Wide view of a working sportswear production floor with several sewing stations in operation and stacked cut panels

Ice Hockey Apparel Manufacturer for Brands, Clubs, and Distributors

Decorated team kits, brand-label production, and blank stock for resale all run through the same six lines. Find the path that matches how your order gets placed, or send us the requirement and we will route it.

  • 2009Manufacturing sportswear since 15+ years
  • 80,000pieces per month
  • 6dedicated sportswear production lines
  • 180+staff, 12 of them on quality control only
  • 30+countries shipped to
Who Buys From This Factory

Who This Hockey Apparel Factory Manufactures For

Three buying situations, three different starting points. Pick the one that matches how your order actually gets placed.

Five buyer categories come through this factory: apparel brands, hockey clubs and team buyers, distributors, teamwear agents, and decoration shops. They buy in three recognizable ways.

A brand buyer's desk with orange and charcoal fabric swatches, a label sample, and a spec sheet

Apparel Brands and Private-Label Buyers

The label is yours; what gets bought here is a factory that reproduces those colors and that identity season after season, without them being re-explained each time.

Start at brand-label program in section 4
A team equipment coordinator's clipboard beside a folded kelly green and white jersey with an invented crest and number

Club and Team Purchasing Leads

One kit covers a whole roster, and the season start date does not move.Next year the same order comes back with new names, new numbers, and a different size spread.

Start at ongoing team-kit program in section 4
Distributor buyer pulling blank hockey jerseys from a color-sorted stockroom shelf

Distributors, Teamwear Agents, and Decoration Shops

Stock sits on the shelf and gets decorated to order, so the real question is whether the same blank arrives the same way every cycle.

Start at blank hockey jerseys
Product Range

What We Manufacture, From One Product Line to a Full Team Kit

The full range, decorated or blank, available to every program on this page.

Ice hockey player at the boards wearing a royal blue player-cut jersey with club crest and sleeve numbers

Ice Hockey Jerseys

Player cut and hockey goalie cut. Two separate pattern sets, specified per role rather than one pattern stretched to cover both.

Two players on the ice showing both faces of a purple and white reversible training jersey

Training Jerseys

Including reversible double-sided. One garment that works for both sides of an ice hockey practice.

Multiple hockey sock styles and colorways displayed as a product range

Hockey Socks

Made in the same colorways as the jersey they are ordered with.

Multiple hockey pant-shell styles displayed in a sample room

Pant Shells

The outer layer over the pants, matched to the kit rather than sourced separately.

Youth club line-up in a locker room wearing the complete red team kit

Full Team-Kit Sets

Jersey, socks, and pant shell specified, sampled, produced, and shipped as one order, so a club is not chasing three suppliers against one season date.

Player pulling on a charcoal warm-up jacket with neon yellow piping beside a locker-room bench

Warm-Up Hoodies and Jackets

The off-ice layer, ordered alongside the kit or on its own.

Any of these can be produced decorated or left blank. Fabric weights, decoration methods, and color matching are handled in sections 6, 9, and 10.

Five Sourcing Paths

Five Ways to Source Custom and Blank Hockey Apparel

Product on one axis, relationship on the other. Match both before you send anything.

Decorated sample garment and sign-off card in an open project folder

Decorated Order, One Season

Suits a brand or club placing one decorated batch, or one season's full kit, as a single project with a defined end. Quoting, sampling, and production run once, and the files stay on record in case you come back. This is the path most first orders take.

Full program: custom hockey jerseys
A shelf of folded kits sorted into three team bundles — purple, maroon, and powder blue — each with its own invented crest and team name

Ongoing Team-Kit Supply

Built around clubs that renew a full kit every season. Roster changes, new numbers, and a shifted size spread are handled as an update against the file already on record rather than as a fresh start, which is what keeps season four looking like season one.

See how it runs in section 13
A GRAYFORT-branded label and hangtag set beside a powder blue and navy-trim poly-bagged garment in a shipping carton

Private-Label and OEM Line Production

Aimed at a brand producing a continuing line of SKUs under its own main label, hangtag, and packaging, planned by the year rather than by the order. The goods arrive ready for your own warehouse.

See the relationship shape in section 5
A pallet of folded jerseys in a mixed teal, orange, and kelly green colorway wrapped for one shipment

Blank Stock for Resale

Undecorated goods bought by a distributor, agent, or decoration shop as one seasonal batch, to resell as is or to press and print in house.

