Sapphire textile mills and Carrington textiles have launched a joint venture in Pakistan under Carrington Textiles International’s name. The new partnership between the two textile giants has been developed after a stable relationship of more than 20 years. It offers customers the broadest range of woven workwear fabrics, including cotton-rich, polyester/cotton, stretch and new sustainable fabrics, all manufactured to the highest industrially launderable standards.
This venture aims to establish new textile dyeing and finishing operations that will provide up to 20 million meters per year of dyed and white fabric to Carrington’s global customers. Carrington Textiles’ current product range includes sustainable, workwear, flame retardant, waterproof and defence fabrics, with properties that have anti-viral, antistatic, high visibility, water repellency, and protection against chemical splash, electric arc and ultraviolet radiation. Operating in 81 countries and with a vast international network of sales representatives, customers include NHS, McDonald’s, BUPA, TATA Steel, Shell, Coca Cola, Airbus, Jaguar Land Rover, BP, Arcelor Mittal to name a few.
Nabeel Abdullah, Sapphire’s COO says, “Carrington Textiles International is an excellent project we are excited to be part of, and we are pleased our longstanding relationship with Carrington Textiles has developed into this joint venture.”
John Vareldiz, CEO of Carrington Textiles, said, “Following years of working closely with Sapphire as one of our strategic loom state suppliers, we have made the next logical step together and invested in a new state of the art dyeing and finishing factory in Lahore. This not only gives us our own European engineered manufacturing plant in Asia, but it also provides access to a vertical operation, from spinning through to weaving, dyeing and finishing. All of the dyeing and finishing machinery has been specified by our technical experts to meet the exacting standards of the workwear market, and we are confident this integration of our supply chains will help to give our customers the best chance to succeed in a challenging and exciting market.”
