Vardhman Textiles, incorporated in 1973, is one of the pioneers in textile industry with operations in the segments of yarn, sewing

thread, steel, and fabric. Formerly known as Mahavir Spinning Mills, it is a part of Vardhman Group managed by Paul Oswal. In 1975, Vardhman Textiles? first plant was commissioned with 25,088 spindles in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. In 1977-78, the company set up a 25,000-spindle textile mill at Malerkotla in Sanazur, Punjab. In 1992-93, a 100% Export Oriented Unit (EOU) was commissioned by Vardhman Textiles? at Mandideep. Both the Malerkotla mill and EOU unit was awarded the ISO 9002/BIS 14002 by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). In March 1995, its gassed and mercerized dyed yarn project at Hoshiarpur commenced production.In order to set up 100% EOU located at Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, the company formed joint venture with Marubeni Corporation and Toho Rayon of Japan. For this company established Vardhman Acrylics and started commercial production in September 1996. In 1998-99 company set up its 3rd 100% EOU at Mandideep with an installed production capacity of 25000 spindles. Company set up unit-II at Ludhiana in order to expand its sewing thread capacity. This unit had an installed capacity of 5 TPD. Company entered an agreement with Amercian & Effird Inc., USA to manufacture superior sewing thread. Much later in 2004 the textile business of Vardhman Spinning and General Mills was merged with Vardhman Textiles. The company added new units of Looms and Rotors with a installed capacity of 264 Nos and 528 Nos respectively Companies like VMT Spinning Company (VMT), Vardhman Threads (VTL) and Vardhman Yarns & Threads and Vardhman Acrylics are the subsidiaries of Vardhman Textiles. Vardhman Textiles is promoted by Ludhiana based Vardhman Group, a major textile business house in India. Company has received ISO 9002/ ISO 14002 certification for its quality management. Vardhman Textiles, exports its products to more than 25 countries and has a strong presence in markets like the EEC, USA, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Brazil and Mauritius, Middle East.
PRODUCT Yarn: Under this segment, the company manufactures wide range of yarn such as Grey Cotton, Grey Acrylic, Crayons, Hank Dyed Acrylic, Vardhman Knitting, Gassed Mercerised Cotton and many more.Company?s annual manufacturing capacity of yarn is to 98,736 MT. Fabrics- Company manufactures fabric for shirting and bottom weights. It produces fabrics of various types viz. 100% Cotton, Polyester cotton, Chief Value Cotton and Cotton Stretch. Company?s fabric manufacturing capacity is 30 million meters per annum Sewing Threads- Company manufactures wide range of threads such as cotton, polyster, core spun (polyester cotton/ polyester polyester), trilobal embroidery thread, bonded nylon and lubricated nylon thread including specialized threads like button fusing, bead fusing and anti wicking, button shanking, indigo dyed and so on.

Steel- Under this, company has an installed capacity of 1,00,000 Metric tonnes per annum. Awards The Company was awarded Golden trophy by Textile Export Promotion Council (Merchant Export Category for Fabrics) for the various export performance in the year 1993-94. Vardhman Textiles received the award of merit from the Government of India in the year 1994-95 and 1995-96. Vardhman Group (Parent Company)Vardhman Group was set up in the year 1965 at Ludhiana, Northern India. The group has business interest in area of Yarns, Fabrics, Sewing Threads, Fibre and Alloy Steel. Vardhman group is one of the largest spinning group of the country with a spindlage of over 5,50,000. The group has 12 production plants located in the states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Currently the group has manufacturing capacity of approximately 25 metric tonne/per day of sewing thread in its plant at Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Baddi and Perundurai. Currently the group employs 20,000 people.Future ProspectsVardhman Textiles is undertaking Research and Development activities in order to develop of new products and for improvement in the production process and quality of products

WINSOME YARNS LTD

The Winsome Group put down its roots with a trading company in Calcutta in 1952. With an eye on increasing business opportunities being offered by the textile industry, Winsome established a spinning unit at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh in 1980. Since then our textile ventures are: 50,000 Spindles 9,500 kgs per day of fibre/yarn dyeing 1,10,000 Spindles

WINSOME TEXTILE INDUSTRIES LTD WINSOME YARNS LTD (100% E.O.U.)

