Shahlon Silk Industries confident of turning challenges into opportunities
The Textile magazine|October 2020
In an exclusive chat, Dhirubhai Shah, Chairman, Shahlon Silk Industries Limited, spoke about the company’s history, its product offerings, manufacturing infrastructure, impact of the pandemic on the business and future plans. Here are the excerpts
Shahlon Silk Industries confident of turning challenges into opportunities

Shahlon Silk Industries Limited (SSIL), a leading fashion to technical fabric player catering to leading domestic and international fashion brands across the world, has its base in Surat, a key textile hub of the country. With the unwavering vision to be a fully integrated textile enterprise that finds strong support from its workforce of more than 1,800 employees, the company has expanded from being a yarn marketing agency to texturizing, twisting, sizing, yarn dyeing, weaving, finish fabrics and industrial infrastructure fabric player in India.

Established in 1984, SSIL is engaged in manufacturing and exporting supreme quality fabrics and synthetic textile yarn across the world. It has three state-of-the-art manufacturing units in Gujarat located at Kim, Karanj and Kosamba. Founded by brothers Dhirubhai Shah, Arvind Shah and Nitin Shah with vast experience in the textiles business, three second-generation children joined the family business in 1990, 1995 and 2015 respectively. Providing an overview of the company’s product portfolio, Dhirubhai Shah says, “With four manufacturing units situated in Gujarat, the company is a fully integrated textile enterprise primarily engaged in the manufacture of all types of fabrics and yarns.”

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