Shahlon’s Dhiraj Shah is the new chairman of SRTEPC

Dhiraj Raichand Shah, Executive Chairman of
M/s. Shahlon Silk Industries Ltd., Surat has taken over as Chairman of The
Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) in the 527th
Meeting of the Committee of Administration of the Council  which was held at Deltin Hotel,
Daman on 27th March 2021.  His company
M/s. Shahlon Silk Industries Ltd. (Formerly, known as M/s. Fairdeal Filaments
Ltd.) has been a member of SRTEPC since 2000. 
Dhiraj R. Shah has been serving as a Board Member of the Council since
2016-17.  He was the Vice Chairman of the
Council for the past two years actively involved with various activities of the
Council including export promotional programmes.

Dhiraj Raichand Shah having vast experience
of more than 3 decades, has ably led his company, M/s. Shahlon Silk Industries
Ltd., a leading fashion to technical fabric player to domestic and leading
fashion brands across the world, is based in Surat, the textile hub of India.
His company is registered under Government recognized “Export House”.

Dhiraj Raichand Shah, a graduate in
Commerce with Adv. Accountancy & Auditing, was the Regional Chairman, Surat
since April 2017 for two years. During his tenure as the Regional Chairman,
Surat, Dhiraj Shah was actively representing the issues concerning exports of
MMF textiles in Surat region especially the twin issues hurting the MMF textile
exporters i.e. GST and increasing imports of MMF textiles from China.

Shah, a leading manufacturer of Man-Made
Fibre Textiles entered the textile business in 1984 and over a period of time
had organic growth through forward and backward integration and today is having
a complete integrated manufacturing set-up from various value additions in
yarns to manufacturing of fabric. The Group’s entire product range comprises of
export quality products of ply furnishing yarn, intermingled yarn, value added
yarns (sized yarn-cotton & synthetic, texturized yarn, crepe yarn, split
yarn), fabrics for shirting & suiting, furnishing, technical textiles,
non-woven fabrics, etc. The Group exports supreme quality fabrics and synthetic
textile yarn across the world.

Dhiraj Raichand Shah’s aim of vision is
“To be one of the world’s leading integrated textile enterprise exceeding
customer and stakeholder expectations, driven by research, innovation and
excellence.”

The Group has set up three Textile Parks
and are already into operation, viz., Fairdeal Textile Park, Jayraj Textile
Park and Sayan Textile Park and has thus created milestone in development of
Industrial Parks in Surat district. The other ongoing five Textile Parks are
Fairdeal Industrial Park, Shahlon Textile Park, Karanj Textile Park, Tadkeshwar
Infra LLP and Yes Greentex Infra.

Shah was President of South Gujarat Texturisers
Association, Surat and an Active Member of various Association/Boards such as
Excise – Regional Advisory Committee, Development Council for Textile
Industries (Ministry of Commerce and Industries – Govt. of India) 2001-03,
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Textile Working Group of Gujarat –
State Govt. 2001-02. He was a Co-opted Member of Managing Committee of South
Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Surat (SGCCI) 2018-19, Mentor of
The South Gujarat Yarn Dealer Association (SGYDA).

Shah was awarded Golden Jubilee Trust award
by SGCCI as “Outstanding Business Person of the Year 2013-14”.  Shah, a highly respectable personality with
his tremendous contribution in the MMF Textile Industry is highly commendable.