UphillSport: Quality socks made in Finland

The Finnish sock factory behind the Uphillsport trademark since 1996
Innovative Sock factory in Finland Sukkamestarit Oy started socks production at 1996 at Tampere city. After five years factory grew fast and established a new factory site and moved to Ylöjärvi at 2001. Today we are the largest sock factory in Finland with capacity of 4,0 million pairs yearly. We are working with 40 professionals from socks and knitting.
Main market has been Finland and we are a major supplier for the Finnish market. Our socks are sold in all kind of stores; sport-, clothes- and mass retailers. As references from our current and
past customers KESKO Oyj, SOK, Intersport Finland, SGN Sportia, Finnish Defence Forces, Halti, Seger, Icepeak, Adidas Finland and many more large and small customers.

Core values
Our way of working has always been close partnership with our customers. Quality, efficiency and new product development are in our focus every day. Today we are famous in Finland of our fast
service, short lead times and high quality. All yarns are OEKOTex 100 certified. Yarn lots are traceable to our supplier and suppliers are controlled with our sustainability program.

Knowledge and knowhow
Our company was established by 5 professionals with a combined 100 years of experience in the sock industry. Company made a generation change in 2007 and the current entrepreneurs have been in charge of the company ever since.

Technology
Sukkamestarit Oy has made innovations in knitting technology, for example Patent 1998-2008 for three and four layer sock structure. Finnish military has chosen one of our three layer wool socks for the main sock in their collection.
Our ICT is connected to our customers systems with EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) connections. We can receive Orders, send Invoices, and provide Desavd, Pricat services to our customers. Production has the latest technology with RFID tracking for quality control and traceability. Factory is environmentally safe and all operations are certified with ISO 9001:2015 certificate.

This is today’s team of entrepreneurs:
• Mr. Jussi Koskinen (Jussi ) – Managing director, with the company since 1996. Sales and marketing, with a background in B to B sales
• Mr. Jani Tarkki (Jani) – Factory director, with the company since 2004. Production and ICT, with a background in the Finnish army
• Mr. Kimmo Koskinen (Kimmo) – Production manager, with the company since 2002. Production and quality, with a background in the process industry
• Mr. Jani Alatalo (Jani ) – Product development manager, with the company since 1998. Product development and tehcnical education, with a background in the technical industry

Together with our wonderful staff, we make a strong and innoative team.

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