Prabhuram Mills

Prabhuram Mills was set up in the year 1972 by the renowned Cine Artist Late Sri. Shivaji Ganesan. This mill was vested with the Corporation as per Kerala Sick Textiles Undertaking (Acquisition &Transfer of Undertakings) Act. The mill has 17,536 ring spindles capacity. The unit presently produces Polyester Cotton blended yarn meant mostly for Free School Uniform Program of the Government.

Address:
PRABHURAM MILLS
Kotta P.O.(Via) Karakkad,
Chengannur- 689 504
Ph: 0479- 242 3055, 9048206012
E-mail: pm.kstc@kerala.gov.in

Komalapuram Spinning & Weaving Mills

M/s. Kerala Spinners Ltd (KSL) was incorporated in the year 1964 and setup by M/s. Grasim Industries Ltd in Private Sector. Consequent to the high competition in the textile market, the management had to close its operations in 2003. There were 600 employees working in the company.  As a result of continuous losses, the company was referred to BIFR in 2006 and in the absence of any viable revival package, based on the direction from BIFR, OA had invited offers from interested parties to explore possibilities of reviving the unit through revival / merger / amalgamation etc. At this juncture, Government of Kerala through an ordinance took over the unit and implemented VRS in the company based on an agreement between management and trade unions.
After takeover of the unit through ordinance, GoK transferred the unit with entire assets to Kerala State Textile Corporation Ltd.

Kottayam Textiles

Kottayam Textiles, a unit of the Corporation was set up at Vedagiri, a remote village in Ettumanoor, of Kottyam district, in the year 1968  by Sri. K S Narayanaswamy Iyer. This mill was vested with the Corporation as per Kerala Sick Textiles Undertaking (Acquisition &Transfer of Undertakings) Act. The mill has 24956-ring spindles capacity.                
                                

Address:
KOTTAYAM TEXTILES
Vedagiri, Kurumulloor P.O,
Kanakkary (Via) Ettumanoor,
Kottayam 686 632

Ph: 0481-253 3689, 9048206014:
e-mail: kt.kstc@kerala.gov.in

Edarikkode Textiles

Edarikkode Textilesis the mill started by the Corporation in 1985, situated at Puthuparamba, Kottackal, Malappuram district. The foundation stone was laid during 1982. The unit formation was completed with 12500 Spindle capacity in 1986. The company upgraded its spindle capacity from 12500 to 26960 spindles in 1996. First phase modernization was completed in the year 2007 and the second phase during 2010.

Address:
EDARIKKODE TEXTILES

P.O. Puthuparamba. Edarikkode, Kottakkal, Malappuram- 676 501
Ph: 0483- 275 1540, 9048206016, e-mail  et.kstc@kerala.gov.in

Malabar Spinning & Weaving Mills

Malabar spinning & weaving mill was the brainchild of Sri VelayudhanMudaliyar who worked in banking sector in British Malabar and industrialist Mr. Arcott, both of them believed that textile industry will be a profitable one by making use of the cheap raw material. They sought the help of Mr. Kalyanji Sunderji of Kozhikode for financial help. Mr. Kalyanji also join the duo and offered a handsome amount to start the mill. So three of them joined together and a company was registered under the name of Malabar Spinning and Weaving Mills.

They bought 12.39 acres of land from ‘Kozhippuramtharavadu’ a prominent family of Kozhikode. Although the outline was prepaid with the help JRD Tata, the company did not start due to acute fund shortage. Then they sought the help of Narayanan Nambootiripadu of Deshamangalam, Palakkad. Mr. Nambootiripadu offered share of Rs.2,40,000/- and a loan of Rs.2 lakh to start the mill. Thus on 8Mar 1884 the foundation stone of the company was laid by the then Malabar district and section judge Mr. W.H Wilkinson.

The building was completed under the guidance of JRD Tata, and SaitNagji. Machinery was imported from England with the help of JRD Tata. On 8 Aug 1890 the Calicut Zamorin Sri. Manavikraman Raja inaugurated the unit. The mill then operated profitably for some time but lost ground due to the inexperience of the owners and non-profit dividend distribution to the shareholders. Export of yarn to China also caused huge lose to the company. Eventually Sri.  Somasundaram Chettiar of Coimbatore bought majority of the shares and became the owner of the mill. The mill  performed well under the new ownership. In 1953 the weaving section also started functioning.

