Kallam is one of the leading textile mills in India, producing high quality medium and fine count cotton yarn for sensitive consumers from different countries. Operation of the mills began in 1995. Promoted by its illustrious founder Shri. Kallam Haranadha Reddy, the company registered remarkable growth not only in sales volume, but more importantly in its stature.
Starting its first ring spinning facility in Guntur in a modest way, Kallam Spinning has over the years into one of the largest manufacturers of spun yarn for weaving and knitting items. The company produces high quality 100 per cent cotton yarn of international standard, supplies it to end customers and also exports to different countries. The management team of Kallam Spinning has many years of experience in yarn manufacturing.
Though Kallam is a relatively young company in textiles, during its two decades of chequered growth, it has enhanced its capacity to 100,000 ring spindles, open ended spinning with 3,000 open end rotors spread over three operational units. The product range is OE 10’s to 21’s, ring spinning 20’s to 80’s. Kallam has 35,000 spindles Suessen compact yarn capacity producing Ne 40’s combed, 40s carded, 50’s combed, 60s combed & 80s combed compact yarn. The spinner has established quality through ISO systems for more than a decade.
The mill is equipped with best spinning machines from Truetzschler, Rieter, LMW, Schlafhorst, Uster, Muratec, Luwa, Volkmann and SSM. It has also set up three hydroelectric units of 4 MW capacity for captive consumption. Today the company has carved a niche for itself with its due place on the textile map of the country. By way of backward integration it also started a ginning unit in 2011.
The year 2012 marked another milestone for Kallam when the group decided to go ahead with forward integration by setting up 250 Airjet looms for producing grey fabric and a separate 5,000 kg/day yarn dyeing plant. The company has invested close to Rs. 150 crores in this project and is the first of its kind in Andhra Pradesh. In fact it is the only company in India to give speciality yarn dyed shirting, bottom weight and outerwear fabrics.
Trial production at the new plant will start in September next. It is expected to commence operations in full swing by the first quarter of 2014. Being set up at Kunkupadu village in Ongole district of AP, the project is spread over a massive 120 acres of land consisting of state-of-the-art technology which makes it the first greenfield project in that region. The company plans to produce 100,000 metres of grey fabric per day, which means a massive production of 36 million metres per annum under a single roof.
Reputed weaving machinery manufacturers are currently working together with Kallam in this massive project. Karl Mayer, Picanol, Toyota, Luwa, Prasant, Fongs, Stalam, Dettin and Eliar are some of them. Warping and sizing machines are from Karl Mayer and sectional warpers are from Prasant. More than 150 Airjets looms are being supplied by Picanol and 96 Airjet looms by Toyota. Luwa takes care of the entire humidification system involved. Fong’s is providing the dyeing solutions, Stalam with its RF dryers, Dettin hydro extractor and Dye control and monitoring systems from Eliar are assisting Kallam in this new venture.
Sharing his views on the ambitious growth plans of the company, Mr. G.V. Krishna Reddy, JMD of KSML, told The Textile Magazine: “We have big plans of setting up an in-house processing plant, a 10 MW solar plant / bio-mass plant or another spinning unit within our newly acquired premises in the near future.”
Last but not the least, Kallam believes that the most important aspect of any successful business is its people, and so has worked very hard in putting together a team of dedicated ground staff to help the company achieve its projected targets.
The group is also India’s largest cottonseed oil mill with a crushing capacity of 800 MT per day. The group imparts quality education with the help of its engineering college. In addition, the company wind mills produce an adequate amount of non-conventional energy.