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Company History

The story of textiles in the subcontinent is the story of Gul Ahmed. The group began tradingin textiles in the early 1900s. With all its know-how and experience, the group decided toenter the field of manufacturing and Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Ltd. was incorporated as aprivate limited company, in the year 1953. In 1972 it was subsequently listed on the

Karachi Stock Exchange. Since then the company has been making rapid progress and is

one of the best composite textile houses in the world. The mill is presently a composite unitwith an installed capacity of 130,296 spindles, 223 wide width air jet looms, and a state ofthe art processing and finishing unit.Textiles

In the textile field, activities start from the spinning of cotton as well as man made fibers

and extend to weaving, processing and finishing of all types of cotton and blended fabrics,bed linen, home furnishings, garment manufacturing, etc.List of Membership of Trade Bodies and Organization

The Karachi Stock Exchange (Guarantee) Limited. Lahore Stock Exchange (Guarantee) Limited. All Pakistan Textile Mills Association. Pakistan Cotton Fashion Apparel Manufacturers & Exporters Association. All Pakistan Bed sheets & Upholstery Manufacturers Association. Karachi Cotton Association. Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Karachi. Employees Federation of Pakistan. All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association

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Quality Policy Maintenance of Quality Systems on the guidelines of ISO 9000 series of standards. Customer satisfaction through employee participation & innovative technology

application. Training of employees on quality awareness, ISO 9000 concepts & system

documentation including: procedures, work instructions, specification etc. Trainingshould be an on-going process and refreshers and reviews are a part of training.

Social PolicyGul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited has striven to become one of the leading companies to

actively participate in the social and economical growth of the country. The company willendeavor to address following issues:1. Enforcement of minimum age of employee of eighteen (18) years without anydiscrimination.2. Relaxed environment for employees.3. Practical measures related to health and safety.4. Equal opportunity.Environmental PolicyGul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited pursue long term corporate objectives towards conservationin the use of electricity, gas and water for setting up an environmental management

system. We plan to meet global environmental challenges in all areas.Health and Safety PolicyGul Ahmed has a H&S manual and a permanent committee to ensure safety of staff andworkers. The members of the committee are:

Technical Directors. General Manager Maintenance. Processing Manager. Management Representative (Health & Safety). Stitching Managers. Admin, Security & Fire chief.

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Gul Ahmed is a network of composite mills which manufacture goods from yarn to finishedproducts. In order to achieve and maintain high quality control and to retain strict focus onspecialization, the production units have been decentralized into the following units:

Spinning Weaving Pretreatment, Printing, Dyeing, Finishing Design & Style Hemming House Hold Textile Quality Control

Operations SpinningSpinning

Gul Ahmed has two spinning units. The machinery used in these units is made in the U.K.,Japan, Germany & the U.S.A.Ring Spinning

The ring spinning operation comprises of a total of 130,296 spindles. A wide range of yarns

are produced in these units: 100% cotton from 50 NM for knitting and weaving, up to 135

NM for light weight dress fabrics. Poly Cotton, Poly viscose and 100% viscose yarns are alsoproduced from 7 Ne to 100 count.Operations WeavingWeavingThe units have 223 air jet looms. The air jet looms come from Tsudakoma of Japan. The

latest installation of air jet looms operate in a new custom built weaving facility supportedby the most modern yarn preparation equipment and are comparable with the finestavailable yarn preparation equipment anywhere in the world.These units produce fine quality lawns, sheetings, twills, drills, dobbies, satins, and otherfancy fabrics with a width of up to 330 cms.Operations Pretreatment, Printing, Dyeing, FinishingPretreatment, Printing, Dyeing, FinishingThe wet processing unit is equipped with a wide range of state of the art machines which

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gives Gul Ahmed a flexible processing possibility and an edge over its competitors.Gul Ahmed has 4 sophisticated rotary printing machines Capable of printing up to 21 colourson fabrics as wide as 320 cm.Processing and Finishing Machinery

Computerized Colour Kitchen Calender CAD/CAM System Colour Scanner Dyeing Range Embroidery Machine (20 head 9 colour) Film Plotter Laser Engraver Mercerizing Rotary Printing including 21 colour and upto 280 cm width Singeing & Desizing Stentor Sanforizing Washing and Drying Range Wax Engraver

The first installation of a laser engraver, wax engraver, film plotter, colour scanner, &CAD/CAM system in Pakistan was made at Gul Ahmed. Gul Ahmed places great emphasis on

innovation and implements the latest technology available. It is dedicated tocomputerization in aspects of design reproduction.In the finishing section, modern stenters are fitted with the most sophisticated electronicweft straighteners which achieve perfect finishes. Final touch to the fabrics is given on

different calenders according to the requirements of the buyers.

An automated and computerized colour kitchen enables production of exact colour shadeseach time from the use of recipes which are stored in the computer's memory station.Operations Design & StylingDesign & StylingGul Ahmed's design studios are staffed with experienced artists with capabilities to meet the

most stringent requirements in design and to adapt to different colourways to meet the

requirements of each individual country. The company also employs leading European

designers who constantly develop new designs for specific geographical areas. A top Frenchdesigner works full time for Gul Ahmed and spends 2 months in Pakistan and 2 months in

Paris on a rotational basis throughout the year. The designing team visits majorinternational exhibitions to keep abreast of current market trends.

Operations Hemming - House Hold Textile

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Hemming - House Hold TextileThese units, equipped with high speed stitching machines and an intensive labour force, are

capable of making all of the different product size and style requirements of each individualcountry.Operations Quality Control

Gul Ahmed Attains ISO 9000 CertificationQuality ControlGul Ahmed maintains strict quality control and possesses computerized testing for strength

of yarn, density of cloth and fastness of colours. Fully equipped labs are installed separatelyin areas of spinning, weaving and wet processing.The quality control personnel conduct pre-inspection of goods at different stages to maintain

international standards and to ensure customer satisfaction on a regular basis.Quality PolicyWe at Gul Ahmed Textile Mills want to maintain our position as one of the finest quality-

managed companies capable of meeting the requirements of our external & internalcustomers. Our culture stresses employee participation & innovative technology application

to achieve continuous improvement. Our efforts towards improvement of our quality

system, based on the guidelines ofISO 9000 series of standards is a journey towardsexcellence.

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