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Carrington Textiles International

A joint venture of Carrington Textiles

and Sapphire Textile Mills

Sapphire textile mills and Carrington textiles have John Vareldiz, CEO of Carrington Textiles, said,
launched a joint venture in Pakistan under Carrington "Following years of working closely with Sapphire as
Textiles International's name. The new partnership one of our strategic loom state suppliers, we have
between the two textile giants has been developed made the next logical step together and invested in a
after a stable relationship of more than 20 years. It new state of the art dyeing and finishing factory in
offers customers the broadest range of woven Lahore. This not only gives us our own European
workwear fabrics, including cotton-rich, engineered manufacturing plant in Asia, but it also
polyester/cotton, stretch and new sustainable fabrics, provides access to a vertical operation, from
all manufactured to the highest industrially spinning through to weaving, dyeing and finishing. All
launderable standards. of the dyeing and finishing machinery has been
specified by our technical experts to meet the
This venture aims to establish new textile dyeing and exacting standards of the workwear market, and we
finishing operations that will provide up to 20 million are confident this integration of our supply chains will
metres per year of dyed and white fabric to help to give our customers the best chance to
Carrington's global customers. Carrington Textiles' succeed in a challenging and exciting market."
current product range includes sustainable,
workwear, flame retardant, waterproof and defence Celebrating 130 years in 2021, Carrington Textiles is
fabrics, with properties that have anti-viral, antistatic, one of Europe’s largest textile suppliers to the
high visibility, water repellency, and protection workwear market. With bases in the UK, mainland
against chemical splash, electric arc and ultraviolet Europe and Asia, Carrington Textiles supports many
radiation. Operating in 81 countries and with a vast of the world’s largest employers in sectors including
heavy industry, hospitality, defence and health.
international network of sales representatives, Formed in Lancashire, United Kingdom, in 1891, the
customers include NHS, McDonald's, BUPA, TATA company continues to lead the industry in textiles for
Steel, Shell, Coca Cola, Airbus, Jaguar Land Rover, personal protective equipment.
BP, Arcelor Mittal to name a few.
Carrington Textiles’ current product range includes
Nabeel Abdullah, Sapphire's COO says, "Carrington sustainable, workwear, flame retardant, waterproof
Textiles International is an excellent project we are and defence fabrics, with properties that include
excited to be part of, and we are pleased our anti-viral, antistatic, high visibility, water repellency as
longstanding relationship with Carrington Textiles has well as protection against chemical splash, electric
developed into this joint venture." arc and ultraviolet radiation.

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