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Pakistan’s first

LEED Gold Certified

socks sustainable

production facility

Interloop Limited - Plant 4

The Plant 4, LEED Gold Certification is one of the under the LEED V4 BD+C categories and scored
many milestones achieved by Interloop Limited on 65 out of the attempted 74 points. The points
the sustainability route. Driven by its Mission, scored includes integrative process location and
Interloop Limited’s sustainability philosophy is to transportation, sustainable sites water efficient
transform the way it operates business, from energy and atmosphere materials, resource indoor
sourcing responsibly to reduce the carbon environmental and quality innovation regional
footprint, from supporting labor rights to taking care priority credits.
of its communities along with the continuous
growth of business. The path that was followed by Interloop to achieve
LEED Gold Certification includes improved erosion
Pursuing its commitment to environmental and sedimentation control to reduce negative
protection, Interloop took the required sustainable impact son water and air quality during
building development initiative in Pakistan in August construction, metered and monitored energy,
2018. Interloop’s new socks sustainable facility is reduced water consumption with efficient water
established in Faisalabad – the Plant 4. The Plant 4 fixtures and metering of water at each consumption
has become Pakistan’s and Regions first socks head, used environmentally friendly material
production facility to have achieved the LEED Gold including low VOC paint material and recycled
Certification from US Green Building Council, under material, installed efficient HVAC system having
the Version 4 (V4) rating system. It is the latest and electric water cooled chillers, evaporative coolers,
most rigorous LEED rating system until now. energy recovery ventilators and VRF system for
office block, enhanced thermal comfort by using
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental the double glazed glass and insertion of insulation
Design, LEED, is the most widely used green boards at all outdoor windows, walls and ceiling
building rating system in the world which provides a respectively, construction of external roads with tuff
framework in order to create a healthy as well as paces replacing the bitumen carpeted road to
highly efficient and cost saving green buildings. reduce the heat island, a developed rainwater
This LEED certification is globally recognized as a management plan to store water and reuse for
sustainability achievement.
horticulture, to harvest renewable energy and
The new vertically integrated manufacturing facility, reduce grid electricity targeted to install the 260 KW
Interloop Plant 4, has been planned on LEAN solar system.
based operational procedures and is also
equipped with 736 state of the art knitting Overall the sustainability results that have been
machines, e-Flow Washing Technology as well as achieved in the new construction, Plant 4 includes
the latest boarding machines. 26pc saving in energy consumption, 51pc
reduction in portable water usage and 25pc
The newly built construction, Plant 4 was evaluated enhanced fresh air intake to improve comfort.

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