Suryalakshmi Cotton, founded in 1962, is one of India’s integrated premium yarns, denim, and garment manufacturing companies, with more than five decades of market leadership. It has become the Original Denim manufacturer {ODM) for the major global and local brands, with a large market share in the premium denim industry, during the last two decades. For top private labels, fashion brands, and retail chains in 29 countries across the world, the company produces one of the highest quality yarns, premium denim, and garments using cutting-edge design, cutting-edge spinning technology, and end-to end production processes. The company offer profitable growth while maintaining responsible business practices by utilising future-ready automation and measurement-based controls. The company’s revenue from operations grew by 60 % to Rs. 784 crores in FY 2022.
Suryalakshmi Cotton uses cutting-edge technology and top-of-the-line machines from across the world to make yarn. World-class R&D facilities are used to research upcoming trends in yarn technology and fashion, with an emphasis on modernization and automation. This allows the company to stay up with shifting market trends while still achieving benchmark quality standards that fulfil all the denim value chain’s requirements. The company’s commitment to quality control measures guarantees that every length of yarn that leaves the manufacturing facilities meet international quality standards, achieving Uster 5% quality norms.
L.N. Agarwal, Chairman, said : “Today, Suryalakshmi is moving forward into the future with confident steps. Our deep-rooted legacy, brand power, global status, visionary approach, innovation capabilities and commitment to sustainability bolster our leadership position in the industry. The credit of our success and turnaround during the year can be attributed to the hard work, dedication and commitment of our employees. We see qualified employees as our most valuable asset. Thus, we adopt a human resources management approach that respects the rights of employees and supports equality and fairness across the organisation. We place great importance on ensuring social gender equality”.
“We want our products to be groundbreaking and drive change in the global textile industry. With the market and our salience improving day after day, we are expecting similar growth in the forthcoming years”, he added.
Suryalakshmi Cotton has been manufacturing denim fabric as a forward integration strategy for the past two decades; it performs cutting-edge research to design, create, and produce speciality denim fabrics to fulfil the particular demands of global fashion markets. The company has cutting-edge, fully integrated fabric production facility. The customer is at the centre of SCML’s fabric creation process. For various fabric demands, an endless mix of finish chemistries are custom engineered. State of the art dyeing, weaving and finishing technologies are used to create over 3000 distinct verities of textiles to be shipped to customers around the world.
Exports witnessed a healthy 54% growth and the Company managed to service its clientele of leading brands like Lee, Wrangler, Dickies, Timberland, WalMart, Amazon Gorge, Primark, Salisbury & Jack & Jones etc. The Company has added new customers like CK, Uniqlo, M&S etc & new markets like Indonesia, Syria etc.
Core strengths
SCML is one of the country’s most influential Original Denim Manufacturers (ODM) with global partners like Pantaloons, Spykar, Wrangler, and others. The company is a major supplier to Walmart, NEXT & MATALAMNM’s and Levi’s while being a significant vendor for VF Corporation in the United States and India. SCML’s collaboration with global and local customers’ design, sourcing and production teams, help bring the latest denim trends to the market. With the increasing Indian youth population alongside increasing income, the company is fully prepared to tap into the potential market through its quick response methodology enabling it to provide fast fashion into markets swiftly.
Innovative apparels with unique design, material and texture made through dynamic design techniques that take fashion trends, customer preferences and choices into account. The Company’s manufacturing facilities are outfitted with cutting-edge technology from leading worldwide vendors.