SEL to exchange know-how with Pakistan

Ludhiana-based textile company, SEL is sending a five-member

technical committee to Lahore to visit textile manufacturing units and learn how to manufacture best quality yarn even if the raw material, cotton, is sub-standard. In return, SEL will give knowhow on captive power generation to sections in Pakistan’s Punjab industry, which faces persistent power shortage.

Captive power plants are projects that work independently, using biomass. They are meant for in-house power generation and not for sale outside. Besides, the company is working to facilitate exchange of expertise and knowledge sharing between All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), Lahore, and North India Textile Mills Association (NITMA), New Delhi.

SEL is a leading vertically integrated textile conglomerate with a turnover of over Rs 2,300 crores. It operates in various textile sub-segments having from spinning to knitting, processing of yarns and fabric, to the value added products viz. terry towels and ready-made garments.

The company was started in 1969 as a small garment manufacturing unit by chairman, R S Saluja. SEL forayed into spinning in 2005 and thereafter, into terry towels in the November, 2008. Within a short span, the Group augmented its capacities to the level of 450,000 operational spindles in yarns (scheduled to be over a million operational spindles by the year end), 100 tonnes per day in terry towel manufacturing and 50 million pieces per annum in ready-made garments.