SP apparel's new unit @ Nellore
Integrated garment maker SP Apparels (SPAL), the Rs 278-crore knitwear manufacturer and exporter, is setting up a new spinning and knitting facility at the integrated textile park in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh. “We plan to set up a spinning unit with 30,000 spindles and a knitting facility with a capacity of 35,000 pieces a day at a cost of Rs 102 crore. The unit is likely to be operational by September 2008,” SP Apparels’ managing director P Sundararajan told.The project is to be carried in a phased manner and in the second and final phase the production capacities of both spinning and knitting facilities will be doubled. “To meet the increasing demand for garment shipment to US market and to reduce the lead time in our production process (to five days from the earlier 20-25 days), we have proposed to go for backward integration and creating new facilities for knitted garment production,” he said. SPAL is present in all the sectors, spinning, knitting, dyeing and sewing. The dyeing capacity of its unit is 24 tonnes per day and the knitting capacity is 20 tonnes a day. It is also planning to set up a 25,000 - spindle spinning unit at Thekkalur near Avinashi, at a cost of Rs 50 crore. The unit that is likely to be functional from January, 2008 will ensure quality yarn supply for captive consumption. The company already has three units, with an installed capacity of 56,000 spindles that manufacture cotton yarn in both low and high counts.
