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The Textile Magazine
MAY 2012
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stenter and relax dryers, shrinking
ranges and vacuum foam finishing
ranges. The group also offers Dhall
rotary nickel screens developed
with the technology from Zimmer
of the US.
Mr. Satish Chopra, Managing
Director of Dhall Group, says: “We
are emerging as a global player in
denim industry competing with the
European manufacturers. We have
some good references and accept-
ability in the top segment. Our
sizeable business comes from the
range of machineries that we offer
for the Denim industry. We have
installed more than 100 machines
in the Denim industry, till date in
markets like India, Bangladesh,
Peru, Turkey and Thailand”.
Till 2000 most of the machines
for the denim industry were being
imported by Indian companies. In
May 2000 Dhall supplied its first
set of machines to Arvind. This
set off a new trend in the denim
industry in India, and subsequently
the company started supplying to
all major brands, including Ray-
mond, Mafatlal, Oswal, Nahar,
Aarvee Denim and all others. It has
15 machines in Aarvee Denim and
received repeat orders from Arvind.
Another segment which the
company is aggressively working
on is decentralized processing units.
In 2005 the company executed a
complete project in Ahmedabad for
Pradeep Overseas Ltd. This was a
turnkey project executed by Dhall
wherein the company installed the
bleaching and dyeing plant.
Mr. Chopra says: “We hope to be
able to modernise the decentralised
processing sector. The payback
period for our continuous bleach
range is just 12 months. There is
potential for more than 500 such
machines in India”.
Dhall has done an important in-
novation in the continuous bleach-
ing range machines. For the first
time in the world the company has
developed a machine which can
successfully run two ends super-
imposed on each other. For upto
150 gsm weight of the fabric, the
bleaching results on both the layers
are the same. This would result
in increased capacity of 2,00,000
metres per day in a machine. “This
is the biggest revolution in the In-
dian industry making our machines
economical. We will be able to
sell this technology for the next 10
years in modernising the decentral-
ised processing sector”, says Mr.
Chopra.
“When the denim industry started
in India, all the machines were
being imported from Europe, but
now most of the machines are avail-
processing & finishing
Mr. Satish Chopra, and Mr. Pankaj Dhall, Director, Dhall Enterprises & Engineers Pvt. Ltd.