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Mr Ahmad Shafi

talks about the

importance of

value addition for

textiles

Ahmad Sha . Executive Director.
The Crescent Textile Mills Ltd, Pakistan
The foundation stone of The Crescent Textile Mills Ltd this year is going to be better than past few years and
was laid by Mr Muhammad Shafi on May 01, 1950. we are quiet hopeful that Pakistan exports will
Under his leadership Crestex, in 1956, started increase, especially with the kind of concessions we
exporting majority of its products to USA, Europe, are getting from the government.
Middle East and Japan. After the demise of Mr
Muhammad Shafi and Mr Muhammad Anwar (CEO), Commenting on the government’s role currently in the
Mr Nasir Shafi took over the charge of Crestex. economic as well as textile sector growth he said, “I
think the government should give us a level playing
Progressive and futuristic approach of Mr Muham- field, a competitive environment, make our life easier
mad Anwar and Mr Nasir Shafi enabled Crestex to rather than harder, that’s all we need from the govern-
become the 1st composite textile company of ment, the rest we can do ourselves, even better than
Pakistan which receied the ISO 9002 certification on the government.”
July 07, 1997. Crestex has also been awarded
“Oeko-Tex Standard 100” certification, Presdient of When asked about new initiatives of ventures of
Pakistan Export Trophy for three consecutive years in Crescent Textile he replied, “Well, in home textiles we
mid 90s, the highest sale of yarn and cloth award in are adding a lot of machines in our value added
1987-88, 1993-94 and 1994-95, and highest sales of segments. Stitching and processing, spinning is also
home textiles award in 2008. constantly upgraded. So we work in fibers and trying
to make our customer’s life easier, figuring out what
At Heimtextil 2019, talking to TEXtalks Mr Ahmad pin points are and how we can cater them.”
Shafi, Executive Director, The Crescent Textile Mills
Ltd, Pakistan introduced Crescent textiles saying that Moreover, he informed that technical textiles is a
it deals in the business of yarns, grey fabrics, process different ball game altogether. He said that he
fabrics and home textiles. At Heimtextil, we are believes Pakistan has a long way to go before we can
promoting home textile products, bed sheets, make any impact in the technical textile field. It’s
curtains with a lot of variations in fibers, fabrics, doable, it requires a lot of institutional and govern-
constructions and it’s doing pretty well so far. ment support and a lot of exposure to the right
markets for technical textiles. So next ten years we
The visitor response in Heimtextile he said that a lot should be looking at technical textiles coming up big
of serious buyers visited this time and it seems that time in Pakistan.

January/February 2019