Detail in section 7
Warehouse worker refilling a color-sorted rack of blank hockey jerseys

Standing Blank Restock

Where a distributor or decorator would rather hold a fixed color list on a repeating cycle than place a batch order each time stock runs down.

Detail on wholesale hockey jerseys, example in section 8

Already know which of the five is yours? Send a project inquiry and name the program in your first line.

Private-Label Case

A Private Label Hockey Apparel Factory Relationship, Planned by the Year

Eight SKUs a year under the buyer's own label, running as a continuing line rather than a sequence of separate orders.

A European hockey apparel brand runs its line here as an ODM program.The brand sets the design direction and supplies the label artwork; pattern work, production, and finishing happen on our side, and the goods leave carrying the brand's own main label and hangtag, one garment per bag and one bag per box, ready to go straight onto their own shelf without being repacked.The SKU list is agreed for the year rather than negotiated order by order, so line time is planned around it in advance.Each SKU re-enters production against the file kept from its first run, which is why the brand's third-season blue reads as the same blue their customers already bought, and why a change of contact person on either side does not send the specification back to the beginning.

Black and vegas gold woven label with the invented brand wordmark GRAYFORT sewn into a jersey neck beside a matching hangtag Black and vegas gold hangtag and neck label set printed with the invented brand wordmark GRAYFORT Black and vegas gold garment folded into a poly bag with the invented brand wordmark GRAYFORT visible on the hangtag

The real company name is not shown here. The relationship is described by buyer type, volume shape, and program mode only.

Buyer type
European hockey apparel brand
Program shape
ODM under buyer's own label
Range
8 SKUs per year
Finishing
Own main label & hangtag
Packing
1 garment/bag, 1 bag/box
One Question First

Which Decoration Route Your Artwork Points To

One question settles it, before any file gets prepared.

Sublimated Decoration

Artwork with many colors, a gradient, or an all-over pattern points to sublimated decoration.

Tackle Twill or Embroidery

Solid-color marks that need a raised, hard-wearing edge, such as numbers, wordmarks, and crest shapes, point to tackle twill or embroidery.

Plenty of kits end up carrying both on the same garment, which is a normal outcome rather than a compromise.Each route has its own page: sublimated hockey jerseys and tackle twill and embroidered hockey jerseys.The full decorated jersey program, pattern selection through sample approval, sits on custom hockey jerseys.

Split image: orange and purple sublimated color in a knit surface on the left, a stitched forest green twill edge and raised embroidery thread on the right
Blank Supply

Wholesale Blank Hockey Jersey Supply for Resale and In-House Decoration

Undecorated stock, bought either as one seasonal batch or as a standing cycle.

Single-Season Batch

One coordinated order sized to what you expect to move through a season, produced and shipped together so the shelf is full before the season opens. You decide the color spread and size curve once, and the whole batch is cut against one specification.

Standing Restock Cycle

A repeating replenishment against a fixed color list, so the stock you are still selling is already being made. Cadence is agreed up front and slotted into the production schedule, which is what keeps a restock from competing with seasonal peak work for line time.

Blank goods run on the same fabrics, the same graded patterns, and the same construction as the decorated goods leaving the same lines.They are the same garment before decoration, which is why they press and print the way your sample did.What holds that steady from batch to batch is in section 9, and a distributor running this arrangement is in section 8.

Blank hockey jerseys sorted into color columns on a stockroom rack, one column part-picked Blank hockey jerseys stacked by color before decoration A kelly green blank jersey being pressed in house with a freshly transferred fictional design visible on the platen
Standing Restock Case

How a Standing Blank Restock Runs for a Distributor

Evidence of a supply rhythm held across cycles rather than proof of one good order.

An ANZ-region distributor came to us needing blank stock that was ready to press on demand, in the six colors their decoration customers ask for by name.The part that was costing them was not the ordering.It was that every arriving batch had to be re-approved as if it came from a new supplier, which put a check between them and every job they had already promised.

We set the account up as a standing restock instead of a run of separate orders, and that changed what each batch gets measured against.Every restock is produced to the same fabric, graded pattern, and construction reference as the stock they originally signed off, so an arriving batch is checked against a file they already approved rather than re-qualified from zero.

