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Cotton is being grown in India for
more than 5000 years. Three centuries back its cotton
muslin used to sell in Europe for the weight of Gold.
Presently the Indian cotton industry
is at a very important threshold. The world has
started recognising the quality of Indian raw cotton
fibre and is buying more and more fibre from India.
The industry has taken rapid steps by introducing
upgraded technology ginning machines, adopting BT
seeds, employing better picking and ginning practices.
This lead improvement in controling trash,
contamination, and improving consistency and
uniformity.
From 2004-2005 crop India has seen
phenomenal growth in productivity terms due to the use
of BT seeds and good monsoon. Despite this, India's
productivity per hectare is amongst the lowest
in the world which makes it the country with highest
acreage but still 2nd largest producer. This
leaves it with a major scope for expansion and
increased importance in the cotton world. Crop is
expected to be 5.6 million tons in 2008-09 i.e. 33
million bales of 170 kgs. (This would make it the 2nd
largest producer in the world after China.)
India is expected to export 10
million bales in 2008-09.
India is the Second biggest producer
of cotton next to China, Second biggest consumer after
China, and also second biggest cotton exporter next to
USA.
India has also strongly moved into
organic cotton and is the second largest producer
after Turkey in the world.
How
Do We Ensure Quality?
Kapas is hand picked, fibre is not damaged
• Employ selectors in various cotton stations for kapas (seed cotton) buying.
• Kapas is checked by visual graders, hand classers and tested by electronic machines in lab to determine post ginning fibre attributes.
• Moisture is controlled at every stage.
• Ginning is done in "TMC" approved factories that means modern equipments and automatic
• Various measures are taken to avoid contamination.
- Only cloth brooms are used for cleaning.
- Kapas and final cotton is kept on cemented floor and not on mud/dust.
- Human handling is minimised during ginning.
- Workers tie their hair with cloth to avoid hair strands.
- Workers remove visible contaminats by hand picking.
Have in-house state of the art laboratories equipped with all types of machinery for grading and testing of cotton. It has a uster HVI spectrum equipment & trash analyser.
Who Are We?
• 60 years old vertically integrated textile group.
• T.T. Brand is a household name with both retail consumers and industrial buyers.
• Have Three, ISO 9002 certified spinning mills.
• Doing both own and contract ginning of various types of raw cotton.
• Manufacturing garments all across India (multi-location).
• Has ultra modern Knitting units in North and South India.
• Managed and run by professional persons-MBAs, CAs, Textile Engineers.
• Good corporate and brand image.
With expectations of increase in cotton crop size in India we could measure the opportunity and make suggestions to our overseas yarn importers which happened to be largely spinners themselves. We suggested that they can use Indian Cotton competitively. They had fears about quality of Indian Cotton. We reassured them about features of Indian Cotton, Shankar-6 in particular pointing out that if our yarn spun out of Shankar Cotton is acceptable to them and other importers worldwide, the yarn spun by them by importing Cotton from India would be good for them as well. In the year 2004 we could break the ice in a pioneering manner and from 2005 we had big bang in the International market. Gradually in the subsequent three years India has earned the status of the second biggest exporter of cotton in the world next only to U.S.
Our philosophy:
To create value for the customer in terms of better
product, better quality, better price, better delivery.
T.T. COTTON, HONEST COTTON
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