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The Textile Magazine
DECEMBER 2011
of its design capabilities, product
knowledge and state-of-the-art man-
ufacturing facilities. On the weaving
front it has modern facilities that uti-
lise the best technology available in
the world. This includes Benninger
warping and sizing machines from
Switzerland for preparatory, projec-
tile Sulzer make looms, wider width
/ narrow width airjet looms of Toy-
ota / Picanol make, Rapier Sulzer
make looms with Staubli make do-
bby and Rapier Sulzer make looms
with Bonas make Jacquard attach-
ment.
The company also outsources fab-
rics from powerlooms and mills to
meet its requirements. Presently, the
company has 1,018 apparel width
looms with an installed capacity of
93 million metres and 855 wider
width looms with an installed capac-
ity of 68 million metres.
In weaving, the company, under
its ongoing expansion programme,
proposes to install 200 Toyota make
airjet wider width looms with an
installed capacity of 24 million me-
tres. It is also installing 120 normal
width Picanol make airjet / rapier
looms with an installed capacity of
27 million metres. Thus the total
weaving capacity would increase
to 212 million metres and the total
number of looms to 2,183. Looking
to the growing demand for the knit-
ted fabrics, the company is further
expanding its capacities by install-
ing additional circular knitting ma-
chines, taking the total capacity to
25,000 tpa.
In knitting, the company currently
has 171 Mayer and Cie / Pailung
circular knitting machines of vari-
ous types like single jersey, double
jersey, interlock, auto striper and
rib structure. The total installed ca-
pacity is 18,200 tpa. The products
include single jersey, double jersey,
interlock, ribs, jacquards and auto
striper, and the fibres used include
cottons, blends of cotton with poly-
ester or viscose, polyester, viscose
and Lycra blended.
In an unfortunate incident on Au-
gust 16, 2007, Alok’s texturising
unit at Silvassa with 70 texturising
machines was totally gutted in a fire.
The company rebuilt a new texturis-
Mr. Surendra B. Jiwrajka, Jt. Managing Director
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