All our spinning units are equipped with latest machinery from Reiter, Lakshmi, Schlafhorst and Murata. Special stress has been given to minimise contamination, both at pre-spinning and post-spinning stages by adding machines like Vision Shield in Blow Room and Schlafhorst-338 with LOEPFE - 9001 (SIRO CLEANER) Contamination Control Channel at winding stage. The dye house is a fully imported plant with precision winder from SSM, dyeing vessels from Cubotex, hydro extractor from Galvanin & R/F dryer from Stalam. We can develop any shade in Melange / package dyed / fiber dyed yarns here. It is our continuous endeavor to produce good quality yarn consistently in accordance with the internationally acceptable yarn parameters. We are equipped with most modern production facility to meet our goals.

Spindles Blow Room

100,000 Rieter, Lakshmi - Vision Shield for contamination control in Natural Yarn - Uniblend for Melange Yarns Rieter Rieter, Lakshmi Rieter, Lakshmi Lakshmi Rieter Lakshmi Rieter Murata, Schlafhorst with LOEPFE Contamination Control Channel Ring doubling & TFO LUWA SSM Cubotex Galvanin

Card Draw Frame Comber Speed Frame Ring Frame Winding Doubling Humidification Precision Winder Dyeing Vessels Hydro Extractor

At WINSOME development of products is a continuous process. For this, customer suggestions are always solicited as we consider them as our partners in progress Winsome can offer following in knitting and weaving both in single and double count.

Raw White
100% Cotton

Melange

Dyed Fibre Yarn

100% Acrylic Cotton Blends with : Viscose Polyester Modal Silk Wool Acrylic Flax/Linen

we can deliver small and large lot sizes quickly as per customer's requirement International business With spindlage capacity of 1, 00,000 and dye house with capacity to produce 9500 kgs per day of dyed yarn & fibre we can ensure regular supply of yarn throughout the year. We have experience to understand and are well equipped to meet our customers requirement. Some of the salient features are:

Most Modern Lab equipped with latest shade and sample machines for quick sampling and shade matching as per requirement. Deliver small and large lot sizes quickly as per requirements. Quick response time and ability to deliver yarn customized requirement. There are traders in U.K. who maintain stock of selected shades for quick delivery in Europe. Availability of EEC quota for shipments to Europe.

developing customers to client's and counts

National marketing

Presently doing business with all the well known groups, knitters as well as major buying houses in India. From our product range we can provide you samples as per your need - be it baby cones or fabric samples. We have our own knitting facility to supply you samples. We are supplying Melange Yarn for weaving also and well known weavers have successfully tried our yarn for high value woven garments.

In order to be close to the major markets in India, we have our own marketing branches. Here we have complete infrastructure to look after all the needs of the regional customers, thereby cutting time and expenses of communication.

City

Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Delhi, Ahmadabad, Mumbai, Calcutta, Salem, Tirupur

Quality Improving and maintaining quality of our products is of paramount importance. To ensure consistent supply of good quality yarn, we follow a comprehensive quality control management system. We have well equipped laboratories for fibre & yarn testing and colour matching & testing.

Quality Management System Foreign Matter Contamination Fibre Quality Yarn Quality

ISO 9002 Manual sorting Vision Shield in Blow Room Siro Cleaner in winding stage HVI AFIS Uster Tester 3 Uster Tensorapid 3 Classimat II Twist Tester Uster Autosorter III Data Colour SSM precision winders ISO 14001 (for Winsome Textile Indus. Ltd.)

Colour Matching Winding Environment Management System

COMPANY PROFILE
WINSOME KNITWEAR
We introduce ourselves as WINSOME KNITWEAR, a unit of WINSOME GROUP, an established and renowned yarn manufacturing company in India. The yarns produced are being used in knitting and weaving for renowned brands in India and abroad. WINSOME KNITWEAR has been set up to produce quality garments with high technical value with the latest machinery from Japan and Italy.

