INTRODUCTION
Year 1952: Late Shri Jagdish Chandar Avasthi, laid the foundation of whats today one of the
front runners in the Indian Textile Industry. Starting with a small hosiery unit, christened
Avasthi Hosiery, the stage was set for what is now an Internationally renowned Textile
Conglomerate, having in-house capacities for Yarn Spinning, Yarn Dyeing & Processing,
Knitting , Fabric Dyeing & Processing and Garmenting, Retailing & Fashion Education. His son,
Shri Raj Kumar Avasthi, joined the family business in 1965 and following in his fathers able
footsteps, hasnt looked back since.
The Brand Sportking, the groups identity today, was conceived in the year 1977 as a humble
hosiery manufacturing unit in Ludhiana, christened M/S Sportking Knitwears. Sensing the need
for processing of fabrics, Marvel Dyeing was established at Ludhiana in the year 1986. The next
venture was Classic Wears Pvt. Ltd., incorporated in the year 1988. Until 1992, the group
operations were primarily focused on Garments manufacture, which then shifted to backward
integration and forayed into Yarn manufacturing with the conception and incorporation of
Sportking India Ltd.
The first installation was at Rahon Road, Ludhiana in the year 1992, followed by Sportking
Synthetics, near Sahnewal, in the year 1995. In the Endeavour to promote brand Sportking, it
was decided to venture into Retail business, under the name Sportking Fashion Planet. Today
we have about 50 Retail Outlets across the country and the number is sure to increase in the
coming time. Our Garment brands, Sportking, Mentor &Woodburn are quite well known
and identified as pocket friendly premium quality, family brands. In year 2000, Sportking
Processors was established with the purpose of having in house facility for Fiber, Yarn &
Garments Dyeing and Processing.
In addition to catering to the internal requirements, Sportking Processors majorly engages in Job
Works, for other Yarn & Garments manufacturers. Year 2005, marked the initiation of 2
projects: Sobhagiya Clothing Co- Baddi dedicated to manufacture of garments made with
premium yarns and Sportking Institute of Fashion Technology, in affiliation with Pearl
Academy- Delhi. Realizing the importance of skill development, the group established
Sportking Institute of Fashion Technology, with the aim to serve the society and promote
education in Fashion & Textile Designing.
The young designers developing there at, are bound to give another dimension to the fashion
industry. This institute is dedicated to educating, developing and polishing our future designers.
Year 2010 marked the beginning of an entirely new chapter in the Sportking story. Sportking
Industries, the groups biggest, most daunting and most ambitious project was conceived &
conceptualized and installations were initiated. This project has been made operational in a very
short span of time and has added to the groups strength tremendously. Years of relentless toil
and dedication of the Promoters and employees have brought the group to its current glory.
Today the group, under the experience & benevolent vision of Raj Avasthi, Group Chairman and
dynamism of his son, Munish Avasthi, Managing Director, has blossomed into a vertically
integrated textile giant.
Mission Statement
At Sportking, were constantly striving to surpass the Industry standards in quality, innovation
and value, and elevating our image to become the leader in the Industry. We aspire to create
lifelong customer relationships & offer opportunities that deliver superior earnings, recognition,
service and support, making it easy and rewarding to be affiliated with us.
We hope to be known for our leadership edge, through our passion for high standards, our
respect for diversity and our commitment to create exceptional opportunities for professional
growth so that even our employees can fulfill their highest potential.
We will deliver superior returns to our shareholders by tirelessly pursuing new growth
opportunities while continually improving our profitability. Ours is a socially responsible, ethical
company that is watched and emulated as a model of success. Our corporate philosophy is one of
adhering to the highest ethical conduct in all our business dealings, treatment of our employees,
and social and environmental policies & regulations.
Fashion Education
Education is the seed of knowledge. It can be sown at any time in the life to enable one to learn
how to live. And to sow the said seed sportking group of industries under Aneeshwar educational
society, a society registered under societys registration act 1860 was formed in July 2005.
Change is constant knowledge is dynamic. The pursuit for education world wide is increasingly
looking at equipping students with life & career skills. SIFT Endeavour to kindle this guiding
glow in each of its students.
Objective of SIFT is to train professionals with comprehensive range of cognitive & intellectual
skills, planned to develop across a wide range of learning experiences. The institute has been
able to grow steadily since inception, primarily on the foundations of its professionally trained
faculty members, who have rich industry experience and are committed to continue research &
development. Our teaching is supported by the latest machinery is closely linked with some of
the best institutions in the world, as well as industry.
