Welspun opens Rs150-cr facility

Home textiles manufacturer Welspun India Ltd. has forayed into new technologies in its technical textile with its Needle Entangled Advance Textile Plant in Anjar. The plant was inaugurated by Minister of Textiles Smriti Irani on Saturday.

The Rs150-crore facility will have capabilities of spun lace and needle punch lines that can manufacture multi-layer composites for various applications. This advanced and innovative technology will provide non-woven solutions for high-end industrial applications such as filtration, acoustics, automotive, fire safety, thermal insulation, vibration control, noise control, aerospace, defence and mass transportation. The initial capacity of the manufacturing unit will be 2,400 tonnes per annum.

Further, Welspun has invested Rs100 crore to set up a fresh fully automated cut and sew unit in the made-ups segment with a capacity of 10 million units per annum.