere wool is being spun too yarn in different colors. Around 320 people are working at this factory, and they produce up to 1200 ton of cashmere per year.

Visited by the Soft Goat team in January 2020.

YARN FACTORY: FLORENCE, ITALY

At this factory, the recycled cashmere is being spun into yarn. The old sweaters arrive to this factory to be broken down and spun into recycled yarn. The factory has 85 employees.

Visited by the Soft Goat team in September 2021.

FACTORY FOR WOVEN PRODUCTS: ORDOS, INNER MONGOLIA

In this factory all our woven products are being produced. A special technique and capacity is required to produce woven cashmere products with a beautiful finish and high quality, that is why all our woven products are being produced here. The workers at this factory are very skilled and we always get the best possible result and quality.

Visited by the Soft Goat team in January 2020.

KNITTING FACTORY: XINGTAI, QINGHE

This factory is owned by our agents in China, and it is here most of our garments are being produced. Here, the garments get knitted, linked and controlled until they finally is being sent to our warehouse in Stockholm. There are around 120 workers at the factory and it is located in one of the largest areas that are handling raw cashmere and cashmere knitwear production.

Visited by the Soft Goat team in January 2020.  

FACTORY FOR ACCESSORIES: HUHOT, INNER MONGOLIA

At this factory all our accessories are produced.

We have not visited this factory yet, but are planing to do so during 2022.

KNITTING FACTORY: CARPI, ITALY

Here all of our garments made out of recycled cashmere is being produced. Here, the garments get knitted, linked and controlled before being sent to us. It is a family owned factory with 12 employees.

Visited by the Soft Goat team in September 2021.

This text gets updated continuously. This text was updated: 2021-09-23