The arrangement now runs as a monthly cycle of 1,200 pieces spread across all six colors, and their press schedule is built against that cadence instead of around it. The real company name is not shown; this is described by region, buyer type, and program mode only.

Need a standing restock on your own color list? Get in touch with the colors you keep in stock.

A restock shipment checked into a stockroom beside a rack color-sorted into royal blue, red, black, white, forest green, and gold Six standing colors — royal blue, red, black, white, forest green, and gold — folded and sorted on a stock shelf A restock batch in the standing royal blue, red, black, white, forest green, and gold color list being counted in
Reorder Mechanics

Fabric Base and Batch Consistency on a Reorder

What is kept on file, what gets checked mid-run, and what has to stay frozen for a second order to match the first.

Macro of three fabric surfaces side by side: teal air knit, burgundy double-knit, and orange mesh
Air knit, double-knit, and mesh base constructions.
A graded pattern set being pulled from a labelled account file
Graded pattern set retained under account.
Two kelly green pieces from different production batches laid edge to edge under even light, showing the same color
Batch-to-batch color match under even light.
Close macro of an open air-knit polyester surface in teal

Fabric Base: Polyester Air Knit, Double-Knit, and Mesh

Three base constructions cover the range.Air knit is the open, light-surface polyester used where the garment has to move air and stay light on the body.Double-knit is the heavier two-face construction used where the garment has to hold its shape and take contact without distorting.Mesh goes in as a ventilating panel, or as a full body where airflow matters more than surface.The base is chosen per garment at quote stage and recorded against the order, so it is a decision made once rather than re-made on the next run.

Rolls in different weights, at least four distinct colors visible, staged before cutting

Weight Selection by Garment Use

Weight is specified per garment, not per order.A game jersey worn over padding is specified lighter than a pant shell, which takes abrasion from the ice and from the pads underneath.Socks are specified in a different knit again, because they stretch over the leg and have to hold their length through a full game.When a kit is bought as one set, each piece carries its own weight spec, and all of them go onto the same order file so next season's set matches piece for piece.Exact gram weights are confirmed against the specification on your order, since they move with the fabric chosen; the standard weight range carried for each base is listed on the blank hockey jerseys page.

Two burgundy pieces from different runs laid edge to edge under even light, showing the same color

Color Consistency Across a Production Batch

Drift inside a single batch usually traces back to a run being cut and printed across different rolls or different days.The colorway is matched once against the reference you supply, and that approved result becomes the reference the whole run is read against.QC pulls pieces from the start, the middle, and the end of a run and checks them against that same approved reference, so a shift appearing part way through is caught inside the batch rather than at your warehouse.

A graded pattern set pulled from a labelled account file

Pattern and Template Retention for Reorders

The graded pattern set used to cut your first order is kept on file under your account, every size in the range.A reorder is cut from that same set rather than redrafted from the tech pack a second time, and redrafting is where fit differences between a first and a second order normally come from.Adding a size later grades that size onto the existing set instead of triggering a fresh draft of the whole range.

Decoration files and screens held on file between seasons

Decoration File and Screen Retention Across Seasons

The sublimation print file, the twill cut template, and the embroidery stitch file made for the first run are held with the pattern.A repeat order recalls them, so a logo lands at the same position and the same size as last season with no new digitizing or placement round.The files sit against the account rather than in one person's inbox, so a contact change on your side does not restart the artwork stage.

Main label, hangtag and trim references recorded on the order file

Label and Trim Retention on Repeat Orders

Main label, hangtag, neck tape, and trim references are recorded as part of the order file rather than re-specified each time. That matters most for brands whose goods travel from our carton to their own shelf without being opened and repacked.

What Changes and What Is Locked When You Reorder

Adjustable on a ReorderLocked to Hold the Match
Quantity per sizeThe graded pattern set
Size mix inside a colorwayThe approved color reference
Which SKUs from your range get run this timeDecoration files and placement coordinates
A size added onto the existing graded setFabric base and weight per garment
Ship timing against the production scheduleLabel and trim references

Adjustable on a Reorder

  • Quantity per size
  • Size mix inside a colorway
  • Which SKUs from your range get run this time
  • A size added onto the existing graded set
  • Ship timing against the production schedule

Locked to Hold the Match

  • The graded pattern set
  • The approved color reference
  • Decoration files and placement coordinates
  • Fabric base and weight per garment
  • Label and trim references

Anything in the locked column can still be changed.Changing it makes the order a new specification with its own sample round, and from that point it is a new batch rather than a match to the last one.That is the trade to weigh before a reorder, and it is easier to weigh before the order goes in than after the goods land.

