CHAPTER 2.

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COMPANY
PROFILE
 SALUR JUTE MILL

A BREIF PROFILE

A.P. Industrial development corporation, Hyderabad, a state government undertaking

promoted M/S A. P. Fibres Ltd, Salur during year 1972 as its subsidiary for setting up of a jute
mill at Salur for manufacturing 15000 MTs of jute sackings per annum. An industrial licence
has been granted by Govt.of India during October 1978.The delay in the implementation of the
project resulted in high escalation in the prices of plant and implementation of the project
resulted in high escalation in the prices of plant and machinery, etc. the project cost, estimated
in 1974 at Rs.4.46 Crores, has gone up to Rs.10.67 Crores. The central Financial Institutions
IFCI/IDBI opined that the unit would not be viable.

The state government, finally, took a decision in 1980 to implement the project in
a phased manner. Accordingly, a certificate of Registration has been obtained from Ministry
of Textiles for manufacturing 7200 MTs of jute per annum. Then the Government converted
the subsidiary into a joint venture (50:50 partnership) unit of APIDC with Sri K.K.Bajoria of
Chittivalsa jute mills. The unit went commercial production from December 1986.

The unit started its operations without adequate infrastructural facilities, which
resulted in incurring huge losses from the first year of its operations for various reasons beyond
the control of management, imbalance in machine capacities, un-trained labour force drawn
from agriculture sector who have no industrial culture, non-sanction of working capital finance
by nationalized/commercial banks, etc. The unit became sick within a short span of 3 years and
the entire net- worth of the company has been completely eroded. New Delhi declared APFL
as s sick industrial unit under the provisions of section 3(1) (0) of sick Industrial Companies
Act, 1985 on 1.8.1991.

Hon’ble B.F.I.R, New Delhi approved the change of management in 1991 and sri
R.C. Bothra and Associates have been inducted as new promoters in the place of sri
K.K.Bajoria & Associates. The new promoters took various steps for revival of the unit.
Hon’ble New Delhi sanctioned schemes did not derive any positive results for various reasons
beyond the control of the Management.
 Sri T. Sapatagiri & associates (Sri T. Sapatagiri and family own two jute mills at
kothavalsa) stepped into the unit in 2001-02. Hon’ble BIFR sanctioned a Modified Draft
Rehabilitation scheme at its Hearing held on 3.12.2002 for revival of APFL. They have removed
the debt burden from the shoulders of the company by making one-time settlement of dues with
APIDC/APSFC and acquired the Government shareholding also. Sri T. sapatagiri and Sri
T.Nagesh, chief promoters took various steps for revival of the unit. Ever since Sri T. Sapatagiri
took over from the hands of the outgoing promoters, Sri R.C. Bothra and Associates, the unit
started earning profits and the accumulated losses wiping off gradually.

MAJOR SOURCES OF RAW MATERIAL:

WEST BENGAL

BANGLADESH
Jute

DUBAI

POWER SUPPLY:

Operational power requirement of approximately 1.5 to 2Lac per month is being met
through captive power supply.

MAIN PRODUCTS OF SALUR:

• Yarn

• Spools

• Cops

• Twine

• Hessian cloth

• D.W Bags

• A/B Twill Bags

VISION & MISSION:

VISION:

To become total products sales 60.23 crores by 2014-2015

MISION:

To become a continuously growing company through technological up gradation,

operational efficiency and expansion, producing jute at international standards of cost and
quality ensuring optimal return on investment to stakeholders and meeting expectations of the
customers.

Objectives:

Towards growth Expand the company sales 21.88 crores

2005-06 And 60.23 crores by 2014-15.
Towards profitability Achieve net profits from 2002-03 onwards
with special emphasis on enhancement of
production of value added products and cost
reduction.
Towards Employees Upgrade the skills and efficiency of
employees through training and development
and maintain high levels of motivation and
satisfaction.
Towards customers Promote branding of products for quality and
customers preference through effective
customers relations management
Towards suppliers Develop a reliable and strong supplier base
and ensure effective supply chain
Towards quality Promote quality movement in all functions of
the company through quality management
system.
Towards technology up gradation and Continuously upgrade technology and
productivity practice benchmarking to achieve
international efficiency levels. Adopt latest
 development in information and
communication technology.
Towards Knowledge management To become a knowledge based and a
knowledge sharing company.
Towards safety environment and society Continue efforts towards safety of
employee’s conservation of environment and
be a good corporate citizen.

Core values:

• Commitment

• Customer Satisfaction

• Continuous Improvement

• Concern for Environment

Fibres take all necessary actions for the fulfilment or regulatory requirements.
It has dedicated department for this purpose. Energy conservation, environmental preservation,
safety in work place, and occupational health gets highest priority in the company. Some of the
policies in this regard are reproduced below:

POLICIES:

Quality policy:

The quality policy, at Salur Jute Mill, is committed to meet the needs and
expectations of the customers and other interested parties. This includes:

• Supply quality goods and services to customers’ delight.

• Achieve quality of the products by following systematic approach through

planning, documented procedure and timely review of quality objectives.

• Continuously improve the quality of all materials, processes and products.

• Maintain an enabling environment, which encourages teamwork and active

involvement of all employees.

