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Gelal Socks is a privately owned company, established in 1966, presently managed by the third generation of its founders.
Proven to globally lead the creation and development of all types of socks, Gelal demonstrates exemplary flexibility, producing a wide range of socks from technical or end-use purpose-created socks with specific functions and properties, to exciting lifestyle socks, even basic socks for men, ladies and children!
• Two applications for novel material use, to achieve ultra-high grip properties in different types of socks (without increasing the product cost).
• One application for a novel workflow process that drastically reduces: the consumption of natural resources, energy, product cycle time, costs and CO₂ emissions.
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Gelal is a privately owned, independent, financially sound corporation.
The Top-Level Management & Directors is a healthy combination of owners’ family members and seasoned external Managers, ensuring coverage of all corporate key operational functions.
Gelal sees socks manufacturing as a process to be disrupted. Gelal and its Clients have a shared passion for innovation and creativity, for leading change and finding what is next.
Gelal demonstrates contribution to world-leading advancements in machinery, re-engineering of workflow processes, manufacturing operating models and monitoring systems.
The ability to maintain rates of renewable resource harvest, pollution creation, and non-renewable resource depletion that can be continued indefinitely.
The ability to support a defined level of economic production indefinitely.
The ability of a social system, such as a country, to function at a defined level of social well-being indefinitely.
We believe in continuous improvement and we are determined to be competitive by applying controlling and quality systems. For this reason, Gelal is participating in a number of Compliance Platforms to keep up and improve our sustainability and our principles.
All the effort and persistence for continuous improvement has been rewarded with a number of certifications, among them the most important are the following:
Headquarters Address:
Akcaburgaz Mahallesi,
117 Sokak No. 2,
34500 Esenyurt, Istanbul,
Turkey
+90 212 8866535