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The Textile Magazine
August 2012
Chief Executive Officer - Spin-
ning, “Since our inception, we
have crossed many milestones and
reached good levels of productivity
and quality of yarns. Almost 95%
of our production is consumed in-
house in our weaving and knitting
units. The requirement, however,
of our weaving, knitting, terry
and yarn dyeing divisions is much
higher than our production with
our division contributing to about
60% of the total yarn requirement.
In view of this, we may consider
adding some more capacities in
spinning in the near future to de-
risk vagaries of the markets”.
Alok has identified technical and
specialized fabrics as its area of
growth in future, and towards this
end, the company is setting up a
dedicated spinning unit of 11,332
spindles and 360 rotors capable of
producing specialized yarn, thus
becoming an integrated technical
textiles producer as well.
“In the years to come we will
further improve aspects like
productivity, quality to make this
business unit even more profitable.
We are ready to face challenges of
a tougher, competitive and uncer-
tain market. We will continue to put
in our best efforts and retain skilled
workforce through good training
programs which will be vital when
we add capacities and achieve
greater milestones”, Mr. Mukherjee
adds.
Achieving the highest level of
productivity with the lowest pos-
sible input cost and maintaining the
highest level of quality across prod-
ucts lines will be the key area that
the company intends focusing on.
Weaving
Alok’s weaving unit manufac-
tures normal width and wider width
greige fabrics. The year 2011-12 in
many ways was a landmark year for
the weaving plant. The company
has the largest number of airjet/
rapier looms at one location in the
country. Also, with about 800 airjet
looms under one shed, the com-
pany possesses probably the largest
weaving shed in the world.
In the year under review, Alok
achieved a record production and
hopes to break the record in 2012-
13 as the company
optimizes capacities
and increases the run-
ning speed and ef-
ficiency of the looms.
Alok produces a wide
range of fabrics with
different weaves such
as plain weave, satin
weave, twills, dobbies,
jacquard, yarn dyed
and technical fabrics,
amongst others.
Says Mr. Tulsi Kar-
nani, Chief Executive
Officer - Weaving: “We continu-
ously put in efforts to improve effi-
ciency, reduce inventory and make
our products more competitive. We
also continuously explore efficient
means to reduce our cost per pick
(thereby cost per meter), shrink
our total lead times and enhance
customer satisfaction by producing
quality products and introducing
new developments”.
“For example, in the case of
woven apparel fabrics, yarn dyed
fabric, our value-added product
segment, we reduced the overall
lead time of 131 days in April-2011
to 60-65 days in February-2012 /
March 2012. Similarly, we im-
proved the production of this value-
added fabric during the year. We
are further increasing the produc-
tion of this value-added yarn dyed
fabric and expect to double it from
the present level in the next few
months by increasing yarn dyed
capacities”, Mr. Karani adds.
Processing
Alok’s modern plants cover al-
most all kinds of narrow and wider
width fabrics, knits, yarn dyeing
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