In 1978 the Govt. of Kerala had taken over the unit and handed over the operation of the company to the Kerala Sate Textile Corporation, under relief undertaking Act. During this period renovation work was carried out at a cost of Rs. 1 crore. The performance of the Mill  improved during this period. In 1983 the Malabar Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd was nationalized and the name of the company was change to Malabar Spinning & Weaving Mills.

Address:
MALABAR SPINNING AND WEAVING MILLS
Thiruvannur Nada – (P.O),
Kozhikode - 673 029
Ph: 0495 - 232 1438, 9048206018
e-mail: mswm.kstc@kerala.gov.in

Uduma Textile Mill

During 2010-11 the Government of Kerala had setup two new mills in Textile sector under Kerala State Textile Corporation Ltd. Uduma textile Mills, Kasaragod and Hi-tech Weaving Mills, Pinarayi, Kannur.
Uduma Textile Mills (UTM) was set up at Mylatti, Kasaragod district with an installed capacity of 11,088 ring spinning spindles to produce 2.0 MT per day. The unit was remained inoperative up to 2018 due to lack of planned effort for completion of the project and want of required infrastructure and utilities to enable them to operate.

In the year 2018, the Government took initiative to commence the operations of the Mill and accordingly, appointed workers and the company started the production with the total capacity of 11088 spindles from 30 October 2018. The commercial production started from 01 January 2019. Further, added two automatic cone winding machines for value addition in December 2019.

Even at this difficult situation, the Mill could run with 95% capacity utilization, better productivity and hence with operational profit. The Mill is facing some bottle necks in production line like lack of facilities to maintain the optimum humidity in the departments, online quality assurance, pneumatic air requirements and also lack of space for stocking raw material.
The Mills has been selling major quantity of yarn to up country markets in Maharashtra and Tamilnadu.  Also supplying to Komalapuram Spinning and Weaving Mills and Hi-tech Weaving Mills for cotton fabric production.

Address:
UDUMA TEXTILE MILLS
P.O. Mylatty,
Bara Village,
Kasargod. 671 319
Ph:0499 – 428 2266. 9048656266.
e-mail:utm.kstc@kerala.gov.in

Hi-Tech Weaving Mills

During 2010-11 the Government of Kerala had setup two new mills in Textile sector under Kerala State Textile Corporation Ltd. Uduma textile Mills, Kasargode and a Hi-tech Weaving Mills, Pinarayi, Kannur.

Hi-tech Weaving Mills (HWM) was set up at Pinarayi, Kannur district with an installed capacity of 36 high-speed air-jet looms to produce 18,500 meters / day. The unit was remained inoperative up to 2019 due to lack of planned effort for completion of the project and want of required infrastructure and utilities to enable them to operate. Later, adequate support extended by Government of Kerala and appointed trainee workers accordingly the Mill started its commercial production from February 2019 onwards.

Presently, the Mill is producing Police uniform fabrics and supplying to various districts through Police canteens. The Mill can produce uniform shirting, suiting, fabrics for cloth mask, overcoats, etc. and the main limitation is lack of orders due lack of quality assurance instruments.

Address:
HI-TECH WEAVING MILLS
Kizhakkubhagom,
Pinarayi P.O.,
Kannur  670 741
Ph: 0490 - 238 4150, 9048206076.
e-mail: hwm.kstc@kerala.gov.in

Centre for Applied Research and Development in Textiles (CARDT)

In the year 2004 the Centralized Testing Laboratory was renamed as Centre for Applied Research and Development in Textiles (CARDT) for catering to the needs of textile testing and development in the State. In the year 2010, CARDT was shifted to the premises of Trivandrum Spinning Mills Ltd. by carrying out partial modernisation with state-of-the-art testing instruments.

CARDT, a unit of KSTC, offers testing facility for all kinds of textile material (Fiber to finished Fabric). CARDT has testing facility to cater the testing requirements of all the verticals of the textile industry in Kerala, such as Spinning, Weaving, Hand looms and knitting units etc. Bulk purchases by Government Departments and other Government institutions are also utilizing the facilities of CARDT. It also serves as a centralized laboratory armed with fiber testing, yarn testing and fabric testing equipment for checking the critical parameters to control the quality and process.

Address:
Door no. BP/5/362,
Vizhinjam Road,
Balaramapuram P.O,
Thiruvananthapuram 695 501
Ph: 0471 – 240 9210.
e-mail:cardt.kstc@kerala.gov.in