Our objective is to bring together the various processes of spinning, dyeing, designing and garment knitting under one integrated head to enable quick lead times , removal of dye-lot minimums for high premium yarns and at the same time use up our R & D at the mills for new yarns , blends and spinning techniques . We can produce yarns and knitwear using various fibers such as Cotton, Viscose, Polyester, Nylon and also luxury fibers such as Silk, Linen, Modal, Wool and Cashmere. Some of the new blends that we have tried at our end are Cotton/Linen/ Viscose, Viscose/Cotton, Cotton/Cashmere, Silk/Cotton, Cotton/ Elastane, Modal, and Modal/Cotton. Our production set up of knitwear enables us to offer small lot orders. KNITTING SECTION We have installed computerized machines in 12gg from SHIMA SEIKI (Japan) . The programming section consists of SHIMA SDS - ONE with the capability to quickly translate design ideas and concepts into knitting programmes for the quick turnaround of sampling.

ASSEMBLY SECTION We are using EXACTA (Italy) linking machines and JUKI (Japan) Lock stitch, Overlocking, Button hole, Button sewing and Flatlocking machines. We also have the EXACTA - MasterOverlock machine which is used for linking and overlocking simultaneously and the EXACTA Quasar collar attaching machine which gives a superior finish to the collar. Our entire assembly is being done by specially trained girls from reputed professional institutes holding technical diplomas in their respective fields. WASHING SECTION We have washing machines from IPSO (Belgium) and Tumble dryers from Ramsons. FINISHING SECTION Our finishing machine is from MENTASTI (Italy) with stainless steel frames and lasers for consistent size finishing of the garments to maintain measurements and high quality finish of the garments.

Production Capacity We can Produce 3500-4000 fully Fashioned garments per day inhouse Management Team Our management team is a group of young, dynamic and enterprising people headed by a foreign expatriate having the great expertise and experience of working in Italy, Britain, United States and Sri Lanka.

The 10 Global Impact Principals as propagated at WINSOME GROUP

GLOBAL COMPACT Rising beyond mere rhetoric, our companies have evolved and embosomed within their sphere of influence, a set of immutable core values in the areas of Human Rights, Labor Standards, Environment and Corruption. We follow a policy of zero tolerance in these areas which are discussed in the succeeding paragraphs. HUMAN RIGHTS 1. Our organization is committed in its support to and respect for the internationally proclaimed human rights. This is regarded not merely as an issue of statutory compliance but as a benchmark specifying the lowest acceptable limits. There is no recruitment where the candidate doesn't produce a birth certificate. The organization takes due care that the age of the recruitee is verified from the Panchayat (village local body) or the municipal authority of the respective area . In the current year there were 121 recruits but only 109 actually joined as they were found to be above the lower age limit i.e. above 18 yrs, 12 of them were rejected as their certificates were not found to be in order. We encourage long-term association with our employees and do not believe in "Hire and Fire "policy. Child labor is a taboo for our organization. 2. The organization continuously evaluates itself viz- a- viz its own policies with regards to human rights apart from internationally proclaimed human rights. We have an explicit policy that ensures our contractors do not violate the Child Labor statute. They are required to submit their reports under various Labor laws and factory's act and also that they work in accordance with the laid down working standards. LABOR STANDARD 3. Our business not only upholds the labor standards set by ILO as a statutory requirement but also considers them as an ethical issue for the organization. The company has the strict policy that there shall be no discrimination in respect of employment on occupation of extraneous and irrelevant factors like caste, color, creed, sex and place of residence etc. Merit is overriding criteria in employment as well as for promotion, with due regard to seniority. The women workers are trained in the technical as well as non technical aspects with due consideration to the appropriate technology and skill right fit to the job. The safety of women worker is ensured, there is pick-and-drop facility for the women worker from their homes to the workplace. Beside this, the shifts are managed on the time basis and the women workers enjoy the liberty of the shifts comfort, working as per time in compliance to that set by the Factorys Act 1948. 4. Our organization has highest regards for the laws relating to abolition of child labor. We strictly follow the minimum age prescribed under Indian Factories Act i.e. 18 years duly verified from their certificate before they are lawfully employed. We

