Tencel to supply product range to Garment majors

摘要

As part of its marketing strategy, the Bangalore-based Tencel Ltd is planning to supply its product range to leading textile majors in India. The company has been in talks with Madura Garments, Raymond Apparel Group, Pantaloon Retail India Ltd, Arvind Mills Ltd, Levis and Dockers, Mr Prem Sandhwani, country manager, Tencel Ltd. said. "With the move, we hope to supply 300 to 500 tonne of tencel silk, wool, lycra, knit and woven fabrics in India, within a year," he said. At present, Tencel, a member of the Acordis Group imports around 500 tonne of tencel fibres from UK-based Acordis Fibres Holdings Ltd. After procuring tencel fibres from Acordis, Tencel supplies the fibres to companies such as Rajasthan Spinning & Weaving Mills, Arvind Mills, Ashima, Mafatlal Group and Na-har Group in India. On the company's expansion plans, Mr Sandhwani said, since the tencel fab- ric sale is growing every year at the rate of 50 per cent in India and 30 per cent globally, Acordis Fibres Holdings which currently produces 55,000 tonne of tencel fibres in UK is planning to increase its capacity of supplying tencel fibres to 1,000 tonne to India, within a year.