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The Textile Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2011
First
Monforts Montex 6500
installed in India
corporate news
T
he Indian commis-
sion dyer, Selvam
Process, has in-
stalled the country’s first
Monforts JV Montex 6500
made in the Monforts
joint venture company
in China to meet the de-
mand for open-width
knitwear, with heat set-
ting and finishing, by its
export customers.
Selvam Process, located in the
heart of the country’s knitwear
production centre of Tirupur, was
founded in 1990 by R. Subrama-
niam as a commission dyer for the
knitwear sector, initially using the
‘winch’ technology.
By the late 1990s he had been
joined by his son S. Raju. With a
brief to modernise and expand the
company’s production capacity,
Mr. Raju had by 2000 introduced
a range of Fong’s dyeing systems.
He took control of the company in
2009.
During this period, the company
had been receiving increasing re-
quests from its exporters for open-
width dyeing, entailing outsourcing
the knitwear greige material for
heat setting treatment.
“I therefore had to find a ‘total
solution’ so that we could handle
both tubular and open-width knit-
wear in-house.”
The solution proved to be India’s
first Montex 6,500 stenters from
Monforts, built in the JV company
in China, supplied through Mon-
forts’ local representative, ATE En-
terprises.
Installed in December 2010, the
stenter today handles all heat set-
ting treatment for the open-widths