GHCL’s innovation in home textiles

GHCL Ltd. is a diversified company with an established footprint in chemical, textiles and FMCG segments. It plays a prominent role as a major B2B company within the domain of the soda ash industry in the country, wherein it produces several variants of soda ash.

Mr. R.S. Jalan, Managing Director, GHCL

GHCL Ltd. has integrated textile manufacturing facilities with an installed spinning capacity of around 1.76 lakh spindles and 3320 rotors (Open End), manufacturing 100% cotton, polyester cotton & other blended yarns, 162 air jet looms, 36 million meters of wide width processing capacity, 12 million meters of weaving capacity and 30 million meters of cut & sew facility for manufacturing world-class quality merchandise.

The company has its state-of-art plant at Vapi in Gujarat that integrates weaving, processing and cut & sew facilities. The Home Textiles division is investing to increase the weaving capacity by 18% and the processing capacity by 25%. GHCL’s spinning units in Tamil Nadu are considered to be one of the most efficient and modern yarn manufacturing facilities in India. GHCL plans to invest another Rs. 350 crores in the next 2 years to expand capacity across its manufacturing facilities.

GHCL has partnered with Applied DNA Sciences (ADNAS), New York, a company that develops and employs unique technologies for the purpose of preventing counterfeiting and Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), an Indian conglomerate and the world’s largest manufacturer of polyester fiber and yarn launched CertainT® verified molecular tagged, recycled PET (“rPET”) bedding products under the brand “Rekoop”.

“Rekoop” is the first fully source-verified recycled PET bedding product line which uses CertainT, Applied DNA’s proprietary traceability system that tags, tests and tracks the original r-PET pellets to finished products.

By collaborating with RIL and ADNAS, GHCL is taking a sincere effort towards reducing plastic pollution. About 360,000 PET bottles will be used for every 10K sheet sets of 200 TC (60% cotton 40% recycled PET). This will reduce carbon emission by 35 tons, crude oil consumption by 25 barrels and land fill by 40 cubic yards. This is our contribution towards creating a sustainable future. GHCL’s collaboration with ADNAS will help in verifying the authenticity of these CertainT products.