AHMEDABAD : RAPIDLY GROWING GARMENT HUB

With multiple crowns to add to its glory like the textile state of India , the denim capital of India , Gujarat , at present , has a textile market of around US $ 25 billion and contributes nearly 12 per cent to India ’ s textile exports . The list is quite long and impressive as Gujarat covers the entire supply chain right from cotton production to textile machinery . And now , Ahmedabad , one of the biggest textile hub and the largest city of Gujarat , is growing as a garmenting hub . The companies based here , and working in an organized way , are in the process of huge expansion for garments , while some of them are taking the IPO route . There are emerging garment manufacturers purely focusing on the domestic market but having state-of-the-art manufacturing units . Some of them are also having expert technical consultants working with them . The vertical integrated companies are already going strong in garmenting , and are further diversifying and adding new product categories , expanding both into export as well as domestic market . Team Apparel Online visited these companies to understand their growth strategy in this booming garmenting scenario .

In textile segment for last six decades , CA Patel Textiles , entered into casual and semi-casual shirt manufacturing just six months before for its own brand ‘ ITALFIC ’ with 200 stitching machines . It further plans to install 800 stitching machines in the next two years . Manufacturing millions of garments per month , offering an entire range of fashion garments , Komal Texfab is now diversifying into jeans and ethnic wear manufacturing with an investment of nearly Rs . 50 crore . It is also going to double its circular knitting capacity which is currently 200 tonnes per month . Globe Textiles India Ltd ., manufacturing 2 lakh jeans ( majorly basic as well as semi-fashionable ) for the Indian and the overseas market , is also increasing its stitching capacity . Kolkata based brand , AppleEye recently tied up for 25,000 garments per month with one such Ahmedabad-based company . Two years old , Bubble Bee Export House , which had seen 200 per cent growth last year , is in the process to install 250 stitching machines . These are ample examples which prove Ahmedabad ’ s strength in garmenting .

There is no doubt that Gujarat , or even Ahmedabad , has a strong availability of cotton fabric since a long time , reasonably good labour availability , State Government support which motivates entrepreneurs to move forward . Already going strong in processing and manufacturing of home furnishing products , apparel is the only segment which was not explored in Ahmedabad , and hence companies in this city are naturally moving towards this . Processing / printing , yet another strength of Ahmedabad , is also one of the reasons for knitted garments ’ growth here . “ Garmenting was already here in Ahmedabad but it was majorly for the domestic market and the unorganized market . However , since last few years , it is growing in an organized way because only garmenting is left to be ventured further . We have everything required for support structure , right from yarn to finishing in surrounding areas , so

Suresh P . Bagrecha , CMD , Komal Texfab

Yash Patel ( L ), Director , Shirting Fabric & Garment Division with Swapnil Patel , Director from CA Patel Textiles

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AHMEDABAD : RAPIDLY GROWING GARMENT HUB