Ihsan Sons, Lahore, Pakistan produces bleached absorbent cotton for nonwoven and health care products at booth 1340. The company will also deals in bleached cotton yarns for gauze and bandages, knitted gloves for industrial and fashion applications, cotton waste for bleaching, spinning and specialty papers and cotton yarns for gauze, bandages, weaving, knitting and denim. S. Fazalilahi & Sons (Pvt) Ltd., a company that has been in textiles since 1947, in 1978 founded Ihsan (Pvt.) Ltd., a multi-product manufacturing company in the domain of cotton/cotton wool products. Setting up a garnetting unit to manufacture shoddy shod·dy adj. shod·di·er, shod·di·est 1. Made of or containing inferior material. 2. a. Of poor quality or craft. b. Rundown; shabby. 3. from textile waste, Ihsan Sons went onstream. It built five lines of Laroche and Schrip equipment to produce about 6300 tons of shoddy per annum Per annum Yearly. ***** Click the link for more information., all of which is exported. During its first diversification phase, a glove knitting unit was established with the latest Japanese equipment. This unit started its operation by producing both industrial and fashion gloves to accepted international standards. Its total output is exported to Japan, Germany, the U.K. and Australia. STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES Surgical Cotton Bleaching Plant. Near the historical city of Lahore, Ihsan Sons, continuing its diversification plan, set up a surgical cotton bleaching plant, covering an area of 45 acres. This healthcare project has been established on ultra-modern lines. The state-of-the-art equipment, installed in 1991, comes from world-renowned European manufacturers such as Fleissner, Thies, Temafa and Autefa. The company has continually expanded its manufacturing capability - from an initial 1000 tons per annum it has raised it to over 4000 tons per annum and plans to take it to 8000 tons per annum during 1997.