19th and 20th October, 2009
Industrial visit to Anglo French Textiles were taken on two days with two sets of students.
It started at 2.30pm and ended around 5.30 pm.
Anglo French Textiles(AFT) is one of the oldest (104 years) textile firm in India. 25 years ago it was overtaken by Government of Pondicherry.
Once it had a huge strength of 2600 worker working together.But like most other textile industry, this industry is also worst hit by recession. And the current strength has been educed to 1500. Still its able to continue its operation when a large number of textile industries are facing shutdown all over India.
It was one of the largest textile industry with the manufacturing base for all the intermediary stages. The very first process is of weaving of clothes from the yarn. They have a huge range of machines that produces different patterns of weaving. All the processing is done on a lot of 1000 meters.which gets rolled over the machine.
The output is the raw textile which is then manually looked for removing defects and other worms..This raw textile is very hard and it is further taken to different processes to get the desired product.
DYEING MACHINE DYED CLOTH IRONING MACHINE
WASHING OF RAW TEXTILE SEWING MACHINE
FINAL STAGES OF TEXTILE PRODUCTION
It was very interesting visit. We witnessed all the minute processes being carried out in making a cloth. The best part of the whole visit was the final stages of the textile production where it is stacked(as in above picture).Washing ironing and stacking all was done by a single giant machine that too 1500 meter cloth all together.
I will request all my friends who visited AFT to share their visit experiences.
