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A revolutionary CIBITEX

Shrintex Sanforizing

user experience shared

Muhammad Adil Ghani by Mr Adil Ghani – Nishat Dyeing and Finishing Mills
General Manager (Nishat Dyeing & Finishing Mills, Lahore)

Nishat Dyeing and Finishing, NDF is a purpose CITIBEX, but the eagerness to enter into Pakistan’s
designed fabric dyeing and the capacity of 4.2 million market and to avail this opportunity of working with
meters per month. It is specially designed to handle Nishat, CIBITEX accepted the challenge. One thing
heavy weight fabrics like twills, drills, canvases / led to another which led me to make the decision to
poplins, fabrics with minimum tension, such as place the order with CIBITEX.”
stretch fabrics and all high density weaves. NDF is
considered to be one of the best and largest dyeing He further informed that another factor that contribut-
plants in South East Asia with strong customer base ed positively in the decision making was team
& enjoys great relationship with all top retailers of the TEXSOL (being agent of CIBITEX). Especially, the
world. expertise and hard work of Mr Amir Mirza, C.E.O
TEXSOL, did not go unnoticed.
Established in 1975, CIBITEX srl is an Italian manu-
facturer of textile finishing machinery, providing state CIBITEX Shrintex Sanforizing machine is not a
of the art technologies, as well as a wide range of standard machines. In a standard machine there is
consulting, pre and post sales services. CIBITEX only one rubber belt for shrinkage purpose but this
manufactures customized products with all their CIBITEX machine is very customized. It has two
efforts to be a sustainable company. sanforizing sections to have two belts working
simultaneously to get the maximum output from the
Team TEXtalks visited NDF to ascertain the produc- machine. According to Mr Adil Ghani, the most Cibitex Shrinktex at Nishat Mills
tion experience of CIBITEX Shrintex Sanforizing. satisfying part was to see the machine in running and
Talking to TEXtalks in an interview, Mr Adil Ghani, produce desired results. be run on Shrinktex Sanforizing machine at the speed Italy and their flexibility to tailor customize machines
General Manager, Nishat Dyeing & Finishing Mills, of 60-110 meters per minute, fabrics that run at a according to needs and requirements gave Mr Adil
Pakistan said, “I persistently met Mr Roberto Gorri at Mr Adil Ghani reporting about the benefits of the speed of 30-50 meters per minute, on Shrinktex Ghani the confidence to invest in CIBITEX machine.
the exhibitions and he was always interested in selling investment made in terms of process, productivity Sanforizing machine can be run at double the speed
the machines to Nishat. A couple of years ago Nishat and efficiency informed, “I needed to increase my and fabrics which are run at 70-80 meters per minute This being CIBITEX’s pioneer project, they showed
required an expansion in its production capacity, and production from 4.5 – 5 million per month but half a speed can be run at 105-110 meters per minute great zeal and eagerness. According to Mr Adil
that was the point when I began discussions with million increase is not a significant increase. Hence, speed on Shrinktex Sanforizing. And that’s where the Ghani, so far his experience with CIBITEX is that they
CIBITEX. Luckily at that time I was in Italy, there I got a for the increase I had two choices, we could either success is, increased speed and having two belts are very keen on resolving issues and their follow up
chance to visit their production facility and I was buy a new machine with a capacity of two million arrangement. In the beginning, in the market, it didn’t is very good. Hence, overall it has been a splendid
impressed. Their production facility is small but highly meters from which only half a million meters will be successfully materialize. But, we at Nishat are among experience.
equipped and they are producing good quality utilized and the rest would sit idle or a machine which the first two who are using it very frequently as a
machines.” He added, “Normally, machines have runs at a higher speed and increases our productivity routine process and it has been very successful.” Mr Adil Ghani further said, “Yes, it was a new project
standard configurations but in our discussions with as well. So, the biggest advantage from Shrinktex for both of us CIBITEX and Nishat. So there were a
CIBITEX, we clearly conveyed to them the purpose Sanforizing machine is that compared to standard European manufactured machines are always of a few challenges but nothing serious in terms of
behind this buy which was to increase productivity. In machines which operate between 30 – 80 meters per good quality. The purpose of going to Europe is for its design. There were some problems initially but they
order to gain optimum production, we made some minute, this machine operates between 60 – 110 quality. Especially, made in Italy from the last few were resolved easily. Overall, it was an excellent
radical changes to the machines design. The meters per minute. All fabrics on a standard machine years has proved itself as a really good supplier for experience with CIBITEX.”
machines design changes were relatively new for that run on a speed of 30-80 meters per minute, can the textile machines. CIBITEX production facility in

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