Leading SMEs of India 2020

Experts' View Leading SMEs of India 2020 E - 10 Please provide a brief background of the company and its operations. Wilhelm Textiles India Private Limited is a subsidiary of Werner Wilhelm GmbH, Germany. It is an Indo-German joint venture and is in operation in India since 1995. The parent company was founded in Pirmasens, Germany in 1948. The Ownership is currently in the third generation. Wilhelm Textiles India Private Limited, has a very extensive product mix in specialized technical applications for footwear, automotive, sports goods, healthcare and other and serves over 750 customers spread all over the globe. We operate several Sales offices pan India and several other countries and Distribution Warehouses several Wilhelm Textiles India Private Limited Distribution Warehouses in India, Hong Kong and Vietnam. What has been the success mantra of your company? Our success is based in the customer centric approach to the business. We develop over 500 product per year, partly specifically for certain customers. For example our development of fashion products starts more than 12 month before the product reaches the shelf in retail stores and is presented directly to the designers of the brands. Other Articles are developed hand-in-hand with these designers. Our State-of-the art machinery allows us to produce the material in perfect quality with highest standards. And finally, with our Just in time warehouse, we are able to ship most customer orders within 24 hours. Kindly elaborate on your company’s innovation initiatives. What kind of outcomes have these initiatives helped the company derive? Since long our developments are based on sustainability and environmentally friendly products. We are proud that that our Indian production plant is operating as per the same quality standards and fulfilling the same environmental requirements than our units in Europe. We were amongst the first textile units in India certified with GRS 4.0 (Global Recycling Standard 4.0), GOTS 5.0, amongst, of course, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 etc. By being BCI approved supplier, our customers can also be assured of the highest social standards. While textile dyehouses traditionally need a lot of freshwater, we were able to implement a unique solution which reduced our freshwater consumption by 98%. All our wastewater is treated in our own ETP before being releases into the public sever system. Computerized Online Monitoring systems of ETP and stack outlet guarantee results according to our high standards. Erik Illig Managing Director Our success is based in the customer centric approach to the business and our State-of-the art machinery allows us to produce the material in perfect quality with highest standards. Dun & Bradstreet