African Textile Mill Kano

::The Company:: African Textile Manufacturers Ltd (A.T.M.), Challawa-Kano was incorporated in January 1980. But the actual activities of the company commenced only in January 1998. The company started from her present Head office at No. 53 Fagge Takudu, Kano, Nigeria. :: Departments/installed capacity :: At present, the company has four large divisions for textile production, having state-of-the art manufacturing and quality management facilities. These include Spinning, Weaving, Dyeing, Printing, Finishing and wax prints. The company has installed capacity of 25,632 spindles of spinning, 160 looms at its weaving section and it processes 50,000 metres and 70,000 metres of its super and wax printing respectively per day. The plant and machinery have been sourced from the leaders in the textile machinery industry i.e. Spinning plant from RIETER, ZINSER, andMURATA & SCHLAFHORST. Weaving plant from BENINGER, SUCKER MULLER &SULZER. Processing plant from STORK, BRUCKNER, WAKAYAMA, KYOTO, HISAKA,ARIOLI, MUZZI, ARTOS, and SANTA-LUCIA. Quality Control Laboratory is equipped with very modern testing instruments from USTER, WIRA, SHIRLEY DEVELOPMENT LTD, DATA COLOUR, and XENOTEST 150 etc. Most of the equipment is with lot of modern Electronics and Computer Controls. This sophisticated technical knowledge is being passed on to local Engineers and Technicians for effective management of production, quality and maintenance of equipment. The company’s major raw material is Nigerian Cotton that is ginned in its own Ginning factory & Lint produced is used in Spinning for manufacture of yarn. Dyes and chemicals are imported from the best-known manufacturers of the world.