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The Textile Magazine
FEBRUARY 2012
TeFoc
partners global giants to
support Indian customers
corporate news
Meet Mr. P. Samuel Ravichan-
dran, a first generation entrepreneur
with years of experience working
in the Indian textile industry. He
decided to break the monotony of
working with machines and manu-
facturing lines and to start his own
venture TeFoc.
The Tefoc Group comprising Te-
Foc Machineries, TeFoc Accesso-
ries and TeFoc industrial products
was founded by Mr. Ravichandran
in partnership with Mr. K. Muthu
Vijayan at the end of 2008. Both of
them are textile technocrats, each
with more than two decades of tech-
nical and marketing in the field.
The group had its focus on textile spinning and identi-
fied some of the critical accessories that can be exten-
sively used in spinning mills, and made them easily
available in the local market for the first time.
TeFoc initially started with Saxonia top combs and
Reseda wax rolls, both German brands, and subsequent-
ly started working with many other global brands for
accessories and spares. Apart from Saxonia and Reseda,
TeFoc works with Kanai of Japan
for rings, travellers & card cloth-
ings, INA Bearings, part of the
Schaeffler Group of Germany, for
all ranges of needles & roller bear-
ings, Yamauchi of Japan for cots
& aprons, Optibelt of Germany for
variator, timing & V Belts, Phoenix
Engineering of India for cutters for
autowinders and weaving looms,
INVESTA–UNI of the Czech Re-
public for Y-Tester, a quick quality
management tool to find out a de-
fective spinning unit, and with ZKL
Bearings of the Czech Republic for
heavy duty bearings.
TeFoc Machineries also entered
into an agreement with China Texmatech Trading Co.
Ltd. for promoting Jingwei’s range of spinning pre-
paratory machines, spinning machineries and automatic
winders.
In order to have a more focused marketing of bearings
and belts required by textile factories and also by ce-
ment, power, wind farm, steel and paper industries, Te-
Foc has started a new division, TeFoc Industrial Prod-
ucts Pvt. Ltd.
Today, TeFoc has its good infrastructure for
marketing the various products and is also continu-
ously building up a strong base for expanding the
market and services. Headquartered in Coimbat-
ore, it has operations all across South India.
Mr. Samuel Ravichandran says: “Our mission is
to supply quality textile accessories in a smooth,
easy and quickest possible manner to spinning mill
customers. We want to identify new technologies
and introduce them into the Indian textile market
at an affordable cost with a strong service and ap-
plication support to customers”.
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Mr. P. Samuel Ravichandran
By K. Gopalakrishnan