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The Textile Magazine
DECEMBER 2011
sation from Rs. 120,569 in 2009-10
to Rs. 174,346 in 2010-11 and has
entered Brazil and strengthened its
presence in Bangladesh.
The company has undertaken fur-
ther expansion in its yarn spinning
facilities which envisage setting up
of 275,904 spindles and 2,040 rotors,
including other balancing equipment
at an outlay of Rs. 11,170 million.
Commercial production at these fa-
cilities is expected to commence in a
phased manner and to be completed
by the third quarter of 2013. Further,
the company proposes to set up an
open-end yarn spinning expansion
project by installing 1,344 rotors
at an estimated investment of
Rs. 733.5 million. Of this invest-
ment, Rs. 17 crores is proposed
to be incurred on modernisation
of existing yarn facilities.
In 2010-11, Trident completed
terry towel capacity expansion.
It has installed 14 new looms.
With this expansion, the total
production capacity of the terry
towel division has increased to
388 looms. Commercial production
at the new facilities commenced in
January last.
The specific areas in which R&D
carried out by the company are:
New product development in tex-
tiles, increasing water absorption of
cotton yarn, high bulk yarn, mutli
count, multi twist, T400, Pc span-
dex, quickdry towels, air rich tow-
els, hi-bulk zero twist, 2-ply air rich,
reversible towel, eucalyptus fibre
blend towel, rose fibre blend towel
and banana fibre blend towel.
The company keeps upgrading
technology to manufacture high-
quality products to suit demanding
customer requirements. Quality is
benchmarked with the Uster Statis-
tics scale (global leader in textile
quality control). It enjoys quality
certifications from Egyptian, PIMA
and FLO cotton and recognition
from CUC, IMO, GRS, ISO and
OKEO.
Trident has installed textile looms
from Toyota and other leading sup-
pliers and has state-of-the-art yarn
equipment from LMW, Rieter, Mu-
rata, Zinser and Savio.
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