Sri Ramakrishna Mills (Coimbatore) Ltd Company Summary

Sri Ramakrishna Mills (Coimbatore) Ltd Summary

Incorporated in 1946, Sri Ramakrishna Mills ((Coimbatore) Limited is a member of the South India Textile Research Association (SITRA). In 1951, a technocrat who was also a cotton grower and ginner started a Spinning Unit with 6,160 spindles at Coimbatore, in South India. Since then, Company engaged in Textile Spinning and Real Estate Development. The spinning mills, located in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), Nagari (Andhra Pradesh) and Sathyamangalam (Tamil Nadu) have a combined installed capacity of 94000 ring spindles and 1440 rotors. In 1994-95, the company reduced 3080 spindles at one of its units as they had become obsolete. It added 9 automatic winding machines at various units.The Company has improved the quality and productivity through modernization and renovations, whereby the textile industry as a whole was pushed to a tight corner on account of the unprecedented rise in the cost of cotton and increase in the cost of other inputs. But on the export front, the Company kept the growth rate alive. The Company made a reference to BIFR due to erosion of net worth.