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Export manufacturers in Sialkot, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Faisalabad and beyond, for buyers sourcing from Pakistan.
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Pakistan's export industry is built in clusters: footballs and surgical instruments in Sialkot, fans and cutlery around Gujranwala and Gujrat, textiles in Faisalabad. The Makers desk reports on the companies inside those clusters and how to work with them.
MakersSialkot Manufacturers: A Buyer's Guide to Pakistan's Export City
What Sialkot makes, how its exporters work, and how to source from the city with confidence.
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MakersHow Sialkot Came to Make the World Cup Ball
From hand-stitched panels to thermo-bonded match balls: the Sialkot factory behind four World Cups.
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Made HereMade Here: The Surgical Scissors You Have Probably Already Used
How blacksmiths repairing hospital tools in the 1800s grew into a cluster of thousands of instrument makers.
Read the storyNext on the Makers desk: The Sialkot File, the first of The City Files, followed by guides to Gujranwala and Faisalabad.
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