A color reference card held beside an orange and a teal fabric swatch under even daylight

Color Is Matched to the Reference You Supply

A code, a swatch, or a screen file, and each one carries a different amount of risk. You set the color, and we match to whatever reference arrives with the order.The reference type is what decides the risk: a color code leaves nothing open to interpretation, a physical swatch adds one match-and-approve round before the run, and a screen-only file leaves the widest gap between what you signed off and what comes off the fabric.Send the most exact reference you hold.

Hockey apparel color matching covers the detail once that page is live.

Wide-angle factory floor with several sewing stations, at least three different garment colorways visible in progress
Production Base

Inside the Hockey Apparel Factory: Lines, Capacity, and People

The production base every program on this page runs on.

Production Lines and Equipment

Six dedicated sportswear production lines run in parallel, supported by a digital sublimation printing line, automated cutting, flatlock, overlock and 4-thread sewing, and computerized embroidery.Print, cut, sew, and embroidery sit in the same building, so a garment does not leave the site between decoration and assembly.

Monthly Capacity

80,000 pieces per month across those six lines. A club's full-season kit or a distributor's monthly restock takes a modest slice of that, which is what makes a fixed season date something to schedule against rather than something to hope for.

Workforce and Quality Control Staffing

180+ staff, and 12 of them work on quality control only. Checking a batch is a separate job from sewing it, held by separate people.

Factory Footprint

A 6,500 m² facility holding cutting, printing, sewing, finishing, and finished-goods storage under one roof, which is what keeps a multi-piece kit together as one order instead of splitting it across sites.

Years in Sportswear Manufacturing

Manufacturing sportswear since 2009, 15+ years, with hockey apparel as the current focus of the six lines.

Export Reach

Goods go out to 30+ countries, packed and documented for export as standard rather than as a special arrangement.

Who We Serve

Apparel brands, hockey clubs and team buyers, distributors, teamwear agents, and decoration shops.Main markets are North America (US and Canada), the Nordic and Central-Eastern European countries, Western Europe, Japan and Korea, and Australia and New Zealand.Around 60% of orders come from buyers who have ordered before.

Order Lifecycle

From Inquiry to Reorder: What Happens and How Long Each Stage Takes

The same seven stages apply whether you are buying a decorated team kit, a brand-label line, or a blank restock.

12 business-day hrs

Inquiry and Response

An inquiry gets a reply within 12 business hours, naming who is handling the account and asking only for what is still missing to quote.

24 hours

Quote After a Complete Tech Pack

A quote follows within 24 hours of a complete tech pack: cut/pattern, color reference, artwork or blank spec, and quantity shape.

7-10 days

Sampling

Sample production runs 7-10 days. One physical piece per specification comes back to hold, try on, and mark up.

2 free rounds

Sample Revision Rounds

The first 2 rounds of revision carry no extra sampling fee, each re-run against the written specification.

25-35 days

Bulk Production

Bulk runs 25-35 days, counted from sample sign-off rather than from the order date.

18-20 days

Rush Option

Rush can compress bulk to 18-20 days, arranged in advance against the production schedule.

Re-quote

Reorder After the First Batch

A reorder re-enters at the quote stage. The graded pattern, decoration files, and label references already held mean drafting and digitizing are done.

A specification document and an approved sample tag with a purple accent corner, side by side on a plain surface A teal and white first sample with an invented club crest and number being checked against the approved specification Bulk production of royal blue garments with a matching invented crest and numbers running against the approved sample A maroon and gold finished piece with an invented club crest and number being checked before the batch closes
Team-Kit Case

A Youth Hockey Club Ordering Full Team Kits Season After Season

14 teams and 620 pieces a season of jersey, socks, and shell, bought as one kit and reordered four seasons running.

Season 1 · First Order

A North American youth hockey club specified all 14 of its teams as one kit: jersey, socks, and pant shell per player, quoted together, sampled together, and shipped as one consignment sorted by team.620 pieces in total, with the pattern set, color reference, and decoration files put on file at sign-off.

