Company’s 200,000 sqft Unit 2 facility will get functional in April 2019
SV Pittie Sohar Textiles recently launched their Textile Cluster in Sohar with the inauguration of the Cotton Yarn Production Unit 1 by HE Sayyid Taimur Bin Assad Bin Tariq Al Said.
Prominent among the guests who attended were Group Chairman Vinod Pittie and Managing Director Chirag Pittie, HE Sultan Al Habsi, Deputy Governor Central Bank of Oman and several other government officials.
HH Sayyid Taimur also laid the foundation stone of Cotton Yarn Spinning Unit No. 3. The invited guests were then given a tour of Cotton Yarn Spinning Unit No. 2, a 500,000 square foot facility, which will be fully operational in April 2019.
Altogether, there will be four state-of-the-art yarn manufacturing units on this campus, covering over 2mn sq. ft. area, housing the latest and most efficient automated technology in the textile industry while also emphasizing an optimal health and safety environment for its employees.
With planned completion by November 2019, the units will compose of 300,000 spindles and 7,000 rotors producing over 100,000 Metric Tonnes of world class compact cotton yarn.
At the inauguration event, Chirag Pittie, Managing Director, commented: “I am glad we could start the production in a record time of approximately 8 months. This would not have been possible without the support of our lead EPC partner Inexco under whose supervision we had almost 500 workers and over 100 engineers working 24×7 at site during this period,” stressed Chirag Pittie, Managing Director.
SV Pittie Sohar Textiles is the subsidiary of the ShriVallabh Pittie Group, one of the largest manufacturers of cotton yarn in India and a global leader in this sector.
