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The Textile Magazine
DECEMBER 2011
pieces with 1,647 Juki machines at
Silvassa.
While garment sales, especially
for export, have encouraging growth
potential, there is fierce cost compe-
tition. Alok is therefore also looking
at increasing capacities through out-
sourcing, either directly or through
its subsidiaries, to low-cost opera-
tors, both in India and overseas, es-
pecially Bangladesh, where quality
garments can be produced at com-
petitive prices.
The work-wear segment, too, of-
fers opportunities for this division to
grow. The products include knitted
or woven garments for ladies, gents
and children, garments for sports-
wear, active wear, casual wear and
sleepwear, garments made from fab-
rics like solid, mélange, yarn dyed,
auto stripes, jacquards, embroidered
and variety of prints like transfer
prints, and block prints.
Polyester yarn
Alok commenced polyester yarn
manufacturing operations in Febru-
ary 1989 at Silvassa with production
of 511 tons per annum of texturised
yarn. Its present capacity of 1,400
tons per day represents an increase of
over 2.50 times of its original capac-
ity per annum, making it the fourth
largest fully integrated polyester yarn
manufacturer in the country.
The company offers a wide range
of polyester products, from partial-
ly-oriented yarn (POY), draw tex-
turised yarn (DTY), fully drawn
yarn (FDY), dyed yarn, cationic
yarn, polyester staple fiber (PSF)
and chips.
As a backward integration to
texturising, the company ventured
into POY manufacturing, with an
installed capacity of 54,000 tpa in
2006 through the chip route. Look-
ing to the expansion of texturising
capacity and to save on the raw ma-
terial cost, it has increased the total
production capacity of POY from
54,000 tpa to 200,000 tpa. This was
done through the continuous polym-
erization (CP) route in March 2009.
Under the CP route, POY is manu-
factured from PTA and MEG.
Alok Industries expects growth
in global demand for polyester yarn
and is setting up another CP plant
with a capacity of 300,000 tonnes,
taking the total capacity to 500,000
tonnes. Of this, 100,000 tpa com-
menced operation in March last. The
company is also increasing the DTY
capacity by 56,000 tonnes to create
total capacity of 170,000 tonnes.
Future outlook
With an anticipated CAGR of
5.7 per cent for the five-year period
2009-2014, the global textiles mar-
ket is expected to grow to $1,369.8
billion by the end of 2014. In this
growing global market, India has
the potential to expand its textiles
and apparel output by serving both
its domestic and export markets.
In fact, given its competitive cost
structures, estimates suggest that In-
dia’s $70 billion textile and apparel
industry has the potential to grow at
11 per cent per annum to reach $134
billion in 2015.
Alok Industries has been gearing
itself since last of couple of years
to take advantage of these oppor-
tunities. It has created large-scale
capacities with backward and for-
ward integration, adopted modern
technologies, widened its product
range and created a flexible set-up
to quickly adapt the products to the
changing customer needs. Its inte-
gration and scale of operation en-
able the company to produce high
quality products at most competitive
prices and at lowest lead times. It
has a well diversified customer base
and has become a reliable sourcing
partner for its customers.
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