A leading name in the textile industry with a strong footprint in both the domestic and international markets, Rabatex has also expressed interest in diversification by expanding their vision towards developing products with the potential to be applied to numerous industries.
A journey that spans six decades of determination and grit is an apt way to describe Rabatex’s growth from being a humble manufacturer of crankshafts for textile machinery to a company that is currently at the forefront of the warp preparatory and sampling textile machinery industry along with advanced material handling and storage equipment, all of which are currently displaying ground-breaking performance in both the domestic and the overseas markets. Having established themselves as one of the finest textile machinery manufacturers in the industry, Rabatex has customers in over 36 countries.
These include clients in USA, Canada, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Brazil and Vietnam. Rabatex continues to boast an admirable product portfolio, rife with some of the most coveted machinery in the industry, including their famous sectional warping machine, the small width fabric rapier machine and the short length sample warping machine. The meticulous planning invested in their machine specifications has ensured that the machinery they produce is of the utmost versatility, capable of handling both new as well as pre-existing fabrics present in the market.
By recognising the importance of evolving with the needs of the market, Rabatex has ensured that their machinery will never be in danger of becoming obsolete. This would not have been possible without the efforts of their full-fledged, in-house research and development team, comprising degree-holding professionals that share amongst themselves a passion to adapt to new challenges by coming up with innovative solutions. Besides their contribution to the textile sphere, Rabatex has also expressed interest in diversification by expanding their vision towards developing products with the potential to be applied to numerous industries.
Haresh Panchal’s insistence on developing automatic storage and retrieval system (ASRS) and the vertical lift model (VLM) is expected to show fruitful results in the coming years due to the sheer number industries that would benefit from the use of this technology in almost all industrial segments globally. Long celebrated as the most reliable textile machinery manufacturer in India, Rabatex has entered the business with some of the most prominent companies in the Indian textile sphere such as Shahi Group, Ramco Group, Arvind Ltd., Nitin Spinners, Kanchan Group, Sangam Group, Donear Industries, Universal Textile Mill and Shahlon Silk Industries.
All these clients and others have given glowing testimonials in appreciation of the services rendered to them. Rabatex’s well-established family of clients, comprising both domestic and foreign customers, continues to grow to this day due to the importance placed on consistency in product quality and in the effort to achieve customer satisfaction. This is carried out through stringent quality checks at each level that follows the detailed insights of the management and the thrust on innovation that is the hallmark of the company’s research and development team. All this put together has given Rabatex a firm global footprint.
Successful Partnership with Sangam
The Sangam Group has been one of India’s leading players in the textile industry since its inception in 1984. The company is flourishing on many levels, being India’s largest producers of polyester viscose (PV) dyed yarn, currently owning a weaving unit capable of producing 30 million metres of yarn per annum and a processing unit with a capacity of 72 million metres annually. Additionally, they have become prominent players in the realm of cotton knitting as well with over 280,000 spindles at their disposal. The company’s success in whichever endeavour it chooses to undertake can be attributed to the driving principles set by its esteemed Managing Director S N Modani.
The Sangam Group aims to provide innovative solutions to their customers and strives hard to arrive at a reliable product of reputable quality, made in a sustainable fashion. Modani also states that is their company’s salient duty to ensure that their success contributes to India’s empowerment as a global textile hub. He firmly believes that the secret behind their success is strict adherence to a strategically well-planned approach regarding margins and operating costs of machinery. It was at this point that they discovered that in terms of reliability and quality there was no available machine that could match the standards adhered to by Rabatex. Sangam Group started this fruitful relationship in 1992 with the purchase of their well-known sectional warper and sample warper machine.
Since then, Sangam Group has observed that the machinery provided by Rabatex is versatile enough to suit their innumerable requirements, such as dyeing over 20,000 colours and catering to various designs. In addition to the sheer functional superiority of the machines, the availability of machinery of this calibre from a company in India suits Sangam Group’s dedication towards the ‘Make in India’ initiative. Over time, Modani has also noted that Rabatex has carefully built a solid network of personnel that have taken care of the necessary after-sales services exceptionally well. The company has been known to hire experts that are well-trained to provide immediate service as and when required by the customer.
