About Us

The leading manufacturer of elastic knitted fabrics, laces, embroidery, and ribbons in Europe.

Wide selection of materials

Lauma Fabrics produces a wide selection of materials, the majority of which are used in intimate apparel garments.

The products include: elastic warp-knit fabrics, rigid warp-knit fabrics, elastic circular-knit fabrics, laces, embroidery, narrow bands and molded cups as well as a selection of medical textiles.

Today Lauma Fabrics is the leading lingerie textiles producer in Europe.

«All of us at Lauma Fabrics would like to express our sincere gratitude to each and every customer and supplier to whom we have established partnerships over the years and who keep growing with us».

Edijs Egliņš

CEO Lauma Fabrics

The history of creating
a world-class brand

Built in the early 1970s

Built in the early 1970s to provide textile products throughout the Soviet Union. Consequently, the business was established with both knitting and dyeing & finishing facilities. Lauma Fabrics produces a wide selection of fabrics and materials, the majority of which are used in intimate apparel garments.

1970

The company made an investment of €6.4 million

The company made an investment of €6.4 million in 2014-2015 and 2019 in dye house modernization in Latvia, which enables beam and jet dyeing; includes water scouring machine and stenters.

2014 — 2015

A new stenter's acquired for Lauma Fabrics

The acquisition allowed the company to improve the quality of its produced fabrics and to be able to offer new solutions of materials to its customers. The cost of the acquisition was EUR 1.2 million and the new stenter delivered in spring 2019.

2018-2019

Our Brands

All of our companies are market leaders
in their product groups.

Lauma Medical

Lauma Medical carries out a complete production cycle from weaving, knitting, sewing and packing to delivery to pharmacies and orthopaedic salons.

The high technical quality and ecological materials used ensure perfect product fit.

Elastisch

Textile Dyehouse in Wuppertal has over 100 years of heritage in Dyeing and Finishing of Synthetic and Natural Fiber fabrics. Our expertise ranges from fine gauge knitting to very course gauge articles for technical and medical applications.

We are able to use Jet Dyeing and Beam Dyeing technology according to the needs of product.

Elastic

Elastic GmbH has over 60 years experience in knitting of synthetic fabrics based on Raschel, Tricot, Rascheltronik and Raschellace technologies.

Traditionally ELASTIC has been one of the leading solution providers in the high functional fabrics field for Intimate Apparel, Sports and Medical.

Lauma Fabrics

Sustainability in supply-chain –
value creation through vertical
integration.

OEKO TEX

Lauma Fabrics companies and suppliers comply with internationally recognized production standards of Oeko-Tex, REACH and ISO. Our products must be free of over 100 harmful substances to human health and must be manufactured in environmentally friendly facilities.

Ecodye

Lauma Labrics has also made considerable investments into its dye-house modernisation at Lauma Fabrics plant, installing 14 new dyeing machines and using ECODYE for dyeing processes, which is considered to be ecologically the best PES dyeing process.

Energy efficiency

Lauma Fabrics acquires electricity by a local supplier Latvenergo, which is one of the most environmentally friendly electricity producers in EU. In 2018, 47% of its electricity output were generated from renewable energy sources, mostly water. The company plans to install thousands of solar panels to shift all production to renewable energy and reduce energy costs.

Full set of materials in common color range

Machines only from European suppliers

Full production cycle under one roof

Strong team  of designers and technicians

Stability and expertise

Modern dye house