Wednesday, November 17, 2010

What is keeping us fully occupied these days is the preparation for the new cluster we're planning to set up. Upto now, we've set up one production unit at a time, consisting of one set of pre-spinning machinery with either a 280 spindle ring-frame to do the spinning, or [in one place only out of the 4 in Andhra], motorized domestic 12 spindle charkhas. In the planned cluster we hope to have 4 units with a common facilities centre in which we hope to eventually do our own ginning, dyeing and finishing. Finishing is a critical post-loom process that we don't do yet and consists of washing with soap and an organic softener. Sanjay Gulati of Modelama has been kindly finishing malkha for Tarun Tahiliani's orders.

It should take us about a year to set up the first unit, with each of the next ones coming up at intervals of a few months.

2 comments:

  1. Hi,

    I write a column for Business Standard, People Like Them, and would like to write about Malkha and the concept it embodies. Please let me know whom to speak to about this.

    Thanks, Geetanjali

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  2. Geetanjali, you could mail me at malkhaindia@gmail.com

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