Khosla Profil: Pioneer in filtration fabric technology

The products and solutions offered by the company currently include filtration fabrics for liquid/dry filtration, awnings, tents, boat cover fabrics, belting fabrics for conveying industries, etc.

Pramod Khosla, MD and Chairman, Khosla Profil

Khosla Profil was established by Pramod Khosla in 1979, a first generation entrepreneur for the manufacturing of polypropylene filtration fabrics. Since then it has done both backward and forward integration and expanded its production facilities with the best technology equipment to become one of Asia’s largest technical textile player. The company has four manufacturing plants in Wada (2), Daman and Ghaziabad. It is a vertically diversified company starting from chips/yarn to made-ups under one roof for liquid filtrations. Similarly, it is manufacturing dry filtration products right from fibre to fabrics and up to ready dust collection bags.

It is equipped with state-of-art latest technology machines for each stage of spinning/weaving/needling/finishing/coating/lamination/laser cutting and stitching for the manufacturing of high performance filter fabrics and made-ups for both India and global process industries. Over 1,200 people are working in the organisation. It is equipped with best laboratories and testing equipment for quality control and product development. Due to its vast experience of over four decades and state-of–the-art manufacturing facilities, with strict quality control under ISO 9001 : 2015, it offers the best quality filtration products from India today.

The products and solutions offered by the company currently include filtration fabrics for liquid/dry filtration, awnings, tents, boat cover fabrics, belting fabrics for conveying industries, etc. Khosla Profil has a global presence. Two-thirds of the company’s production is exported to over 64 countries around the world, with its key export markets being USA, Europe and South America.

Expansion Plans

The company has got expansion plans in the pipeline. It has invested over Rs 100 crore in the last two years to enhance its production capacity. The company is planning further investment of Rs 100 crore in the coming year for balancing equipment and expanding nonwoven capacity. While Khosla Profil is operating in a highly competitive segment, it is confident of its competitive edge due to certain key factors that sets it apart from the others. One of them is the company’s vast experience and knowledge bundled with its state-of–art equipment from the best manufacturers from Europe which gives it a huge edge and USP above any other manufacturer in India.

Khosla Profil offers superior knowledge in fabric engineering and correct selection of fabric based on studying process parameters to its customers. In the recently held Techtextil India show in Mumbai, the company launched a new product for nonwoven high temperature filtration media with special lamination produced in-house at its new plant. Khosla Profil’s vision for the immediate future is to aim to achieve over Rs 750 crore turnover by 2025-26.