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Marvel Gloves; the name fits well like a glove for a company, which has grown by leaps and bounds in a matter of 34 years! It all began with seamless knitted gloves in 1980, when Marvel Gloves Industries´ Managing Partner, Farooq Abdullah, showed his iron fist (read, determination) inside his soft-spoken, glove-like personality by entering a field that invited only mockery from his industry friends.

Sclavos´ history traces back to 1948 when the company was established in Athens Greece by Spyros Sclavos and Evangelos Skepariotis. The main business of the company, at the start, was parts manufacturing and repair works for textile machinery.

Lakshmi Ring Travellers (Coimbatore) Limited (LRT), a group company of reputed Lakshmi Machine Works Limited (LMW), is situated in Coimbatore. Incorporated in 1974, LRT´s operation has been organised into independent business specific clusters.

As envisioned by Anuj Bhagwati-who joined A.T.E. Group in 1994-the company today has machinery solutions for every textile process – spinning, knitting, weaving, synthetics, technical textiles, non-woven, carpet finishing, garmenting and made-ups.

Since its foundation, Sanmit Card Clothing has been the manufacturing and distributing card clothing products for all models of cards available in the global market. Due to its strong R&D team, Sanmit

Sakthi´s administrative office and manufacturing unit is located in the heart of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and it is supported by an established R&D center, automated manufacturing plant

Investment is a necessity for growth, but innovation is indispensable. In the Indian textile industry, this is a late realisation. India is No. 2 in textiles, everyone trumpets, but where are we? India´s share is about four per cent in global textiles and clothing, and China is way ahead with 36 per cent.