Lindström India, subsidiary of Finnish textile rental service Lindström, has expanded its workwear service unit in Chennai.
The move is a bid to serve the growing demand of the services in south India coming from the electronics, foods, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and automobiles industries.
Speaking about the expansion Jayant Roy, MD, Lindström India, said: “We continue to make waves in the industry. With this launch, we now have 11 workwear and 1 cleanroom business unit in India with a capacity to process more than 3 million garments per month. With this increase in capacity, we are now able to meet the growing needs for our services in the Southern parts of India.”
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Anupam Chakrabarty, VP at Lindström Group said: “India is a very important market for Lindström group and we have been operating in this country for more than 15 years now and have expanded our operations to cover almost the entire geography of India. With our high growth rate in India, we as a group are happy to continue to invest in expanding our operations in the future as well.”
Juha Laurio, President and CEO of Lindström said: “Chennai has been a strategic choice for us. In accordance with our strategy, we want to be located close to our customers and serve them in the markets where they operate. The state of art business unit in Chennai not only increases capacity by 100 % but is designed to support our sustainability goals and ensuring the best utilisation of natural resources by installing 100% water recycling plants.”