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See our production floor in 360°, then plan your visit. Six facilities, 20 production lines and over 1 million sq. ft.

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Production lines running the length of an AFPL hall, seen from the mezzanine

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A lasting line on the AFPL production floor

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On a visit

From leather
to loading bay.

The route your pair takes through our facilities, stop by stop.

Production and machinery
  1. Material store
  2. AFPL Product Creation Centre
  3. Sample store
  4. Cutting
  5. Embroidery & stitching
  6. Forming & lasting
  7. Sole work
  8. Finishing & inspection
  9. Warehouse
Leathers on tall racks in the AFPL material store
01Material storeLeathers on labelled racks, ready for cutting.
The open-plan floor of the AFPL Product Creation Centre
02AFPL Product Creation CentreResearch, innovation, design, development and engineering under one roof.
Men’s leather shoes and sneakers on a showroom shelf
03Sample storeYour collection seen side by side, in 4,000 sq. ft. of sample store.
A dieless cutting head working across a leather hide
04CuttingAI-assisted nesting and dieless cutting of upper and lining components.
An operator at a row of multi-head embroidery machines
05Embroidery and stitchingMulti-head embroidery and automatic stitching for decoration and upper assembly.
An operator at a toe-lasting machine with a boot on the last
06Forming and lastingForming and lasting equipment shapes the upper over the last.
Sole work on a lasted Western boot
07Sole workSole and heel work on the lasted pair, ready for finishing.
Ankle boots passing through a heat-setting tunnel on the finishing line
08Finishing and inspectionHeat setting and finishing give the final shape, then each pair is checked before packing.
Cartons and pallets staged in the AFPL warehouse
09WarehouseBoxed, stored centrally, then dispatched.

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CompanyInfrastructureSix facilitiesHow AFPL makes itProduction and machineryDepartment by departmentHow AFPL makes itAFPL Product Creation Centre30,000 sq. ft. for research, design and development.