Specialising in woven sportswear, Noida based Creative Clothex has been recently conferred with Best Manufacturer’s Award by Adidas. They were shortlisted from the 10 dedicated vendors that Adidas has. Open to new ideas and change, the young and articulate Mohit Singhal, Director, Creative Clothex has also hired a Sri Lankan consultant Chandrajith Wickramasinghe (popular as CJ with more than 15 years of experience in apparel manufacturing) to implement lean systems in his factory.
Upfront in its approach, the company earlier had three units with 100 to 150 machines in each, but now all have been consolidated and brought under one roof for attracting bigger buyers who are not very comfortable with smaller setups and also to fetch better efficiencies through lean.
[bleft]Creative Clothex is setting up a 300 machine fully automated unit in Noida with UBTs, automatic spreaders and cutters[/bleft]
“I visited factories in China and Indonesia and I found that those factories were producing far more garments per machine as compared to us. Their wastage and rejection percentage was just about 0.25 per cent as compared to ours which is about 2.3 per cent rejection norm. To compete in the world market we have to be at the same level, so I thought of going for lean systems,” states Mohit who wants to focus on pre-production activities to reduce wastages, cut machine’s down time, and become more efficient than any other factory in India today. “We are looking at 7 to 8 per cent reduction in our wastages,” he adds.
Founded in 1997, Creative Clothex is having a turnover of Rs. 25 crore; and now with increased efficiency levels and building additional capacities, the company is looking at touching Rs. 50 crore per annum. Adidas and Reebok are the biggest buyers for the company followed by Puma, Speedo and Wilson.