Kanchan-Rabatex Fruitful Relationship
Indeed, Rabatex has forged strong bonds with countless companies it has done business with. Kanchan India Ltd., for instance, is one of the oldest and most valued companies on this roster. As Managing Director Nilesh Banger says, the relationship between him and Haresh Panchal is stronger than a bond shared by brothers. According to Banger, Kanchan India is a company that has valued expansion into a variety of sectors since its inception in 1994. They began with specialising in woollen yarns and proceeded to explore the realms of processing, cotton spinning, and denim and fibre plants.
Currently in possession of over 3 lakh spindles, Kanchan India boasts a daily production capacity of 100 tonnes of woollen yarn and approximately 150 tonnes of polyester viscose synthetic yarn. Currently recognised as the largest producer of denim in India, the company has risen to meet the increasing demand for denim by providing its own unique blended product mix, comprising pure cotton, blended denim and printed denim fabric. However, the true speciality of Kanchan India is displayed in their recent crusade to create a pollution-free environment by commencing the production of 100% polyester-based fibre that is derived from non-biodegradable plastic bottles. The products made from this method have not only received glowing testimonials from their customers but also demonstrate the importance of improved sustainability in the textile industry.
Kanchan India and Rabatex have, over the years, cultivated a relationship that has transcended that of mere business collaboration between two companies. They have come to regard each other as family having formed a bond that arose out of good dealings and mutual trust. Banger proudly states that every single component of machinery used by Kanchan India has been sourced solely from Rabatex, who in turn have ensured that Kanchan India is in possession of some of the finest warping machines they had to offer. Absolutely stellar after-sales service, technical know-how and professional demeanour demonstrated by representatives of Rabatex are the additional factors that have earned them the everlasting loyalty of Kanchan India.
Rabatex at India ITME
After a two-year delay due to the pandemic, the International Textile Machinery Exhibition (ITME) 2022 is slated to take place in the second week of December in India this year. The involvement of more than 1,800 exhibitors hailing from 91 countries and 22 chapters will make this event a one-stop shop for engineering solutions and diverse technology for the textile industry, which will in turn be of great benefit to the Indian sector. The event will highlight India as a prominent textile machinery manufacturing hub and facilitate connections between agents, retailers and manufacturers for both the domestic as well as foreign markets.
As it has in the past, India ITME will provide exhibitors with unparalleled commercial opportunities and will facilitate joint ventures and technology transfers as the country’s textile sector is expected to grow rapidly due to strong domestic and international demand. It would provide access to numerous business verticals via leads, contacts and inquiries on a huge platform. For this reason, Rabatex has decided to extend its support to the event by being a ‘Gold’ sponsor. As this is an opportunity that presents itself only once in four years, Panchal aims to display the innovative strides that Rabatex has made in recent years to their product portfolio.
Some of the products they plan to display include the advanced sectional warping machine, fully automatic sample warping machine, small width sample weaving machine, small width sample warping machine, ultrasonic reed cleaning machine and their line of material storage VLM. Gold-sponsoring this event will allow Rabatex to gain better brand visibility and greater presence in the international market by demonstrating the fruits of 14 years’ worth of research and development, which have ensured that their machinery is fully capable of competing with textile machines from imports. In fact, the acceptance in international markets has been so strong and swift that the company has been encouraged to focus on developing other untapped geographies.
Vision 2030
While the company has constantly had to improve aspects of itself to adapt to the ever-fluctuating demands of the market, Haresh Panchal states that they already have a crystal clear strategy which they plan on following in order to achieve their vision for Rabatex’s growth by the year 2030. With their current division between domestic and foreign market being 70% and 30%, respectively, the company, by the end of the decade, wishes to reach a point where their domestic and export business is in an equal ratio. With all the pieces in place, Panchal aims to achieve 20 times the current revenue by the end of the decade through improvements to infrastructure and investing in advanced machinery manufacturing.
He passionately adds that the developments made in ASRS and VLM technology that come under the storage and handling segment will be a key factor in their plans for expansion due to their applicability in a multitude of industries such as aerospace, textile and pharmaceuticals. Almost 60 years of experience and dedicated work has brought Rabatex to the heights of excellence and their current business strategy indicates that they will stop at nothing short of being recognised as one of the greatest manufacturers of textile machinery the world has seen.