Environment policy:
 Salur Jute Mill, while carrying out its operations reaffirms their commitment to
preserve the environment. To accomplish this, they

• Document, implement, maintain and continuously review the environmental

management system.

• Comply with all the relevant environment in the environmental performance and
prevention of pollution by minimizing the emissions and discharges.

• Ensure continual improvement in the environment in the environmental

performance and prevention of pollution by minimizing the emissions and
discharges.

• Maintain a high level of environmental consciousness amongst employees.

• Review the environmental objectives and targets on a continuous basis.

HR Policy:

Salur Jute Mill believes that their employees are the most important resources. To
realize the full potential of employees, the company is committed to:

 Provide Work environment that makes the employees committed and motivated for
maximizing productivity.
 Establish systems for maintaining transparency, fairness and quality in dealing with
employees.
 Encourage teamwork, creativity, innovativeness and high achievement orientation.
 Empower employees for enhancing commitment, responsibility and accountability.
 Provide growth and opportunities for developing skill and knowledge.
 Ensure functioning of effective communication channels with employees.
 Prepare employees through appropriate development programmers for taking up higher
responsibilities in the organization.
 Identifying development needs of employees on regular basis and provide necessary
training and continually evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of training.
 Provide inputs to the employees for developing their attitude towards work and for
matching their competencies with the organizational requirements.

Marketing Network:
 The company markets its products through headquarter marketing office and a network
of regional offices, branch office and stockyards located all over the country. It also takes the
help of consignment agents and consignment sales agents for the marketing of its products.
The export wing of marketing division with the help of different agencies carries out the
exports.

PRODUCTION DEPART.MENTS AND PROCESS:

1. Spinning Process
2. Weaving Process
3. Calendar
4. Cutting & Sewing
5. Bale Press/Packing/Dispatch

Spinning Process

Batching

Raw material i.e., Raw jute will be procured from nearby jute growing areas
and registered dealers for manufacturing medium count yarn and for light count Hessian yarn.

The procurement will be from west Bengal the jute bales weight about 135kg-
148kg per bale. These bales will be opened. Separated each Mora, are selected according to the
quality of warp, and make small Mora of KG. The said Mora will be passed through first
machine called jute spreader. In this machine, jute Batching oil & water emulsion, which is
prepared from Emulsion plant will be applied on the jute. This will be piled as required more
or less 24 Hr to 48Hr depending upon the quality of the jute. After opening the pile, the root
portion will be cut manually to suit the further processing of the jute fiber. The cut jute will be
further processed through jute spreader machine and piled for 48Hr to 72Hr according to the
hardness of the feed table of the breaker card and carded silver will be collected in rolls
weighing from 16kgs to 20Kgs per roll (5.6” width & 20” dia). The piled cut jute will be passed
through teaser card and collected as loose-teased silver. These teased silver and piled long jute
(for higher count yarn) will be passed through Breaker card collected in rolls.

JBO- Jute Batching oil application is 3% on the weight of jute.

DRAWING:

The carded roll will be fed at finisher card with 10 to 11 number (called doubling)
of rolls and collected in rolls called finisher card roll subsequently it passes through three stages
drawing for wrap system and two stages drawing for wrap system and two stages for weft
system of doubling in 1:2 ratio through new technology high speed Rotary Gill 1st Drawing
then doubling in 1:3 ratio through new technology high speed Rotary gill 2nd drawing & Finally
1:2 doubling from TC Finisher Drawing. In all the three stages, the silver will be collected in
cans 18”×40”:16”×40” & 12”×40” respectively.

Spinning:

Warp system drawing silver will be fed on 4-1/4” SD spinning frame and weft
system Drawing silver will be fed on 5-1/2 SD spinning Frame. As per requirements, spinning
frames will be set so that desired quality of yarn will come out of the machine i.e., for wrap
yarn 10.25lbs, 9lbs, 8.5, etc. and weft 26.5lbs,and 28lbs, etc.

Winding:

The wrap yarn will be subsequently wound into spool winding machines and a
portion will be fed on twisting machine for manufacturing piled yarn for sewing thread. The
weft yarn will be wound on cop winding machine to make Loader cop of 10” size and make
bundle of 14Kg.

Weaving process:

The yarn spools around 700nos. will be put on the creel of the beaming machine.
The yarn will pass through sow box filled with water & starch solution and a portion of the
yarn through dyed yarn as per specification. The same will be passed through cylinder and
wound into beam Barrel called Weavers beam.

These beams will be fed on loom and cop will be used for weft insertion from the
loader machine for manufacturing sacking cloth for Hessian through Hand shuttle for
interlacement with wrap to produce the cloth. After weaving the cloth will be unrolled on the
damping machine and may be inspected depending upon on the weaving quality.

Calendar:
 After processing the cloth on damping machine, the fiber passes through calendar
machine.

Cutting & Sewing:

The cloth will be cut as per size of the bag and passes through Hemming Machine for
mouth sewing and subsequently through Heracles sewing for side sewing. The said bags will
be checked and bundles containing 25 bags will be prepared with knots.

Bale press/Packing/Dispatch:

 Sacking/Hessian Bags etc., are packed in press of 300/400/500 bags per bale.
 Packed gunny bags will be stored in bonded warehouse packed goods will be dispatched
as per the instructions of the sales department.