Indo Rama’s consistent focus on enhancing product portfolio

Indo Rama Synthetics (India) Ltd., has emerged the largest dedicated polyester manufacturer in India. With nearly three decades of market presence, it is one of the country’s most cost-efficient polyester producers. The company’s investment in innovation and capacity expansion has enabled it to integrate value for its large customer base.

Mr. O.P. Lohia, Chairman and Managing Director

Indo Rama has an integrated production facility in Maharashtra. The company believes that polyester would be the main fibre of the future. This has encouraged it to foray into this business with utmost confidence. Its well-defined quality and process management systems have enabled the company management to enjoy global presence.

In 2016-17, Indo Rama’s total income stood at Rs. 2,729.57 crores. The company has expanded the production capacity for its value-added product draw texturised yarn (DTY) from the earlier 126,000 MT to 138,946 MT. Despite industry challenges, Indo Rama is consistently focused on enriching its product portfolio across various segments. The company is developing new products in line with diverse customer requirements.

For domestic and international markets, Indo Rama has introduced optical bright fibre, optical white fibre, super high tenacity (SHT) fibre, optical bright, bright DTY yarn and black dope dyed, among others. Besides, it has in its pipeline a varied range of speciality products in yarn and fibre segments.

Strengthening product basket

With 85 DTY machines, the company is consistently growing its product portfolio to cater to a wider range of customer requirements. It also plans to enhance the product basket in the yarn segment, increase its speciality products in both yarn and fibre segments, strengthen the capacity utilisation of DTY facilities and set up a new waste recycle plant for converting wastes into marketable products.

Indo Rama has an annual production capacity of supreme quality products at 6,10,050 MT. The company’s presence is prominent and ever growing across major global geographies like the US, France, Germany, Turkey, Russia and Japan, among others. The demand for man-made fibers is showing signs of improvement, and Indo Rama is hopeful that the demand for polyester will see revival. Polyester demand will be driven by its growing relevance in daily life across home textiles, apparel, automotive, furnishing fabrics, technical textiles and non-woven segments.

Moving ahead, with rising demand in the domestic and international markets, Indo Rama is hopeful that it will be able to enhance its production capacity and grow business volumes and value-added products.

Indo Rama’s global technology partners include: Chemtex Intl. Inc. of the US, Oerlikon Barmag, Zimmer AG and Autefa, all of Germany, LTG Ameliorair, France, Bertrams, Switzerland, LVD, Belgium, Wartsila Diesel, Finland, Foxboro Invensys, Singapore, Teijin Seiki and Toyobo, both of Japan.