LUDHIANA – India’s Ministry of Textiles has approved plans from SEL Manufacturing for a new textile village in Ludhiana that once constructed will have a production capacity of 45 million knitted garments per year.
The integrated textile and apparel park at Sekhan Majra village, Nawan Shaher district will cover around 1,000,000 square feet and will employ approximately 25,000 people.
With a government subsidy covering up to 40% of the total infrastructure set up costs, SEL Manufacturing also said that the plans involved an expansion project that will include the setting up of a technical textile manufacturing facility for the production of hygiene and medical textiles. The company is also looking at expanding into the geotextiles and automobile upholstery sectors.
SEL, which recently acquired the manufacturing facilities of Preet Hosiery Exports Ltd, in Ludhiana, is a vertically integrated textile company that manufactures and exports cotton yarn, knitted fabrics and knitted garments, with most of its production facilities located in Ludhiana in Punjab and Baddi in Himachal Pradesh, India.
The majority of its production, which is exported to Russia and United Arab Emirates, includes include t-shirts, polo shirts, sweat shirts, boxer shorts, thermals and girls tops.
