With the aim of diversification and value addition, especially after the lifting of the “WTO-Quota System”, we installed a terry towel  factory that has been running successfully since April 2005 producing around 18000 tons annually.

Pakistani American Joint Venture- "Indus Home Limited"

To move into this new direction, the company started a joint venture with West- Point Home Inc. of Alabama, USA trading under the name of “Indus Home Limited”. Both partners have a 50% share in the project. WestPoint Home looks after the export sale for the US market and the Indus Group takes care of the local management and production operations. Currently Indus Home Limited has 800 employees and the plan is to expand 1,600 in the near future. The weaving factory is located around 35 kilometers from Lahore.

The Strong Partner: WestPoint Home

The Indus Group has a strong partner (WestPoint Home WPH) for the project.. Three of the most famous names in the textile industry of America are involved in the history of WestPoint. J. P. Stevens & Co., Pepperell Manufacturing Company and WestPoint Manufacturing Company are predecessors of WPH. Today, the company is a leading manufacturer and marketing out- let for bed and bath textiles in the USA. Among others, the famous brand names of the company are: Martex, Grand Patrician and Lady Pepperell. Apart from their own brands, WPH also produces for other world famous brands such as Ralph Lauren and Harley Davidson.

Production Program

We produce bath towels, hand towels and washcloths made of 100% cotton. The  towel weight varies between 450 gsm and 900 gsm. The program will soon he extended to include bath mats with a fabric weight up to 1,000 gsm and bath robes as well. The yarns used in the weaving mill is mainly Pakistani. However, Egyptian Giza quality comes from the company’s own spinning mills. 65% are ring-spun yarns and 35% OE yarns. The yarn count ranges for the ring-spun yarns are Ne 10/1  to Ne 20/2. Ne 10/1 is used as OE yarn. The OE spinning mill will be extended shortly with  2,800 Rotors to cover the planned increase in production.

DORNIER Terry Air-Jet Weaving Machines

We ordered 110 DORNIER air-jet terry weaving machines, types Easy- Terry and Servo Terry , 48 have already been in production since 2005 and the remaining 62 were commissioned in September 2007. “We chose DORNIER air- jet weaving machines because of their reliability with regard to quality and flexibility and we are very satisfied with the performance” said  Irfan Ahmed, trained in the USA, the CEO and joint owner of Indus Home

Daily production currently runs at 64,000 kg which means each DORNIER machine produces 580 kg per day. All the machines can run with up to 6 filling colors and are fitted with dobby machines with up to 20 shafts. The average speed for a nominal width of 300 cm is at 600 rpm, the Servo Terry runs at 625 rpm which corresponds to a realistic filling insertion rate of 1,840 m/min. Mr. Aamir Hussain Toor, General Manager of Indus Home Limited and a textile engineer with many years of weaving mill experience, says that other arguments for DORNIER machines are the high speed and the modern Software.

DYEING:

A two prong strategy was used to design the dyeing section. After a detailed survey, we selected some machines for short and other for long runs. These dyeing machines from Germany combined with Anglada tumbler dryer from Spain will cater to customers with smaller quantity. While continuous dye ranges from Morrison along with Loop dryer from USA satisfy the bigger quantity orders for large retailers and institutional customers. Finishing machines, attached with Mahlo weft straightner, eliminate any distortion in the towel before it goes on to the final dryer. We process both Vat and Fiber Reactive dyes as per customer’s demand and our capacity is 50 tons per day.

At various stages, quality control measures are deployed and audits are conducted to ensure adherence to pre-defined standards. Each lot of towels is checked and after verification it is sent to the Fabrication.

Fabrication:

We are the first one in Pakistan to select Barudan automatic hemming machines and take pride in their performance. These machines are focused on producing good quality towel efficiently and consistently. Juki manual hemming machines and Pegasus over edge machines are also installed. All these machines can easily produce 50 tons of towels per day.

Our fabrication hall is temperature controlled and it is equipped with Luwa air handling unit from Switzerland. One of the most imported aspects in fabrication is pleasant environment and we have taken all possible measures to achieve it. Product flow has been designed to minimize material handling. Stitching, sorting, quality control, folding and packing is all done in one line. Each line has a manager assigned to it who is responsible for his unit’s efficiency, quality and production.