Lumiere opens knitted fabric facility

Lumiere, a state-of-the-art knitted fabric manufacturing facility commenced operations a few months ago.

"Garment manufacturers were hesitant to undertake (fashion) orders despite the potential for better margins. This was due to difficulties faced in fabric sourcing which mainly stem from the small quantities needed for these orders.

Fabric manufacturers on one hand are reluctant to undertake small quantities and on the other hand the lead time taken to produce these quantities is also comparatively more. This is against the market requirement, which is to deliver the quantities quickly," a spokesman for the company said.

"Having identified this gap in market need and industry capacity to fulfill it, Lumiere invested in a number of small capacity dyeing machines," he said.

"All of them are Sclavos high temperature jets manufactured in Greece. Lumiere's investment in these machines is such that it can produce up to 600 batches of smaller quantities between 50 m to 200 m per month. To facilitate the production of small quantities, Lumiere lab is equipped with 'Mathis' Labomat machines from Italy which could produce upto 5,280 submissions of lab dips per month," the spokesman said.