Ludhiana-based apparel exporter Kay Jain Processors is now venturing into the open-width knit fabric segment which is gaining huge popularity in Ludhiana. Part of BG Group, the company is into knitted fabrics, value-added apparels (menswear) and home furnishing (bed linens).

The company has almost completed the process to install open width compactor and six chamber stenter for knitting, dyeing and finishing process with an investment of one million US dollar. The new setup will be fully operational in the next few months. Namit Jain, partner of the company said, “We already have a setup for the finishing of tubular fabric, now our focus is also on open width fabric as its demand is growing multifold.”

Currently, the company has production capacity of 5,000 kilograms per day (cotton and polyester cotton fabric) and it will be 8,000 kilograms per day after the expansion. The organization consumes 50 per cent of the total production of fabrics. Around 60 per cent of its garment production is for overseas market like US, South Africa, Germany and Middle East nations such as Kuwait and Dubai. Most of its buyers are wholesalers and importers.

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