SAPL Industries, one of the leading apparel manufacturers of India is coming up with a massive expansion. The company is coming up with two units, each with 1,000 stitching machines in MP and Odisha.
Working with many top brands and retailers, the company currently has setup of 2000 machines in Bengaluru. With a turnover of Rs. 260 crore, the company is optimistic about three fold growth in long run.
The company choose these places for expansion mainly due to manpower availability as Bengaluru is saturated especially for new factories. People in MP and Odisha do want to work in apparel industry and they just need training.
Bikash Kejriwal, VP, Finance of the company told Apparel Resources, “State Governments in both the states are also very supportive and quick in their actions. They don’t want to migrate their workforce to factories with in the states are also their priority. Production in these state is going to be a low cost factory compared to what we are spending in Bengaluru.”
He further added that there is a lot of potential in apparel export business and it’s a time for the manufacturing industry now as the Government is supporting the industry with initiatives like FTAs, PLI schemes and incentives being offered by the state Governments.
The company is investing overall Rs. 70 crore in both projects. The factory in Odisha is near to Bhubaneswar and will be in seven acres. The construction is also started here while in MP thing are also in progress and it will be a plug and play model.
In long term buyers are looking for capacity in India and in next few month there will be good orders in future.
“People in these states people are having their basic education and it is easy to mould them so to train them is not a major challenge. After their basic training in long run we will train them for automation also,” says Pramod Mahawar, Vice President, Operation
