NEW PROCESSING FACTORY - DYEING, PRINTING AND CUT AND SEW FACILITIES

Manama Textile Mills W.L.L. has become the pioneer in introducing finishing technology in the Middle East by launching sheet sets dyeing and printing unit. Being the largest and only Textile Processing plant in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the unit consists of high tech finishing equipment used to produce bed sheet sets and similar products for the home furnishing industry. The unit is the on going effort in making Manama Textiles a global leader in the home furnishing industry creating high end bed linens for the US and European markets. The new Finishing Unit will enable the company to be totally vertical from raw material to finished product at a rate of 3.5 million meters per month.

The process involves bleaching, dyeing, printing, finishing, surface finishing and fabrication of three meter wide fabric in a wide range of colors and print designs. The fabric also undergoes rigorous testing to ensure superb product quality. The production capacity of the Processing Unit is 3.5 million meters or alternatively about 600,000 sheet sets per month which will be sold to US and EU. The Processing unit has the capacity to process 110,000 meters per day through bleaching and finishing operations and 40,000 meters per day through dyeing and printing.

The production is headed by highly qualified professionals, who have a vast knowledge of textile dyeing and printing and have extensive experience in this field. The team includes qualified and experienced professionals from various nations including a dyeing/printing manager, prep./finishing manager, engineering manager, technical manager and a couple of development engineers serving as process auditors.

To operate a plant of this magnitude the plant site is in itself a self-contained operation with a high power generator for electrical power supply, boilers for generating steam, a water and waste water treatment plant. The Processing unit has a state-of-the-art water recycling plant that utilizes extensive ultra filtration and reverse osmosis filtration units to reuse approximately 70% of the process water. The plant has the capacity to process 250,000 gallons of water per day and recycle another 175,000 gallons.

PROCESSING FACTORY

The new Processing Unit can be categorised as one of the most contemporary and automated finishing plants in the world with state of the art machines from Benninger, Monforts, Bruckner, Reggiani, Arioli, Ramisch Guarneri, Termoelettronica and a fully automated cut & sew setup by TEXPA. The machinery set up includes wet process machines along with bleaching, mercerizing and pad steam, all dry process machines including strenters, a very sensitive sanforizing range, printing machine supported by a fully automated Color kitchen, Raising machine and a Steam Ager. The manual fabrication setup complimented with the latest ETON transportation system ensures high quality and minimum human intervention.

FINISHING

Our processing Unit is one of the most contemporary automated finishing plants in the world. We have bought and set up some of the most technologically advanced machinery like Benninger, Monfrints, Bruckner, Reggian, Arioli, Ramisch, Guaneri, Guaneri, Termoelettronica in our unit. There is also a fully automated Cut & Sew set up by TEXPA as well.

PRINTING

The Printing facility has the capability of processing twelve colors to reproduce a multitude of different print designs. The screens are produced in our state of the art engraving area and designs are created by professionals in our Design studio/CAD department. We can process a wide range of fabrics from 100% cotton to poly cotton blends which includes plain satin, satin stripe and pinpoint weaves and can also produce chintzed fabrics and raised items for flannel products. In dyeing, we have the capability to process four major dyestuff categories which include pigment, vat, reactive and disperse for polyester dyed shades.
PRODUCTION CAPACITY: The unit has a production capacity of approx. 3.5 million meters or 600,000 sheet sets per month.

CUT AND SEW DEPARTMENT

The Cut & Sew department is housing both manual and automatic fabric sewing paraphernalia which utilizes high velocity computer controlled apparatus that sew, inserts care and brand labels, and folds the product into the final product size without being touched by human hands.

The products made and finished in this area include flat sheets, fitted sheets, pillowcases, and duvet covers in various styles and sizes. In case ornate work of specific type is required by the customer then the fabric is further processed through the manual machine area in which the fabric can be embellished with border treatments or decorative hems as per the requirement of the clientele.