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Arunachala Gounder Textile Mills Ltd.
Charting a successful course worldwide with Autocoro S 360 and Belcoro
The southern Indian spinning and weaving company
Arunachala Gounder Textile Mills Ltd. (referred to
as AGT Mills below) has evolved from a small
local yarn supplier into a highly quality-conscious
and globally active manufacturer of viscose
products in just a few years. The company’s
success story began in 1995 with a few machines,
comprising 5,000 spinning units in all. In the years that followed,
AGT Mills gradually expanded its production capacity to nearly
20,000 spinning units and numerous weaving machines. There is
scarcely a viscose yarn that AGT Mills cannot supply - classic viscose
yarns in all counts are there along with modal yarns, yarns made
from bamboo, blended yarns with cotton or acrylic. Every year
20,000 tonnes of viscose yarn and 40 million metres of woven fabric
for leisurewear embark on their journey from the mills. The biggest
markets of AGT Mills are weaving mills in Europe and South America,
plus customers in the USA and southern Asia.
Logical quality strategies bear fruit
The core skill of AGT Mills and its recipe for success is superb yarn
and package quality. The company’s strategies with regard to this
embrace all segments and all of its roughly 700 employees.
Top-quality German machines play as great a role as the lean and
experienced company management, consisting of managing director
P. Nutrajan, finance director N. Probhuram and marketing director
Ramesh Natarajan. In the rotor spinning mill, AGT Mills puts its trust
in the Autocoro S 360. P. Nutrajan says: “This new Autocoro
generation is a rotor spinning machine that is so well tailored to our
company it could have been developed just for us. The Autocoro
S 360 unites a host of advantages. On the one hand, it fits superbly
into our quality concept, because an Autocoro machine
is virtually already a guarantee of quality yarns and
quality packages. On the other hand, we welcome the
technological innovations on this new Autocoro. The
new DigiPiecing piecing technology of the Autocoro
S 360 with digital control system and digital monitoring
is a real quantum leap. The Autocoro S 360 is the first
rotor spinning machine to meet our quality demands in
the semiautomatic machine segment too. To this extent
the two new machines are an outstanding investment in
our future.”
Managing director P. Nutrajan.
Certified premium yarns make marketing easy
To provide optimum proof of the yarn quality achieved to the outside
world, AGT Mills has had the viscose yarns spun on the Autocoro
S 360 certified with the protected Belcoro quality label. Ramesh
Natarajan, marketing director: “Belcoro documents our advantages
vis-à-vis our competitors very comprehensively and lends valuable
support in the marketing of our yarns. Our customers know that in
Belcoro they are getting premium yarns, and that Belcoro only
comes with Autocoro. Autocoro yarns in themselves already have a
very high status with our customers; these yarns are further upgraded
with Belcoro. Our customers can be confident that the yarns will
run superbly in their knitting and weaving mills. It is also a fact, however,
that it is much easier for our knitting and weaving customers to market
their products if they say for their part that they are processing
Belcoro yarns.”
Autocoro S 360 at
AGT Mills: a guarantee
of yarn and package
quality.