SIFT excellent track record in terms of the quality of its education, graduate profile and 100%
placement has been able to win trust & confidence from its partners & associates all over the
world To meet the certain standards and requirement SIFT equipped itself with remarkable
infrastructure; The Campus; Library, Knitting Lab, Pattern Making Lab, Garment Construction
Lab, CAD Lab, Textile Testing Lab, Computer Lab, Resource Center, Embroidery Lab and
Canteen. Each room has been designed as per the latest demands of Fashion Institute.
The Unique Feature of SIFT is the focus on practical and application oriented curriculum. The
active involvement of the team members from garment industry ensures tremendous practical
exposure.
The latent need for professionals in Ludhiana, which is the heart land of the garment Industry in
India, compels the sportking group to establish a Fashion institute in Ludhiana. Availability of
trained professionals with international exposure will indeed enable Ludhiana to accelerate into a
world class manufacturing center for knitwear.
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Mixing (Fibre)
Blowroom
Carding
Drawing
Simplex
Ringframe
Autocone
Packing
Production Process of Sportking India Ltd.
With sales of Rs. 3,500 million, Sportking is well on its way to becoming one of the biggest
brands at all stages of the textile process, from
yarn and fabric manufacture to apparel
production and retailing, not only on the Indian
market but worldwide.
Sportking is a corporate group based in
Ludhiana. The groups portfolio covers the
entire textile value chain, from yarns, fabrics
and apparel to retailing, and also features a training facility for textile technologists. Based on the
powerful vision of its founder Raj Kumar Awasthi, CEO and Chairman, the group regards its
mission as investment in socio-economic growth: on the one hand through outstanding
performance, on the other by adapting to modern technologies in business and training. This is
what brings Sportking and Rieter together.
Group CEO Munish Awasthi is not only continuing to pursue the existing business in the spirit
of his father, but has also implemented a series of expansion plans in a wide range of sectors
along the value chain.
Yarn manufacture is the Sportking Groups most important business segment. A wide range of
yarns are produced, from cotton, manmade fibers, raw white and dyed blends to various fancy
yarns such as crochet and chenille yarns. Its first spinning mill was built in 1989 under the name
of Sportking India Ltd..
The group now operates five spinning installations with 1,50,000 spindles in and around
Ludhiana, manufacturing manmade fiber yarns and blends. Five more spinning mills with a total
of 1,20,000 spindles for manufacturing cotton, polyester/cotton and blended yarns are being
installed in Bathinda.
The group has a daily knitting capacity of 2,000 kg of fabric in various knitting constructions. It
is vertically integrated and owns two dyeing plants for fiber and yarn with a capacity of 10
tonnes/day each. The making-up facilities in Ludhiana produce a wide range of apparel for men,
women and children. The product range includes thermal underwear, T-shirts, pants, tracksuits,
sweaters, shorts, leisurewear, jackets and other garments. The company has its own design team
and development center for creating new designs and products. It has branches throughout India
and its full range of apparel is on offer in 60 outlets. The group has developed its vision further,
and through the Sportking Textile Engineering Institute it provides a forum for exchange of
technical know-how in the fields of textiles and fashion.
Investment in technology and growth
Development of the Indian spinning industry, which currently meets 25 per cent of the global
demand for yarn, and the growing domestic demand for yarn were the basis for the groups
decision to expand its spinning capacity by a further 120,000 spindles. Two facilities with 28,800
spindles each have already been installed, and a further three are currently being set up. Rieter is
proud to have the opportunity to install a complete spinning mill with Rieter machines for the
third time.
The second installation with 28,800 spindles is equipped with Rieters latest VARIOline
blowroomline. The C 70 high-performance cards deliver carded slivers in the optimal, required
quality with an output of up to 95 kg/h. Two Rieter combing lines with the new SB-D 11 single-
head draw frames, the OMEGAlap combing preparation machine and the highly productive E 66
combers complete the process.
Each machine supplies top-quality combed
slivers with noil extraction rates of up to 17% at
an output of up to 1,700 kg/h. Four RSB-D 22
double-head autoleveler draw frames featuring
Rieters mill proven autolevelling system
produce drafter slivers with very low CV
values. The ring spinning mill is equipped with
22 G 32 ring spinning machines, each of which produces 206 g of Ne 30 cotton yarn per spindle
and shift on 1,440 spindles.