Season 2 · First Reorder

Rosters changed over the summer, so names, numbers, and the size spread were updated against the artwork file already on record. The pattern and print files were recalled from season one, which meant the unchanged garments went straight to production without a new sample round.

Season 3 · Second Reorder

The kit itself stayed as it was. What moved was the size distribution, as players grew into different sizes across the age groups, so the order was a redistribution of the same specification rather than a new one.

Season 4 · Third Reorder

Same graded pattern, same approved color reference, same decoration files, fourth season running. A parent comparing this year's jersey with a sibling's from three years ago is looking at the same garment.

Multiple coordinated red, white, and black hockey jersey, sock, and pant-shell styles displayed as a team-kit range Multiple coordinated red, white, and black hockey sock styles displayed in a sample room Worker heat-pressing two-digit twill numbers onto a red club jersey back Multiple coordinated red, white, and black short hockey pant-shell styles displayed in a sample room

Planning a multi-season kit program of your own? Talk to us with your season dates and roster count.

Certifications & QC

Certifications and Quality Control: ISO 9001, OEKO-TEX, and BSCI

What each one blocks before it reaches your order, and what gets checked before a shipment closes.

ISO 9001:2015 — Process Control

Quality management certification means the way an order is specified, checked, and recorded is a written procedure rather than the working habit of whoever runs the line that week.On a program split across several batches or several seasons, that is what keeps batch four handled the way batch one was.

OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 — Fabric Safety

Certification at Class II, the apparel-use level, covers goods worn in direct skin contact. When your own customers or your compliance team ask what is in the garment, the certification answers it in a form they already recognize.

BSCI Social-Compliance Audit

A factory audit means the labor and workplace side has already been examined by an outside party. A brand or distributor answering to its own retail accounts can point at an audit that has happened rather than commissioning one part way through a program.

Third-Party Lab Testing

Finished goods can go to a third-party lab for color fastness, shrinkage, and pilling testing against the standard you name, with the report available on request. Name the standard at quote stage, while the fabric choice is still open, rather than after the bulk is cut.

What Gets Checked at the Line, Not Just at the End

The 12 quality-control staff counted in section 11 work at the line as well as at the end of it. Pieces are pulled during the run and again at pack-out, so a fault in one size or one color surfaces while the run can still be corrected.

A purple and white garment with an invented club crest and number on a QC measuring table, spec sheet and tape visible

What Gets Checked Before a Shipment Closes

Every shipment is read against the signed-off sample and the order file: measurements at the graded points, color against the approved reference, decoration position and size, label and trim, and carton count against the packing list.The list is the same every time, because it is the same list the sample was approved on.Inspection sampling levels are agreed per buyer standard rather than published as a single figure here.

Minimal abstract ice-surface texture

What We Do Not Make

This factory makes hockey apparel. It does not make the equipment worn underneath it.

  • Protective Hardware

    Helmets, pads, sticks, skates, mouthguards, and bags sit outside our scope in full, including sourcing them on your behalf.

  • Cut-Resistant Neck Protection

    We do not make cut-resistant neck guards, and we make no protective or medical performance claim about anything we do make.

  • Field Hockey

    A different sport with different garment engineering. We work in ice hockey only.

  • Who This Factory Does Fit

    Jerseys, socks, pant shells, kit sets, warm-up hoodies and jackets, decorated or blank, for hockey brands, clubs, distributors, agents, and decoration shops.

Start Your Hockey Apparel Program

Whichever of the five paths is yours, the next step is the same message: what you need made, roughly how many, and by when.

Get In Touch

Send a Hockey Apparel Inquiry

Send it with or without a tech pack ready, for any of the five programs on this page.

A quiet inquiry-side workspace: a notebook, fabric swatches, and a phone face down on a plain desk
  • Artwork and tech packs you send stay confidential and are never shown as portfolio work without your written permission.
  • You can send an inquiry before artwork exists; the first reply asks only for what is missing.
  • ISO 9001:2015, OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100, and BSCI documentation is available on request during quoting.
  • Your first reply names the person handling your account.

Tell us what you need made and who you are buying for. Four fields is enough to start.

Include your buying role (brand, club or team, distributor, agent, decoration shop), which program you are asking about, roughly how many pieces and by when, and whether artwork or a tech pack is ready to share.

Inquiries are answered within 12 business hours, and a quote follows within 24 hours once a complete tech pack is in hand.

Send a Project Inquiry