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The Textile Magazine
MAY 2012
Mr. Fieux.
GTA India Private Ltd., which is
a 100 per cent subsidiary of GTA,
was established in October last.
The company undertook a complete
study of the Indian market for mat-
tress ticking and spoke to customers
before deciding to venture into the
market.
In India, currently there are 25
to 30 customers, mattress manu-
facturers, who are importing their
requirement for knitted mattress
ticking fabric. By setting up a plant
in India, GTA offers the advantage
of high quality fabric made locally
available to Indian customers. This
gives customers a reliable source,
prompt service and flexibility to
buy as per their requirement. “We
pay a lot of attention to quality, cost
and delivery. We place the custom-
ers on a very high level”, says Mr.
Remy Tack.
The Indian facility will have an
initial capacity to manufacture one
million metres of fabric per annum.
The company plans to quickly ramp
up capacities based on market re-
quirement. The Indian plan will em-
ploy 30 people to start with, headed
by Mr. Remy Tack, who comes
with years of experience in manu-
facturing mattress ticking fabric.
The basic raw material used will
be man-made fibre. GTA is already
sourcing a lot of yarn
from India for its
global facilities. The
yarn is sourced from
Reliance and a few
other companies. The
company plans to use
the same source for
the Indian plant as
well.
“With the best
technology machines,
decades of experience
and understanding of
the market we will be
able to offer the same
quality as in our global
facilities from day 1”,
adds Mr. Remy Tack.
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“Since GTA decided to put up a
project at Tirupur to cater to the
upcoming knits mattress ticking
domestic market as well for ex-
ports. Batliboi has provided all
specialized support for this ven-
ture. Starting from floor plan sug-
gestion Batliboi has installed and
commissioned the specialized
mattress ticking machine OVJA
1.6 E 3WT at the GTAplant. It has
also supplied specially designed
and tailor-made yarn creels to
accommodate bigger packages.
Further, machine operation train-
ing has been given. The knitting
unit started functioning from April
22. Batliboi will further provide
pattern designing & development
services at later stages. It is very
positive about fast growth of this
segment and success of the GTA
venture”.
– Mr. Abhay Sidham
General Manager, Batliboi
From left, Mr. Remy Tack, Mr. Stephen Fieux and Mr. M. Sriram, GTA
circular knitting