 |
| Cotton
Seed Development |
It
became obvious that the best way to ensure the
highest standards of raw material was for the
company to integrate backwards. In this direction,
a massive expansion was launched to establish
a full-fledged research
facility to develop new varieties
of cotton seeds. This would go to ensure that
the company supplied itself with a quality of
material that matched its objective of superlative
finished product. |
| The
result of the project was the development of high
yielding hybrid cotton seeds christened
SARA - I, medium and long-staple
and SARA - II, extra-long staple varieties.
Two more hybrids SARA
- 33, SARA - 39 completed the
trials and ready for commercial launch. |
Apart
from fulfilling SSML’s
social obligation in improving the standards of
the farmers, by providing low
cost inputs of fertilizer, chemicals
& assured buy back of their produce at a premium
price in collaboration with them, the company
derives the best quality raw material right from
the field for its own manufacturing requirements. |
| |
| |
| |
| Contamination
Control |
Elimination
of raw material contamination has been identified
as the major factor of quality control. This is
effectively tackled by adopting a three-pronged
approach: |
 |
Close
interaction with each supplier to ensure
conformance to pre-set standards of consistent,
contamination-free cotton |
|
Rigorous
segregation of raw cotton at the ginning
as well as mills to eliminate contaminated
material |
|
Installation
of Vision Shield contamination remover at
the cotton stage and SIRO clearer at the
yarn stage to ensure purity of processed
yarn |
|