also carry out survey of our vendors or customers and do not deal with them if they employ or encourage Child Labor. On the other hand, we have made special arrangement for the education of the work - force by keeping them engaged in the extracurricular and sport activities and they are encouraged to participate in inhouse sports. 5. The Trade Union of our workmen has been got registered under the appropriate law, at the initiative of management. While this has kept the outside interference to minimum at the same time it has afforded the legitimate and democratic body to our workforce, to negotiate with the management on all the relevant issues. With the upcoming of twofold collective bargaining and trade unions, the joint councils and quality circles have been promoted. This has resulted in the Workers Participation in Management and a cordial working environment. ENVIRONMENT Keeping our objectives and environment policy into consideration, we continue to comply with all relevant environmental legislations and regulations as applicable to our organization. Continuous efforts are made for the prevention of pollution and protection of environment by conserving natural resources such as water, petrol, diesel and raw material. Innovative practices have been adopted to improve environmental performance and have also catalyzed the induction of new and better technology. Our objectives are reviewed and reset to improve upon our past performance. Being an ISO certified organization( Environment Management System ) it is our endeavor to get our system audited by the certifying agency i.e. Bureau of Indian Standards who also carry out internal Audits to ensure that we comply with the laid down procedures. Any non-conformity reported is rectified immediately. The following objectives have been achieved during the year: 6. Water pollution Proper disposal of waste water generated from canteen which was earlier directly going into open drains is now being re-treated through the Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP). Thus the waste water is now treated and used for gardening. 7. Land Contamination The company has taken measures for the prevention of land contamination by minimizing the chances of spillage of Hydro Chloric Acid during the process of shifting to dye house from the Hcl Storage tank. Precautions and preventive measures are adopted while pumping the Hcl to overhead Hcl storage tank with the aid of a mechanical pump manufactured especially for this purpose. By adopting this measure we have been able to reduce the spillage from 5% to 2%. Thus saving a useful commodity and also leading to prevention of land contamination.

For safety and security, personnel handling Hcl are provided with personal protection equipment (PPE) such as goggles for eye protection, special gloves and shoes. To safeguard the workmen from acid burns which may be caused by accidental fallout of Hcl, special showers have been established near the working area. 8. Air Pollution Control Air pollution is the major problem of any manufacturing concern. Our organization aims at minimizing this problem by improving the technology, so that the employee related and the environmental hazards are controlled and at the same time prevented. For this, there is proper channel of measuring the ambient air on regular basis. Following results have been achieved. National Ambient Air TEST Quality RESULTS Pollutants METHODS Standards(NAAQS) ACHIEVED USED 1994 PM SO2 NOX 500 g/m3 120 g/m3 120 g/m3 372.4 mg/m3 22.8 mg/m3 IS : 11255 P -1/3 IS : 11255 P-2

USEPA 40 9.89 mg/m3 CFR/CPCB method 19 mg/m3 KM-900 Hand held combustion Analyses

CO ppm

10.0 g/m3

To reduce noise pollution, the machinery is upgraded/replaced and the noise level is well within the permissible limit laid down under Factorys Act 1948. Further to avoid any ill- effect due to air and noise pollution the workers have been provided with facemasks and earplugs. 9. Chemical pollutant at Dye House The chemical pollutant is the most hazardous one to the environment and to the human life. In our organization, dyeing of cotton fibre involves consumption of significant quantity of water, dyestuff, and auxiliary chemicals, in thermal environment that generates a considerable amount of liquid effluent, which effect the ecology. For this the organization has taken following measures:

a. The unit has implemented a scheme on energy and water management by introducing and using sophisticated process machinery with low M/L ratio so as to reduce the quantity of effluent generation. b. Environmental management schemes on the production, so as to reduce the reprocessing to a virtual zero level. c. Partial recovery of water, energy and chemicals wherever possible, for intraprocess recycling / utilization. d. Adaptation of suitable end of the pipe technology. By introducing the above measures, we have achieved the following results in our Effluent Treatment Plant: ETP INLET PARAMETER COD 300-600 BOD 150-170 1000-1500 200-250 OUTLET PARAMETER 40-60 2-6 100-150 10-18

DILUTE(mg/l) CONCENTRATE(mg/l) DILUTE(mg/l) CONCENTRATE(mg/l)

CORRUPTION 10. Our Organization has a Zero Tolerance Policy towards Corruption. We do not believe in paying illegal gratification to any official or non official functionery even when it promotes our business interests. This policy is followed strictly within the company. Similarly, we do not extend any benefits to our uppliers where it is found that they offer kick backs. In fact such parties are blacklisted, if they are found to making such offers. To us, at Winsome , corruption is an ethical & moral issue on which there can be no compromise even if some commercial gain of the company are foreseen. We would rather abandon even the lucrative projects rather than succumb to pressure for payment of illegal gratification.