Many small- and medium-level companies of Mumbai are entering the garment segment, as well as expanding or moving towards in-house manufacturing. August Clothing, a shirt manufacturer of Mumbai is installing 100 stitching machines in the next few months. Currently, the firm is outsourcing almost 2,000 pieces every month for export as well as domestic market. “Now we have enough experience of markets and despite overall challenges we are confident about more orders, so we decided to have an in-house set up. All machines that we will install, will be UBT,” said Darshan Sedani, Director of the company.
At ITME 2016 (Mumbai), Team Apparel Online met many companies from across the country and from different segments of the textile supply chain that are geared up for further expansion. Many of them are also entering/expanding into garmenting. Read the upcoming issue of Apparel Online for the detailed coverage of these companies.
Doing yarn trading business from last seven years Tejaswini Textiles, Mumbai is also working to enter into the garmenting business. Vijay Singh Kaparwan, Director, sharing what motivated him to move towards garment business said, “The liberalization and globalization of textile industry and the way the fashion industry is moving ahead is the reason that we want to go in for forward integration. We are looking from a global perspective rather than restricting ourselves to just the domestic market… As far as manufacturing or outsourcing is concerned we are planning to keep things in focus, specially the cost. Though initially the unit will be on a start-up level, but with time we will definitely increase the scale.” The company is working with top players like Siyarams, Welspun, etc.
Similarly, Ruksush Uniforms & Exports is also looking for future prospects to working in the export segment. Hitesh Bhuta, Owner of the firm having almost 150 stitching machines and own looms, is in the process to start exports. He said, “It is little difficult but we are trying to add some buying houses with us, as we foresee growth in the segment.”
