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An Interview with Muhammad Adil Ghani – Nishat Dyeing & Finishing Mills, Pakistan

Adil Ghani (General Manager) shares his experience with a revolutionary Cibitex ShrinkTex Sanforizing Machine at Nishat Dyeing & Finishing Mills, Pakistan.

Nishat Dyeing and Finishing, NDF is a purpose-designed fabric dyeing and project with a capacity of 4.2 million meters per month. It is specially designed to handle heavyweight fabrics like twills, drills, canvases/poplins, fabrics with minimum tension, such as stretch fabrics and all high density weaves. NDF is considered to be one of the best and largest dyeing plants in South East Asia with a strong customer base & enjoys a great relationship with all major top retailers of the world.

Established in 1975, CIBITEX srl is an Italian manufacturer of textile finishing machinery, providing state of the art technologies, as well as a wide range of consulting, pre and post-sales services. CIBITEX manufactures customized products with all their efforts to be a sustainable company.


Team TEXtalks visited NDF to ascertain the production experience of CIBITEX Shrintex Sanforizing. Talking to TEXtalks in an interview, Mr Adil Ghani, General Manager, Nishat Dyeing & Finishing Mills, Pakistan said, “I persistently met Mr Roberto Gorri at the exhibitions and he was always interested in selling the machines to Nishat. A couple of years ago Nishat required an expansion in its production capacity, and that was the point when I began discussions with CIBITEX. Luckily at that time, I was in Italy, there I got a chance to visit their production facility and I was impressed. Their production facility is small but highly equipped and they are producing good quality machines.” He added, “Normally, machines have standard configurations but in our discussions with CIBITEX, we clearly conveyed to them the purpose behind this buy which was to increase productivity. In order to gain optimum production, we made some radical changes to the machine’s design. The machines design changes were relatively new for CITIBEX, but the eagerness to enter into Pakistan’s market and to avail this opportunity of working with Nishat, CIBITEX accepted the challenge. One thing led to another which led me to make the decision to place the order with CIBITEX.”

He further informed that another factor that contributed positively in the decision-making was the technical, pre and post-sales service of team TEXSOL (being agent of CIBITEX local representative). Especially, the expertise and hard work of Mr Amir Mirza, C.E.O TEXSOL, did not go unnoticed. NDF was extremely fortunate to have him to make this transition go well. Without his support and contributions, the decision-making followed by the hassle-free installation and a wonderful result would not have been possible.


CIBITEX Shrintex Sanforizing machine is not a standard machine. In a standard machine, there is only one rubber belt for shrinkage purposes but this CIBITEX machine is very customized. It has two sanforizing sections to have two belts working simultaneously to get the maximum output from the machine. According to Mr Adil Ghani, the most satisfying part was to see the machine in running and produce desired results.

Mr Adil Ghani reporting about the benefits of the investment made in terms of process, productivity and efficiency informed, “I needed to increase my production from 4.5 – 5 million per month but half a million increase is not a significant increase. Hence, for the increase I had two choices, we could either buy a new machine with a capacity of two million meters from which only half a million meters will be utilized and the rest would sit idle or a machine that runs at a higher speed and increases our productivity as well. So, the biggest advantage of the Shrinktex Sanforizing machine is that compared to standard machines which operate between 30 – 80 meters per minute, this machine operates between 60 – 110 meters per minute. All fabrics on a standard machine that runs at a speed of 30-80 meters per minute, can be run on a Shrinktex Sanforizing machine at the speed of 60-110 meters per minute, fabrics that run at a speed of 30-50 meters per minute, on Shrinktex Sanforizing machine can be run at double the speed and fabrics which are run at 70-80 meters per minute speed can be run at 105-110 meters per minute speed on Shrinktex Sanforizing. And that’s where the success is, increased speed and having two belts arrangement. In the beginning, in the market, it didn’t successfully materialize. But, we at Nishat are among the first two who are using it very frequently as a routine process and it has been very successful.”

European manufactured machines are always of good quality. The purpose of going to Europe is for its quality. Especially, made in Italy from the last few years has proved itself as a really good supplier for the textile machines. CIBITEX production facility in Italy and their flexibility to tailor customized machines according to needs and requirements gave Mr Adil Ghani the confidence to invest in CIBITEX machine.

Adil Ghani. Nishat Dyeing and Finishing Mills

This being CIBITEX’s pioneer project, they showed great zeal and eagerness. According to Mr Adil Ghani, so far his experience with CIBITEX is that they are very keen on resolving issues and their follow-up is very good. Hence, overall it has been a splendid experience.

Mr Adil Ghani further said, “Yes, it was a new project for both of us CIBITEX and Nishat. So there were a few challenges but nothing serious in terms of design. There were some problems initially but they were resolved easily. Overall, it was an excellent experience with CIBITEX.”

 

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