About

Founded 1983. Family-run.
One factory. Four decades.

A second-generation Pakistani OEM that's built leather gloves, knitted garments, and technical workwear under our buyers' brands for over four decades. No retail line. No franchises. Just one floor in Faisalabad, doing the same work we've always done — better every year.

SAS Agencies manufacturing facility in Faisalabad, Pakistan
Faisalabad, PakistanEst. 1983
From the family

Bilal Saleem started SAS in 1983. He still runs it — now with his three sons on the floor.

When our father founded this company in 1983, "OEM" wasn't a marketing term. It was the only way a young manufacturer in Faisalabad could compete with the European brands he wanted to supply: make their products better than they could, ship them quietly, let them put their name on it.

Forty years later, that's still the deal. Some buyers signed their first PO with him in the late 1980s and still order today.

"We don't sell our brand. We make yours better."

The second generation runs the divisions now — Hanzla on garments, Areeb on gloves, Hazefa on marketing — working alongside him in the same building. The craft on the floor didn't change. We tightened the systems around it: cleaner tech packs, faster sampling, and a QC checklist read against the buyer's spec sheet, not an internal average.

If you're comparing two or three Pakistani OEMs, ask the harder question: which one picks up the phone on day 90 when something needs fixing? That's the relationship we've built — our average buyer has been with us 20+ years.

Hanzla, Areeb & Hazefa Sheikh
Directors · Second Generation
Our history

43 years, two generations, one floor.

The condensed history. No press releases or "milestones" — just what changed and when.

1983

SAS Agencies founded in Faisalabad

Mr. Bilal (Sr.) opens the doors with a small team and a single focus: leather gloves and cotton knitted gloves for European buyers seeking a more affordable alternative to Italian and Spanish OEMs.

1989

First long-term European OEM contract

A safety-equipment distributor in Germany places its first PO. They're still a buyer today — over 35 years later. The foundation of how we work — slow, quiet, accountable — gets set here.

1998

Welding range expansion

Buffalo, cow split, and goatskin welding gloves added with Kevlar thread construction. EN 12477 and EN 388 testing becomes standard across all welding lines.

2005

BSCI certification

First social compliance certification. Annual audits begin. Worker welfare programs and proper documentation systems formalized.

2010

ISO 9001:2015 + OEKO-TEX Standard 100

Quality management and harmful-substance testing certifications. Knitted garments division begins testing every batch.

2014

Knitted garments division launched

Polos, tees, sweatshirts, workwear shirts, and base layers come online. Same floor, new circular-knit machinery. Revenue mix shifts to 70% gloves / 30% knitted garments — where it sits today.

2017

Second generation joins the floor

Hanzla, Areeb and Hazefa join as division directors, working alongside their father. Investment goes into sampling speed, QC discipline, and tech-pack workflows. The factory doesn't expand — it sharpens.

2020

Outerwear range — puffer, softshell, quilted jackets

Technical jacket production added in response to existing buyers needing winter and FR-treated outerwear. Bubble (quilted) jackets become a high-margin signature line.

2026

Today

350 artisans. 70,000 ft². 150,000 pairs of gloves and 45,000 garments per month. Exporting to Europe, the UK, Canada, and Australia under buyer-private labels. Still family-owned. Still on the same Faisalabad floor.

Our values

Eight principles we don't dilute for a deal.

Not poster slogans. These show up on the floor — in tech packs, in QC reports, in how we answer hard questions from new buyers.

01

Craftsmanship

Four decades of leather and knit. Hands that know the difference between full grain and split, between 7-gauge and 10-gauge. We hire slowly and keep our team.

02

Ethical Standards

BSCI, ISO 9001:2015, OEKO-TEX certified. Annual audits aren't a hurdle — they're how we keep ourselves honest.

03

Customer Focus

20+ year average buyer relationship isn't an accident. We pick up the phone on day 90 when something needs fixing.

04

Adaptability

New compliance standards. New materials. New buyer markets. We don't lead the market — we keep up with the buyers leading theirs.

05

Safety & Responsibility

We make PPE. We wear PPE on the floor. The standards we apply to your buyers' end-users we apply to our own team first.

06

Partnerships

Suppliers we've worked with for decades. Hides from the same tanneries. Yarn from the same spinners. Consistency in input = consistency in output.

07

Sustainability

100% solar-powered factory. Cutting offcuts re-spun into yarn. GRS-certified recycled polyester on request. Real practices, not glossy reports.

08

Continuous Improvement

Every batch is inspected against the buyer's spec — not the internal average. Every shipment gets a final audit. Every year, we measurably get better.

Headquarters

1-km Kashmir Bridge, Faisalabad.

One building. 70,000 ft² of vertically integrated manufacturing. Three floors connecting cutting, knitting, stitching, dipping, finishing, quality control, and packing. Nothing subcontracted off-site.

Address 1-km Kashmir Bridge, 204 Chak Road, near Jinnah Park, Madina Town side, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan
Working hours Monday – Saturday, 09:00 – 18:00 GMT+5
Time zone Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+05:00)
Port Karachi Port — 18-hour overland from factory
Nearest airport Faisalabad International (LYP) · 30 minutes
SAS Agencies factory exterior, Faisalabad
SAS Agencies · 1 km Kashmir Bridge, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
43 yrs
Manufacturing since 1983
350+
Artisans on the floor
70k ft²
Vertically integrated facility
20+ yrs
Avg buyer relationship
Let's build something

Same hands, same building, same standard — for over four decades.

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