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| Thea-Tex Healthcare (India) Pvt Ltd is India's leading manufacturer of non woven medical/industrial disposables. The company was incorporated at Mumbai ( India ) during 2004 and commenced commercial production as recently as 2005. The unique company name is an amalgamation of the two words ‘ Thea tre Textiles'. In 2004, the Promoters identified that the Indian market for non woven disposables was very small, highly unorganized and theatre textiles predominantly consisted of traditional textiles such as cotton/cloth. By 2005, we launched the company by importing very sophisticated, high capacity ultrasonic non woven converting machinery and slashed existing market rates by as much as 50% in order to create the non woven disposables market in India. |
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Quality Management |
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| Promoted by Resident and Non-Resident Indians focused on building an organization of International Standards, Thea-Tex is professionally managed by a synergistic team of financial, medical, production and textile professionals. The top management is passionately committed to total quality management (TQM) principles. For six long months in 2006, each and every member of Thea-Tex staff was rigorously involved in the implementation of the ISO 9001 standard. We selected the reputed British Standards Institution as our accreditation agency aligning ourselves with the best global organizations. On 27 th October 2006 Thea-Tex was awarded ISO 9001 Certificate by BSI. |
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Machinery |
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| Our hi-tech automated ultrasonic production lines were imported from Taiwan at the start of 2005 with an initial installed capacity of 5,000,000 Pieces/Month. This has since been increased to 10,000,000 Pieces/Month within two years, demonstrating our mission to keep expanding. Additional machinery has also been ordered to further increase production capacities by 2008. Our in-house fabric slitting department houses two domestically manufactured 1600mm slitting machines, ensuring precision raw material inputs to our ultrasonic machines. The tailoring department comprises in excess of 50 imported stitching/overlock machines. |
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Infrastructure |
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| Our hi-Tech manufacturing unit is located at a CIDCO approved Industrial Estate in the thriving industrial area of Vasai, Maharashtra , India (15 minutes outside of Mumbai's Octrai Tax Checkpoint – ‘' Check Naka''). The industrial zone is linked well to major ports and cities via the main highway NH-8 and serviced by all major transport groups such as Om Logistics, KTC, VRL, SRD, Jaipur Golden, Surat Ahmedabad etc. We are also we serviced by reputed courier companies such as Blue Dart, Professional Couriers, DTDC,etc to ensure timely dispatch of shipping documents. The floor space is currently 20,000 Sq Ft with major expansion plans under development. A land bank of 2 acres has been secured locally for our next expansion project. Our unit has air conditioned manufacturing, packing and office areas, supported by compulsory rules for all staff/visitors to wear protective apparel. We are active and life long members of the local ‘Gowalis Industries Association' which gives us a platform to improve the infrastructure and support of local industries and integrate smoothly with the residents of the surrounding villages. |
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Raw Material |
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| Our main raw material is medical grade non woven fabric engineered on German Reifenhauser production lines. Unfortunately, due to the non-availability of quality non woven fabric domestically we import approximately 40,000 Kg of fabric per month from the worlds leading manufacturers. In addition to this advantage of high quality medical grade fabrics, the cost benefit of importing the raw material is directly passed on to our customers, providing both a high quality and economical product. All of our suppliers periodically supply testing reports for the fabric from internationally accredited laboratories such as the FDA accredited Nelson Labs (Salt Lake City, UTAH, USA). Other than non woven fabrics, we ensure that all of our raw materials are of the highest quality ranging from the latex free elastic to the 100 Gsm PP Bags through to the 7-Ply 140 Gsm corrugated packaging cartons, however we maintain low costs through bulk purchasing contracts. |
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Pricing Strategy |
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| The basic underlying philosophy at Thea-Tex is to offer the lowest price possible, without cutting corners or reducing the quality of our product. We understand that being a disposable product and with the objective of displacing traditional textiles like cotton, this product must be priced low and supplied in large volumes. |
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The Future – International Quality Standards |
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| Unfortunately, in India this industry in not regulated and there are no standards related to our products, although we are trying our level best with organizations such as the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MHFW). Currently we are very focused on consolidating our position in the domestic market as the industry leader. However, we continue to plan long term and at some point in the future we will be entering the International market.In association with Underwriters Laboratories Inc., preparation of our 510(k) Pre-Market Notification to the FDA has started for the US market. For the European market, we have self-certified our non-sterile masks and caps, which are classified as Class 1 Medical Devices under the European Medical Devices Directive MDD 93/42/EEC. After ensuring the our products meet the Essential Requirements in Annexure 1 of the MDD, an EC Declaration of Conformity has been prepared by meeting the requirements and procedures referred to in Annexure VII and other related Articles of the MDD 93/42/EEC. We have already registered with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA-UK) via our authorized representative Oria Commerce (UK) Ltd (Southampton-UK). Currently we are working on meeting the new European Standard on Surgical Face Masks released in 2005 and working with the Government to get an NABL accredited testing laboratories established in India to facilitate meeting such standards without the high expenditure of foreign testing. We are the first company in India that established Bacteria Filtration Efficiency Testing (ASTM F 2101-01) in association with the Bombay Textile Research Association (BTRA). |
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