Roller Covering business growing at over 100%

In 2013, HMSU was born with the coming together of two of Europe’s renowned roller rubber covering companies and one Indian company – Hannecard from Belgium, Mitex from Germany and Unimark from Kolkata, says Georg Heinen, Managing Director, Mitex GmbH.

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HMSU provides a complete range of rollers for the textile industry. The essential requirements for textile industry roller coverings today are its chemical resistance and preciseness of both the applied compound and the roll’s finishing, particularly in specialty applications like textile wet finishing and yarn preparation (sizing).

Georg Heinen tells the Indian Textile Journal on how HMSU has evolved in the Indian market and its agenda for India-ITME.

Give us some background of HMSU since its inception.

HMSU was born with the coming together of two of Europe’s renowned roller rubber covering companies and one Indian company in 2013. Hannecard is Belgium based, Mitex is Germany based and Unimark is Kolkata based. Hannecard and Mitex together have more than 50 sites under operations across the globe, supplying innovative products at consistent quality for more than 60 years. If experience of both the company is added together it is more than a century of learning and innovations. With so much of knowledge and experience, we decided to set up a manufacturing plant in India to supply the best quality of rubber compounds to Indian customer. Many of these customers have been using our products made in Europe or any other continent across the globe directly or through OEM, fitted on their machines. By setting up of this plant, we are also helping the Indian Government’s initiative of ‘Make in India’ by providing products, which were being imported till now directly or indirectly.

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