As well as state-of-the-art machinery, the Sportking Group has a productive workforce and
management with a very high standard of technical know-how and leadership ability, who are
able to structure processes and workflows in such a way that the maximum yield can be obtained
from the available raw material with the Rieter machines.
A partnership Sportking and Rieter
The world has suddenly become smaller, so any company wishing to grow has to think
globally, since the competition is no longer limited to the domestic market, says Raj Kumar
Awasthi.
The groups vision of boosting socio-economic growth through quality and adaptation to the
current state-of-the-art offers Rieter the opportunity to co-operate closely with the Sportking
Group in order to achieve high quality in yarn manufacture. Sportking is one of those highly
regarded customers in India which offers Rieter a platform for the use of its latest products and
innovations.
Objectives of the Company
The main objectives of the company:
1. The acquire and take over the running business carried on in the name and style of
Sportking Knitwears along with the assets and liabilities on such terms and conditions as
may be mutually agreed upon.
2. To carry on the business, weavers, knitters, fabricators, manufacturers, processors,
importers, exporters, buyers, sellers of and dealers in all kinds of yarns and fibres
whether synthetic, artificial of natural, nylon, polyester, acrylic rayon, silk, artificial silk,
cotton, jute and any other fibrous material whether synthetic, artificial or natural, textiles,
allied products, by-products and substitutes for all or any of them and no treat and utilize
any waste arising from any such manufacturer.
The process flow for manufacturing Acrylic yarn is shown and briefly explained below:
1. MIXING: In this process, raw fiber is cleared of various contaminations and then fiber is
opened up.
2. BLOWROOM: After sorting more cleaning and opening is done with the help of air
pressure.
3. CARDING: After mixing and blow room fiber come into the carding machine. In
Carding fibers are fully mixed and fully opened and all the dust and unwanted thing go
away from the process and we get Silber.
4. DRAWFRAME: In this process, we set the Count. There are 8 Slibers come in process
and get one Sliber because process is being increase. This machine is called RSB.
5. SEMPLEX OR SPEEDFRAME: It is used for drawing and Parallelization of fibers
from the draw frame. From this process we get Robin.
6. RINGFRAME: Ring frame is used in drawing and twisting of yarn which is to be
wound finally. In this process Robin convert into Ring. In this process we set actual
count and for actual count we have to set gear, so if we will change the count, we have to
change gear. And we have to give some extra effort. So we set the count in Draw frame.
7. AUTOCONE: After ring frame fibers go into the Autocone process. In this process
Ring doubling and Reeling are happened.
Production Department:
Production department is being headed by V.P. (Operation) Mr. Ashok Sharma. Production
department comprises of three production units with capacity of 65000 spindles. Average daily
consumption of 14-20 tonne to produce average daily 70 metric tone. Company is using semi-
automatic technology to produce yarn. Production units are operating with approx. 2500
workers in 24 hours i.e. 3 shifts is a day.
Stores Department:
Stores officer, S. Satnam Singh, is the head of the stores department. The functions regarding
inventory management are performed by this department such as maintain minimum level of
stocks, make requisitions for stock, ensuring safety of stocks and other ancillary functions.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
Provide the details of factory plant and equipment to be used in the manufacturing
process.
Prepare a schedule of monthly production output for each year of the plan this is a critical
success factor.
Indicate what production method will be used, including planned production process
time.
Describe what methods will be adopted to ensure the desired final product quality is
achieved to meet the overall manufacturing objectives.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The purpose of the research methodology is to describe the research procedure. This
includes the overall design, the sampling procedure and the data collection method analysis
procedures. This section is important because it is hard to discuss methodology without
using technical terms. Yet, most of the reader will not understand the technical language.
This study was made based on primary data. Distributing the questionnaire to the
respondents collected the data. The questionnaire containing questions relating to socio-
economic status of the respondents.
Sample Size : 50
Sampling Method : Convenience Sampling.
Data Collection : Primary & Secondary Data.
TOOLS USED FOR DATA COLLECTION
Primary data collected through questionnaires and informal interviews.
Secondary data collected through magazines, journals, websites, and other
corporate publications
PROCEDURE FOR DATA COLLECTION.
Communication, asking questions and receiving a response in person
Visiting the various organizations, libraries, internet and also preparation
of the questionnaire with the help of the project guide.
