Lancashire Sock Mfg. Company, Broadbeach, QLD

Lancashire Sock was founded in 1917 by William and his wife Mary Ormerod, manufacturing insoles for shoes and boot. Their two sons, George and Robert went on to expand the company by manufacturing and laminating in house, a range of cork and felt materials. Injection moulded sandals and children's wellingtons also became part of the company's products. Over the last 45 years, William Ormerod, grandson of the founder, has developed the company's products and acquired four competitors, Thomas Green, Greenfield Laminates, Textile Combining Ltd and the latex foam division of Stadex Industries in Wrexham. Located in Bacup, we now have three latex foam coating lines, producing a wide variety of latex foam coated materials for shoe manufacture and removable insoles, crumb rubber for carpet underlays, metallised heat reflective fabric for ironing boards and synthetic chamois for cleaning cloths. In addition, we are also a fully independent high quality specialist flame laminator of a wide variety of PVC, foam, textile material and film up to two metres wide. We also offer extensive hot melt adhesive laminating services of breathable PU Films and thermo coating of textiles, foams, pressure sensitive adhesives and commission perforate flexible materials in roll form. One of our growth areas is the production of synthetic cleaning cloths, which can be supplied in 100 metre rolls or cut pieces, Brycham and Eurocham being two of the more popular products in this range.