HISTORY OF THE ALLEPPEY CO-OPERATIVE SPINNING MILLS
The Alleppey Co-operative Spinning Mills started the wholehearted interest of Honorable Ex-Finance Minister of Kerala Sri Thachady Prabhakaran, and the Mills started as a primary society and registered on 21.7.1981 as ST (8) with an authorized share capital of 3,00,00,000/ in a share of 30,000. As per the KCS act 1969. The First Board meeting was conducted on 28th NOV.1982 the following persons were presented.
Sri. ThachadyPrabhakaran (President)
Sri. Thundathil Kunju Krishna pillai
Sri. M.K. Purushothama Das
Sri. K.S. Vasudevasarma
Sri. V.M. Abdul Khader
Sri. V.M. Abdul Khader
Sri. N. Krishna kumar
Sri. K.M. Abdul Lathif
Sri. K.M. Abdul Lathif
Sri. K. Abdul salam
Sri. A.C. Mathew
Sri. A.C. Mathew
Sri. K . Narayan
Sri. C.K. Vasu
After years, in the year 1999, the Mills started its commercial production by the strong leadership of Mr. G Sudhakaran, the Ex-Minister for Public Works Department and Registration of Govt. of Kerala and the following persons were on the Board as Directors.
Sri S. Govindakurup, Ex MLA (Director)
Sri Adv. B. Rajendran (Director)
Sri K.K. Chellapan (Director)
Sri M.A. Aliyar (Director)
Sri K.K. Chellapan (Director)
Sri M.A. Aliyar (Director)
Sri V.S. Moni (Director)
On 1.12.98 trial run was inaugurated by Smt. SuseelaGopalan, the then Hon'ble Minister for Industries, Govt.of Kerala. Initially, the Mills started with 6048 spindles to produce coarser counts like 40 Combed counts.
In the year 2010, the Govt. of Kerala availed a Hank yarn project – a project to cater the requirements of Hank yarn to the traditional sector at a reasonable price.
In the same year, the Mills increased its capacity to 12096 spindles with new state of art technology machines. Now, the Mills has 330 Employees and produces a wide range of Cotton counts like 40s, 60C, 62K,80C,82K,90C according to the market requirement, Also Mills produces a wide range of Hank yarns like 40, 2/40, 60C, 2/60C, 62k, 2/62 k,80k,2/80k, 80C, 2/80C according to the requirement of hank yarn societies or National Handloom Development Corporation.
In the year 2010, the government considered the Mills for Revitalization of Alleppey Co-operative Spinning Mills with NCDC assistance by releasing 150 Lakhs, and then during 2015 Govt. of Kerala revised the Project by approving 33.9426 Crores. This project is completed in the Mills and new state of art of technology machines was erected in the Mills. The Mills implemented this Project by its then Chairman Shri.M.A.Aliar. Now the mill is functioning as a nominated Director Board and the Govt. of Kerala nominating the members including Chairman.Now Shri. A.Mahendran is our Chairman and under his leadership, the Mills planning to implement various projects for value addition.
The following are the present Director Board Members
Sri. K.S.Anil Kumar (Director of Handloom & Textiles)
Smt. Prasanna Kumari( Under Secretary, Industries Department )
Sri. P.S.Sreekumar ( General Manager/CEO)
Sri. K.S.Anil Kumar (Director of Handloom & Textiles)
Smt. Prasanna Kumari( Under Secretary, Industries Department )
Sri. A.Ajithkumar ( Joint Secretary, Finance Department)
Sri. M.K.Salim,(Managing Director, TEXFED)Sri. P.S.Sreekumar ( General Manager/CEO)
The Alleppey Cooperative Spinning Mills consistently achieved above 90 % Capacity Utilization for the last five years and during the year 2015, the Mills got ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Certification, and the Alleppey Cooperative Spinning Mills is the first Spinning Mills under the control of Govt. of Kerala achieving this coveted Certification and this certificate was transformed as ISO 9001:2015 during 2017.
The Mill is now completed NCDC assisted Rehabilitation cum Modernization and Expansion scheme and after the completion of this Project, the Mill achieved its spindle capacity to 25200 with most modern machines. Now all new machinery was erected. After the completion of this Project, the Mill could be able to produce the best quality yarn and this helped us to compete with the Mills in the private sector. The Mill started its exports in March 2021and still continuing. Also, Modernization helped Mills to serve best quality hank yarn to the traditional hank yarn societies of entire Kerala.
For the improvement of the Mills, the Govt. of Kerala led by the Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri. PinaraiVijayan and Shri. E.P.Jayarajan, then Hon’ble Minister for Industries and Commerce extended whole support and this helped us to complete the modernization project on time.
Now the Govt. of Kerala is led by Shri. Pinarayi Vijayan, Hon'ble Chief Minister, and Shri. P.Rjeeve, Hon'ble Minister for Law, Industries, and Commerce took more initiatives to revive the Mills. For that, as per the instruction of the Hon'ble Minister for Industries and Commerce, we have prepared and submitted a Master Plan to the Govt. of Kerala which meant for more investment, more employment, and more income by means of producing value-added products. This Master Plan for the next ten years.
Now the Govt. of Kerala is led by Shri. Pinarayi Vijayan, Hon'ble Chief Minister, and Shri. P.Rjeeve, Hon'ble Minister for Law, Industries, and Commerce took more initiatives to revive the Mills. For that, as per the instruction of the Hon'ble Minister for Industries and Commerce, we have prepared and submitted a Master Plan to the Govt. of Kerala which meant for more investment, more employment, and more income by means of producing value-added products. This Master Plan for the next ten years.
Also, the Mill has a good technical team as well as ambitioned Trade Union representatives will lead to the Mills in heights of Textile Industry