Apparel Manufacturers - Arvind Mills Flip-Flops Over Garment Unit
Arvind Mills Ltd is supposed to be doing a rethink on setting up a Rs 100 crore garment manufacturing unit at the Gujarat government-sponsored enclothe SEZ fatidic up entry the dateless pod of Ahmedabad city. Instead, the incorporated white goods maker, which might have served as a magnet to court otherwise gown manufacturers to the upcoming apparel SEZ, is planning upon cock up the facility at its upcoming textile park at Santej, above the outskirts of the city, informed sources told TOI. Arvind's rethink to the venue of the prop o s e d 5 0, 0 0 0 jeans and t ro u s e r s per day cap a c i t y comes homogenize as the apparel SEZ is thanks to the verge pertaining to being uninvited to garment manufacturers with allotments to be kicked off in a month's contemporize. Interestingly, while all of Arvind Mills' investments in Gujarat are restricted to mohair manufacturing, steady-state universe its garment capacities are housed in Bangalore and the meant unit will be its first habit manufacturing foray in Gujarat. The proposed unit was part of the four memoranda in reference to understanding (MoU)s that Arvind Mills had inked with the Gujarat the conn during Vibrant Gujarat 2005. The company's managing intendant Sanjay Lalbhai was not off for comments above the latest nurturing. While the Gujarat Wholesale Development Corporation (GIDC) is putting awake the apparel SEZ at the now defunct Ambica Mills body politic at Khokhra in Ahmedabad, AML is putting up a textile atomic arsenal at Santej, close to its existing amalgamated textile manufacturing unit that was backflowing up in the ill-timed 1990's at from every quarter Rs 1,200 crore. According to company sources, the company's obstinacy to set up the garment company at Santej has been prompted by synergies of operations and procurement. "The apparel SEZ is located inside the city and freight could be a problem due to traffic congestion. On the unique hand, except Santej the container terminal at Adalaj is meticulous a 15-minute drive away and the route is congestion free," a roots pointed out. More, the sources unwritten, the moleskin in preference to the garments would be sourced from the Santej unit and the upcoming Santej textile park where already a few re Arvind's outsourcing partners burn invested around Rs 50 crore in putting up new-fashioned, shuttleless looms. "We can correlate for SEZ perspective for the Santej Textile Park once it is beyond all bounds set up and claim the idem benefits since the investiture park," a source explained. The 4 MoUs signed between Arvind Mills and Gujarat govt included a intertissued park at Santej textile park coming up close to Arvind's contemporary Santej facility. While Arvind will be pumping opening Rs 20 crore in developing infrastructure as respects the bank, investments worth around Rs 350 crore would be pumped in according to restricted players putting up weaving and processing duffel. The other MoUs included one because a processing unit worth Rs 40 crore and a unit for knitted garments pennyworth Rs 18 crore at Santej.<\p>
